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mind. fed pom their enthusiastic spirits
with h usual frebrand type OF
speeches.
After an hour or more OF this the
leaders were called away by the mes.
eenger who had borne the news to the
green car men In their meeting place
These men OF the railways company
practically had to be held in leash ali
night they wanted to vote before they
heard or knew or cared what the Inter.
borough men did.
Crowd Cheers News. =,
The words Of the courier from the In.
terbotough strike meeting set nrc TO THU
crowd. They roared their delight the,
cheered. 1t was a waste Of time to take
their vote. 1t was registered long befor,
the actual telling of hands. They cas-,
the die that determined the towns tran
ut stAenation Mt II o'clock and n few
n u afterward listened to congratu
Lotions for their action from Fitzgerald
He had come straight from the othel
strike centre. where in his address to tn,
men. he had said:
Il was In favor Of a delay 20 long a.
there was any possible way of avoiding 9
conflict"
To the green car men he said:
II want you TO do Just what you fee
lik doing. DO not let me influence you
7 hope I ave not. But I can see you
feel Just ~ I thought you would. and
an with o TO the end. Ill never de.
sert or betray you.
"Hedley and his bunch haven't got the
Pill into their stomachs as yet. but they
Will be sick when they do. They have
challenged US. now let the tieup come"
LEADERS OF the green carr mems loca'
OF the A~malgamated explained thai the
strike Is not to be COMPOUNDED with a
sympathetic strike. The green car men
are going out. 1t was explained. be.
cause at their conference yesterday
afternoon with Hedley they were told
that he intended to force the servant
Individual agreements on them. Just M
they were offered to the subway em.
ployees.
What purported to be a stenographls
account Of the conference was read ir
executive session. Reporters were able
10 get only the substance Of his report
1t was sal that Hedley was asked d,.
rectiy II he intended to submit the IN.
dlvidual agreements to the New Yori
Street Railways Company employees
He answered that he had considered II
Asked how far h had gone In his con.
temptation Of the move. he Is said I:
have replied that he had caused the
agreements to be set in type. had reat
proof on them. had indeed zone so IN,
that some Of the printed copies had beer
delivered to him.
Justification Of Strike.
This Is the union leaders justification
for the strike Of the green car" men
Speakers last night also referred to the
difficulty with which they had eotter
concessions from Hedley. He would dc
nothing except when pressed again and
again. they said. even the simplest mat
tors Of Justice.
1t was stated last night that there
are $500 men in the employ OF th'
green car" system. OF these ?,74C
men are in the union
Chairman Fitzgerald will be the held
marshal Of the new strike. He was
hailed In this capacity Mt both the meet
ings for the strike. After the taking Of
the vote that started the c~cnfiagratior
he said he had striven for delay as ions
a. there was any possible way Of avoid
ing the conflict.
80 far as any action taken by the
men Ia concerned he said. my con
science IL entirely clear and I have nc
apologies to make to any one.
'Whatever may be the result-in my
mind It is only victory--I a look back
and say that I have dom nothing FOL
the street car men of New York fol
which I will bow my head in shame
They may call me a highlander, but the
finger Of suspicion will never be pointed
to me as II Is being pointed at the In.
dividuals who are preventing the prog
Fess and liberty Of the men,"