The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-12-22
MAY TIE UP GEWY0Rl
Dispute Between Yard Employed
and Railroads May Affect
city's Food Supply.
EIGHT LINES REFUSE DEMANl /

OF s pssisfe They win Not Give
10 Msn-Alt e5ads Entering City *
espt Central ard New Haven PsrtisI
to Controversy Over Wage lnoreassI
Union Sends ultimstau.
New York. Dec. 22.-Food Supplies q
all kinds coming into New YORK wila
be held up and the prices Of articles u
prime necessity VIII be increased emo
nously by general strike OF tne y
employees OF all the big roads Wi
terminals ia Jersey City. which VIII
Into effect unless the full increase d
mGnded By the men Is granted.
Traffic has Increased to an uppreee,
denied extent on an the roads. an
should Fhe men quit work th5 raiIrosN
officials admitted it would practical
paralyze the freight service and as d
matter of course within short til
impede the passenger service too.
All the supplies of meat, vegetable
milk, poultry and other food producV
would be cut off absolutely as far a
roads through the state of New Jerse1
are concerned. As by far the greatej
part of the food supplies consumed q
New York comes over those roads. TIN
threatened strike would be felt almOsI
Immediately.
May Tie Up City's Foes.
If long continued it would bring tn
city to the verge of a food famine. On
account If the heavy Christmas traf1s
the railroads have had all they could
do to cope with their freight this year.
Should the officials refuse to concedt
the demands of the men and shouli 4
the employees carry out their resolv'
to strike the freight will be piled up il
the yards to such an extent that Id
coming trains bearing provisions fol
New Workers viii have to be lefs with
out unloading for long time AS
all railroad strikes, the provision dead
ers, it is believed, will take advantag$
Immediately of the situation to raise
the prices Of the stock on hand
Whatever Offset to the effect of the
strike might be expected from the food
producing districts in Long Island ID
discounted by the fact that the Long
Island railway also is affected by the
ultimatum of the yardmen. President
Peters of that road said that a strike
would shut of completely all freight
business in the yards at Bushwick
Long Island City and 5amaics The
only foodstuffs that wou1d enter New
York, therefore, would be-. those com.
ing by way of the New York CentraA
and New Haven lines, which are p
affected by the ultimatum. But
amount that ordinarily comes in
those lines is so small in compa
with the rest that its effect wou
inappreciable.
Union Issues UItimatun1.
James Murdock, fourth wee eS
master Of the Brotherhood Of RailvSl
Firemen. who issued the ultimatum &
the roac - ~rant in full the 1--WE cef'
increa@e aHsed by the yardmen'
said thS tire Increase was madS
the strNe would go into effect ig.
mealately.
The rsilroad ofcisls admitted
the situation was undoubtedly acV
though tneg sfiN declined to adT
that they woull give In to their
spioyees in the sliyb0t particulN N
They evidently havs Ell 70 RE II
clnsion thst ne r3pr
said In their snai
INK less f9san ls rate
similar els II ua Il
would sati N
strike are tne pennss sss8a
I.ehigh Nalley Baltimore and
Iackawenta, Jersey Central. Long is
baud and Staten Island.