New-York tribune., 1916-07-29
Gunmen and Gangs
Add to Rioting in
Bronx Streets.
THIRD AVE. LINE
VOTE TONIGHT
Hint of Settlement as Car
men Insist They Can
Tie Up City.


r.,s,es the entire city to such an
.,,ent that practically every police
u,r IN all five boroughs is held on
-.serve for expected emergencies. A
General police order to this enecN'
which has not been issued since the
exnress strike five years ago, went
into operation at a o'clock yester-
dov afternoon. The order was the
clsarest indication of the days devei-
onments that the danger OF a city
wide transit tie-up of surface hnes
az least was considered a serious
one by the authorities.
Ohcials of the Garments union oe-
clared last night that the strike on
.bo surface lines of the Union Rail
wav in The Bronx would be extended
- tho entire Third Avenue Railroad
sv.tem in both Manhattan and Inc
Rronx as soon as the men employed
on the Manhattan lines Of the road
could be organized in sufficient num-
hers to call them out. The Inlrd
Avenue Railway Company controls
The Bronx lines now tied up by 'he
strike.
Many Lines Threatened.
of Tho strike to Manhat-
ton lines would cripple not only the
vain north and south artery on
Third Avenue but also dozen cross
town lines from Canal Street 70 the
Harlem River. 49,,
Chief Inspector Max Schmittoer-
GER who directed practically all tne
nolice CAPTAINS in the city to hold
au their men on reserve, is prepared
for the threatened strike on the Inlrd
Avenue system alone to affect every
nolice inspection district in Manhat-
tan. The company's car barns are
so scattered that general strike on
the Third Avenue system would nam
per every part of the borough Al
most 1000 men are employed on the
company's lines operating in Man
haitian and if the threat Of the union
ofscials is carried out it will lay up
about half as many street cars.
Union Missionaries Busy.
W. D. Mahon, president Of the Ma
tional Carmen's Union, who, with W. b.
Fitzgerald, general organizer, Is direct
ing the present strike in The Bronx
,aid that at present no strike Ia con-
templated on any other street railway
sv,tem than the Third Avenue system.
Union organizers, however, have been
organizing the employees Of all the sur
face, elevated and subway lines in the
city for the last few days. 1t Is feared
that ultimately the strike will spread
TO other railroad systems.
A meeting Of the men employed on
tn. cars Of the Third Avenue system in
Manhattan, TO be held tonight at the
Lyceum, at Eighty-sixth Street and
Third Avenue, is expected to crystal
lie the sentiment OF the men for q
general strike.
Group meetings were held through
out Manhattan yesterday afternoon and
last night, and they were not confined
to Third Avenue system men alone.
Predictions were made that the whole
Third Avenue railway system in Man
haitian and The Bronx, crosstown and
north and south lines, would be halted
by Monday morning.
Manhattan Men Divided.
Opinions differ as regards the SEN
ument OF the Third Avenue men in
Manhattan. Mahon and Fitzgerald re-
ported last night that the men favored
strike. They said that delegations
from Ave street railway lines IN the
city including one delegation from
brooklyn, had come to them with
s'flke proposal. They boasted that the
sentiment throughout the city was at
fever heat.
On the other hand, officials of the
ihitd Avenue railroad lines in Man
hauan maintained that the men en-
p'oyed in this borough were perfectly
satisfied with wages and working con-
o'uons. They had their wages raised
"'ee within the last year. The com
Pany anticipated the present trouble
sno granted the increases voluntarily.
'ne oneials declared that the only way