The sun., 1919-08-23
.INTERBORO REFUSED
AID TO AVERT TIEUP
Talley Says Strikebreakers
Were Rejected and Own
Men Turned Away.
SMALL ROADS ARE IDLE
Manhattan and B. r. T. Work
ers Uneasy Over Rumors of
No Further Advance.

Alfred J. Talley. Acting District At
torney. said yesterday that in preparing
to present to the Grand Jury evidence
OF the alleged marlborough strike plot
he had got information that the COM
pany not only failed to prepare to meet
tieup but that It actually rejected an
offer of 1900 strikebreakers and made
no arrangement to import workers from
other cities, as Il had done In advance
| of the 1915 strike.
Anthony J. Romagna, attorney for
the Interborough brotherhood. told Pub
| lie Service Commissioner Nixon that the
employees were getting restless because
arbitration of their demand for another
rs per cent. advance, a forty-eight hour
week and other concessions had not been
started, and that their morale was en-
Pdangered by mischief makers who were
! telling the marlborough men that they
had been deceived In the strike settle
ment and were to get nothing more.
Leaders OF the motormen and con-
ductors, whose strike for steam railroad
| wages has kept the New York. West
chester and Boston Railway motionless
| for two days, threatened to have the
New Haven lines tied up II the company
| attempted to use strike breakers Tor
winch tne company sdlu IL "oNe ~
vertise.
The Long Island Electric Railway.
| which has a line from Brooklyn to Bel
mont Park and from Jamaica to Rock
away. decided to give up the ghost be-
cause Of adverse conditions. 1t VIII
ask the court for a receiver and author
| ity to go out OF business.
Men Ready for Work Sent Home
| In reporting the result of his exami-
nation OF prospective Grand Jury wit
/ nesses Mr. Talley laid stress on wha1
he said we're the thorough preparations
| made by the marlborough to keep trains
running during the strike OF 1916 a,
compared with its inactivity before tbs
strike Of last Sunday and Monday II
1916. he said. the company had replace
ments ready the moment the employees
stopped work. He also said he hat
learned that so per cent OF the men ir
one OF the Interborough shops appeared
for work on Monday and then left be
cause there was no work to do.
District Attorney Swami and my
self" Mr.. Talley added. have received
information that a large number o.
| employees, some of whom were mo-
| members OF the brotherhood, who put ir
an appearance on the morning OF thu
strike were told by officials of the com
rany to make themselves scarce or the,
would be fired. because there was
strike on"
1t was made apparent that the Dis
trict Attorney expects to dig into thu
history of the relations of the compan,
and it's brotherhood since the latter wa!
formed in 1916 and also to see what thu
Grand Jury thinks of the alleged dis
charge from the roads employ of mel
| declining to Join the brotherhood, and o
others who Joined the Amalgamated As
| ISOLATION of Street and Electric Rail
way Employees.
Three request subpoenas' askin=
traction officials to visit the District At
torney's office were issued by Mr.. Tai
ley yesterday. 1t IL not known that h,
has talked with any officer of tn
brotherhood. although some OK the mem
lbers have been questioned. He said h,
was proceeding slowly In summoninl
witnesses before the extraordinar.
Grand Jury, which will begin to hea
evidence on Monday. as he did not pur
pose to grant immunity from prosecu
ton TO any one. which would be the eff
feet of an appearance before the Crane
Jury.
Immediate Arbitration Urged.
In his letter TO Commissioner Nixon
who is confined to his home by Illness
Mr.. Romagna, the brotherhood lawyer
said:
'Tt has come to my attention tina
malicious reports are being circulated
among tie members OF the brotherhood
that the rs per cent increase in wage
which was granted to the men. pripci
paIly through your earnest efforts. is al
that the men are going to get. We al
know that the remaining demands of tn,
brotherhood are to be arbitrated, bu
~ ''ody is seeking to create the i'm