New-York tribune., 1919-08-09
Vote Support of Strike

Vote Support of Strike
\ second resolution expressed the
sft.tude OF the central body in support
of i1c strikIng car men. 1t called upon
Governor Smith, Mayor Hylan and the
Judge Mayer to bring Receiver Garri-
son and the strikers together.
A witness before the Public
SERVICE Commission, Mr. Garrison once
more charged chat the police had been
mac i've in the face of riots and blood
she'd in Brooklyn. He said he had made
rn his mind not TO meet representa-
iives of the Amalgamated and that he
could settle the present strike within
lew hours If the police gave the sort OF
protection TO loyal workmen that they
should.
Pending possible conferences, the B.
il. r. intends 70 begin in earnest to-
dav an effort to improve service After
Deauty Police Commissioner Lahey and
of.cers of the company it was an
.ounc9d that the company would start
sg3 subway and elevated trains this
morning. with two patrolmen on every
ca. It viii try TO keep at least fifty
fcur surface cars IN service, each with
.wo patrolmen as guards The company,
i. nas said, wanted ct first TO send out
10 surface cars, but after talking over
Ice arrangements decided to reduce
nat number and concentrate at first on
lie elevated and subway lines.
Mayor Visits Car Barns
To . certain Tor himself conditions
at various car barns Mayor Hylan,
with Police Captain David Kane, of
the Ralph Avenue station, made tour
II snail automobile last night, Wis
ing four Of the car barns, talking
Win tse strikers and the police He
.ched his home on Bushwick Ave
oes IL ogtlv after o'clock.
lEe M&yor arst visited the East
Nm ort harms where there we're
abea talec Hundred of the strikers
.lsa * about. lie was chce1ed and
anoiaudcd and several Of the more
enthusiastic Of the strikers demanded
2 speech, but the Mayor declined to
.espond
He made inquiries about the num-
b - police at the barns and then
preceded to the barns in Bergen
Sect. in Fresh Pond Road and in Hal
81, Street .
Az the latter place he inquired how
cer- and one Of the loyal men stepped
forward end said he wes. but there
wore 10 other responses.
The Nag or would make no statement
a. the conclusion of his trip.
Throughout the day there were in
cipient riots and disturbances whef-
ever Forts were made to operate cars.
With & few exceptions the streets were
fusned over to- the trucks ard hackmen
who ire attempting to solve the bor-
ough's traction problems
All Cars Taken to Barns
At no time during the day were more
than q dozen surface cars in operation.
From that maximum the number of
cars dwindled until, shortly after the
evening rush hour, the last car was
taken 10 the barns. There was no an
nouncement of surface car service be-
ing suspended in the evening, as was
the case during the first two days of
the strike.
From early morning until the last
effort at moving cars collapsed in the
evening there were attacks upon car
crews and B. h. Z. property Police
men continued to ride the cars that
were operated.
Three cars of the "bridge local" line
were standing before the depot of the
line when a score of strike leaders
rushed through the gates of the line
and began propaganda" work among
the crews of the cars. Bell ropes were
cut, passengers were frightened off of
the cars and the crews were told that
they had better leave their cars.
Crews Abandon Cars
So successful were the raiders that
The crews of seven of ten cars that
soon arrived were persuaded to aban-
don their cars. But three cars re-
NAMED in operation to carry the rapid
~ growing crowds that sought this one
remaining surface ca line leading to
Brooklyn.
While the difficulty was at it's height
score of policemen arrived and un-
dertook to push the excited crowd of
men and women back from the cars.
The bridge local" line had continued
IN II operation because it is not B. R.
l. line, and had been expected to
handle much of the bridge traffic dur
lng the strike. Because of this raid,
however, this slender hope of the
brooklynite living in Brooklyn Heights
and the neighborhood of the bridge ap-
peared to have vanished.
Few Trains Over. Bridge
The evening rush hour crowds were
handled almost exclusively by the i'm
provised means of transportation that
nave sprung up since the beginning Of
the strike.
few two-car az" trains we're oper-
ated over Brooklyn Bridge, but they
We're only comfortably filled. Fear of
accidents or sympathy with the strik-
efs appeared to have caused the great
majority of Brooklynites to take to the
trucks and delivery vehicles that.
travelling under the aliases of Rapid
transit Lines" "Flatbush Express" and
similar humorous nicknames, have
'aken over the business of the B. r. T.
At 3 o'clock in the afternoon exactly
SIX surface cars were said to be in
operation in the entire borough OF
brooklyn. Repeated reports of riots
ana violence that reached the head
quarters of the B. r. T. company in
linton Street indicated that this cour-
aseous half dozen car crews were hav-
ing difficulty maintaining this semblance
VI street car service.
~ was announced at that time that
plans were under way for handling the
rusn.hour crowds, with an additional
lumber Of subway and IL" trains.
Anes that are operated with trains
every six to eight minutes would have
service every ten minutes, according to
'na original plan.
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