New Britain herald., 1916-08-05
GOTHAM HAS STRIKE
 BUT DOESN'TFEE IT
Little Inconvenience Felt When
 Trolley EmployeS Quit Work
CARS ALMOST ON SCHEDULE
Professional Strike Breakers and Loyal Workers Succeed in Keeping Companies and Labor Leaders.


 New York August 5.-Although strikes were in effect today on nearly every surface car line in Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx, many persons were unaware that between 2,00O and 2,5O0 of the $500 motormen and con- ductors involved had quit. With pro- fessional strike breakers and loyal en- ployes in the places of the strikers, officials of the New York Railways company and the New York and Queens County railways said at 10 a. m. that almost normal schedules were being maintained on their lines. At the request of company officials, Police Commissioner Woods assigned policeman to every car affected by the strike, and with the exception of a few minor demonstrations, there was no disorder.
 Claims of the union and the cOm- panies conflicted, the companies as serting that less than 500 men had struck while labor leaders declared the strike affected 80 per cent of the 6,600 employees.
 The cars were late in getting away from their respective barns which led to the belief during the early hours of the day that a serious tie-up had been effected by the strike.
 Subway and Elevated Thronged.
 The elevated and subway lines which were not affected by the strike vote were thronged by persons who were unable to use the surface lines. Threat has been made that the strike eventually would be extended to those systems.
 Preparations were made by many of the large financial and business in- stitutions in the lower part of the city to convey their employees from their homes to their offices and stores 1n automobiles and onnibuses, and many of the employees occupied rooms for the night near subway or elevated lines in order to reach their work on time.
 The street railway lines involved in clude the New York Railways com pany, the Second Avenue line, Thlrd Avenue Railway company, ana lNo lines in the Bronx.
 The strike to enforce a demand for recognition of the union and 1ncreaSeo uaees began to take effect on the main lines of the New York company as early as 10 o'clock last nlghI' "hei the first meeting of conductors ana nootornen voted to quit Wofk. olo thousand men took a similar vote a' a meeting early this morning. Eih- n1oves of the Second avenue nne' "ho had presented no demands to the coih- nanv. struck in sympathy. TWO huli- dred employees of the surface lines III Oueens Borough voted to qult carry +odav The Brooklyn lines are not Ill., volved.
 Few Arrests Made. A few arrests were made of strikers ,1,o attenopted to interfere with the l o,,oration of cars. So far as known no one was injured during the night. At g o'clock this morning officials or l the New York Railways company 1 e.id that service on all their nnes was "a11os+ normal" This was apparent 1 fo,, o,1v on few lines was any delay III 1 n,,oro+io1 of cars noticed. Many Work' 1 CTS on the way to their places or eiil' l ,1ovnoant were unaware that .srrlke ! 1-os in nrogress. Very little disorder | marked the early hours Of the sIrihe
 Tn the face of the police figures III l dicating that half the normal nunloe' 1 of cars were running, w. U. Maholi l nresident of the Amalgamateo Asso | citation of Street and Electrlc >alii oao | ernployes, asserted that tWo-tnlroS o l the employees had quit
 Strike Gains Headway. As the day wore on it appeared tha tho strike was gaining headWay. Tn | spector Schmittberger reported that II ] many cases cars that had started from | the barns in the early morning Wer' v-ithd1~awn before the noon hour. The strike moreover, threatened to spread to lines in Staten Island, where th' nolice reported that ninety-three pc cent of the employees of the R1chmo ono Light and Power company had Jo1ne( the union and presented demands tt the company's officials.
 I The forenoon with esses some dis l crders in the neighborhOod Of ca | barns. including the smashing Of ca windows and attempts to pile opsta cles on the tracks, but with reserve on guard at these points and a plue coat on every car, the police seeme' 10 have the situation well in hand The commissioner recalled for dut todav 400 policemen in the police mil itary training camp.
 Many Cars in Service.
 Reports received by Police Inspec tor Max Schmittberger during tn aar1v forenoon showed that 598 of tn 1291 cars operated normally by LII New York Railway company were Il service that the Third avenue line in the Bronx were operating lo9 car out of 252, but in Manhattan onl: 73 out of 505. In Queens, the repor said. 83 cars out of I'll cars were il operation
 About fifty cases of intimidation and other disord erly acts were re nor+ed to police headduarters. includ ine denonstrat ton at one of the Ne1
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