New-York tribune., 1916-07-30

right TO organize, and he said ne
couldn't say. The conference thereupon
ended. We had agreed TO abandon two
Of our demands and submit to srbitra-
tion. but the railway would not meet us
even half way"
Thugs Ousted from Bronx.
There was little change in the situa-
tion in The Bronx yesterday Inc
Union Railways continued TO operate
their cars with strike breakers, al
though there was marked absence OF
the thugs so much in evidence Thurs
day and Friday, and officials of the sys-
tenn said that about so per cent OF the
cars were being operated. In the hands
Of inexperienced motormen, the street
cars caused numerous accidents, re-
sulting in one death and many serious
injuries. Collisions between cars and
automobiles and other vehicles were
common throughout the day. but there
we're few cars attacked by strikers ana
sympathizers, due largely TO the pres
cnce Of several thousand police re-
serves along the lines.
BEFORE noon Chief Inspector Schmitt-
berger sent forty uniformed men TO
The Bronx 10 ride on the cars and act
a. guards, on the assertion OF General
Manager Maher that the presence OF
patrolmen would induce more persons
TO use the cars. Late in the afternoon
Inspector Schmittberger said the pa
trolmen had reported that no more per
sons were using the cars than before.
Crosstown Lines Free.
Virtually all of the men who have
gone on strike in Manhattan are those
operating cars on the Third Avenue
line Of the Third Avenue division, al
though il was reported that several
crews had quit on the Grand Street
crosstown line. This, however, was
denied by Owen Mcdonald, superin-
tendent of the division which embraces
the Grand Street line. Mcdonald said
he had had no trouble whatever on
any of the lines under his control,
which are the Forty-second Street
crosstown line, the West Belt line, the
East Belt line, the Avenue line OF
battery cars, the Twenty eighth and
Twenty-ninth Street crosstown line,
the Washington Heights line, the
Broadway branch and the Fifty-nlnth
street crosstown line. =.
George ]. Murphy, superintendent OF
the Third Avenue division, which en-
braces the Third Avenue line, the
Third and Amsterdam avenues line and
the 125th Street crosstown line, said
that the Third Avenue line at noon
was running short about ten cars.
The crews for them, he said, had either
failed to report or had reported sick.
Neither he nor Mcdonald was in
clined 10 believe that the strikers
would succeed in tying up the Third
Avenue system.
Mcdonald said his men were bring
ing TO him every circular handed to
them by the strikers pickets and or
ganizers.
Threats to Employees.
Few conductors on the Third Avenue
line who wanted to strike could be
found Yesterday, but many of them ex-
pressed the fear that they would be
forced to quit work by acts OF vio-
lence on the part of strikers. Many
men reported TO the police and to the
company officials that strikers from
The Bronx and Yonkers were board
ing their cars in Harlem and threat
enng them.
Many strikers did picket duty at the
barn in Third Avenue at Sixty.hith
Street and in the other barns OF the
company. but they we're kept moving
by the police and there was no DIS
order. Extra precautions are being
taken to guard the Third Avenue be-
cause of the number of paving stones
that are lying on the sidewalk and IN
the street ammunition ready to hand
The strikers Of the Manhattan lines
have established headquarters in
Mozart Hall. at 1923 East Eighty-sixth
street, and are enrolling other motor
lnen and conductors of the system into
the union organization. Mahon. Fitz-
gerald and other union leaders visited
the hall yesterday and expressed them 4
selves as satisfied with the work so
far as it had progressed At several Of
these meetings yesterday, both in The
Bronx and in Manhattan, Fitzgerald
announced that virtually all OF the 4
starters and inspectors Of the Union
Railways Company had joined the /
strikers and were doing picket duty. .