The evening world., 1916-09-11
PLANS TO REVIVE
OLD INJUNCTION
TOBREAK STRIKE
Second Avenue Receiver VIII
ASK AID Of Court to Keep
Cars Running.
BRONX IS HARD Hlr.
Mahef Declares 500 of Third
Avenue Men Refused 10
Join Walkout.

Charlie D. Chslmsr-. attorney for
John Beaver. receiver for the second
Avenue Railway. announced to-day he
would spply TO the supreme cour, sor
relief from the action ~ the AmslEa-
mated Association In suspendinE traf-
nc on tie second Avenue line. The
action. lie said. would BE- based on In
functions issued ny justices Bishop
ana whitaker when the first receiver
vas appointed and when Mr. Beaver
was appointed. These injunciions for
bade all persons TO do anything 10
interfere with the orderly operation
~ the cars of the company by the
receiver.
Mr.. Chalmers said Thomas Davey.
president OF the Amalgamated Local.
the other officers and all members OF
the carmen's union would he made de-
PENDANTS as members and a. In
dividuais Ho will present afidavits
setting forth that Davey and others
1 patrollcd Second Avenue. threatening
men who remained at work and usins
violence OF speech and action.
Tho Second Avenue line operated
twenty OF Its two hundred odd cars
early IN the day and promised to In
crease the number to more than
thirty. The company officials said
twenty OF the 5c2 men who were out
/ yesterday returned to work to-day.
Edward a. Maher jr. OF the Third
Avenue system said 500 Of tho 5000
employees Of the red car lines had re-
fused to join the strike. These men
are working for double pay to con-
tinue while tho strike lasts. Seventy.
four cars were running to-day -
against fifteen yesterday. he said.
The Bronx felt the real burden Of
the surface car strike to-day when
men and women started to work.
Not n wheel had turned since shortly
after dark last night
In Westchester the tie-up was COM
plete. A. soon as the men learned
Of the Third Avenue strike order. en-
ployecs of the Yonkers Railroad Com
pany and the Westchester Electric
Railroad Company took their cars
into the barns.
Trucks and touring cars convert
ed into jltneys did a thriving busl-
ness. taking passengers from Third
Avenue and from Simpson Street TO
Clason Point. Car men reported that
In some sections even roller skates
were used to get about, and the
bicycle hasn't had such . vogue In
many days Jitney lines were es-
] tabiished across One Hundred and
/ Twenty-hfth Street. and the own
ers made much money carrying pas
sengers at 10 cents apiece.
| Only six cars had left the Third
Avenue barns at Sixty-sixth Street
and Third Avenue up to 8 A. NJ. to-
day. Usually eighty-two have gone
out by that time. The six crews wers
all that appeared for duty.
Julius Caesar johnson. who has
been working for the company for
twenty-slx years, was irritated when
he found no conductor to 20 out with
him, so he sent home for his son,
julius Caesar johnson jr.. twenty
years old. and took him on as con
ductor.
An Interborough employee watchlnr
elevated trains at Third Avenue and
Sixty y-sixth Street reported that from
s A. NJ. TO Q A. NJ. thirty-seven trains
passed south and forty-one goinJ
north. which he declared was more
than the usual run at that hour.
Only twenty-five cars were runnin,
on the Lexington Avenue Line up 4
A. NJ, instead OF the las usual,
working at that hour. The Fourti
and Madison Avenue Line sent ou
twenty-five cars out OF It's usual $50
No cars were running on First Ave
nuo. and only ten on Second Avenu,
at that hour. Seven out OF thirty-si,
, cars were going across One Hundret
: and Sixteenth street, and n like mum
. ber on Eighty-sixth Street.