Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-07
DEVELOPMENTS IN BROOKLYN
 RAPID TRANSIT STRIKE

| New York. Aug. 6.-Officials of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company. af- 1 ter strenuous day of effort to oper- ate surface. elevated and subway lines 1 in Brooklyn in the face of a strike o1 members of the Amalgamatcd Asso- citation of Electric and Street Railway Employees. ordered a temporary sus- pension of service on all lines at 10 o. clock tonight. It was exfjected the lines would be dead" at midnight, but that operation would be resumed at $ a. m. tomorrow to care for the rush hour crowds.
 charge that they were hiring strike breakers.
 Although Mir. Garrison maintained that scarcely more than 1 900 of the company'S 13.000 employees were on a strike it was admitted that the 900 by their picketing activities, had bad ly impaired the service, and during the rush hour tonight, officials of the system found it necessary to suspend the sale of tickets at the Municipal Building terminal and the Metropoli- tan Elevated line station in Afanhat- tan for long intervals in order to pre- vent dangerous congestion on the loading platforms.
 The occasional trains that ran were literally jammed with passengers, while automobiles and trucks. operat- ing as '.iitneys." flowed across the East River bridges in a continuous
 
 mally crowded with Brooklynites un- able to get home on the B. R. T. lines. Thousands gave up the struggle to get home and spent the night in hotels or with friends in Manhattan.
 The question of the number of men on strike could not be learned with any degree of accuracy. The union cia1n;1d that fully 5000 men were out tomorrow while MT Garrison assert ed the number was little more than 1000, and that the greatest part of the impairment of service was re- sulting frcm rough house" tactics of the strikers. which intimidated loyal mer.
 The un:Al arnounced early in the afternoon that Elcstormen on the sub way and elevated lines, who are affil lated with the Brother ho od of Loco- motive Engineers. would strike later in the day. but these men still were reported to be at their posts tonight and Mir. Garrison declared they would not strike.
 Union leaders sent out messages to- day to national officials of the union asking for more leaders. with the an bounced rErpose of extending the strike to the Manhattan transit lines and those of. other boroughs.
 Mr GarriSon'S demand on Mayor Hylan for more police protection was the result of series of attacks by the strike sympsthi2ers en non union crews and company rroperty during the day in whicE several men were. roughly handled. ca. wiToews smash ed and a number of trolley wires cut in outlying districts of Brooklyn.
 Police Commissioner Enright al ready had sent 500 extra patrolmen to Brooklyn to cope with the situa- ton, but Mir. Garrison declared in a letter to the city executive late this afternoon that disorders are growing more numerous and intimidation is driving more Of our men into the barns with their cars., not being will ing to go out again unless assured of protection"
 T am fully convinced" he contin- ued that unless something effective is done and done promptly. the situa- tion will get out of hand and New York city will suffer the humiliation of being in the hands of an irrespon- sible and disorderly element"
 The mayor immediately considered the placing on duty of 1900 more men. He wrote a letter to Mir. Garri- son, however, indicating that his sym pathies were in part with the men and calling on the receiver to take more conciliatory attitude.