Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-09-11

..aeo employees. longshoremcn brow
ory workers. machnists, barteuders,
,,nulders and printers, in sympathy
with the unionizcd carmen, who quit
tbeir places four days ago, was decid-
cd mon at meeting Of the heads of
their unions tonight according to an
announcement by Hugh Fraync, state
nralnizcr Of the American Federation
of Labor.
Want Union Recognized.
resolution was adopted calling ON
MI unonzed wage earners in Greater
New York. Yonkcrs, Mount Vernon.
White Plains and New Rochelle, to
sanction a strike i'm support of the
contention Of the street railway men
of their right to organize. The res
olutIon recommended that the work
crs i'm the various trades lay down
their tools until the companies are
forced to recognize the carmen
union.
According to state organizer
Frame approximately 100000 men
and women are enrolled IN the unions
thar were represented at the meeting
tonight
win Fight to Finish
Before sympathetic strik, can bt
declared. however, it WAS explained
ty the union leaders, it will be neccs-
sary for them to call mass meetings
Of their respective unions and put the
proposition to a vote of the members
The delegates at the meeting tonight
IT was said assured William b Fitz-
gerald. organizer of the carmcn's
union, that their members were will
Ing to fight to a finish, morally phys
icaIly ana financially, in the mtcrcs
Of trade unionsm
officials of the railway companies
when Informed Of the action of the
union leaders, asked whether the
building trades were to be included in
the recommendation for sympa.
thetic strike. They were told that nc
action with respect to these unions
had been taken
GOmpCrs Takes Hand.
The meeting of the union delegates
following a meeting held earlier IN
the day at which Samuel GOmpcrs
president of the American Federation
Of Labor and officials of the Contra
Federated Union in New York and
Brooklyn, as well as the heads of the
Garments union were present I'm.
divided moral and financial support
Of all trade ununists in Greater New
York was pledged in a resolution
adopted al this conference to tho
striking carmen.
The fourth day Of the strike found
all surface car lines in Manhattan, the
Bronx, and parts of Westchcster coun-
ty badly crippled During the day the
service on nearly all the lines was
about 50 per cent normal, and tonight
the police reported 1t had almost en-
tirely been suspended.
street Travel Difficult.
In the subway and ON the elevated
railway lines, however, trains were
run with greater frequency than
usual This, it was explained, was
done to accommodate the overflow OF
Sunday crowds which ordinarily ride
ON surface cars.
JltncNS were IN demand during Inc
day particularly in the cross-towI
thoroughfares of the city In som'
instances, adults were observed OF
roller skates
The first accident since the strike
began occurred late today when four
teen persons among them six police
men on strike duty received mtnol
injuries in a rear end collision be
tween two Third avenue elevated
trains
Several outbreaks Of violence wer'
rcportcd by the police. The mos
serious was an attack on a Madison
avenue surface car Eleven arrests
were made after shots We're tircd b!
the police to hold back rioters wh'
tried to rescue the prisoners. one Pc
Ioeman was hurt by bottle thrown
by q rIotcr
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