New-York tribune., 1905-03-08
STRIKE BREAKERS ARRIVE
MANY MORE EXPECTED.
Rumors of Sympathy Action at
P0Yer Houses Discounted.

Vice President Bryan and General Manager
Hedley of the Interborough Company changed
their quarters yesterday from the Interborough
offices, in the Park Row Building, to Mr.. Bryan's
private room IN the Astor House, which he will
occupy while the strike is In progress.
The executive committee of the company had
meeting In Mr. Bryan's room in the Astor
House early in the afternoon. and issued
statement showing that the break between the
company and its recent employees is complete.
The statement says in part:
The committee believe that the rates of pay are
higher than on any other similar road IN the e4un
shorter. Furthermore. the committee feel that the
but Whefher the management of the property in
volvng the safety Of the public shall or shall not not
that the safety Of the public imPeTstvsly demands
sandard are paToad tests be adhered to-
The committee also gives assurance that as soon
operafe the the road is under no circumstance
WIN places be made for men who 9age IN
force with the motormen has been entirely ely dsTe- &
Piled with all the terms Of that agreement.
Later in the afternoon Mr.. Hedley gave out
a statement In it he gave this account of the
disturbance in the afternoon at 125th-st. and
2d-ave He said:
The company was prepared with sufficient
number of to maintain and rapidly I'M
prove upon the interval between trains on all of
its lines and successfully did until about
! 80 D. m. of the 7th. AT the latter time some
two hundred or more of the strikers entered
upon the station platform ut 125th-St. and 3D.
ave, and when the first train arrived. south
| bound these strikers endeavored to board the
same in a body, overpowered the train crew,
driving them from the train, and followed this
up by disabling the equipment pulling the main
and ground fuses. cutting bell cords and letting
the air out Of the air brakes; in addition US
ing sufficient physical force to compel the train
crew, including the motorman, to abandon the
train. The strikers continued this depreciation
destruction interference
| with the movement of trains to the extent of
disabling the following two trains in similar
| manner.
Crowds of applicants for work appeared later
at the company's Offices. and the number grew
so large that the Church-st. station was told
| that more policemen were needed. A gang of
| 20 men were taken, divided into small groups
! in charge of the strike breakers to the Cort-
| landt-st elevated railroad station, where spe-
| cial car was provided for them. They attracted
a good deal of attention. but strike sympathizers
if they were present, kept IN the background
AT the recruiting station, at No. 81 Dey-st
most of the applicants for work were young
men who brought letters testimfying to their
qualifications railroad men. In the course of
| the day seventy-five of them, when they found
| about two hundred applicants inside. talked of
| storming the place Policemen prevented this
| One Of the windows was broken. The police
| charged right and left with their clubs. and the
| crowd fled. No one was seriously hurt.
Late in the afternoon 40 men arrived in
| Jersey City on a Philadelphia and Reading
| train to take the places of strikers. They were
| landed at Whitehall-st., where Sergeant
OReilly and fifty patrolmen guarded them to
| the 2d-ave elevated station, where they were
| sent to the yards at East 129th-st.
MORE MEN EXPECTED.
1t was reported about the terminal at 145th-
| st. and Lenox-ave, last night that a man who
had charge OF the housing and feeding of the
| strike breakers quartered in barracks there had
| been told that a steamboat with about eight
/ hundred men aboard would tie up at 145th-st
| and the Harlem River this morning man on
| the Northam said that steamboat would leave
and go TO the Pennsylvania station in Jersey
| CITY for one thousand strike breakers Men
| sun IN the employ of the company said last
/ Ihsht at the 145th-st. yards that 1877 men had
peen brought from Boston
AT ll:30 p. m. 125 men from the Southern
states arrived at South Ferry. The men were
| Hlarcned TO the 9th-ave. IL" station where
| they boarded special train, and were hurried
| to 130th-st, They were housed "a . 20 -, 60 90
| the night. " @ ~ 'tAA A'A
General Manager Hediey toward evening sant
d statement to Commissioner AicAdoo i'm which
ne stated that more police protection was needed
potn LOT the subway and the elevated railroad
Rumors that the engineers and hrenoen ar tba
power houses We're going to strike In sympathy
were circulated by the strike leaders AS a
matter or fact, there are only a few union men
among them, and they belong TO different
the Interborough employees have not much love
| for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
! which wss never known to order q sympathetic
strike.