Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-09-23
Shonts, President of Line,
Refuses to Meet Any
Strike Leaders.
CALL IS ISSUED TO
STRIKE WEDNESDAY
Lines Now in Operation
Claim Their Business Is
Better Than Ever.

NFW YOKl<. Sept 22.-Organized
~ workers in virtually every indus
try In Greater New York were form
ally called upon late To-Day to cease
work at o'clock next "Wednesday
morning In sympathy with striking
traction employees. Labor leaders as
seIt that approximately SIN hundred
Thousand men and women are IN
VOlVcd
The call was embodied in resolu-
tions adopted at conference of la
hor leaders representing the fedcr&ted
bodies i'm all the boroughs of the city,
as well as many national and inter-
national unions. OF the eighty unions
In the city represented, 1t was said
some already had voted in favor OF
strike. Tho call, 1t WAS said, wouid
be issued not only to organized work
crs In New York, but also to those IN
Westchester county, in which the
cities Of Yonkers. New Rochelle and
Mount Vernon are situated, ana
would extend throughout WIDE
rarge OF industries.
Hugh F'ravne, New York state or
ganizer of the American Federatloh
Of Labor. announced the determina-
ton to call the sympathetic Walkout
in the following statement:
strike statement.
at was decided by unanimous vote
! Of representatives Of eighty unions OF
! Creator Rev York and vicinity that
there shall be n general suspension OF
all work In all trades and Industries
In Greater New York and vicinity, the
same to commence "Wednesday, sep
tember 27, at a. m
Officers Of several international
unions attended the conference Mr'
Frayno said.
William b Fitzgerald. general or
ganl2er Of the Amalgamated Associa-
tlon of street Railway Employees, In
charge of the traction strike. repre-
sentcd the carmen at the conference"
ana the following labor bodies were
anong the others represented; The
National Longshoremen's union. the
Central Federated union, Brooklyn
Central Labor union, United Hebrew
Trades. Bronx Board Of business
agents. Manhattan Building Trades
council. International Tunnel ana
subway Constructors union, lnterna,
ticnal Machnists union, International
Tvpographical union, stationary ana
Upright Engineers and f1remen y
union and the Eccentric Firemen's
union
The call is based upon the propo-
sition that union men cannot nam :
tain tncN sell respect ~ ivy ! 'NN
upon cars operated by strikebreakers,
according to q statement issued to-
, night bv Ernest Bohm. secretary OF
the Central Federated union. In
cases where contracts exist, Bonn
snid. the employers will be notified
that the workers have no means or
TRANSFORMATION and If the employers
cannot provide transportation thc
workers must remain at their homes
"The general teup," Mr.. Bonn
said. "will come because employers
IF union labor will not provide their
cmployes with means of Transports
ton 10 and from work TO enable them
tc stay off the dangerous sttikeDreaN-
ing cars of the several traction lines.
Shcnt4 Still Refuses.
Theodore z. Shonts. president OF
-he Intcrborough Rapid Transit COM
pany and the New York Railways
= company, reiterated his DETERMINATION
- not TO meet representatives or the
, striking carmen.
{ ar / did so tho loyal men in the
4 Intcrhorough brotherhood would have
4 good cause to strike he said. Be
, sides theer Is no reason FOR negotld'
. lions. There IL no strike We are
a carving more rcople in the subway
on The elevated and in the SUBWAY
O tubes than ever before. Aesterdal
?. we carried 2,20S,257 passengers, d
a 3S7.63' more than on the same daA
FAST year. The service on surface cal
n lines is EOS per cent normal.