New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-17
Will Confer
with General Mana
gerHedley To-day.
NEXT THEY WILL
APPEAL TO MAYOR
Tie-Up of Subway and
Elevated Lines Again
Threatened.

Union emrloyes of the New YORK
RAILWAYS Company in mass meetihs
l.st night empowered their executive
.,r,r,ittee 10 call a strike if the COM
ito believes one necessary to win
immediate adjustment Of their grew
anees.
Refore striking the executive com
r,it,ee is instructed to await the result
of 4 conference Frank Hedley' genera.
manager of the railways company VIII
h.vo with a committee this morning.
and # that fails, to seek peaceaoie
.A;nstmept through Oscar Straus ana
w.vor Mitchell. who brought about the
ss.tlement Of the recent strike.
should the executive committee issue
the strike order, William B. Fitzgerald
general organizer of the Amalgamated
Association of Street Railway Em-
ploves. says that strike will be caliea
a, the same time on the elevated ana
subway lines.
Men Vote for Conferences.
The meeting of the men, scheduled
fors p. m. in the Lyceum in Eighty-
sixth street. was slow in starting, but
the hall was filled TO capacity at S;So
when Thomas Conway raped for
order. introducing p. J. O'Brien. ma
tjonal vice-president, who declared II
tho New York Railways Company is
rot Going to live up to its agreement,
il is up TO you to compel the company
70 live I'D TO it's agreement"
William B. Fitzgerald followed, re-
viewing the occurrences Leading up to
the call for a special meeting, and then
read long preamble reciting the
grievances of the men, explained IN
PREVIOUS declarations, and this resolu'
ton:
Resolved. That our officers and our
executive board be instructed to pro-
coed at once to arrange for an I'M
mediate conference with the Mayor OF
the eity Of New York, the chairman OF
the Public Service Commission and
with the company, and be it further
"Resolved. That we, the employees OF
the New York Railways Company
members Of Division 722, Amalgamated
Association Of Street and Electric
Railway Employees. in attendance at
special meeting do hereby authorize
empower and instruct our said ofhcers
and executive board to forthwith cal!
a suspension Of all work on the lines
a. the New York Railways Company
i'm the event that satisfactory uhuer-
standing cannot be reached. !.
A dozen men seconded motion 70
adopt the resolutions and they were
carried with a whoop.
100000 Fund Available.
James II. Vahey, introduced as the
man who nut Boston on the union map
tcld the men that the 100000 prom
ised when they were last on strike is
still available.
at is yours when you want it, he
taid. 49,
Hugh Frayne, organizer OF the
American Federation of Labor ana
several others also spoke.
After the meeting it was explained
By Louis Fridiger that the conference
with Messrs. Straus and Mitchell woulo
not be sought until after the heuley
conference this morning.
P.J O'Brien announced at the close
Of the meeting that all discharged men
would meet at their union headquarteis
this morning at $3.50 O'Clock: that
general meeting Of New YORK Railways
employees would be held in the Lyceuii,
al 1880, and that a monster meeting U VI
the subway and elevated trainmen
would be held tonight in the Lyceum
The meeting closed with the i,ooU
men standing with barred heads and re-
peatlng the pledge Of the AmSie"'
mated"
The men assert that the company mas
violated its agreement, which provided
that all men should be restored to WORK
without prejudice and that the COM
pany should not interfere with ths OF
ganzstion. So far as regards the re-
employment of men dismissed or re-
FUSED work. the union, II is UNDERSTOOD
Is willing 20 arbitrate. The question
-"t NVupduy COutlhulHB 4NS
70 organize an association Of its own
Will not be arbitrated. This, according
70 Louis Fridiger, counsel TO tAe union
the direct cause Of the L.tlmatum
20 the company on Tuesday, giving II
wenty-four hours in which TO decide
whether or not it would receive 3 COM
mittee Of its employees.
Ultimatum Answered.
The answer TO this ultimatum was
set TO William Conway, president OF
we local union yesterday afternoon,
siler d meeting of the directors of the
.Onpany, fixing IL o'clock this morning
" ,he time and the company's Offices
me place where the committee would
~ received by Frank Hedley, general
manager.
al the same the company issued a
Sfment denying that il had in any
violated It's agreement, later max
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