The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-09-07
New York City Finds Part
of Transportation Sys-
TEN Affected
BOTH THE SUBWAY
AND ELEVATED
Thousands of Policemen
Called to Keep
Order

New York Sept New York. to-day
apparently aS but little affected by the
strike which began late last night on the
subway and elevated lines and several of
the surface lines OF the lnterborough
Rapid Transit system. The trains in the
subway and OH the elevated moved al
most normally and crowds going to their
work during the rush hours OF the morn
ing suffered little in consequence. The
TEN, operated by the New York Railways
company, was not so good, only about 80
per cent OF the usual number of cars
running.
Union leaders who demand the abroga
tion by the company OF the so-called
master and servant contracts, binding
the employees not to ask wage increase
! for two wears, claim that 1900 men
walked out, including 1000 on the sub
way and elevated systems. Traction Of
| ticials however asserted that not more
than 1000 had quit and that their places
had been filled by strikebreakers.
| Throughout the districts affected little
disorder was reported In Harlem and
on the east side there were minor dis
turbances and in other sections number
of elevated trains were assalled with
bricks from rooftops but no one was Sc
riously injured.
Theodore P. Shonts, president of the
lnterborough Rapid Transit company, de- |
clared that with adequate police protec-
tion the company would be able to cope
SUCCESSFULLY with the situation and guar
antee transportation to the public. lie
said that only a small number OF the
company's employees had become union
lied.
As soon as the strike vote was an
nounced, scouts were sent from the un-
ion meeting place to notify crews on sub
way and elevated railway lines.
Mr.. Shonts issued statement half an
hour after the strike was declared, say
ing that ''all agreements would be de
clared off and that his company "would
fight the union to a finish"
Five thousand patrolmen who had been
held in station houses in anticipation of
the strike were at once pressed into serv
ice. The preliminary details called for !
policing each subway and elevated train
with three uniformed patrolmen and
like number on stations. +
The entire police force, from midnight,
it was announced, would work on the
three platoon system. Two platoons will
do strike duty and one platoon regular {
police patrol
Should the strikers succeed in their
threats, more than $1,000 employees will
be affected and New York will face the a
worst tie-up of it's transportation lines "
in it's history. Thus far the union has v
confined its demands to the Interborough h
Rapid Transit company and its subsid- j
ary surface car line. the New York Rail "
ways company. But it was intimated f
hat the strike might possibly be extend f,
ID to other companies, operating in the O.
'arious boroughs of the greater city, el
Realization of the inconvenience result Or
ng from inadequate service on under O,
round, elevated and street car lines has
aused commercial houses and corpora NJ
ions employing hundreds of employees to ri
make preparations for getting them to W
nd from their places of business. w
With traffic in the subway at a stand GO
till the hundreds of thousands who use be
daily will add to street traffic conges- in
ion. Next to the subway, the elevated
ailway lines have been the most popular
iethod of travel.
Owners of water craft planned to make
aguar trips along the North and East A
yer fronts, picking up passengers at the
rincipal town sections of the city
Employees of the "Green car" line of
lie New York Railway company shortly WI
fter II O'Clock last night also voted to Df
, on strike at once. ~
This is one of the most important of oV
le surface car lines in the city The co
en- acted through svmnstbv for tho sub- Jo
ay and elevated railway employees, a
hose demand for an annulment of indi- do
dual contracts binding them not to seek be
age increases for two years was denied PR
I the lnterborough Rapid Transit som me
my. ou
The first interruption in service oc- no
rred shortly before midnight on the
rface car lines of the New York Rail
AVS company, when motormen and con
ctors began turning in their cars at ".
e barns. "a
Mr.. Shonts, when informed of the
nike on the surface car lines. declared
at it was in direct violation of the at
reement signed Aug. 7, which ended effe
e former strike involving the New York Fos
ilways company, the Third Avenue Tho
lwav company, and other surface car Ora
es in various parts of the greater chi,
y. dea
William p. Fitzgerald, general organiz- moi
of the union, addressing employees of ,na.
, interborough and New York Rail
ys companies last night after the
ike had been declared. advised them
keep out of trouble" He told them
go out and do their piclSeting as peace oH
" as possible and not to make il
lrder for the police force than it is :
con,
TO RESIST EIGHT-HoUR LAW. day