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learn of the disgraceful conduct OF of
ficials."
Claim So Per Cent. of Men.

Claim So Per Cent. of Men.
The Amalgamated claims to have en-
rolled So per cent OF the New York
Railways employees, so per cent. of the
Third avenue employees and a lesser
proportion OF the Interborough men.
The company officials and their
brotherhoods assert that this estimate
Is ridiculous. James L. Quackenbush,
the marlborough and New York Rail-
ways Company counsel, said yesterday
that while a strike called by the Anal
gamated could not effect anything like
complete tieup, 1t could make serious
trouble unless right from the start .po-
lice production was given to the work.
ers. He said the weapon of the Anal
gamated in, every city which it had
entered or tried to enter had been in
timldation.
He described the employees of the
roads with which he is connected "as
railroad men, not prize fighters" The
great majority of them would not heed
an Amalgamated strike order, he said,
but certain number of them, Judging
by what happened during the strikes
OF 1915, would go home to their fami-
lies and stay there until the trouble
blew over rather than be subjected to
threats of being carried home on a
shutter" and of being called "scabs''
by the Amalgamated men.
If strike was called, he added, the
city authorities could prevent this trou-
BILE by having the police give protection
at the outset and thereafter. Otherwise
service would be crippled, although not
stopped entirely.
Fridiger, the Amalgamated counsel.
called on Public Service Commissioners
Nixon yesterday and asked him to use
his influence in having the DISCHARGED
Amaigamated men reinstated. Mr..
Nixon replied that he had nothing 10
do with the matter and repeated TO
Frtdiger the statement made by Nixon
on Tuesday that the public was sick
and tired of strikes.
President Huns Appeal.
This is the notice in which s. w.
hun, president of the Third Avenue
Railway System, informed his men of
their 25 per cent. advance and appealed
to them to stand with the company
against the Amalgamated:
NOTICE TO MOToRMEN AND
CONDUCTORS.
In our notice to you advising you OF
an increase of wages of approximately
10 per cent. effective August 10, we
toiu you tnat we were unwilling that
you should be paid less than the pre-
vailing rate of wages in the immediate
vicinity; and complying with this as
surance to you, your rate will again be
increased, SO as to make total in
crease within the last month of approx
| mately 20 per cent, including starters
inspectors, switchmen and ploughmen
This increase will become effective
| as of the date of the former 10 pc:
! cent. increase. namely, August 10, 1919
THE financial condition of this system
Is not such as to justify such a large
increase, and without an increase In
fare it Is simply a question of how long
we will be able to meet these largely
increased expenses before disaster over.
| takes the system.
II believe that the large majority Of
! our men are satisfied with their PAY
| and working conditions. and do not wish
| any interference from the outside with
| their relations with the management Of
! the system, and particularly in view
\ of your past experience with the Anal
| gamated Association you are not will
| ing that they should again take pos
session of you and use you for the
| own selfish purposes in the great gambl.
| with the New York transit situation
that they have been engaged in fol
| the last several years.
| Since they violated their contrac