The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-09-29
Threatened Sympathetic Strike
In Interest Of Carmen viii Be
Inaugurated When 100000
Workers Quit Within Two Days
ACCORDING TO LEADERS ~.
THIS IS ONLY STARTER
They Announce That Before Fight
q Between Capital and Labor
Ends Fully 100000, Wage
Farmers win Join Movement
tAasoelatsd Prom b. Fedsral Wirele,..l

tAssociatsd Press BY Federal wirsless)
NYEW YORK, September 27--Wil.
IN liam b. Fitzgerald, general or
ganizer for the carmen 3 union,
aud other labor leaders announced
last night that the threatened sym
pathetic strike will be called for this
morning and that 100000 workers will
leave their jops. This, they told
Mayor Mitchell, who, with Oscar 8.
straus, chairman Of the public service
commission, has been working 70 avert
the tieup Of the Industrial life of the
city. is only starter, AMI approx.
Dstely 100000 more workers will leave
their posts later. One hundred thou.
stPd men will 60 out tomorrow, 100 900
on Friday and more will follow. -
There is no doubt but that the labor
situation here has reached on acute
stage. All eso:ts of angles are being
presented by the rapidly ,widenIne con,
fiict between the men and the
street railway lines. Politics is play
ing q more or less important part In
TIE strike, and the leaders have been
telling their followers that the fight
has grown beyond a mere question OF
the recognition of the unions by the
come a ''confiist between capital and
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Gompers Heads Movement
Samuel Gompers, president lof the
American Federation of Labor, who
GENE here from Maine, where he had
heen eampaigpiag for Pfesiaent vii.
= son, to take charge OF the situation
for the unions, has been at the head
OF the movement for o. syrnpathetie
strike, which it is declared will prove
the largest strike that any city ever
faced. o.. .....-. g. -.
hardly line of industry in Greater
w York and its suburbs will not
affected by the strike. More than
million men and women ultimately
- i'll be ENROLLED in the ranks of the
fTiEers, ii the claims of the labor
s"ders are substantiated, and the tie.
Up Of all business in the city will be
almost complete: sr.
General Organizer Fitzgerald has is.
sued statement in which he outlined
the position of the unions. He said:
Position of Unions Outlined
1.-THE issue is now clean cut, and we
are perfectly satisfied with the situa.
tioh. The question. il, shall the street
ear men of New York and vicinity be
permitted the right to. organize, the
srme as other men and women have.
untrammeled end not interfered with
on the part or heartless and greedy
traction corporation officials.
Cover 100000, ear men throughout
the United States and Canada have
this privilege, and why should it be so
different in this great metropolis with
out violent protest coming from the |
people whose money is becoming part |
and parcel Of the traction properties, |
and, in fact, the money of the very
men that they are endeavOring to de. |
prive of the rights OF freedom and or. |
ganiZation is invested in these proper
ties and the great. burden of the cost !
If this strike forced upon the unions |
will have 70 be borne by the taxpayers |
of which they are a, large portion. |
''The Violation Of agreements on the |
Fart of ;h"se traction officials is no
new matter TO the people Of tins great.
or city. Words need not be expressed
TO the people of New York to bear out |
that statement Experience has taught
them that il Is 10. Little regard did |
they have for the sacred agreement en-.
tered into on August q and underwrit. |
ten by Mayor Mitchell and Chairman
Straus of the public service commits.
sion, and which they have treated as
Il scrap Of paper.
National Interest Aroused
1.-THE trade unions, not alone Of
Greater New York, but of the entire
nited States and Canada, are inter
ested in this fight, realizing that If the
traction Interests Of this city are sue.
cessful in forcing upon the men the in,
dividual contract it VIII establish a
precedent and an excuse for other cor.
pOrations to take advantage of this
method with their employees.
"In the interest of the right of free
assemblage and the right of men to or,
ganize we ask ofganized labor and all
friends of liberty and justice to stand
by the street ear men in this fight, for
IL the traction interests are able to
force upon them this system of individ,
ual agreements the liberty and freedom
that a men have enjoyed in this coun.
try since ii became a republic is en-
daugered, and can be taken away from
them through this method of coercion
and intimidation.
"There viii be accusations and
charges made of bad faith against the
street ear men upon lines other than
the lnterbOr0ugh and the New York
Company that agreementsI