New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-05


tie with my name on it waiting for me
uptown. It's going TO come right
toward my head"
"The entire available forces of the
| city" the Mayor told the trolley men
I "will give protection to the men operat'
+ ing the streetcars and their passengers
Every force within the power OF city
/ officials will be exerted. The city gov
eminent will discharge its obligations
to the people. You may rest assured
Of that"
The men then presented the Mayor
with tsbulation showing that they
I had approached 1858 of the 1854 con-
4 ductors and motormen employed by the
New York Railways Company, and only
+ 14b had refused TO sign a declaration
3 of confidence in the company and a
promise of sticking TO their jobs. They
. had not asked 5SS of the men on the
division to sign the letter.
officials at Car Barns.
In spite of the assurances from this
/ body Of men the officials Of the New
York Railways Company took every
precaution they could think OF and
/ made every preparation to meet a
! strike on their lines last night. Cen
eral Manager Hedley and President
! Shonts spent the evening IN the big
car barns at Fiftieth Street and Sew
enth Avenue, where they MADE plans,
\ to meet the situation that developed
/ all afternoon and which looked last
Z evening as if it could not be avoided.
Hedley expected some Of his car
crews 70 quit work But since the
strike menace came to New York the
Interborough and green car officials
have not let any grass grow under their
! feet. Various strike-bresking contract
/ inc firms have marshslied an army OF
600 men ready to work at an hours
notice. Several hundred of them were
prepared last night TO take the con-
| troilers and bell cords of the men who
detected from the green car ranks. In
addition, the company has installed
/ cots and added restaurant facilities.
From the attitude Of our men both
/ in the subway and on our surface ana
elevated lines" said Mr.. Shonts yester,
day, IL am fully convinced that we Will
not have strike. My policy has been
/ one of loyalty and uplift for my men,
and their actions now prove that my
lished stores where our men can trade
AZ cost. saved them from loan sharks
by allowing them TO draw from the
company. and have provided passes fol-
their families. | know my men are
( loysl. and, although ! do not know
what Mahan and his crew will attempt
10 do, they can't get our men to break
away from US"
b. r. T. Heads Preparing.
The B. r. T. officials do not expect
TO have a strike of any size OF theii
hands, but they, too, are preparing fol
the worst. 1t was apparent last night
/ that about one of every four car con
ductors was breaking in new motor
man. The employees admit that they
/ have been approached by union ON
Gals, but say no Inducements nave
been offered them to strike. The new
men who are being trained as motor
men are being taken from the COM
pany's waiting list.
BESIDES the opinion of the Public
Service Commission on the evidence
already in hand, little of Importance
developed at Yesterdays hearings. Mr.
| Fridiger, attorney for the labor OH
cials, took exception to the advertised
statement of President Shonts that the
1 Interborough men, according to his un-
! Outstanding, would strike at 10 O'Clock
yesterday.
Hugh Frayne, general organizer OIL
the American Federation OF Labor,
testified at the morning session tina,
a system Of espionage was msintalned
by the traction heads in New York
which prevented, he said, the employees
even from daring to talk with labor
organizer or confiding TO their neNi
door neighbor. He said year ago a
committee of Third Avenue men came
to him TO ask him to organize them (;
that he warned them they would be
discharged, and that they were.
Manhattan Service Falls on.
Service went on on the Third Ave
nue. system yesterday, but there was
only the slightest improvement over
the day before. Chief Inspector Max
Schmittberger reported that 10 Of the
normal 252 cars were operated IN The
Bronx, while in Manhattan there was a
slight falling of, ony SO out Of BOO
being run over the various lines.
a Grand Street car in charge OF
non-union conductor, the first 20 be op-
Grated on the line in several days, was
pelted with stones yesterday afternoon
AT Wooster Street. Detectives, re.
spending TO the whistle Of uniformed
policeman riding on the car with sew
eral passengers, arrested Leo Schafer'
Of III Clinton Street, and Louis Eigen-
wach. OF 5 Sheriff Street, striking con
ductors, and charged them with dis
orderly conduct.
Four motormen and two conductors,
striking employees of the Third Avenue
system in The Bronx, were yesterday
sent 70 the workhouse for six months
by Magistrate McQuade in the Nor
risania court after they had pleaded
guilty TO dsorderly conduct in soaping
the rails Of the company at Sedgwick
Avenue and Fordham Road. a danger
GUS incline.
The convicted men were Edward
Flanagan. Of 1872 Webster Avenue;
Samuel Dougherty, iii Wyatt Avenue
Joseph Petrosino. 2l5 East 10Th
Street: Thomas Oliver, 2602 Hoffman
Street, conductors, and Frank Galbano,
25O5 Hoffman Street, and Peter Nocaro,
354s Holland Avenue. motormen. All
said they were on strike.
Rohrinsky in Russian Cabinet.