The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-08-14
STRIKE ON DE KALB AVE. TOO
so MEN OFT or ESQ JOIN THE
CAR REBELLION.
Their Union Had Agreed to stick. hut Re.
sumption Of service to Coney island
Makes Them Quit the Company and
Union No stones Throw n This Time,

Their Union Had Agreed to stick. hut Re.
sumption Of service 10 Coney island
Makes Them Quit the Company and
Union No stones Throw This Time.
Eighty conductors and motormen Of the
De kalb avenue line OF the Coney Island
and Brooklyn Railroad, who did not Join
the strike on the Smith street. Franklin
avenue and Hamilton Ferry lines at fret
because Of their Mia ton with the Knight Il
OF Labor. quit work yesterday. The
eighty attended a meeting OF the strikers
at Third avenue and Ninth street and
were admitted to the Amalgamated Asso-
Employees, the union to which the first
strikers belong.
This addition to the strike was pre-
cipitated by the action Of the company
in resuming the service to Coney Island
on the De kalb avenue line. which had
been abandoned at the request Of the en-
ployees of that line since the beginning
OF the strike on the other lines The
Dekalb avenue conductors and motor
men said they were willing to remain
at work IL they were not made to take
cars TO Coney Island over the line in
volved in the strike. The Dekalb ave-
nue. cars stopped in front Of the com
pany's Offices at DeKalb and Franklin
joins the Franklin avenue line.
On Friday the company decided to run
De Kalb avenue cars all the way to Coney
Island and seven crews were found who
were willing to make the run. Twenty
three cars is the normal number on Satur-
days and nine cars made the trip that
day.
4 meeting Of the De Kalb avenue
conductors and motormen was held on
Friday and some of them decided to
strike il the companypersisted in it's effort
to resume the Coney Island service.
The company had an agreement with
the knights of Labor whereby cars were
TO be run through to Coney Island on a
summer schedule from June to the end
of the season and the company decided
to enforce this agreement. Most Of the
older men accepted the decision Of the
company, and yesterday Christopher
Tighe. president Of the local union OF the
knights Of Labor. ran the first car to Coney
Island, Then he refused Ia make the
trip again.
ordered to take their cars to the island
following Tighe's run twenty of them
refused and were suspended by the com
pany for INSTRUMENTATION and ordered
back to the car barns. They quit and
sixty other men quit with them This
made up the eighty who went TO the
meeting OF the strikers last night and cast
in their lot with them.
The company says the full schedule TO
Coney Island on all lines was maintained
Yesterday. and the figures given by the
strikers fall little below that estimate.
The normal number of DeKalb avenue
cars running to the Island on Sundays
is twenty-three. according To the com
pany. and the strikers say that twenty
cars ran.
OF the $50 men remaining at work on
the Dekalb avenue line last night many
will stay with the company One old
employee of the line said last night:
Il am making from $la TO 500 week
with the company. and il gave up my
| job probably the best l could get would
be job as night watchman at 81 a week
I am going TO stick, union or no union
The cars that have been running or
the Franklin avenue and Smith street
lines have been we'll filed and for the
last few days there has been no rioting
| The company insists that eighty meI
! leaving will not affect the service in tn,
least and that their places will be quickly
| filed
A Smith street car manned by strike
breakers hit yesterday an automobile
at State and Smith streets owned ant
operated by Robert =. Lumley. chiei
engineer of the Barclay Realty Com
pany Of 200 Broadway. MIR and Mrs
Edward A. Wilkinson. friends Of Mr.
/ Lumley were also in the machine. The
automobile and car came together on
on the automobile were smashed. No one
| was hurt