The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-13
JERSEY TROLLEY
LINES ARE TIED UP


sey city and upper Hudson and Bergen
counties.
The company's system is operated in
six divisions. The southern division is
not affected. According to Mr. O'Toole's
estimate in the middle OF the after
noon. four of the usual $50 cars were
running in the central division, includ-
ing Elizabeth. Plsinfield. Perth Anfboy
and New Brunswick 1871 of the usual
400 in the Hudson division, including
Jersey City, Hoboken and Bayonne less
than forty Of the usual 420 in the Essex
division, including Newark and the
Oranges; only four cans in the passaio
division, including Paterson, and n far
better proportion in the Bergen diyi-
sion. including Hackensack, Tenafy and
Englewood.
Corporations Policy.
"Our policy" Mr. O'Toole said. "is 10
run what cars we can with the men
we've got and to take on such qualified
men as applied. If the applicants are
not qualified We will put them through
our school"
Mayor Gillen of Newark met the strike
leaders in his office late in the afternoon
They were Patrick J. Shea of Detroit, n
member of the general executive board
of the Amalgamated Association OF
Street and Electric Railway Employees :;
P. J. O'Brien and Thomas +. Shine, vice.
presidents of the Amalgamated Will
lam Wepner, head of the local union, and
others, The Mayor, who Is "A strong
union labor man, said afterward that
he merely called the men together to i'm
press upon them that nothing unlawful
would be tolerated. He said ne thought
the strike would not last long and that
the strikers would win.
There is n strong feeling in the COM
munity in their favor" ne said, land
against the company. because the public
resented the increase in fare from 3 to Z
cents and believe the nickel fare should
be restored
The Mayor deposed further that al
though the Public Service Corporation
professed to be making no profit 1t was
really doing very well with its gas and
electric branches and was Juggling" Its
railway accounts in some manner which
he did not explain.
Police Properly Neutral.
The man who directs the Newark
Police. William J. brennan, Commits
sioner of Public Safety, was formerly
business agent of the stationary engi-
neers' union. and was elected as a rep
resentative of organized labor. Nat
urally his sympathies are with the strik-
ers, bu the told THE SUN reporter that
the police would be properly neutral and
would stand for no disorder,
Bergen county got the best trolley
service yesterday. The employees OF
this far northern division voted against
the strike and more than half OF the
sixty motormen went to work as usual.
In Newark, the centre OF the cam
pagn. the strikers politely heard Fed
eral Mediator Birds plea for arbitration
By tho War Labor Board but gave him
no announcement. Leader Wepner said
I'VE are in this fight to a finish The
Public Service must recognize the union"
About 1900 strikers paraded through
the pr1ncipa, streets. Their march was
considerably disturbed by jitneys, which
seemed to have doubled their numbers
overnight. One OF the parade sections
was composed of young women under a
banner: The Ccnductorettes Are with
the Boys" Thirty or forty soldiers and
sailors had Il slogan: I'VE won't scab
for Thomas McCarter.'
The company reported later that some
of the paraders broke ranks and, driving
from their posts the crew OF a Bloom
field car In Broad street brobe the win
dows and cut the trolley rope and the
air pump connection. The police reported
that they got second hand stories of one
culprit was pointed out TO them for
arrest. The only arrest In the course OF
the day was a man said to have pulled
from the wire the trolley pole Of a Mount
Prospect car in Newark.
Only Four Lines Operate.
There are twenty-three trolley lines
centring in Newark Only four OF these
were in operation yesterday afternoon.
There were seven cars running on the
Roseville line. five on the Broad street
line, eleven on the Prospect and fifteen on
the Bloomfield Few OF them we're
All jitneys were loaded to the
roof Many commercial and manufac-
turing firms took their employees to and
from their homes In trucks
Jersey City had fifteen cars running
up to 6 80 T.. NJ. Jitney licenses for in