Bisbee daily review., 1916-09-23
Eighty Unions, Representing Every Trade in Greater New York Expected to Quit Work.
 WHOLE LIFE OF CITY
 MAY BE PARALYZED Cant Ride Scab Cars and Keep Respect" Say Union Men-Shonts Still Refuses to Meet Strikers.
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 NEW YORK, Sept. 22.-Delegate! to the Central Federated Union repre- senting 125,000 workers in allied trades, voted unanimously tonight tC ratify the sympathetic strike called for next Wednesday by union leaders This action followed a similar steI taken several days ago by representa- tives of 100000 members of the Unit ed Hebrew Trades.
 NEW YORK, Sept. 22.-Orean-
 ized workers in virtually every
 industry in greater New York
 were f rmally called upon late to-
 day to cease work at 8 o'clock
 next "Wednesday morning in sym
 pathy with striking traction er1-
 ployes. Labor leaders assert that
 approximately 500. 900 men and
 women are involved.
 30 Unions in Move
 The call was embodied in resolutions adopted at g conference of labor lead CTS representing the federated bodies in all the boroughs of the city as well as many national and international unions. Of the so unions in the city represented. it was said some already had voted in favor of a strike. The call. it was said. would be issued not only to organized workers in New York. but also to those in Westchester County. in which the cities of Yonkers New Rochelle and Mount Vernon are situated and would extend throughout a wide range of industries.
 Hugh Frayne, New York state or ganizer of the American Federation of Labor. announced the determination to call the sympathetic walk-out in the following statement:
 All Tradesmen To Quit
 "It was decided by unanimous
 vote of representatives of 30 un-
 ions of Greater New York and
 vicinity that there shall be a gen.
 eraI suspension of all work in all
 trades and industries in Greater
 New York and vicinity, the same
 to commence "Wednesday, Sep tenn 27 at a. m."
 officers of several international un- ions attended the conference, MT. Frayne said. Among these was T. V. O'Connor of Buffalo, president of the Lohgshoremens organization. Wm. B. Fitzgerald. general organizer of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes. in charge of the traction strike. repre- sented the car men at the conference.
 Union Mems Side
 The call is based upon the proposi- ,ion that union men cannot maintain their self respect if they ride upon cars operated by strikebreakers, ac- cording to a statement issued tonight by Ernest Bohm, secretary of the Central Federated Union. In cases where contracts exist. Bohm said the employees would be notified that the workers have no means of transporta- tion and if the employers cannot pro- vide transportation the workers must remain at their homes.
 "ITnion employes will not risk their lives by riding on cars operated by green motormen and protected by po- licemen." MT Bohm said. Neither can they ride or such cars and retain their self respect as union men.
 "The general tie-up will come be- cause employers of union labor will not provide their employees with the means of transportation to and from work to enable them to stay off the dangerous striking cars of the several traction lines"
 Shynts Won't Confer
 Theo. P. Shonts, president of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company and the New York Railways Company reiterated his determination not to meet representatives of the striking carmen.
 "If did so the loyal men in the h. terborouqh brotherhood would have uood cause to strike" he said. "There is no reason for negotiations. There is no strike. We are carrying more people in the subways. on the elevat- ed. and in the Steinway tubes than
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