The sun., 1919-08-20
Judge Mayer Authorizes
Receiver to Grant an Ad-
vance Equal to l. r. T.
REQU EST. NOT DEMAND
Hedges Says BankruptROa
VIII Pay 81, 5000 a Year
Cost From Fares"
WARNING SENT FRIDIGER
{" r:cnbush Admits City
Kvcataally Will Pay 1. r. T.
Increase to Employees.
WARNING SENT FRIDIGER

Vlc $500 employees of the bank
F.'t New York Railways Company
which operates the green surface cars
Of Manhattan, received a 25 per cent.
irc'ease in wages yesterday from Re-
ceiver Job Hedges, with the approval
of julius NJ. Mayer, Judge of the
United States District Court. The
award dates from last Sunday. Other
pequests are to be arbitrated.
The marlborough and the New
Fork Railways are really one transit
Company. 1t is inevitable, after the
settlement of the subway and elevated
etrike on Monday, that the plea Of
ehose who run the street cars should
set as much attention as their breth-
rem underground and overhead. The
only question was whether they
should go on strike to. achieve their
purpose.
job Hedges says that the spokesmen
for the green car brotherhood, who
had a session with him yesterday at
ternoon, did not threaten to stop work
Anyway. after telephoning to Judge
Mayer and getting his o. K, Receiver
Hedges and the brotherhood made an
agreement, which in substance is
IDENTICAL with the one that ended the
lnterborough strike on the previous
day.
The increase will cost $1.50o,00 a
Tear. Asked where he was going to get
This money. Mr. Hedges, whose reputa-
ton as a humorist will not down despite
his serious effort to suppress 1t, said {:
"From fares" He may do 1t at that.
That the enforced sanctioning of higher
tales to meet the wage advances that
are being made right and left will be
the upshot of the whole business does
Hall believes
Amalgamated still a Thorn.
For the time being the Brotherhood of
Employees of New York Railways Com
pany is content with yesterdays settle
nent. The brotherhood will not strike.
But there is yet to be reckoned with the
Aualgamated Association of Street and
Electric Railway Employees. the nation
ally organized branch of the American
Federation Of Labor. Inspirited by its
success in attaining recognition in
Brooklyn as the result of the recent Il.
Il. T. strike, it has been trying 10
tWallow the subway, elevated and sur
lace employees of Manhattan and The
Bronx. ,
No
Eavering when Pat Connolly, head of
heir own brotherhood. held them in line
and with a two days strike forced the
company to give them a raise of 25 per
Gent. The street car employees were
threatening to go over to the Anal
samated when Mr.. Hedges. dealing with
them as members of their brotherhood,
!ounded and fostered by the company,
posted their wages yesterday to the
mne Of s1.5Oo,o0o a year.
The Amalgamated says II is moi
through. In a desperate play to carry
Ihe whole horde OF rapid transit EN-
ployees In this city over to organized
abor 1t is talking of calling a genera
rrike for so per cent. wage advance
ihis scheme will be discussed tonight
N Lyceum Hall. Eighty-sixth street
near Third avenue. The leaders of the
marlborough and green car brother
hoods insist that the Amalgamatet
'haps are bluffing so far as they are
concerned. They say that not more thar
per cent Of the elevated, subway an6
New York Railways employees are mem
'ers Of the Amalgamated and that II
annot get any more. The Second ant
rhlrd avenue lines. which have M
snions OF their own, are believed to have
Ieen pretty well organized by the Anal
Iamated.
New York Is Tired of Strikes.
In vocing the feeling OF the public
toout recent upheavals Judge Mayer and
ruollc Service Commissioner NixoT
ised almost the same words. The Fed
raI Judge said he was certain 'tha
he people OF the city of New York arr
hck and tired of strikes. chickering's
n'sunderstandings and confusion" The
commissioners said; THE people of th'
ny are tired of strikes and most impa
aent with those who bring them about,
hd that the Interborough men coult
H'e had their requests considered jus
well without sticking.
Judge Mayer sent one OF the sharpes
t'ters ever written from a judge
hamoers TO Louis Fridiger, counsel o.
ne Alnalgamated union. Mr.. Fridge
'Ao asked for the reinstatement Of greer