New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-08
Employees Can Organize and Treat
with Company-To Arbitrate
Wages and Hours.
MAYOR AND STRAUS WORK
ALL DAY ON SETTLEMENT
Hedley. Bitter at Shonts's Proposals, Threat
ems to Resign-Subway, Il and b. K l.
Agreements Are Expected.

The streetcar strikes in Manhattan The Bronx and West
settled last night by agreement effected by
Mayor Mitchell and Oscar Straus, chairman OF the Public
Service Commission The settlement means the end of the
eup of these lines and probably the city from an ex-
tension of the strike the subway elevated and T.
The settlement substantial victory for the railway em-
poyes The obtained all they had asked except ecogn
ton their SUCH Briefly the terms of the agreement
accepted by both sides
THE right of employees of the New York Rail-
ways Company and the Third Avenue system to organ
ze unmoested. .t..t.84
1.-THE right to treat with the company on all
questions of difference through committee ap
pointed by the employees.
3-ncreases in wages to be arbratcd by the COM
panies and these committees In the event of failure
to agree the wage dispute is to be settled by board
of three dsinterested each side to select one
and the two thus selected to choose the third
4-The men return to work without prejudice.
These terms with only slight notifications in verbiage and
several minor interpretations those agreed upon Sunday
night by Theodore Shonts president of the New York Rail-
ways Company and William D. Mahon president of the Anal
gamaed Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees
Strikers Eagerly Ratify Agreement
The striking green ratified the agreement without
hestancy and with tremendous enthusiasm yesterday morning
The directors of the New York Railways Company took nearly
twelve hours of discussion accept it, They fought all day
ION echnicaties After committee of four directors had
pledged the Mayor shortly after o'clock that the board would
ray the settlement in few minutes the directors wrangei
for three hours and half longer
Mayor Mitchell waiting City Hall for the vote of the
directors feared when the delay continued that the situation
would be lost few minutes before o'clock the Mayor tee
phoned President Shons that if the board did decide the
matter in half he would wait longer but would
out the agreement the directors committee and President
Mahon and General Organizer William B. Fitzgerald had
cepted it. Nine minutes before the clock struck $50 the board
ratified the settlement
Hedey Threatens To Quit.
The discussion the New York Railways Company board
Yesterday morning the terms agreed by President Shonts
the night before became critical that Frank Hede general
manager of the green company we'll Of the Inter-
borough subway elevated lines of the leading railroad
Generators in the country, threatened to resign.
IIedey and of the directors bitter against
Shonts proposals. maintaining that he had the strike
broken and that give the would submit the opera
ton of the road to control of organization with interests
other than those of the New York public.
Meanwhile Chairman Straus had deferred the conference
with Edwin Maher president of the Third Avenue SYSTEM
and the two union officials the Public Service Commission
The settlement the strike the Third Avenue lines Man.
haitian The Bronx and Wscheser depended upon the action
lof the New York Railways officials Fifteen minutes after
Chairman Sraus heard the satisfactory
green car company, the Third Avenue railroad accepted the
same settlement.
Mayor Meets Others To-Day.
Mayor Mitchell had arranged conference this morning
with William Wood president of the New York Queens
Railway Company and John Beaver receiver for the Second
Avenue Railway Company the blue line Undoubtedly the
settlement will be reached in the of these
The Mayor also bring about the of the
Staten Island strike on the same basis.
President Shonts and President Mahon agreed that the
striking employees the green and red Manhattan thu
Railway The Bronx and the Yonkers and Westchesss