The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-13
Each for Finish Fight i'm N. Y.
Strike.
City Officials Devise Ways to
Settle, in Vain.
10 APPEAL TO GOVERNOR
Mayor Would Pass Law Com.
pelling Arbitration.
Motor Bus Franchise to Re-
lieye Congestion.

New York, Sept. 1S.-Interest in the
street railway strike today centered in
the meeting of the public service COM
mission at which traction officials and
leaders of the strikers will make their
formal replies to the recommendation
of the commission made yests rday for
an immediate suspension of the strike
and settlement of the questions at is
sue by arbitration.
Leaders of beth sides have an
nounced officially their intention to re-
ject the recommendation. But few
surface cars were operated today and
passengers were forced to use the
subways and elevated roads.
Altho traction officials claim more
trains than normal are in operation,
congestion at express stations was ex-
treme. Platforms were crowded and
many narrow escapes were experi-
enced by passengers.
There was little or no violence dur
ing the night, largely due to the fact
that policemen were stationed on roof
tops where attacks had been made on
elevated trains
Big Strike Parade Tomorrow
Hugh Frayne, state organizer of the
American Federation of Labor an
nounced today that between 10000
and 10000 men will take part in the
parade and demonstration tomorrow.
| Altho he declined to discuss the pro-
posed sympathetic" strike other un-
ion leaders said plaEs had been made
to call out trades closely allied to the
! street car men in the event the DEM
onstration tomorrow and the efforts
t'of the public service commission prove
1nava:ling to settle the trouble.
| Mayor Mitchell, it developed today.
has under consideration two methods
of settling the strike. One is to re-
quest Governor Whitman to call a
special session of the legislature to
pass a law compelling both sides to
| accept arbitration while the other
proposes the Immediate granting of a
| franchise to the New York Motor Bus
| company, incorporated to run ma
chimes thru certain streets. This fran
chise has been before the board of
| estimate for the past year.
Probing Dynamite Plot.
Brooklyn detectives, it was disclosed
| today, are investigating a reported
| plot to damage property of the inter-
| borough with an explosive. A cylin-
drical package four inches by three
| inches in dimension was found by a
track walker near the borough hall
subway station in Brooklyn late last
night. 1t contained, according to the
| bureau of combustibles, dynamite of
| the powerful kind generally used in
undersea operations. Officials regard
ed the explosive as so dangerous that
they threw it into the East river.
1O,3O6 Out of II 800 Signed Contracts.
| The formal rejection of arbitration
\ presented by Richard r. Rogers gem
| eral counsel to the two companies,
| read:
| 1.-The Interborough Rapid Transit
company respectfully represents to the
| commission that it can not arbitrats
its rights to enter into agreement with
! 10,306 of its employees out of a total
| of 1880, when the employees who
have signed are content with those
agreements and are endeavoring to
carry them out in good faith"
The agreements referred to are the
| master and servant" contract which
bind the men not to ask for wage in
| creases or betterment in working con-
| ditions for two years