New-York tribune., 1916-07-28

SlrolS the strikers uunE MS OVuJ INV"
the street, smashed the car windows,
wrecked the interior and escaped be-
fore patrolmen could reach the scene.
Later a detective arrested Matthew
Hair. Of 3S4 East 13Sth Street, strik-
ing conductor, also known as Bobby"
Evans, pugilst
Patrolman Hurt.
John Boland. of COZ East 142d Street,
a patrolman of the Alexander Avenue
station, was seriously hurt and five
others were injured when John White,
Of $40 West Fiftieth Street, a strike
breaking motorman, attempted to run
a West Farms car into the car barns
at 13Sth Street, near East Willow Ave
nue.. Unfamiliar with the mechanism
of the brakes, White sent the car over
switch at too great speed. The car
jumped the track, swung around and
plunged for three lengths across the
sidewalk and crashed into the stone
wall protecting the tracks of the New
York, New Haven g. Hartford Railroad
Besides Boland, whose chest was
crushed, the injured were: William
Bode. 451 East lS6th Street, patrol
man of the Alexander Avenue station;
DR.. Stewart ". MacVean Of Riker's
Island; Thomas J. Gof, $50 West Side
Avenue. Jersey City; William May, 4l4
East Eighty-third Street; Michael
Pagan, 1863 Thirty-eighth Street,
Brooklyn. White was not hurt.
Alarmed by the outburSts Of rioting
which ushcred in the second day Of the
strike, Police Commissioner WOODS
yesterday rushed nearly 200 detec-
tives, former members of the old-tlme
"Strong Ann Squad" TO the West
Farms and Kingsbridge car barns Of
the Union Railways Company and sent
them out with the cars 20 guard the
strike breakers and passengers.
After 10 o'clock in the morning
every car that operated in The Bronx
had a detective on the front and rear
platforms. Besides these SOC reserves
were held in the stations Of the Sixth,
Seventh and Fourteenth Inspection
Districts, and more than 200 others
patrolled in pairs and larger groups
the sections in which the strikers have
been cOngreGating and in which vlo-
lence has occurred.
Strikers Claim Gains.
The strikers met the activity of the
police and the statements OF +. A.
Maher. jr, general manager Of the
Union Railways, that the strike sltua-
tion was progressing favorably, with
the assertion that by the. middle NJ
next week every surface, elevated ana
subway line in Manhattan, togetner
with the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Com
panys surface lines in Brooklyn, would
be tied up and trafhc paraiyzeu
throughout the city.
This statement was made by mem
Der of the executive board OF the
Amalgamated Association OF Street
Electric Railway Employees OF Amer
lea, following a conference at the
Hotel Continental between W. d.
Mahon, president Of the association;
Hugh Franey, State organizer OF the
American Federation Of Labor; +. D.
O'Brien, fourth vice-president of the
association; William +. Collins, gen
eral organizer of the American FEEDER
alton of Labor, and William B. Fitz-
gerald, a member OF the executive
board.
1--WE are ready to organize, and are
organizing, every street railway man IN
New York" said a union official. I'VE
have 90 per cent. of the men OF the
Bronx lines with US, and fully 80 per
cent. of the $4,000 trolleymen in Man
haitian and Brooklyn are ready TO go
out for better working conditions and
higher wages when they get the word.
And they will get the word soon"
quarters at the Continental Hotel, and
at the union Offices in the North End
Democratic Club on Fordham Road,
that the men of the Third Avenue Rail-
wavs Company will strike to-day, and
that they will be followed Immediately
by the men on some of the surface
lines of the B. r. T. Fear of general
tieup of all lines was also expressed
by General Manager Maher OF the
Union system, who declared the strlk-
ers would have things their own way
and could intimiadte such men as de-
sired to continue at work, unless the
streetcar company were gwen ponce
protection.
Maher adopted the policy at daybreak
yesterday of putting private detectives
on every car that rolled out OF the
barns but this procedure was found
insufficient TO cope with the strikers.
Almost every car that went out during
the early hours came back with win
dows broken and woodwork damaged,
and with the private detectives and
trolleymen bearing bruised faces and
blackened eyes.
To appeals for uniformed patrolmen
on the cars the police replied that it
was against the rule of the Police De-
partment to put uniformed men on con-
veyances, the rule having been adopted
during the express drivers" strike.
Maher Immediately hurried to the
Police Department, and after a con-
ference with Commissioners Dunham
and Lord and Chief Inspector Max
Schmittberger, Commissioner Woods
sent the members Of the strong arm
squad" to the Bronx car barns. There
was little rioting after the news was
spread around that detectives were rid
ing on every car.
81 have sent these men out for OBJ
servation as we'll as for protection
work" said Police Commissioner
Woods, "and l have instructed them
that they must be fair and give the
strikers all the latitude that is con-
sistent with the enforcement Of the
law and the maintenance Of order.
They must permit peaceful picketng,
and must not interfere in peaceful
arguments. The strikers have a right
10 present their side Of the question 70
the men remaining at work II the
situation reaches point that demands
il, i will assign the entire police force
20 see that the law IS obeyed and
ordered maintained
No Serious Injuries.
No reports of serious injuries had
been reported 10 the police up 70 six
o'clock last night, although many per-
sons were slightly hurt by shattered
glass, when bricks were hurled through
car windows; others were dubbed BY
the police in efforts to disperse rioting
gangs Of strikers and sympathzors. a
dozen or more of the strike breaking
motormen and conductors were dragged
from their cars and pummelled, in some
instances their uniforms and clothing