Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-04-07
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The COMMITTEE
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Employees Of Old Dominion
Railway Prepare For
a Strike
ROAD is BOYCOTTED
Organizer of Union Makes Speech in
Alexandria Last Night at Meeting
in Interest of Cause.

Washington, April, IA strike on
all the lines of the Washington and
Old Dominion railroad-steam anc
alectric-was called at IL o'clock.
Practically every train and every
car-freight and passenger-was re-
ported at l o'clock this afternoon
noon to be tied up.
Washington, April General
Manager Emmert, of the Washington
and Old Dominion Company, refused
J this morning to receive the union
committee representing its employees
Upon being turned away the COM
mittee called an immediate meeting
a committee of five men represent
ing the union employees Of the COM
pany called on Superintendent En-
inert for the company's answer to the
demands submitted yesterday in the
form of an agreement for increased
! wages and better working conditions.
All of the union employees of the
Washington Virginia Railroad Com
pany are on strike today following
the call issued at meeting at Balls
ton yesterday afternoon.
The lines of this company are still
in operation, however, and it is de-
clared by company officials that full
schedule is being maintained. The
strikers will hold another meeting ir
Ballston this afternoon.
Washington and Dominion emplo-
yes declare that strike will be call
ed if the answer of the company is
unfavorable.
The men, however, will wait upon
action by full meeting of the men,
to be called later in the day to hear
the report of the unions committee
which waited upon General Manager
Emmert this morning.
Striking employees of the Washing
ton-Virginia Company will hold an
other meeting in Pythian temple
Ballston, Va, this afternoon. The
committee which represented the de-
mands to the company will make an
other report.
1t was announced by the strikers
today that their ranks had been aug
mented considerably last night and
early this morning and that the men,
bership of the union was increasing
hourly.
Officials Of the company said there
had been on material defections from
he ranks of their loyal employees and
that for every man who joined the
union and automatically discharged
himself they had at least two men to
put to work.
The patronage of the cars began to
shrink this morning, hundreds of mer
women and children walked to George
town from nearby Virginia points or
patronizing the many jitneys, which
| Sprang up over night. The jitneys
were labeled Union in large letters
and striking motormen and conduc.
tors urged would be car passengers tc
use the automobiles or trucks.
Crowds of strikers and sympathi
zers many boys, assembled at the car.
barns at Lacey, at Falls Church
Clarendon, Ballston, Hatfield and Ar
lington Junction, all transfer points
and worked as pickets for the union
They taunted the men operating
the cars, and wrote their views on the
cars with pieces of chalk. In a num-
Der of instances the cars were de
faced with sticks and stones, which
were used in scraping off the paint
| L. A Sterne, who helped organize
the union and who presided at yes
terday's meeting, when the strike wa!
declared, addressed the Central La
Dor Council in Alexandria last night
The council went on record as in
dorsing the strike and the efforts o
| the unionists to get shorter hour
and higher wages. Similar action wa:
taken by the United Brotherhood o
Carpenters and Glass Blowers Union