The Washington herald., 1916-05-18
CARMEN WOULD PARLEY;
CALL STRIKE MISTAKE
CONTINUED FaoM PAGE ONE.

tne present situation was brought about
Inc committee held a lengthy confer
ehce with w. B. Emmert, general man
ager OF the company. YESTERDAY afternoon.
put according to Chairman Angelo, were
ton.
: n-ls-understood that Mr.. Emmert
LOOK the position that since the men
nave oeen denounced by the American
RECREATION Of Labor and the national
association of street railway men, they
lied body.
II was learned last night that the
tailure of yesterday afternoon, prob
aoIy VIII not deter the men from re-
newlng their efforts to have arbitra-
tioh resumed during the next few
Gays. Mr.. Angelo is the only mem
Der OF the csrmen's committee who is
not former employe of the COM
pany. He is a member of the Broth
eFhood of Locomotive Engineers, it
was stated. Mr.. Angelo explained that
he was acting only as an Individual
however. and that the brotherhood
has in no way entered into the situa-
tion.
Mr. Angelo explained to The Herald
last night that the whole tangle
which now exists was caused by a
Misunderstanding in the offices of the
American Federation of Labor last
Friday afternoon.
OhfcIaIs in Conference.
According to Mr.. Angelo and the
other members of the committee, the
ottlcials of the company were in con-
ference with Samuel Gompers, Grant
Hamilton, of the American Federation
Of Labor, and Rein Orr, organizer
Mr. Angelo said that these three,
acting for the men, knew that the
men had agreed to declare a second
strike at o'clock that afternoon If
no agreement had been reached by
that time. When the committee re-
presenting the employees arrived at
the offices and received no informa-
tion as to how the conference was
progressing, the men, waiting in
Georgetown. grew impatient and de-
Clared the strike.
1t is not unlikely that Representa-
tive c. c. Carlip, of Virginia. who did
much to start the arbitration pro-
ceedings after the first strike. will be
called upon today to bring the men
and the Company together again.
The company operated a regular sched-
ule of one car every hour to Great Falls
and one every three hours to Bluemont.
All cars were stopped after dark, how
ever, as a pre- caution, the company stat
ed, against clashes between strikers and
strike breakers. Each car that left
Georgetown carried three or four special
deputies. brought here by the company.
Declaring the restraining order issued
by Justice Mccoy on Monday enjoining
striking employees of the Old Dominion
Railway from interfering with the oper-
alton OF the road was issued in violation
OF the Clayton act, Crandal Mackey,
counsel for the strikers. yesterday filed
petition in District Supreme Court for
the dissolution Of the injunction.
The petition of the strikers declares the
petition Of the Old Dominion officials in
applying for the injunction is so inden-
Mite as to acts, times, and circumstances
OF alleged offenses and persons as to
present no ground for equitable relief;
that the bill presents no matter for
equitable Cognizance and no ground for
the issuance OF a restraining order; that
the restraining order was issued without
previous notice TO the defendants and
that the petition OF me railway officials
was presented without being supported
by affidavits. Attorney Mackey sums up
his petition by saying the restraining or
der OF Justice Mccoy was issued in vio-
latiOn OF the Clayton act of October. 1914,
because none Of the reasons he mentions
for dissolution were under the cogniz-
ance of the court
Mr.. Mackey declared last night FIVE OF
the defendant strikers will file afidaYits
this morning swearing that charges OF
disorder and violence made by the rail-
way officials are untrue