New-York tribune., 1919-08-22
Third Avenue Company En-
Joins Amalgamated and
Union Attorney Says He
Will Force Investigation
New Traction Strike On
Employees of Westchester
Line Demand l6 Per Cent
Increase and Is, 900 Walk

just as one more street railway
walkout crippled New York traction
system yesterday, injunction proceed
lngs promised to throw the city's en-
tire traction problem into the courts
for judicial investigation.
Car crews of the New York, West
chester & Boston Railway walked
out early in the morning after max
ing demands for 1e per cent increase
in wages, forcing the $4,000 men and
women who daily make use of the
lines to walk to their work. The
strike. according to /. S. Miller, presi-
dent of the road, was without an
hours warning.
The injunction proceedings that
promise to bring about thorough
investigation of the complicated trac-
sentatives of the Third Avenue Rail
way Company before Supreme Court
Justice Lydon late Wednesday even
ing. The restraining order was
served upon officers of the Amalga-
mated Association Of Street and Flec-
trio Railway Employees early yester-
day morning after the midnight meet
ing at Lyceum Hall. Eighty sixth
Street and Third Avenue.
Returnable August 26
Patrick J. Shea, member of the
unions executive committee; Louis
Fridiger, its attorney, and William H.
Collins, union organizer, were served
with copies of the order, which re-
strains the union from interfering
with the performance Of the contracts
to%1 %1,A ,~.I
Company and it's subsidiary organiza-
tions and the traction concerns en-
ployes." The order is returnable Au-
gust 26.
Messrs Shea and Fridiger declared
that they looked upon the proceedings
a. highly desirable in making possible
a full investigation Of the claims made
on both sides during the present diff
ficulties.
There is nothing I would prefer
to getting into court and having full
said Attorney Fridiger. eve will do all
in our power to bring about COM
plete investigation, in order that the
public may know what is going on"
Asked if the threatened strike of
Amalgamatcd men on the green car
lines had been abandoned, P. ]. Shea
said yesterday: "There has been no
meeting called for the near future to
take up the question again. We intend
to devote our time for the present to
organization work AS far as the Of
icials of the Amalgamated are con
cerned they do not call strikes. The
men themselves call them, and / don't
know how they feel about it."
Shea said good progress had been
made on the arbitration proceedings
with the B. R. T., and that a definite
announcement Will be made to-day or
tomorrow.
The expected conference between
representatives of the B. r. L. lines
and officers of the Amalgamated, in
order that the initial steps toward ar
might be considered, was not held. 1t
may be held this afternoon
Mayor and Garrison Criticised
Two reports were made public by
the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce,
in which Receiver Lindley NJ. Garri
son, Mayor Hylan, the police and oil-
GERS of the B. r. 7. are criticised for
their part in the recent strike. ME-
Garrison is declared to have been at
fault. originally, in refusing to receive
REPRESENTATIVES of the Amalgamated.
His statement to the men that ne
would not deal with an "outslde. or
paniZatiOn' lS declared TO nave peel
"ill advised" and calculated to brlng
on a strike.
Mayor Hylan is alleged to have been
at fault in making the statements he
did. which "indicated a neutral atu-
tude toward lawlessness."
In this connection the report says:
con August Mayor Hylan made the
following statement
".We are determined to preserve law
and order in this strike, end we Will
carr out this determination without
showing the slightest favorltlsm to
either side in this CONTROVERSY foNce
Commissioner Enright tells me 1t will
be hardly possible to place policeman
on each car, because the size of the
police force will not permit. However,
the strikers and the company may rest
assured that ample and proper police
protection will be afforded
at is the opinion of this committee
that this statement was i'll advised. 1t
is fact that the police permitted dis
order For the Chief Magistrate of the
city to take q position which could be
interpreted by any chance as neutral
to disorder places directly the respon-
sibility for the disorder that followed"
1t is charged in the report that the
B. R. T. has wasted money through
mismanagement in the past, and it is
recommended that q new policy of
"scrupulous fair treatment" be insti-
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