The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-11
STRIKING MOTORMEN OUSTED.
BROTHERHOOD RECALLS THEIR
ENGINEERS CHARTER.
Wien Who Out Rush for Their Old Jobs, but
Few Meet success strains Running
With small Delay--Jencks and Pep
per Sull Refuse TO Admit Defeat


the strike of the subway and elevated rail-
way employees which began 80 bravely on
Tuesday was still in existence except the
declaration of few of the leaders tina, they
had not given in
II anything had been lacking to convince
the men that they were beaten 1t came
yesterday when the Brotherhood Of Loco
motive Firemen, through Grand Chief
Warren S, Stone recalled the charter Of
Subdivision i05. to which the subway and
elevated motormen belong. With that
the rush OF strikers to regain their old
places increased.
The elevated railroads had about resumed
their old running schedules by rush hours
last hight The East Side lines the Second
and Third avenue, were running under a
four minute schedule and except for short
period at the worst Of the rush we're sue
cessful in keeping toit
The Sixth avenue elevated, which adj
been unable TO keep up a regular schedule
in the afternoon. took brace later and
was keeping about on eight minute cad
way
The subway kept up its goo work oil
tie remoon even in tho wors OF the
| jam time and continued to operate under
three minute schedule The express ser
| vice was about normal
Chief Stones action was taken soon
after his arrival in Cleveland yesterday
! morning. He summoned at once meet
! ing Of the council Of grand officers The
! action OF the Now York members in vioat-
! ing a three year agreement In order TO
strike was Internationally condemned,
and the charter Of the New York division
wa revoked This telegram was sent to
| Will m l.. Jencks. the local chief q the
| Brotherhood.
Taking effect at once, the charter Of
! sub-divsion No. los Is recalled, You will
( forward charter and all books belonging
10 the subdivision TO thi, Office by express.
w s. SroEE.
The telegraph wires must have been
working very poorly yesterday for at 8
/ O'Clock Jencks insisted that lac had heard
nothing about il.
None of the strike leaders was In an
amiahIe mood yesterday TO hell with the
NJ" papcrs' vas tn opening remark I
G.orgn h. Pepper = the Ama!gamated
when he was interviewed Proceeding,
leo condemned them Individually and
/ collectively 10 the everlasting hiue
flame. He condemned them AZ whole
detail reporters, copyreaders, circulation,
inotypes and pastepots he made no OK
captions.
But Won mint the only ones say 10 hell
With remarked Mr. Pepper at hi- first
pause for breath Then ne specified War
rem ; Stone Hedley and the lntorborongi
with especial loving emphasis. lie included
the strike breakers the capitalist classes
and the travelling pubic, and was begin
ming on In, COSMOS when retainer pulled
lat. hn f.. II he n
clude the union. The door closed Oh Mr..
Pepper and the wake OF the strike went on
Sir Jenck'- remarks, while lacking the
literary fnish of Mr. Peppers mad the
epigrammatic hrevity Of a telegram.
10 hell with Stone he said, simply
Later. he was induced to EXPAND this
sentence
-Iyo had no telegram from Stone he
said
sDid you know when you struck that the
national union wouldn't support Won;
4 wasn't sure whether they would or not.
You can't make fight OF this kind without
ta,duG chances and stretching n point now
and then I'm not so sure that tho council
has the right 70 fire ua II : one VI the
points we'r6 looking into We're going
10 say with this fight. See"
,leucks sa.d Iast night, after speaking
ar couple Of meetings OF the strikers
that he would not give up the charter OF
the local union without fight IL was Il
the national organization
I'VE will investigate the authority Of
Stone and the Grand Council TO revoke our /.
charter. he said, We doubt II they have /
any such authority
Jencks then denied that he had received |
any notice from Chief Stone. What he Z
knew of the national presidents action. he .
said, he had gained by reading the news
papers
But you had telegram from Mr.. Stone1'
he was asked.
We'll, no., replied Jencks after some
hesitation.
Mr. Pepper said late last night hat he
had no statement 10 make He had rec elved
letters expressing Sympathy and en-
,ourRgement from many local unions
IN other cities, and considered the letters
as proving that the national organization
wasn't the whole thing He Wou'cnt
tell whether he had received a letter iiCm
National President Mahon.
The strikers had two half hearted meetings
last night Early in the evening Jencks
and Pepper addressed number If strikers
In Marion Hall. Some of the strikers
wanted 10 know what chance they had Of
winning
necessity Of sticking together and said
that the men were sure 10 win.
II was much the same at Colonial Hall,
where Jencks and Pepper talked 10 the
strikers who live on the West Side Be
fore the meeting was over moro Than half
the strikers had left the hall.
Al day ex-strikers were sneaking into tho
Offices OF Division Superintendent Smith
and Merritt. Smith, who has charge u
the Eastern division, would not say how
many applications he had received, but
admitted that the men were returning fast.
They don't want their old jobs back,
They want just any old job, he said.
Two or three hundred men saw Merritt
on the West Side A good many Of them de-
clared that they hadn't struck at all hut
had been away because they were taken
sick on the day when the strike was declared
Some brought doctors certificates. After
Merritt had heard this tale about twenty
times he wheeled on the applicant
Yes ] guess you are rretty sick by this
time he said
All applicants were sent down 10 pres-
dent Hedleys Office. II is understood
that the superintendent are putting in
good word for several good old motormen
who are wanted IN the elevated lines to
straighten out tho train service
According 10 the figures Of the Inter
borough given out last night / $50 former
employees made application yesterday to
get ack. OF this number 400 were recog-
nized members Of the two unions In
addition there we're $50 men who. though
not members of the unions, decided to quit
About 500 Of tho union men we're former
elevated employees and 900 worked on the
subway.