The sun., 1919-08-21
Inflammatory Speakers
Calm Down When Old
Writ Is Served.
LEADERS WILL WAIT
Green and Red Line Off
cials "Picket" Meeting
at the Lyceum.
ACTION IS EFFECTIVE
Plenty of Loud Talk, but Few
Show Inclination to Start
Anything.
ACTION Is EFFECTIVE

The threat of the Amalgamated
Association of Street and Electric Rail-
way Employees to tie up the Green
and Red surface lines with a new
strike came to nothing, so far as last
nights ma meeting in the Lyceum,
Eighty sixth street and Third avenue.
was concerned.
Expecting a crowd that would. as
one of the leaders said. pack the hall
to the ceiling the Amalgamated and
American Federation of Labor organ
izers faced less than 1000 men. who
seemed keen enough for strike but
were not numerous enough to war
rant the union in deciding on the spot
to start a tug of war with the street
car companies.
They were also disturbed by the un-
expected service upon the putative strike
leaders and their counsel, Louis Fri
diger, of an order signed by Judge
Julius Mayer of the United States Dis
trict Court. The order was the one is
sued by the Judge on March l, appoint
ing Job Hedges receiver Of the New
York Railways Company.
It contained clause. especially
marked by Judge Mayer for the notice
Of the Amalgamated officers and coun-
sci and every speaker at the meeting,
upon all of whom the paper was served
by United States Deputy Marshals. This
clause was in effect blanket injunction
restraining anybody from interfering
with Receiver Hedses's operation of the
lines.
Injunction Has Eject.
The Amalgamated men eaid stoutly
that the injunction in no wise influenced
them, but it was noticed that after they
had received it they we're reluctant to
mentim the possibility of an immediate
strike The sparseness of the gathering.
in comps rison with what had been hoped
for, was attributed by Patrick ]. Shea,
vice-president of the Amalgamated, and
others to intimidation by Judge Mayer.
Receiver Hedges and the operating
bosses of the traction companies.
The latter were present in great num-
bers outside the hall and had several
hundred pickets posted in Eighty s.Sth
street and Third and Second avenues to
persuade men to keep away and identity
those who disregarded this advice.
There were calls in the meeting for a
strike, but Shea waved them down.
"One fine night" he said. I'VE "
call a meeting when We are fully or II
lied. and then you may see fit to say
strike 1 hope this will be soon. Picket
ing and Injunction worked tonight, but
there will be other nights. l am not
sore because they would not let the men
come to the meeting. am a good
waiter I am like the undertaker,> who
gets you In the end. l have waited for
years in other cities. The Amalgamated
is In New York to stay"
When Shea finished William Collins,
organizer for the American Federation
of Labor, adjourned the meeting subject
TO the call of the chair. 1t was then a
little after midnight. 1t had been an
nounced that the meeting would last all
night.
The immediate object OF such a strike
would be to obtain recognition of the
union, which Is repudiated by all the
companies, and reinstatement of en-
ployees who have been dismissed for
joining the Amalgamated.
supposed to know the faces of their men
swarmed outside of the hall, near the
entrance and across the street, and were
denounced az spoilers" and "informers'
by those inside.
Another and perhaps just as impor-
tant factor in keeping the expected
crowd away was the rs per cent wage
increa ses given on Tuesday to the EN-
ployees Of the New York Railways Com
IxSlN LIaHcr nd a.
terday to the employees of the Third
Avenue Railroad system by President
S. w. Hun.
All workers Get Increase.
To forestaiI enticement of its men by
the Amalgamated the Third Avenue COM
pany granted the increase without So
licitation to all OF its uniformed men
on the fourteen surface car lines con-
trolled by the company In Manhattan
The Bronx and Westchester.
Judge Mayors order. which several
speakers waved in the faces OF the
screaming street car men In the Lyceum
meeting, was In part:
And the defendant New York Rail-
ways Company. =. and all other persons
are hereby enjoined from interfering In
any way with the possession or manage
ment of any part OF the properties over
which the receiver Is hereby appointed
or interfering In any way to prevent
the discharge OF his duties or his op-
Grating of the same"
The copies of this order. placed in the
hands of deputies by United states Mar
shal Mccarthy at the direction OF the
Federal Judge, were attested by Alex
ender Gilchrist, clerk OF the united
States District Court.
Three stenographers. also on a CON-
mission from the Federal court. sat near
the stage and took notes OF everything
said Leader Shea, saying the Amalga-
mated had nothing to conceal and was
Law abiding, invited them and the
Deputy Marshals up close TO the plat
form, where they could do tneir work
more easily.
Shea said In the afternoon that he