New-York tribune., 1905-03-07

After a consultation with Mr.. Hedley and one
or two other officials of the company Vice
President Bryan issued the following statement
to the public giving the company's side of the
trouble:
THE INTERBOROUGHS STATEMENT.
rFieay March 3 at as per sgTsenen5 oe
pany met the committee Of the Am,aisamsted As
were presented which involved an increase In pay
as hs m by the
pany, which would involve an eXorotant increase &
pany per annIm. Their other demands involved
%Soh Roud be Of good dsoDne and
| safety Of operation and would Curtail to great
extent the powers Of its officers to administer tine
gamafed Association, committee of the Brother
| hood of Locomotive Engineers. representing ma
visions 0 of =" G interborougR road presented de-
mands aTs among H Whieh we're; ,s,oo, examination
now in force for rnotormep and other employees
hsaasd oe to Re effect ans @ saaay FGaa
| second-Nine hours or less 70 constitute days
Third-Motormen's mileage not to exceed 100
| These requests were in direct violation Of the
agreement between the !ntfEbor9ngh company ana
hood Of Locomotive Firemen and the & &Ar@nslgamated @
ment Goes not expire Until September s. 1907
Before receiving the demands on the part Of the
agreement of September s, 1904 the management Of
1 company determined
| Amalgamated Association it was deemed proper
members Of tbe f3rotberhood Of locomotive Engi-
ners, brotherhood of locomotive Firemen and the
| Amalgamated Association whereby they had OBJ
Of se sse s sec9Te s such ,
as they might wish to mske: this assistanee TO be
pany in sympathetic strike to secure such de-
The contract with the motormer was adhered to
strictly by the Rapid TFsnSt Gem
hours or pay which could be made before Septem-
Obligated by the provisions Of the secret agreement
t. into the 9 hes @ in 10 their
efforts to assist in securing the demands OF the the
an+er ,inon another npreement with the members
Of oti the aP0a Assocaton moving that
The COMPANY ng and d rsady ttr to ,0f6 adjust all
ments with them for considerable period OF Iime,
in order that Interruptions caused by such hreq9snt
must have assurances that such ssreemssnts zen ;, Dc %
I 5S e. asy have been on the
AT the conference to-day between General Mana ger
IN e hf yoaoh
nrotherhood he'r Of Locomotive Engnesrs and the on
OF 9eans ia as on to and
Joined with the AInalgsnated Association ana & they
than General Manager Hedey. They refused 70
GERS Of the company and arbitrarily stated that
hey he use nous W s or thew would 20 to the
extreme It is believed that the public has the
right TO the facts in this controversy between
the company and its employees, and these are the
| facts.
A representative of Mr. Hedley said. in refer
ence to the notices distributed through the sta
tions:
This act was passed after there a general
s,r1ne baFs 9f the motormen on the elevated roads
apout hve or six years ago. The strike lasted
lust hfteen minutes. and the men, possibly fear
ing that they might get into the courts, returned
TO work again.
The motormens action In voting to support a
tralnmen's strike is astounding in view of the
fact that they had no grievance. and had an
iron clad agreement expiring IN September 1907
providing that they would not strike until IL ex-
pired. They have also been working under Q
schedule which they asked for. pending the ar
ranging of new schedule. Peppers organiza-
ton had no agreement and, when the Inotormer