The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-03-03
THOROUGH T|[UP
IN NEW YORK
Strikers Prevent for a Time the
Movement OF a Subway
Train.
ELEVATED is o~BsTRucTED
The 5000 Employees OF These
Passenger Lines Refuse
to Work.
is A SOL TARY EXCEPTION
One Motorman Refuses to Leave His
Post-1oo, 900 Extra Passengers
Pack the Surface cars-Many
Ride on Top.

Ride on Top.
New York. March 1.-The strike of
5000 employees of the Inter- Borough
Rapid Transit company, which took
place at 4 O'clock this morning. was
the most complete at its early stages
of any in the history of New York
city.
After the hour set no train left with
Fl union crew and the latter quit the
trains when the terminals were
reached. One union lnotorman refused
to desert his train and so TAR he is the
only man who did not quit.
Many ticket sellers remained at their
posts, being under bond, but posted
signs announcing the strike. They re-
fused to sell tickets.
Strike breaking crews We're hurried
to the northern terminals but few We're
found Who We're able to manipulate the
air brakes. In the subway crews We're
assorted and trains run up and own
for short stretches in AN effort to
teach the new men the method of OPP
GRAFTON. Similar efforts We're made on
the elevated.
No violence was reported at any
S's'sS Nv SailS ~ XIV
boys entered Times square and hurled
bottles at a passing train, breaking
several windows. No policemen We're
in sight.
PicketS from the strikers ranks were
posted everywhere outside the stations.
They warned persons that a strike was
on II it was dangerous to ride on the
trains. They asserted that the emer-
sency devices a been removed. Free
access was offered all persons who
wished to ride SO far as the
VAS concerned; in Fact, a few ticket
string to ride We're admitted at their
own risk.
Surface Lines GIutted.
The surface line reaped a harvest,
A 100, 900 persons accustomed to being
whirled down town on express trains
and who knew nothing of the strike,
were forced to accept the surface lines
and these cars We're loaded to the limit
and many rode on the roofs. Similar
conditions prevailed in every section of
The city.
AT s o'clock the subway rains were
operated frequently and without serious
interference and conditions We're grea-
lily improved. Trains were operated by
men apparently well trained. The
elevated service is practically tied up.
First violence Reported.
The first violence occurred at One Hun
dred and Tenth street subway station. and
AS a result one striker was badly hurt and
taken to "a hospital.
A crowd OF strikers mobbed a train and
me police were forced to use their clubs.
= strike breaker had his arm badly
crushed.
Train Runs Away.
A i~ve-car.t train on the Ninth avenue
elevated ran away going north leav-
ing the N~inety-thlrd street station, and
with scarcely n lessening of speed,
unde the two curves which form an
IS over 100 feet from the ground at
one Hundred and Tenth street. The
.raln was brought TO a stop one block
south of the One Hundred and Six
teentl street station. The motorman
was so crazed that he attempted to
Jump to the street, but was restrained
by a policeman. Women tainted and
men Shouted when the train was in
flight.
One hundred and twenty-five men
from the southern states arrived at
South Ferry. having come by the Balti-
more and Ohio road. The men were
marched TO Ninth avenue l. station
under the guard of thirty policemen.
They We're housed in the Harlem car
barns of the
With one collision in which twenty
nine persons were injured and none
killed, New York has passed through
the first day of the general strike on
its rapid transit system. Beyond this
accident and some minor casualties
due to the abnormal conditions. the
sum total of the day was annoyance
and veXation to a million or more people
usually dependent upon the inter-
borough lines for transportation to and
from business. So far there has been
little disorder. Sporadic
w individuals, some bad language
and the action of Il few hoodlums in
throwing missiles at passing elevated
trains tells this phase of the strike.
Cause of the Strike.
Tn stiike was the outgrowth of troubIes
which began with the opening of the new
subway last fall. Even before the opera
tion of the big tube began there was "a dis
pute over tie wages the motormen We're
to receive. Other disputes followed. and
hardly Il month passed without confer
enees between the union leaders and Cen
eral Manager Hadley. in which minor
matters were settled, and in one instance
President August Belmont was called into
conference. Two weeks ago. however, the
dispute was settled apparently satisfac-
torily to the employees and the
The efforts OF the company TO nave re-
newed an agreement which expired March
i was the real trouble which resulted in
the strike.
inc cmpioSeS claHn the schedule pre-
NicuslN agreed on was to become effect
I've March i, and that when the time came
Tor adopting its use the company de-
clined TO do so. Mr.. Belmont is out of
the city and could not be conferred with.
Up to Yesterday the employees believed the
strike might be aNerted If they could
reach Nit. Belmont. who is president of
the National Civic federation.
1t il estimated nearly t,50O,p 900 people are
affected by the strike.
Service Badly Crippled.
The annoyance to the multitude was
increased by a wet snow. which began
falling. Service on the elevated roads
and subway. while not tied up, was
badly crippled. Trains We're run on
irregular schedules in the underground,