New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-29
Organizers Called BUSY
bodies and Mischief Max
ers" by Williams.
5000 AT MEETING
OVERFLOW TO STREET
Employees Vote for Depart
ment Trustees to Take
Part at Conferences.

Three thousand car men employed py
the BROOKLYN Rapid Transit Company
cboered Colonel T. 6. Williams. presi-
dent Of the 3. r. T., last night as he
assailed the union organizers who nave
fomented the car strike, and called
them "mischicf makers and busyood-
les" at a meeting of the B. r. /. En-
ploye's Beneficial Association IN their
building at 1 Jamaica Avenue, East
New York.
The meeting proved to be B. H. /.
1ovo Toast in which the men greeted
with cries of approval every reference
Of Colonel Williams TO their loyalty
and assured him in an answering ad-
dress that "the good relations now OK
isting between us will never be marred
by any act of ours
Meeting damned to Doors
The number Of men who attended the
meeting far surpassed the expectations
Of the company officials. About
tbousand had been expected, but more
than three times that many turned out
iammine the hall and forming An over
flow of nearly 1000 outside, to whom
Colonel Williams repeated his address
Before the meeting began the 3'5oo
car men paraded before the building
led by brass band, and were reviewed
bv Colonel Williams and other COM
pany officials. With waving flags, blair
ing horns and repeated cheers the men
demonstrated their loyalty TO the com
pany and their indifference to the labor
agitators.
Williams Gets Cheers.
"I don't believe it would be very
safe for Fitzgerald and his bunch to
show UP here tonight" remarked one
Of the men. as he marched past the
= viewing stand with ms cheering
comrades.
Colonel Williams first reference to
ire strike. i'm his talk to the men,
came when he said:
eve are demonstrating TO greater
New York and TO the world that many
thousand men. Joint workers in great
cYterprise. can, when imbued with com
mon impulse and animated by lntelll-
gent purpose, settle their own Difficult
ties and look out for their own con
Germs without dictation or lnterfer-
ence from nonresident or resident
busvbodies. We are demonstrating TO
society that transportation need not pee
narnlyzed at the within OF any small
group of mischief makers.
ave are giving notice, especially 10
certain residents Of Detroit, Troy ana
Roston. who have sought 10 disturb our
neacc. that in our B. r. 7. working or
ranization we have brains enough ana
the disposition 10 manage our own
local affairs in our own way and &C
cording 10 our own ideals ana oppoI-
tunitics.'
Colonel Williams declared he had re-
ceived many inquiries from individuals
and public serv ce corporations IN olner
cities as to why, with car men on strlKe
in all other parts Of the city, the BROOK
lvn workers have not gone out. lie
said no had replied the main reason his
men had remained loyal was because
the company trusted them and they
trusted the company. Renewed cheers
greeted this declaration.
At the close Of Colonel Williams's
talk William F. Morey, chairman OF
the car mems newly organized commit
too known as the Departmental
Trustees. delivered the following re-
plv on behalf of the 3. r. T. employees:
Colonel T. S. Williams, president,
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company.
, Dear Sir:
/ AS Departmental Trustees and in
behalf of all trainmen, present and
absent, we wish to avail ourselves OF
this opportunity to express the very
high regard we have for you; also our
appreciation and many thanks Tor
your unselfsh consideration or our
present and future welfare.
We are thankful for the increase in
wages granted by you, which was un-
solicited on our part, thereby making
it more appreclative.
The spontaneous outpour of our pres
once tonight is only one of the many
ways we have to show how high we
hold YOU in our esteem, and in the fut-
ure will continue 10 show our good
spirit and loyalty by endeavoring TO
perform our duties with a degree that
will warrant you and other officials 70
continue 10 hold US in high esteem.
We hope and trust that you may be
, with US as our protector and guide and
that the good relations now existing
will never be marred by any act of
ours Respectfully yours,
THE DEPARTMENTAL TRUSTEES.
William +. Morey, Chairman, Ridge
wood.