New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-11
Ten of 1920 Employees on
Duty-Double Pay Offer
by Company Fails.
CITY is SEARCHED
FOR STRIKEBREAKERS
Railway Hopes" for Bet
ter Service To-day
Crew Takes Joy Ride.


elevated, automobile and roller skates
They will look in vain for the srrfacf
cars that supply the chief means Of
crosstown travel through the borough
The surface tie-up following the
strike vote early yesterday OF tn'
Union Railway employees was practical
" complete. OF the 3S2 cars that nor
mally ply over the borough's 2lO miles
Of tracks less than score, othclals
Of the car mems union maintain, were
in service yesterday. And of the l,2oC
motormen and conductors exactly ten
accepting the admission of company
officials, reported for duty yesterday
morning.
/ This strike has registered greater
per cent of efficiency than any other
walkout. either in The Bronx Or in any
other borough of the greater city. The
/ tie-up OF month ago swept The Bronx
before it and paralyzed Manhattan. but
/ even then a far greater humber OF the
I Union Railways old employees remained
at their posts, statistics show.
Night Hats Bronx Service.
At 6 o'clock last night every surface
car in The Bronx was run into the
car barns, and from that hour until far
past daybreak this morning not a
streetcar in the whole borough turned
wheel.
Residents OF the borough took their
difficulty lightly yesterday, but the real
burden will be felt this morning, when
men and women start to their work.
Sunday was loaiing day. and people
were willing to laugh at the long walks
they had 70 take, or were willing TO
pay the excessive fares demanded by
the taxicab drivers and the jitney bus
men.
Company officials would not promise
better service for to-day They
hoped" but did not prophesy. The
question, they admit, is one that must
find an answer in the supply and de-
mand OF the strikebreakers, since
even the company officials do not be-
lieve any of the union men will return
to their work until a settlement is
reached.
Every effort, after the strike vote
was reached, was made by the company
10 hold the old men at their posts
Placards promising double pay to those
who had remained faithful appeared
early. The same posters maintained
that the strike had been called through
no fault of the officials of this sys-
tenn"
No Strike of Sympathy.
Members Of the executive board Of
the car mems union denied last night
that the strike had been launched to
demonstrate sympathy for the striking
subway, elevated and New York Rail
ways employees. I'VE are fighting our
own battle, just as the men on the
Manhattan lines are fighting theirs, "
declared one member Of the board
an reality we are fighting for our
lives. The officials Of the Union Rail
way, leagued together to stamp out our
union, have violated their agreements.
We realize our strength and will not
return to our cars until we have won
everything we now demand"
No formal demands have yet been
submitted by the men TO their en-
ployers. At a meeting this morning AZ
1880 o'clock in Washington Hall. l66th
Street and Third Avenue, it is expected
that such demands will be formulated.
Only sixty-fve strikebreakers were
at the disposal of the Union Railway
Company yesterday. The only disturb
ancc OF the day occurred when two
strikebreakers, manning a Boston Road
car. switched il off its track and took a
JOY ride TO Clason Point. Since none
OF the new men were troubling them
selves about turning any fares back to
the company, the two JOY riders figured
that they could make more money on
their trip by taking their car to the
pleasure resort. A score of irritatcd
passengers demanded their money back
when they found themselves set down
mile or so from their destination,
but received none.
Two other strikebreakers, in charge
Of 10Th Street crosstown line. got
halfway on their journey and then for
got where they had been told TO take
their car. They returned to the car
barns. willing to admit defeat.
Call for Strikebreakers.
Hiring of strikebreakers to operate
the cars of the Union Railways Com
pany was begun yesterday morning by
the Washington Detective Bureau. Inc
, OF l4I Broadway. Alexander Cohen,
secretary Of the bureau, said late yes
terday afternoon that within a few
days enough men will have been re-
cruited to maintain a practically nor
NAL service throughout the borough.
Strikebreaking headquarters will be
established at the Kingsbridge barns
of the Union Railways Company, and
the work of recruiting the men is in
the hands of Captain John T. V;ckerT.
who obtained the men who operated
, the Bronx cars during the strike in
July and August. Captain Vickery has
opened an employment agency at IS
Bowery, and his agents are scattered
throughout the city in the task OF sign
ing up workmen.
I'VE are making every effort 20 get
men who want steady Jobs with the
streetcar company" said Mr.. Cohen.
"lt is not strikebreakers we seek SO
much as men who will stick to the com
pany and keep their Jobs after the
strike has been broken"
II was said that Edward A. Maher.
jr., general manager of the Union Rail-
ways, has instructed the detective bu d.
reau to obtain, as far as possible, men
who live in New York. In view Of the
great demand, however, il is expected
that Cohen and his aids will be COM
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