Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-09-24
new YORK STRIKE.


I NNt&ShANS sAte$ @eS ~
have returned five or six secret In
ldictments for violence in the strike
indiet labor leaders for conspiracy
District Attorney Swami announced
that ShontE' action invalidated an,
action that the present grand jnr,
might take and that he would hav,
to call another II probe into the strike
! is continued
II any Law has been violated,
Assistant District Attorney Doolins
s@ld. the district attorney will pro
eeed agains. ;ae offender just as Wig
oronsly as he would against the
Lumhles; stone throw.- who has Of
Tended during the strike"
While the general walkout is four
days of and many believe the inves-
tigation OF the transit strike TO be
opened Tuesday by the state board OF
conciliation and arbitration, viii pre-
vent It. New York was facing more
serious transportation difficulties to-
day in threatened spread OF the
present strike, Police were despatch
ed to Brooklyn today when a tip was
received that union organizers were
to start work organizing q walkout
in the Brooklyn rapid transit lines.
Car men OF Richmond borough also
threatened a walkout before night.
II demands they have presented 10 the
company which operates lines there
are not granted.
The police who were rushed TO
Brooklyn terminals found reports
that such an attempt was to be made
had been current for several days.
Police Commissioner Woods today
issued orders TO captains 10 enroll
10 men in each precinct who were
willing 10 do strike duty. This
would add 600 men TO the police
force.
A call was issued today by As
semblyman Vincent Gilroy TO the So
assemblymen and twenty-three SEN
ators Of New York City 10 meet Mon
day night to formulate a request on
the governor for a special session OF
the state legislature to end the strike.
In reply to the statement OF Pre-
sident Gompers OF the A. F. OF L.. in
Washington. T. P Shontz. president
Of the Interborough. said that labor
had grown "tyrannical."
The statement Of Mr.. Gompers re-
garding the right 10 organize does
not apply to our companies said
Shontz. Not only have we always
said that our men had the right 10
organize but. as a matter OF fact, they
are nnionized. OF course they are
not in Fitzgerald's union. II that is
the issue. The situation Is reduced
10 two elementary propositions. The
first is whether the individual has the
right to sell his labor direct and with
out doing it through union. and at
the same time paying commission
for the privilege. The second Is: Can
the powerful labor unions declare 1t
. crime for other men 10 form unions?
The tyranny Of capital in its palmiesi
days was never as tyrannical as labor
tyranny today"
More than a dozen persons were in
jured in two smash-ups today. An
auto truck crashed into car at Six
teenth and Hamilton streets. Brook
lyn. knocking the passengers of the
running board. Police reports said
three persons were seriously hurt
This was not due 10 strike troubles.
Two cars crashed together in the
Bronx on Southern boulevard when
one. handled by a strikebreaker
motorman. raced down an incline and
rammed the other. Passengers on
the front car we're warned by patrol
men TO Jump and they escaped.