New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-06-16
YONKERS HAS TO WALK.
Carmen Go on Strike and Not a
Wheel Turns All Day.
OUT WITHOUT WARNING
Refuse to Discuss Plans and
Refrain from Rioting and
Bloodshed.

As the result of a secret meeting held
yesterday morning at O'Clock the zoo
naotornen and conductors employed by the
Yonkers Railroad Company voted unanl-
rnousIy TO go out on strike. and when the
men in charge of the cars completed their
night trips, at o'clock, they were told
TO take the cars to the barns and walk
out As a consequence when the company
was ready to begin the days trahc II
found itself stalled. not q man or
car being available The city was com
pleteIy tied up all day and late last night
conditions had not improved
The strike is said TO have resulted from
the refusal of the company TO entertain the
proposition made by the man that the scale
Of wages be fixed at the fat rate of 90
cents an hour. for a ten~hour day- The
scale has been a sliding arrangement.
to o cents an hour.
The trouble between the trolley com
panv and the men has been brewing for
several weeks, and attempts have been
made. II is said. TO reach an understand
ing Rurnors of the impending strike have
been fying thick and fast in Yonkers. but
both Leslie Sutherland. the receiver for
the railroad company and the rnotornlen
and conductors denied the story and re-
fused TO enter into any discussion about IL
Mr.. Sutherland and his associates tried
to bring order out Of chaos yesterday
morning. but found that they had a diff
cult proposition to tackle. as the strike
rad been totally unlocked for and nobody
IN take the places of the strikers could be
found.
Remembering their experiences of Octo-
Der. 1907, when the men went out on strike
for similar reasons, with attendant rioting
and bloodshed. the travelling public OF
Yonkers expected the same trouble yester-
day, but everything was quiet The men
gathered in groups about their headquar-
ters in Getty Square, about a quarter of
4 mile from the car barns, and refused to
give any idea as to what their future
would be,
More than two thousand persons have
used the line in committing between Yon-
kers and this city, riding on the South
Broadway line TO 242d street and Broadway
and transferring TO the Broadway branch
of the subway. AS a result of the strike
the Putnam division of the New York Cen
trail was forced to put on five and six car
trains yesterday in place of the customary
two car trains TO handle the traffic diverted
from the subway
The commuters faced annoyance and in
in the afternoon when they
returned 10 their homes from Manhattan
As they got off the Broadway branch of
the subway, at the Van Cortlandt Park
terminal they found that not a car was
there TO meet the trains. but instead there
were many hackmen and chauffeurs who
charged such exorbitant prices for the
three and a half mile trip 10 Yonkers that
many of the crowd preferred to tramp the
distance
A rurl1or gained credence in Yonkers last
night that an organizer of the trolleyrnen's
union was on his way to Yonkers 10 take
active charge Of the situation and counsel
the men as to their plans. but nothing
definite on this point could be learned, the
men continuing their policy of silence
An inspector from the Public Service
Commission. 1st District was ordered to
Yonkers yesterday morning to maize a re-
port on the strike in progress on the
Yonkers lines. The LIST District takes in
that section Of the Yonkers Railroad Com
pany's lines which run down South Broad
way to the Broadway subway The tracks
of this section of the road are owned by
the Union Railroad Company. a subsidiary
Of the Third Avenue Railroad but under
Yonkers company runs its cars over the
tracks
Under orders from the Public Service
Receiver Sutherland of the
Yonkers Railroad Company Is directed 10
run the cars on that section OF the line
under two-r1inute Roadway
O. C Pratt. chairman of the board of d.
rectors of the International body OF the
Association OF Street Rail
way Employees. who was active in the re-
cent car strike in Philadelphia arrived IN
Yonkers shortly after 5 o clock last night
and went into executive session with the
strikers committee. At the conclusion of
the meeting Mr.. Pratt said that according
TO the definition put upon the present sit
uation by the strikers. no strike is in prog
ress, the men having simply quit work.
HALF DAY AT STERN's.
Stern Brothers in West 2sd street. an
yesterday that beginning on Sat
urday. June Is. they would close their store
at u o'clock on Saturdays during the sum