The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-08-07
RIOTS MARK
CAR STRIKE
HyIan Tries to End Strike.
Sends for Union
Leader.

New York, Aug. 7--Rioting broke
out afresh in the strike of union
employees of the surface, elevated and
subway lines operated by the Brook
lyn Rapid Transit company this aft
ernoon. and one boy, a passenger,
was shot and mortally wounded by
a policeman.
Max Kaufman, 12-year old
schoolboy, was the, victim. He was
taken to the Lutheran hospital, where
it was said he would die. He was
struck in the left side by a bullet
during a fight between a mob of
strikers and their sympathizers and
Police Sergeant Wurberg on an ele-
waited train bound for New York.
The policeman drew his revolver and
fired when the mob closed in upon
him. The strikers leaped from the
train and escaped.
Early this afternoon a mob of
about 800 drove the crew and police
guards from a DeKalb avenue car
and wrecked it. Reports of other
outbreaks were coming in hourly
and Receiver Garrison admitted after
receiving reports from the different
barns that the service was badly
crippled"
Mayor Hylan took the initiative
this afternoon in an attempt to end
the strike, which practically brought
all transportation lines in Brooklyn
to standstili today. He sent for
p. J. Shea. member Of the interna-
tional executive committee of the
Amalgamated Association of Street
and Electric Railway Employees of
America, who is in charge of the
strike, and Louis Fridiger, chief
counsel for the strikers. The men
went into conference with the mayor
this afternoon.
Employees of the Long Island Trac-
ton trolIeys, including practically
all the towns on Long Island, have
voted to go on strike in sympathy
with the Brooklyn strikers and will
leave their cars at 5 o'clock tomor-
row morning, Edward Smith, chair
man of the executive committee of
the Brooklyn union organization, an
nounced this afternoon.
Passenger traffic between Manhat-
tan and Brooklyn was seriously
crippled, although the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit company announced
that it was running some trains and
that the rumler would be increased
during the day.
Fears of serious rioting led the
company to shut down traffic COM
pletely at midnight, but later trains
started to leave the barns.
LindIey NJ. Garrison. receiver for
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit COM
pany, received assurances that suf-
fcient policemen would be furnished
curing the day to put one officer on
each train.
Parts of Brooklyn are Uttered to-
day with wreckage as result of at
tacks made on cars. Trolley poles
were torn from the tops of cars and
windows smashed.
A long procession of automobile
trucks carrying Brooklynites to work
wound across Brooklyn bridge dur
ing the. morning rush hours. Some
persons living in the Coney Island
section of Brooklyn paid as much as
S5 and Sc to get to work.
Strike leaders claimed that 95 per
cent. of the entire system was tied
up and that since last night more
than 1000 men had joined the union.
The first shots were fired at 2:30
am. by an unidentified man at
avenue and Bergen
street, who then fed. A car window
was broken.
At 6:20 am. strikers and sym
pathizers attacked the crew of a car
at Vanderbilt avenue and another at |
Bergen street and Rogers avenue.
Car windows were smashed, but the |
rioters were dispersed by the police. !
No arrests were made.
A few surface cars began running |
shortly after am, and these were |
jammed. Policemen rode on front |
and rear platforms to preserve order. |
Service on the elevated lines was
started about the same time, but the |
trains were infrequent.
AS the day advanced the first of |,
the rush-hour crowds began to con- |
gregate at the train terminals.
Up to am, no subway trains on |
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit com |
pany's Coney island lines had !
reached the municipal building !
terminal