The sun., 1919-08-20
Judge Mayer Authorizes
Receiver to Grant an Ad-
vance Equal to l. r. T.
REQUEST, NOT DEMAND
Hedges Says BankruptROad
Win Pay ST. 100000 a Year
Cost From Fares"
WARNING SENT FRIDIGER
Qnackcnbush Admits City
Eventually Will Pay /. r. 7.
Increase to Employees.
WARMING SENT FRIDIGER

The $500 employees of the bank
rupt New York Railways Company
which operates the green surface cars
O. Manhattan, received a 20 per cent
Increase in wages yesterday from Re-
cciver Job Hedges, with the approval
Of julius NJ. Mayer. Judge Of the
United States District Court. The
award dates from last Sunday. Other
requests are to be arbitrated.
The Interborough and the New
York Railways are really one transit
company. 1t is inevitable, after the
settlement Of the subway and elevated
strike on Monday, that the plea OF
those who run the street cars should
get 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 session with him yesterday af-
ternoon, did not threaten to stop work
Anyway. after telephoning to Judge
Mayer and getting his o. X, Receives
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 viii cost Si.536,o0c q
year. Asked where he was going TO get
this money, Mr.. Hedges, whose reputa-
ton as humorist will not down despite
his serious effort to suppress it, said
From fares" He may do 1t at that.
That the enforced sanctioning OF higher
fares 20 meet the wage advances that
are being made right and left will be
the upshot Of the whole business does
not seem to be SO impossible as City
Hall believes.
AmaIgamated still a Thorn.
For the time being the Brotherhood OF
Employees OF New York Railways Com
psny is content with yesterdays settle
nent The brotherhood will not strike.
But there Is yet to be reckoned with the
Amalgamated Association of Street and
Electric Railway Employees. the nation
ally organized branch of the American
Federation of Labor. Insp!rited by Its
success I'm attaining recognition in
Brooklyn as the result of the recent b
r. T. strike. It has been trying to
swallow the subway, elevated and sur
face employees of Manhattan. and The
Bronx.
The Interborough employees were
vavering when Pat Connolly, head OF
their own brotherhood, held them in line
and with a two days strike forced the
company to give them a raise Of rs per
cent. The street car employees were
threatening to go over to the Anal
gamated when Mr.. Hedges. dealing with
them as members of their brotherhood
founded and fostered by the company
boosted their wages yesterday to the
tune Of S1,500,000 a year
The Amalgamated says II Is, no
through In a desperate play to carr
The whole horde of rapid transit en-
ployees in this city over to organized
labor it is talking of calling a genera
strike for a so per cent. wage advance
This scheme will be discussed to-nigh
In Lyceum Hall, Eighty-sixth street
N"i iHIu dNenueN Inc ltaueIb VI ta'
marlborough and green car brother
hoods insist that the AmalgamateC
chaps are bluffing so far as they arr
concerned. They say that not more thar
per cent. of the elevated, subway ant
New York Railways employees are mem
oers Of the Amalgamated and that 4
cannot get any more. The Second ant
Third avenue lines. which have m
unions OF their own, are believed to hav'
Teen pretty well organized by the Anal
gamated.
New York Is Tired of Strikes.
In voicing the feeling of the publi'
aoout recent upheavals Judge Mayer ant
Public Service Commissioner Nixoi
used almost the same words. The Fed
eral Judge said he was certain ''tha
The people OF the city of New York arr
Ack and tired Of strikes. chickering's
. misunderstandings and confusion" Th'
Commissioners said: THE people Of tn
city are tired of strikes and most impa
TENT with those who bring them about,
and that the Interborough men coul'
nave had their requests considered jus
as well without striking.
Judge Mayer sent one OF the sharpes
tttsrs ever written from a Judge
ehambers to Louis Fridiger counsel o
NE Amalgamated union. Mr.. Fridge
sad asked for the reinstatement OF greei
T. Continued on FUth Po0e.