Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-09-11
CAR STRIKE GROWS;
ALLIED UNIONS WAIT
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serted. after being Informed of the
action of the union delegates at their
meeting. that members of the Typo
graphical Union here have an agree
ment with the American Newspaper
publishers Association that no declara-
ton of strike can be made by the
local officers of the union, independ-
entity.
The order. he said, would have to
who are located at Indianapolis. 1t
would be necessary, he added, to give
the publishers forty-eight hours notice
peIore strike was declared
statement issued by the union dele
gates who recommended the sympathet-
&c strike, urged the city authorities to
prevent payment of "abnormally high
wages to strikebreakers," and called on
the public service commission to en-
force the law equiring full crews on
committees, it was said, have been ap-
pointed to organize mass meetings to
Jay before the public the facts of the
controversy.
Gompers Urges Support.
The meeting of the union delegates
followed conference held earlier in
president of the American Federation of
presidnt of the American Federation Of
Labor, and officials of the Central Fed
Grated Unions in New York and Brook
lyn, as well as the heads OF the Car
mems Union, were present
Undivided moral and financial sup
New York. which. it is estimated, num-
per 100000. was pledged to the strik-
ing carmen in resolution adopted at
this conference.
Mr. Gompers, who arrived here late
yesterday in response to an appeal
from the New York Central Federated
Union. issued statement, in which he
referred to the efforts" of the heads
OF the marlborough Rapid Transit
company, which operates the subway
ana al elevated railway lines. and officers
OF the various surface car roads af-
1ected by the strike ITO crush the
spirit OF organization among the en-
pioyes OF these railroads"
Mr.. Gompers asserted that the car
men were determined to Exercise their
right to organize, the right to strive
nationally and normally for tho i'm
provement Of their conditions as en-
pioyes of the companies and to have
submitted to board of arbitration
s9cn dinerences which the committees
OF the employees and the, representa-
tives Of the companies fail to adjust"
Statement by President Shonts.
Theodore P. Shonts, president Of the
marlborough Rapid Transit Company
and the New York Railways Company,
issued statement last night. in which
he denied published reports that his
companies were "out to fight organized
labor to a finish"
Neither I nor my associates hold
nor at any time have held desire to
li organized labor" declared Mr..
shonts. The gauge of battle was
thrown down by the unions without
provocation."
Frederick W. Whitridge, president of
the Third Avenue Railroad Company,
Informed Mayor Mitchell in a letter
yesterday that in future no member
OF the Amalgamated Association of
Street and Electric Railway Employees
VIII be employed on any line over
which he has jurisdiction.
II say this with regret" Mr.. Whit
ridge wrote.
The first accident since the strike be-
gan occurred late yesterday, when
fourteen persons. among them six po-
lcemen on strike duty, received minor
injuries In rear-end collision between
two Sd avenue elevated trains.
Several outbreaks of violence were
reported by the police. The most seri-
Gus was an attack by strikers against
a Madison avenue surface car. Eleven
arrests were made, after shots were
fired by the police to hold back strikers
who tried to rescue the prisoners One
policeman was hurt by bottle thrown
by rioter.