Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-08-06
ines Over Which More Than
100000 People Travel
Daily Discontinue Operation
Completely,
MOST SERIOUS TRANSIT
BLOCKADE IN HISTORY
Serious RiOt Is QueIIed by PO-
lice; Test Of Strength Ex-
Dected to Come at Early
Date,


New York, Aug. 5.-Surface / ear
traffIc ceased in the bOrOughs of Man
haitian the Bronx and Richmond at
S o'clock tonight. AT that hour the
city was i'm the grip of the most seri-
aus transit blockade in its history.
Brooklyn was the only borough in
the greater city not affected by the
strike of motormen and conductors
only a fraction of the normal number.
Of cars was in operation in the bOr-
ough of Queens.
The menace of a general transpor-
fqtion strike was growing hourly more
threatening tonight w. b. tftzger-
aid, the general organizer, declared
that every employe of the INTERIOR
ough would be a member Of the UNION
By next week.
New Equipment Expected
A now element of danger, so far as
the travelling public are concerned,
was elected into the situation tonight
when William ID. Mahon, president OF
The Amalgamated Association OF
street and Electric Railway Employees,
declared that "a delegation of the
brotherhood of Locomotive Engi
necrs representing the men working
on llt tdlllbdhS IullhiHH luAO llt 'iNN
had called upon him and asked for a
conference. They were invited to con
fer tomorrow afternoon with union
officials Mahon and associates were
much elated over the new develop
ment.
AT s o'clock tonight orders had
been issued by every street railroad
In Manhattan ana cue Bronx and on
Staten ISLAND lRichmond) to discon-
uuue service for the night. An hour
later not q surface car wheel was
moving in the three horoughs.
All Lines suspend.
one after another the New York
Railways company the Second Ave !
nue. and Third Avenue Railroad COM
panics. the Union Railway company. !
which operates in the Bronx. and the |
Richmond Light and Railway com |
pany notified police headquarters that
they had suspended service The !
number of passengers carried daily I
on these lines is estimated at $500, |
GOO
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traffic, steady streams of "jitney' We |
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