The sun., 1919-08-24
NON-UNION MEN FOR
!. WESTMINSTER LINE.
Cars without Passengers to Be
= Run Three Days to Teach
- Them System. -..
AMALGAMATED
RESTS
Strike Rumors in Manhattan
fseand Brooklyn Lose Some
=. of Recent Strength.

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ssThe trains of the New York. West
chester and Boston Railway, which have
been tied up by strike of motormen
and conductors for the last five days.
viii be started tomorrow morning In
change of non-union men. No passen-
fSrs will be carried, because the COM
pany is putting into operation for the
first time in this State the railroad law
passed after the Malbone street wreck
In Brooklyn. This law compels all
sereen" train crews first to become IA
nniiiar with the physical characteristics
III a system before engaging in regular
Messenger traffic. According to 1everett
g.. Miller. president of the Westchester,
the new men will have become efficient
n the curves, grades and signals of the
line by Wednesday, at which time 1t Is
hoped to resume minimum passenger
service.
Before the week is ended the company
expects that the new men will be 60
thoroughly trained that a full schedule
will be in effect and the system VIII
Sc able to continue without the as
sistance Of the fifty. motormen and con-
dActors who walked out. The strikers
ate members OF the Brotherhood of Lo-
comotive Engineers and the Brother
hood. of Railway ,Trsfnmen.
when the strikers heard the news re-
rarding the non-union men they issued
a;statement from their headquarters at
Nfpunt Vernon in which 1t was en-
pHasized that "if the company sought
totoust them by non-union workers they
wbuid bring the matter to the notice
of the big railroad brotherhoods and
asftate for complete tieup OF the New
York, New Haven and Hartford lines
Aimed mt the New Haven Road.
1.-THE action would be a sympathetic
strike, they pointed out. and would be
aimed at the New Haven because that
company, It is said by the strikers,
largely controls the management and
< finances of the Westminster line.
When two officers of the brotherhood
were told of the ambitions of the West
chester men they declined TO comment
upon a tieup of the New Haven system.
but limited that the brotherhood organi-
cation would safeguard the'interests Of
the fifty strikers Gin the best way pos
sible." There is every likelihood that a
ticup of the New Haven will be invoked
when the green" men start operating
OF the Westminster trains.
Since the strike went into effect there
has been no attempt made to run trains,
and commuters throughout Westchester
county have been forced to take the
trolley cars to the city line. Over $4,000
persons have been inconvenienced, and
to-day the traffic. which would comprise
some $4,000 pleasure seekers from the
city and New Jersey, will be taken care
of by the surface lines OF The Bronx and
Westchester, which have arranged 1or
additional cars.
Some of the strikers intimated that
their troubles with the company might
be adjusted tomorrow when the Public
Service Commission will hold hearing
i nj o'clock to hear both sides in the
controversy.
The company Is not under Federal
control. The pay Of the motormen and
conductors has been~at the same stand
ard of rates as those paid to the 1. r.
T. men. When the latter went back to
work after rs per cent advance, the
westchester line gave the same Increase
10 its men. The strikers want the same
rate of pay that the steam railroad men
receive, which the company says 1t can
not grant because 1t would be an in
crease of approximately 80 per cent
over present wages.
Officers of the Amalgamated Assocla-
tion of Street and Electric Railway En-
ployees denied yesterday that they were
thinking of calling another strike or
the b. r. T. system because of delay In
the arbitration, to-, which both sidei
agreed before the recent strike wa'
called off. Union representatives will
have another talk with the B. r T. gen
epal manager, Frederick p. Royce, or
Tuesday afternoon at the offices OF tht
company. A representative of the com
pany said yesterday that arbitration wa;
being prepared for as rapidly as posi-
BILE. but that the. committee of employees
understood the situation and had M
complaint to make.
In Manhattan the Amalgamated lead
ers are doing little just now except ir
the way OF preparation to meet the In
junction suit started by the Third Ave
nue. Railway system TO restrain The
union from calling a Third avenue strike
or trying to induce employees to ioir
the Amalgamated Argument on the ap
plication for a permanent injunction will
be heard before Justice Lydon in Part 1
special term of the Supreme Court oil
Tuesday.
Some of the PETERBOROUGH employees
are vexed because they have been asked
for voluntary contribution" to defra!
the expenses OF the strike OF last Sun
day and Monday on the subway and ele
waited lines. AS the 1nterborough Bro
therhood does not collect dues from 1T
members 1t has no money in the treas
ury. Members OF the organization sale
yesterday that on Wednesday, when pay
cars went along the lines for the frs
time since the strike ended, they wer,
asked for a small Offering to pay law
yer's fees and rental of halls. Most o
the men Clipped in 25 cents apiece
One OF those who declined to contribut,
says that he and others were summoned
TO the offices OF the company to explain
the omission. There was no one at tn
Interborough Offices yesterday Afternoon
who could be asked about the truth o
this assertion.
City Fights 2 Cent Transfers.
William p Burr, Corporation Counsel
filed yesterday with the Public Servic
Commission brief in support OF hi
request that the order OF COMMISSIONS
Nixon. dated July 10. authorizing tn
ID New York Railways Company to charg
cents for transfers, be rescinded.