Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-13
RIOTERS DRAG
CREW OFF CAR
in N. Y. STRIKE
Violence in Brooklyn and
Manhattan--Dynamite
! Found in Tube
DRASTIC MOVE PLANNED

traction strike broke out during the middle
81 the forenoon today ana increased hourly.
Earlier In the day dynamite package
found IN the Brooklyn section OF the Sub
way led the police 20 believe that an at
tempt had been made 20 blow up the tube.
The package was found early this morn-
ina about 500 feet from the Borough Hall
Station, II was lying Just inside one OF
the rails where II might be hit by the
GanRe on the wheel OF car passing above
IT, II was sent 20 the main office of the
Bureau OF Combustibles for detailed analy-
MS
CREW DRAGGED FROM CAR
The nrst street disorder occurred about
. a. m. Calls for police came in rapid sue
cession thereafter and by ioi20 o'clock four
teen arrests had been made.
The most serious riot occurred at Fourth
avenue and Twenty-third street, when a
crowd numbering 500 blocked the track and
refused TO let surface car proceed. AT
signal from the mobs leader the car was
etormed and the motorman. conductor and
two other traction employees dragged TO the
street
Police reserves were rushed TO the scene
by automobile and the mob was dispersed
after four arrests had been made.
FIGHT TO THE FINISH"
That the strike would be fight TO the
finish was the declaration made by the
leaders on both sides today. The traction
the meeting which the Public Service Com
mission had called, but emphaticaliy as
serted that they would reject the proposal
OF arbitration upon which the commission
had agreed as a means OF terminating the
struggle.
1--WE have all the best OF IT," said one
traction chief ''why should we arbitrate
when we have won the striker II was
brought on by the union. and the company
secs no reason why II should in any way
A.. 1...tN II Nnr a
condition for which II was In no way liable"
MAYORS PLAN TO END STRIKE
Drastic steps to end the strike were
considered by Mayor Mitchell this after
noon, following the fat refusal OF the Inter
borough company to accept the peace truce
and arbitration plan proposed by the com
mission.
First, the Mayor is considering a request
on Governor whitman for special session
Of the Legislature to pass legislation to
end the strike. The second step is to have
the Board OF Estimate grant an immediate
franchise TO the New York Notorious Com
pany TO run its motorbusses along streets
paralleiing the railway lines now tied up
by strikes. Application for such fran
chse was made a year ago.
The labor leaders we're as defiant as the
traction officials and asserted they would
make no concessions at the commissions
meeting.
we are nBntlnB lot our nIe-tne r1Bnt
10 organize" said Hugh Frayne, State or
ganizer Of the American Federation Of
Labor. I'VE will not surrender anything
that might jeopardiEe that right"
The situation on this, the sixth day of
the strike semed fraught with even
greater menace than at any previous time.
Charging that the Interborough officials
had failed TO use orderly methods" In
their efforts to break the strike, the strik-
ers declared that force must be met with
force"
This implied threat caused fear to arise
that there would be even greater violence
schmittberger ordered the police to use
their revolvers In case of attacks upon
traction property or employees.
Service on the subway and elevated
lines was practically normal today. but
there was no change In the condition OF
paralysis on the surface lines.
The Interborough has rejected the pro-
pcsai Of the Public Service Commission
that the traction strike on the elevated and
subway lines be submitted TO arbitration.
The New York Railways Company, con-
trolling the surface lines, also refused TO
accept arbitration.
The two companies also served notice on
the commission, that hereafter no confer
ences would be held with officers, agents
or members of the Amalgamated Associ-
alton OF Steel and Electric Workers EN-
ployes.
peace having failed, other methods were
taken under consideration and II was re-
ported that Mayor Mitchell would ask Gov
ernor Whitman to call a special session OF
the Legislature to pass law making ar
bitration compulsory In all labor dlsputes