New-York tribune., 1919-08-08

| picking up passengers.
I'VE will give you better service
than the B. r. r." read the signs
they displayed.
GERS present on car; two officers on
street made no effort to prevent
He then rccited the numerous efforts
that had been made to operate cars
with police guards who failed to pro
tect the men.
Offered Double Pay
I'm East New York we offered the
men double pay and offered to put
three policemen on each car, but the
men are afraid to go out of the barns
because they are being terrorMed by a
! small minority" Mr.. Garrison said
I'm one barn yesterday eighty-fv
crews waited all day to go out, but
threatening them with violence.
~ will not recognize the union be-
cause I know that most Of the en-
ployes want to go to work, but it is
a minority insignificant in numbers
which through violence is frightening
the majority from going to work. If
the police had acted right the first day
of the strike it would have been broken
in one day.
There will be no shut down, how
ever, as long as there is police pro
. force in the world, and if the Mayor
only would give clear sharp order
in unmistaka Bile terms, the police would
act more wholeheartedly.
each barn has a number of crews
ready to go out, but I don't believe
the police are acting wholeheartedly
in this strike. A horseshoe was thrown
through the window of one car and
the broken glass almost cut man s
thumb off.
"The police are physically present,
but spiritually absent"
Gets Threatening Letter
Mr. Garrison read a letter he had re-
ceived, which said in part: 'Your hours
are numbered. Cold steel will be
pumped into you. Where in hell do you
come in here? Go to New Jersey. | am
out for your life and I will get it good
and proper. A few explosions will set
tie the power houses"
The days correspondence with the
Mayor began when Mr.. Garrison sent
an carly morning reply to Mayor
Hylan's letter of Wednesday evening,
IN Whlcn IL was agreed TO put ponce
men on the cars.
The letter reads in part:
"My Dear Mr.. Mayor:
81 received your letter of yesterday
evening this morning.
"In pursuance of your orders the
police authorities to-day are furnish
ing policemen as rapidly as they say it
is possible, and I assume this is the
fact. They are not, however, as yet
furnishing us sufficient policemen to
take out cars for which we have crews.
"The last paragraph of your letter
states: The newspapers this morning
reported that you declined to meet a
committee of your employees, and the
present situation is q result of such
refusal, May l suggest to you that it
would be better to take a more con-
ciliatory attitude and meet a commit
tee and see if the points in contro-
versy could not be settled by arbitra-
tion in the interest of the general pub
lic'?
Reviews Situation
"In response to this suggestion, beg
leave to bring to your attention just
what the situation is. On Monday last
a committee called at my Office and left
there q series of demands. In such
meeting had beensheld on the previous
Friday and that these demands had
been adopted at such mass meeting.
"Thc second of such demands, and
the one which the committee stated
was the principal demand, was the rec
ognition of the Amalgamated Assoca-
tion of Street and Electric Railway
Employees Of America. In reply to the
communication of the committee l in
substance informed them that l could
not recognize the right of their organ
izatlon tQ@deal for our men; that | was
entirely willing to deal with the en-
ployes in respect of their working con-
ditions, but that | was not willing to
deal with such outside organization in
respect of the working conditions of
our employees.
"This organization, at the time that
the communication was delivered to
me, had as members only small mi
nority of our employees.
"The conduct Of this association
since the declaration Of the strike ls
sufficient vindication of my position.
AS you know, their call for a strike
resulted in a response on behalf of
our men amounting to a very mall
minority. Our service was not Grip
pied in the least by their detection.
and it was only by assault and threats
of physical violence that they scared
loyal men and prevented them from
taking their cars out. All day yester-
day they kept up this kind of ntim-
idation until they finally succeeded in
preventing the loyal men from operat
ing The system. Without such intim-
ldation the system would have operated
practically on a normal basis"
Coney Island Isolated
Coney Island was isolated last night
The Sea Beach line ran only as far as
Kings Highway, and the West End line
stopped at Bay Parkway. Policemen
were stationed at these terminals to
prevent disorder. All trolleys running
to the island were taken off except an
occasional car which ran over the West
End route operating on Irregular
schedule. Many crews abandoned the
cars at the end of the runs. They said
they feared violence
Patrick J. Shea, one of the strike
leaders, told more than 1000 strikers
in Persons Hall, Flatbush, last night
that the strike would be over in two
days if they kept up their good work.
Mr.. Shea told the men of Mavor Hy-
lan's action in ins,ructlng Federal
Judge Mayer to urge Mr.. Garrison to
meet committee of the strikers. He
SAID regarding the strike proceedings:
i want to congratulate you on the eve
OF wonderful victory. You have the
traffic system of Brooklyn utterly para
lyzed. There is no doubt about it. If
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