The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-14
Crash Down Hill, Iniuring
Many Passengers.
MOtOrmen De-
clare Tracks Creased.
10000 IN STRIKERS PARADE
Mayor Rejects Idea of Calling
Special Legislature.
But No Surface Cars Are Nov
ing After Dark.

New York, Sept. 14.-While reports
were coming in of five street cars
operated by strikebreakers being piled
up at the bottom of a grade, injuring
nine persons. and traction officials
stolidly reiterated their refusal to arbi-
trate their differences with the union.
several thousand strikers paraded
thru the streets here today seeking
support in their fight for the existence
of their organization.
Headed by band furnished by -he
Musicians union, the strikers marched
from Eighty-sixth street and Park
avenue to Union Square, where a mass
meeting was held this afternoon
About 5000 of the strikers were in
uniform. Police placed the number
in line at 1000, but union officials de-
clared there were more than 10000.
Today marked the opening of the
second week of the strike. Settlement
was apparently as far off as the day
the first men walked out. All com
to accept the recommendation of the
public service commission for arbi-
tration.
Talk of General Strike.
Talk of a general strike in support
of the carmen is still heard but no
definite action has been taken. The
unions are to hold another meeting
bated. Samuel Gompers, president of
the American Federation of Labor and
Hugh Frayne, organizer of the same
body. were scheduled among the
speakers at the mass meeting this aft
ernoon.
VIM. B. Fitzgerald, who is leading
the strike, and Meyer London, social
list congressman, We're also to address
the crowd. Later the strike leaders
will appear before the public service
commission again.
The Union line In The Bronx on
Which the i've car smashups occurred
today. is the same ON which three per-
sons were killed Tuesday when a car
jumped the track One car after an
other plunged down the grade in West
Chester avenue in today's accident
with men and women screaming and
shouting for help.
Five Cars Pile Up.
The cars dashed down at such
speed they dared not jump. When the
first stopped at the bottom the four
coming up behind crashed into it. The
strikebreakers said the brakes on the
cars refused to work. They also
claimed the tracks had been creased
made to resume traffic today on the
surface lines affected by the strike
but in the main the tie-up of the COM
panieS whose men are on strike was
complete.
Subway and elevated trains continue
to operate on regular schedule but
carrying unprecedented crowds. owing
to the paralyZation of surface lines,
and jammed to suffocation.
In Big Parade.
New York, Sept. 14.-Leaders of
the striking street railway employees
estimated that more than 10000 men
would take part in a parade and mass
meeting today while city officials and
the heads of both sides of the con-
troversy held conferences in a further
effort to break the deadlock which has
partly tied up most of the surface car
lines in Manhattan and the Bronx
boroughs and West Chester county.
Mayor Mitchell admitted that he lad
no plan which promised any settle
ment of the strike. Suggestions to
grant a franchise to a motor omnibus
company or to ask the governor to
call a special session of the legislature
to enact a compulsory arbitration law
were rejected by the mayor.
The night service on surface lines
continues to be suspended.