The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-10
LEADERS ARE DESCRIBING New Phase of the New
 York Strike Appears. NATIONAL UNIONS KICK B. of L. E. Grand Chief Has
 Made Protest. Service on Subway and Elevated Roads ia Vastly Improved, Being AL
 most as Good as Before on the Former.
NATIONAL UNIONS KICK

New York, March 9.-The most in- teresting developments in the subway and elevated railway strike situation in New York today was the stand talk en by some of the national labor lead CTS In repudiating the action of the lo- cal leaders who ordered and are con- ducting the strike.
 The first intimation the public had that the strike was not endorsed by the national unions came in a state- ment from Grand Chief Stone of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers to which the motormen belong. MT. Stone stated that the trike was a vio- llation of the laws of the national un- ion, the men having broken their con- tract with the Interborough Company. He ordered them to report for duty, failing which expulsion from the or ganization Is threatened.
 Harry Johnson, secretary of the To- cal union of locomotive engineers, in an interview supported MT. Jencks saying the men would not go back to work until they had won their point the local union having sufficient mon- ey to carry on the strike without the aid of the national union. So far he said none of the strikers had deserted while dozens of the strike breakers had quit and had been sent home by the local union.
 Notwithstanding the efforts of the local leaders, three were indications around strike headquarters that some men were ready to give up the fight against the company. Those who from the start were opposed to the fight find the action of the national leaders an excellent excuse to return to theiI post. Early this evening several oi Al-- ~TA -..N~ A in charge of their regular trains and admitted they had taken Mir. Stones | advice. The service in the subway to- night was almost perfect, the local trains being run during the rush hours | on schedule time, while the express trains maintained a three minute head. way. At no time was there anythius resembling 8 congestion, tho usua homegoing crowds being handled with. out a single accident. On the elevated lines the service was not so good. this however. being due to the fact that the company had decided to first perfect the running of trains in the subway | Tomorrow they expect to bring the ele. vated service up to the regular stand. ard
 Messrs. Stone and Hurley left fo, Cleveland tonight. As they were leav. ing Mir Stone said:
 ''The strike ts virtually over. We have accomplished our mission and are going home well satisfied"
 Conditions Improved.
 With the opening of the third day of the interborough trainmen's strike. there appeared to be a marked inn provement in the operation of the trains in the subway. Otherwise little change was noted. Traffic on the East Side elevated lines, Second and Third Avenues, was almost at a standstill :. In fact no trains whatever were op- erated during the early hours on the Avenue. where an attempt was made to resure the service. something went wrong and for half an hour at a time no trains passed a given point
 Quite a number of trains were in operation on the Sixth Avenue line of the West Side system, but at times there were long delays and the plat forms up town were crowded.
 On the surface lines the jam that has prevailed morning and night since Monday was in evidence.
 Conditions were quite favorable to the company in the subway toward which their greatest efforts were aimed. Trains were moving four to eight minutes apart on the local tracks before the express trains were started. The system is well patronized,, but passengers manifested a disposition to avoid the first and last cars.
 Heavy guards are being maintained about the power houses to prevent any attempt on the part of the strikers to reach the engineers and fremen so vital in the company's operations.
 It has been decided by the strikers executive committee to ask the courts for an injunction compelling the inter- borough management to restore emer- gency brake cords and other safety ap- pliances alleged to have been removed from many cars when the strike was declared. In event of the company's failure to restore these appliances the strikers declared they would ask the city authorities to interfere also.
 While General Manager Hedley states that fifty old men have returned to their work. the strike leaders de- clare not a man has deserted.
 During the night the ranks of the strike breakers were increased by l5O men, who were taken under guard to car barns in Harlem.
 Considerable sickness Is reported among the men sheltered in the barns. A hospital physician was called in the night to attend Frank WlttenberE of Phtladelpnla, IOunu BuHerlnB from ep- uepsy. After treating Wittenberg, who he thought would soon recover. the physician asserted that among the 500 men at the barn at least fifty were in need of medical attention. They were. he said, suffering from diseased throats. fevers. colds or grip.
 A Walkout Proposed.
 Interest now centers in the proposed effort to cause a sympathetic walkout of engineers and firemen at all the power houses in this city.
 The movement was set in motion at the meeting of the building trades sec tion of the Central Federated Union. when the members of the section unan- imousfy endorsed the strike and named William Hand. Secretary of the Standard and Eccentric Engineers Union, and John Carroll. President of the Eccentric Firemens Union, as a committee to confer with Leader Will liam l.. Jencks to make plans for reaching the engineers and nremen.
 John F. Heffernan, secretary of the Amalgamated Association. said if the Bremen and engineers in the various