The sun., 1919-08-08
SEES END OF STRIKE
BY NOON TOMORROW
Amalgamated Official Tell,
B. r. T. Men Garrison Is
Ready to Give In.
STAND FIRM, SAYS SHEA
5000 Attend Meeting to Hea,
Reports of Leaders-Claim
5000 Now Are Out.

the union and have treated with its co,,.
mittee by Saturday noon, according IA
prediction made last night by Edvas
Smith, chairman of the executive oor,.
mittee of the Brooklyn local OF the An.
algamated at strike meeting hela IN
the Brooklyn Labor Lyceum. Smith A.
| clared that most of the older EMPLOYS,
of the system had Joined the union ana
asserted that not a wheel would N
turned out Of East New York TODAY
Fully 5000 men and a few women Al.
tended the meeting, which was presided
over by p. ]. Shea. chairman OF the IN.
ternatlonal executive committee Of IN.
Amalgamated. Numerous placards an.
peared on the stage and about the hail
Some of them read:
Keep off the cars remember N,
Malbone street wreck" I'VE licked IN.
Kaiser of Berlin we'll lick the Kaiser q,
the b. r.. T." Garrison, are Won stlu
dreaming?" 'The Gear was over.
"Lincoln freed the slaves but forgot IN.
trolley men,"
William Reilly, secretary and treas.
urer of the Brooklyn local, said tha,
forty strikebreakers from PHILADELPHIA
had arrived at the Fresh Pond car barns
and that the union gained 1884 new
members yesterday. At the East New
York depot, he said. Supt. Hrdberger
had sought to induce non-strking en-.
ployees to take cars out by Offering a
gun in your pocket, $25 day and two
cops on your cars Few responded 10
the appeal, Reilly said.
Joseph YUM OF 5S4 Watkins strest,
Brooklyn, striking Lexington avenue
elevated guard. appeared on the stage
with his left leg in bandages. He said
| his leg was broken as a result OF club.
bing administered by police yesterday
at the Jamaica car barns at l6sth street
and Jamaica avenue.
Advised to Ask Courts Aid.
According to Reilly at o'clock yes.
| tcrday afternoon Receiver Garrison Il.
| sued an order at the East New York
depot to the effect that the crews Of
| surface cars there must either start on
their routes or throw up their Jobs. A.
though wages of $40 a day were Of.
fared Reilly said that only few Of the
| employees agreed to work.
| Mr.. Shea told the strikers tina; when
| he called Mayor Hylan on the telephone
at 4 O'Clock yesterday afternoon the
Mayor had promised to make IN enct
| to obtain conference between The
strikers and the officials OF the road
He advised me to ignore Garrison
| and get in touch with mis- superior,
Judge Mayer" said Mr.. Shea. The
Mayor said, MI. Garrison Is trying 10
blame me for the appalling situation
when he Is at fault himself. He has
ample police protection, but there is no
ne cessity for 1t, as Garrison knows. He
has no men to run the cars
Mr.. Garrison said he wouldn't recos'
nize the union, but he recognizes the lsct
that he cannot operate the b. r, 7. with
out you men. He said you were an
| outside union, but you are an INSIDE
! union now and are here to stay
Mr.. Shea charged the company IN
tended to employ 400 strike breakers
| to-day. ,
Hugh Frayne, general organizer ol ne
! American Federation OF LABOR sAu
THE newspapers are talking tot
bloodshed and disorder, but the stores
they are printing are not true In'y
are trying to create an HhNess""
against the strikers.
The legal limitations of the police %
! handling the situation, from the s'@n'
point OF labor, were explained 10 Wv
| strikers by Louis Fridiger, attorne! iO'
| the Amalgamated. He said the ponO
could only take sides" when 1t oceans
necessary to protect property
THE order to place 1900 policersaa
| as guards on the cars was unJuslli'aos'
| he said, in his letter to Mr.. uar',', -,
| Wednesday the Mayor said tnere ~.
! been no violence, and both lnspeV%
Murphy and Deputy Commissions fU,r
er reported there had been no disoru1.
| Garrisons threat to keep the cars u
the barns was one OF the most W."
temptible ever heard OF, Garrison A"o. NV.
he had no chance to operate these cHIs
| He's a tyrant, autocrat, monarch u~'
| ordering, bullying, directing ana 'V"
manding when things were run right w
when he is licked he'll do the naoy ~. ~,
Garrison shouted there was no SUI" .ss
and then asked them to send MN Low
cops-a fine exhibition for an eH-seo.,
tary OF War! It's a good thing ne "a'"'
in office during the war"
Tells Men to stand Firm
Referring to Mayor Hylan's refusal 70
receive him at City Hall yesterda! a'''
noon, Mr., Fridiger said: ..L
"I don't know why the Mayor re'us'.
to see me, but I'm not interested III .D. ~
He said he would help us and tha' Is ~
! I am interested in" N,
Just before the meeting closed A., A.,
Shea said: "I understand moVe"nea,
is on foot by Garrison TO offer 10 "IS .s'
an hour but with no recognition Vi ~,
union. / also hear he will pay ~ o.
to any men who will run cars, Don ~ =,
to work until he agrees TO recognize wv
union" ,ay,
There were shout OF Never :" and '"
union, no work ~
| A meeting of the power house wv wv
was held in the Labor Lyceun -
| night. but nothing would he given Al
as to what transpired. The me"
! present are unaffected by the strike -,,,
Mr.. Shea had addressed an earln
meeting at $50 Flatbush avenue vs.
predictions Of victory. one thousana n,L
attended, with 200 more seeking
mission. Tia,
Garrison is asking for police po'+s ~.
, police" he said. Hes got me ",. ~,
but he hasn't got the men 70 rlh !"
, cars" -,
Louis Fridiger speaking at the ss.,.
n Getting, said you are making Wv
derful showing. The tieup to-day Is s,,
more complete than yesterday. You ~.
growing stronger every minute -
police assigned 10 guard the cars 40 ~, 4,
like the work They do not want ~
scabs and strike breakers Most ol u''
are heart and soul with you .,,
II was announced that two inspec."S
had deserted the company ana 'o''ii
tue union. Arrangements had been n,,., .,.