New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-18
Employees Urged to Volun-
teer to Aid Road in
Impending Strike.
25.OOO ENDANGER
WAGES OF $4,000
Appeal Says All VIII Be Thrown
Out In Resulting Tie-Up-
Union Gets Ballots.

Philadelphia, June 17,-Appealing TO
the loyalty Of the 5000 employees OF
the Pennsylvania Railroad on tho lines
east of Pittsburgh, S. c. Long, general
manager of the road, to-day issued
call for volunteers TO maintain the ser
b. vice in case OF the threatened train
mems strike.
He said the recent conference at
the Engineering Societies Building in
New York between railroad managers
End representatives Of the "Big Four"
brotherhoods had resulted in a dis
agreement, and told the men that the
union officials had started to take
strike ballot. preliminary TO another
conference in New York on August l.
"The total cessation Of train move
ment will result in stopping work in
all departments" read the appeal. I'VE
do not believe the contemplated strike
will be Endorsed by any Of our loyal
employees.
Trainmsn Onc-Sixth Of Workera
"Tbis company employs $4,000 men.
OF this number only $4,000 are In the
train service. II Is not reasonable 10
expect that the wages Of the l2l, 900
employees not In the train service shall
be stopped by q strike Of less than one
sixth Of all the employees.
"Shsll these men, in defiance Of right
and justice, be permitted to stop the
operation Of the railroad and deprive
it Of the ability 70 serve the public?"
Attention is then called TO the duty
OF the road TO operate in the interest
Of the public, and the corresponding
duty Of employees TO see that the road
is operated.
For seventy years this company has
served the public" the communication
reads. MANY of its men have served
the company from twenty-five to forty
years, and are still in its employment
Shall they be thrown out of work and
be deprived of livelihood because Of
a wage controversy among trainmen
not connected with their departments ?"
Strike Ballots Out.
The appeal asks the men to send in
their names and tell what service they
will do in case of strike. The protec-
tion of those who volunteer is as
sured.
at 10 the old familiar attempt to ar
ray one class against the other" said
A. B. Garretson, president of the Order
of Railway Conductors, yesterday af-
appeal to the men. They are playing
both ends against the middle.
"A total cessation of train move
ments would not stop the work of all
departments. A limited number might,
perhaps, be affected"
Most of the union men left town yes
terday with strike ballots 70 take 70
the men. These were printed secretly,
and FIVE hundred thousand were deliv-
cred to the union men at the Broad
way Central Hotel yesterday. The bal
lots will be brought 70 this city TO be
counted, and the second eight-hour day
conference will then be held.
Says Cloakmakers Need Aid.
While the situation between striking
garment workers and employers is un-
changed, Miss Mary F. D~eier. chair
man of the emergency relief committee
of the Women's Trade Union League,
said yesterday the union was almost at
the end of its rope.
money is needed TO relieve these
$4,000 workers" she said "lf Il is not
forthcoming the men will grow des-
perate, women will die of having babies
without attention and children will
stsrve for want of milk and good food"
b. At the union headquarters it was
said that no attempt had been made
- to settle the strike. Each side charged
the other with attempting TO swing the
sentiment of the masses its way.
In Newark, n. j.. leaders Of the metal