New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-07
Fears Its Publication Might Block
Ratification by Directors
and Workers.
MUTUAL CONCESSIONS
GAINED AT CONFERENCE
Oscar S. Straus, Who Helped at Meetings,
Says Third Avenue Matter Will
Now Be Taken Up.

William D. Mahon and William B. Fitzgerald, representing
the Amagaad Association of Street Railway Employees and
Theodore P Shonts and James Quackenbush representing
the New York Railways yesterday reached agreement for
the settlement of the strike of green car employees
This agreement based mutual concessions will be SUBJ
mtted to the strikers and the directors the special
meetings for ratification this morning and it is expected by
Mayor Mitchell that the strike will be at end by
Pending ratification the terms Of the settlement ar
ranged by the Mayor and Oscar S. Srau chairman of the Pub
lie Service Commission at series of conferences which began
midnight Saturday the Weschester home of Mr.. Straus
and ended at o'clock last night the of the Bar Associ-
alton, withheld.
In announcing tentative settlement had been reached
Mr. Mitchell stated the reporters that the details of the set
tenent could announced this time and earnestly
quested that speculation to the terms should be in
duged in
"As Mayor of this city" said he 81 think am justified in
asking that there speculation this matter The stu
alton delicate and do not think that of the
New York wish do anything that proong this trouble
For that think the papers should be content with the
statements of the labor and of Mr. Staus and myself
That the situation is satisfactory to the union as well as
employer may Judged from the fact that speaking to
meeting of strikers last night Mr. Mahon president of the
Amagamated Association declared after saying agreement
had reached 1--WE the verge of for the
streetcar men of this city"
Take Up Third Avenue Line To-day.
The settlement does not affect the Third Avenue line the
New York Queens and the Staten Island system but is
peced to offer basis which settlement will be had these
Chairman Straus authority for the statement that the Third
Avenue matter will be taken up to-day
Meanwhile the organizers of the Amagamated Association
of Railway Employees called here since the beginning of
the trouble Yonkers will remain in New York to continue the
organization of the several systems particularly the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company.
So satisfied was Mr. Mitchell that the threatened teup of
all the transportation lines of the city at end that he said
last night hoped get away Pattsburg in few days
The first ntimaon that settlement might be reached
came at o'clock when Mr. ShontS accompanied by Mr. Quack
enbush his chief counsel left the of the Bar Association
and julius Meyer Cohen special counsel to the Public Service
Commission and a veteran in labor disputes.
Better See Mayor"
"Is there settlement" ?" Mr.. Shonts asked
"You had better see the Mayor let him tell it, replied the
railroad chief If start talking may tell everything Let
the Mayor do the talking"
"Do things look better?" was the next question.
81 never said they looked bad" he answered. See the
Mayor He will tell you all
Within an hour Mahon and Fitzgerald with Louis Frdiger
counsel to the unon called from the Hotel Continental
where the executive board the Amagamated Association had
been in They had been going afterward de-
veoped the reply of Mr. Shon through Mr. Mitchell to the
proposition advanced Messrs Mahon and Fitzgerald at
conference which lasted from 10 in the morning until after
o'clock in the afternoon
While reporters waited the main entrance to the Bar As
soation the labor entered by the Foythrd Street
trance They the only few minutes when Mr..
Straus who had shed his coat appeared in the lobby
81 think is all right, he said. You will have statement
in few minutes.
MahOn Has Statements
Immediately Fitzgerald and Mahon out the latter
with handful of typewriter sheets
There all that there is to be said by u.s. he explained