Evening star., 1916-09-14
NEW YORK STRIKE
HEADS CONF F|DENT
Believe They Will Win Despite
Steady Increase in Car
Service.
TRACTION OFFICIALS SEE
END OF THE TROUBLE
Assert Many Of Former Employees
Are Returning to Work-Accident
Ascribed to Creased Rails.

NEW YORK. September 14.-Despite
the maintenance of regular schedules
on the subway and elevated lines Of the
Interborough Rapid Transit4 Company
and the gradual restoration of service
striking street railway employees de-
clared today they were far from being
defeated. They hinted that the danger
of sympathetic" strike is not yet
over. ....
Following a parade and demonstra-
tion by the strikers. the question of a
sympathetic strike will be discussed
at meetings of the Central Federated
Unions of Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Strike leaders predict that resolutions
favoring a strike among trades allied
with the street railway employees will
be adopted Whether the strike will
actually take place, however, will de-
pend on the individual votes of the
union, 1t is asserted.
Traction officials announced today
that service on the subway and ele-
waited roads was better than normal,
while service on most surface lines was
from % to 40 per cent cent below nor
NAL. The railway companies say i is
no longer necessary for them to hire
strikebreakers, claiming that hundreds
of their former employees have returned
to work.
Ten Thousand in Parade.
There were approximately 10000 strik-
ing motormen, conductors and sympa-
thizers in the parade. which began in the
forenoon and ended shortly after l o'clock
at Union Square, where addresses were
delivered by the strike leaders. The
men marched without music. all carry
ing American flags. The parade was in
six divisions. and was led by Hugh
Frayne, state organizer of the American
Federation of Labor. and William B.
Fitzgerald. general organizer of the street.
railway men.
Large delegations from the West
Chester cities of Yonkers, Mount Yer
non and New Rochelle were in line
carrying banners which read:
This is not sympathetic strike
the companies want to destroy the
ant contract. We call that slavery
We want TO be free
Ten Passengers Injured.
Five trolley cars came together in a
series of rear-end collisions on West
chester avenue in the Bronx today and
ten passengers were injured. one Sc
riously. The accidents occurred at the
foot Of steep incline. and the car
crews, who said they were strike
breakers. claimed the rails had been
creased so that the brakes would not
hold
Mayor Mitchell Has No Plan.
Mayor Mitchell admitted that the had
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
special session of the legislature to
enact a compulsory arbitration law,
were rejected by the mayor
Officials of the transit companies per-
sisted IN their refusal to submit their
side of the dispute to arbitration, and
asserted that the service of the sur
face lines is being increased daily by
the employment of. strikebreakers.
Nevertheless the elevated and subway
lines and steam railroad transportation
between Manhattan and Westchester
continues greatly congested.
Confident that they had available
enough men to enable them to carry
through successful siege against the
union, the New York Railways Com
pany. operating many surface car lines.
has dismissed the employment agencies
which have been engaging strikebreak-
ers, and more than 900 men employed
to take the places of the strikers have
been discharged. The company officials
said they had enough men to operate
the elevated and subway lines, but not
enough to man all the surface cars.
The night service on surface lines CON
tinues to be suSpended