New Britain herald., 1916-08-04
CARMEN 10 MEET TONIGHT 10 TAKE
 VOTE ON STRIKE
Walkout May Occur Hour After Midnight Ii Radical Step
 Is Favored
DYNAMITER AGENT OF
 NEW YORK LABOR LEADER

NIL M 1VlNA AI1OVlN IAlD01N Time Limit for Companies to Agree
 to UItimatum Expired at O'clock This Afternoon-Gompers Hopes
 for Peace and Says Trolleymen
 Should Share Comtry's Wave of Prosperity.
 New York, Aug. 4.-Whether the 1,500.o0O persons who daily travel on the surface cars in the boroughs of Manhattan and Queens are to be in- convenienced by a strike of 5000 motormen and conductors of the New , cork Railways Company and the New
 1ork and Queens County Railroad Company, will be known this after noon or tonight. The time limit set by the leaders of the street railway mems union within which the officials of these two companies are required to answer to demands for recognition Of the union and increased pay expired at o'clock this afternoon
 There is no indication of any in- tent&on on the part of the companies to grant the demands. Officials re- peatedly had declared that they can- not do so,
 Meetings of the conductors and 1notormen are called tonight to vote olI the question of calling a strike on the lines of these two companies.
 It Is reported that 4,OOO strike breakers are ready to hurry to New
 York from other cities to take the Ilaces of strikers.
 No demands have as yet been fur nlulated by employees of the elevated or subway lines, but it is reported that they will follow in due course.
 Conflicting Statements.
 Heads of the street railways and the union leaders made conflicting claims during the day, Theodore P. Shonts of the New York Railways Co.,, asserting that he had been notified by a delega- ton of motormen and conductors that 2,4OO of the 2,5O0 employees of the company had signified their loyalty. While MT. Fitzgerald, organizer of the union, claimed that virtually all the
 0 New York and Queens County corn- pany had been enrolled in the union and were ready to vote a strike if the ultlmatum expiring at o'clock this afternoon was not favorably answered
 mere was no indication from the railway heads of any change in their attitude of refusing to deal with the union. The union leaders said today mat when the strike vote to be taken tonight was finished, they planned to put the strike into effect, probably an hour after midnight
 Samuel Gompers, president Of the American Federation of Labor of which the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Elm | l!oyes is member. arrived here to day to take a hand in the situation. | He went into conference with w. D. l Mahon, president of the Amalgamated 1 association.
 Before entering the conference. MT. Gompers while declining to say what | action he expected to take, made it clear that he was supporting the 1 union.
 T hope the railroad people will | have sufficient good sense not to compel the boys to show their colors as they are now prepared to do," he said. There is wave of prosperity sweeping over the country and it is no more than right that they should 1 share in it. He added that he be- ieved that the men would win. {
 The delegation of employees who called on President Shonts, mum ber- ing 120, later called on the mayor and informed him that 2,423 of their r. ho1 saying that they were not in favor of the strike They asked the mayor for police protection in the event of he strike, which was promised.
 Dynamiter Mahon's Agent.
 That Tom Mooney, indicted in San Francisco for the murder of eight persons killed by the explosion of 8 bomb during the recent preparedness parade there, was an "accredited agent" of President Mahon, of the street car union, is a statement made n a telegram signed by Charles M. Fickert district attorney at San Francisco forwarded to Mayor Nit 'hel by President Shonts. The tele- gram is as follows:
 You are correctly informed. nave documentary evidence showing hat Tom Mooney indicted here for he murder of eight persons killed )Y the explosion of a bomb during 'ecent preparedness parade Is an ac- credited agent of w. D. Mahon, pres dent of AmaIgamated Asso citation of Street and Electric Railway Employees md that he was In constant Corre pondencc with him in reference to l san Francisco conditions. I have ,vidence that Mooney dynamited an { electric tower of the power line sup ,Iying the street car system of San
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