New-York tribune., 1916-07-31
Manhattan BridgeCars
Halted in First
Move on B. r. I.
TIE UP OF CITY
TO-DAY is THREAT
Hedley Warns Under
ground Guards to Stick
80 Hurt in Bronx.

! general strike OF the guards anu
motormen of the Subway lines and
the Third Avenue elevated line was
sought last night by the striking
carmen who have tied up surface
transportation in The Bronx and on
The lines of the Third Avenue Kali
ways system in Manhattan.
At midnight several guards on
both the subway and elevated said
that every man on both systems had
been asked to quit work at daybreak
to-day. 1t was not known how many
would obey the call. Union officials
refused to divulge their plans, or
how far they had gone in organizing
the men.
Police on Guard Duty.
Fearing the resumption Of rioting
throughout the city if the subway
and elevated employees walk out,
general order was sent out from
Police Headquarters at II o'clock
ordering police reserves to be ready
to guard both systems. Patrolmen
who had been permitted to go home
after having been on duty all DAY
Yesterday we're ordered by telephone
to report TO their captains at z
o'clock this morning.
The strikers made their first move
last night against the New York
Railways Company and the Brook
I'm Rapid Transit Company. Seven
crews of the North River and Man
haitian Bridge line, which is con-
tyolled by the New York Railways,
he B. r. T. and the Third Avenue
system. failed to report for work at
o'clock. By s o'clock the crews on
duty had quit, and traffic on the line
had stopped. A rioting mob OF
strikers which gathered at the Canal
Street entrance to the bridge was
] aspersed by the police.
Hedley Warns Employees.
4 frank Hedley, vice-president and
II general manager of the New York
\ Railways Company, which also con-
rols the Interborough, issued the
4 following statement at midnight:
| 10 All Employees:
The management notifies It's en-
! ployes that labor agitators from out
n lde cities have announced in secret
meetings that they have come to
New York TO tie up all street rail-
way traffic, regardless of the hard
ships TO the families of the men
5perating the cars and TO the public
N general.
| Representatives of the company
attended secret meeting Saturday
II hight, at which a vice-president of
\ the Amalgamated Association of
Electric and Street Railway En-
loyes stated that with twenty-five
members he could create enough dis
iurbance 10 intimidate the rest Of
our employees. This is TO notify all
employees that the management has
arranged for adequate personal pro-
4 lection.
N Assurances of Protection.
Il There is no dispute between the
Management and its employees, all
Of whom we believe to be faithful
and desirous Of holding their jobs,
and therefore we notify such en-
y pioyes TO be on their guard against
VI promises and threats of meddlers;
'hd on1S part the management will
project every man in the service to
me utmost and TO that end has al
ready arranged for proper police
projection, in view Of recent threats
Sha acts by these agitators. This
assurance Of police protection is
s''eh 10 US by the proper police au-
0riNihg carmen effected a COM
re'e ue-up yesterday Of the street
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