New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-12

guide TO be used in connection Win
/ the record of proceedings yesterday
/ before the Public Service Commission
Some of the definitions are those which
three principal witnesses of the day
were required to read into their testi-
mony, that the Commissioners might
be under no misapprehension as to the
facts. The rest, obtained from other
authorities, are generally accurate.
All three witnesses were Finks. The
/ burden Of their charges was that the
Interborough was virtually holding ITS
strikebreakers prisoners in car barns;
that conditions in the barns were high
/ ~ unsanitary; that the food provided
by tn company was bad; that bands
Of gunner were employed to terrorze
( the Finks, and that pay was being held
/ back.
Pleasant Sport in Barns.
Added to this, it was made to appear
/ that the Bergof Bros. & Waddell
agency, whose business in the main is
strikebreaking, had adapted valuable
side line from the practices Of the old
fashioned circus manager. Although
Finks are not encouraged TO leave the
stations where they are concentrated,
more pleasing excitement than that
which turks in the guerilla's right hand
is provided for them on the spot. Those
who are fond of gambling may daily
with dice or cards in the barns.
George Brown, a product OF the lower
East Side, who had specialized in
strikebrcaking for the last eight years,
told of the gambling after his two fell
low Finks had registered their COM
plants. He was explaining how a
couple Of strikebreakers had happened
to come to blows Sunday morning in
the 155th Street car barn.
Somebody tried to ring in phony
dice" he explained.
julius Henry Cohen, special counsel
for the commission, who had been busy
collecting definitions, sought another
one. Louis Fridiger, attorney for the
Amalgamated Association OF Electric
and Street Railway Employees, suggest
ed the witness meant loaded dice.
That's right" assented Brown, who
is better known in strikebreaking cir
cles as Brownie" There isn't seven
on the dice. 1t might be six or eight.
A man might have a right pair OF dice
and have wrong dice in the other
hand. Every time We go on job there
are eight or nine fellows won't work,
but 20 out for games-strikeoreakers'
men. In that game they are ali nifty
fifty"
Brownie" Gets a Threat.
Brownie" who took the place of a
striking conductor on the Union Rail
way in The Bronx lest month, said he
had been working as an -" guard Tor
six days. His specific complaint against
his treatment at the barn concerned
not so much food or sanitary conditions
as the fact that gunman on guard
there had threatened to put it through
MIN Wncn ne JOlneu IoICcs WIN d ~ n
propaganda against the ill-htting uni
forms provided by the lnterborough
While hc hadn't seen the gunmsn's
rod" he felt sure, having observed
guns in the back pockets of other
guards, that he had one.
"Was it the strikebreakers or the
gunner who were guards on the LIZ
asked Cohen.
"The strkebreakers. The gunner
were all inside and doing the grilling
going around and beating the fellows
/ that tried to get out or that got fresh.
what have you seen the gunner do -
yesterday we were supposed TO 20
out, and a fellow we call Niger over
on the East Side said: Don't wear any
uniform, Brownie ] told him to get
/ the crowd to stick. At II o'clock went
| for dinner, and the first thing knew
got struck One Of the guerrlllas hit
me on the neck with belt"
Says Strikebreaker Works.
81 am ignorant of these things, Mr.
Brown" confessed Cohen. "Will you
tell me the distinction between a strike
breaker and a guerilla?"
"Well, a strikebreaker goes out and
works for a living once in a while, any
] Lou, A 0,aritla he don't do anyth 10