The sun., 1919-08-09
VIOLENCE RENEWED
in BROOKLYN STRIKE


i OS"tt"ecO IFott EEst f00c.
though refusing 10 take out cars, have
not been discharged from the service.
Omctals OF the company asserted that
WIN the reestablishment of order their
service will gradually return to normal,
as their loyal employees realise that they
Will be protected and go back to work.
Union leaders assert that all but 500
or the company's employees now are
members of the striking Amsigamated
Association of Street and Electric Rail-
| way Employees. At q long series of
meetings yesterday afternoon and last
night their exhortatons TO stick out TO
the end met with hearty response from
me hundreds Of men and women at each
gathering place. The union leaders as
sert their belief that the company will
yield Immediately after the week end.
Efforts At the resumption OF service
were concentrated on the elevated and
subway lines yesterday. As a result
there were plenty Of elevated and subway
cars to handle such passengers ss pre-
sentsd themselves at the Manhattan ter
minals during the evening rush hour.
This by no mans indicates that the COM
peny was furnishing full service. but
rather that the home-bound Brooklyn
workers had learned during the preced-
ing two days to rely on the jitney. the
Interborough and emergency means OF
transportation.
That these means were wholly made
quate was proved yesterday by COM
plants from business houses and other
places that the strike Is costing them
huge sums In loss Of patronage. Al
Coney Island alone the loss through
the almost complete isolation Of the re-
sort ran well over a million dollars q
day The loss will be twice or three
times that according to estimates, for
to-day and tomorrow.
Brooklyn department stores were the
next largest sufferers from the strike
conditions. All OF them showed deserted
aisles and idle sales persons throughout
the day. Large losses of time through
the late arrival and early departure of
workers were reported from scores of
big Industrial plants In Manhattan as
well as in Brooklyn.
Few Surface Cars run.
Despite the more vigorous attitude Of
the police the day was not without vio-
lence. Some thirteen surface cars repre-
scented the maximum which the company
was able to operate at any one time
despite a perfect blanket Of police. The
police had to Tight to get these cars
through in several instances.
Two lives were lost as the indirect
result of the strike when boy was run
over by a crowded motor truck and
killed In the Williamsburg Bridge Plaza
and a man was Jounced out OF. another
truck and died on the way to the hos
pital The second accident was the re-
suit of a collision at Eighth avenue and
Forty-fourth street
The police gave the best exhibition Of
the new spirit which animated them yes
terday at the Brooklyn terminal of the
Manhattan Bridge. There a crowd of
strikers drove up in several motor trucks
and endeavored to swarm onto the
bridge local cars and get the crews. They
were partly successful In this when q
rescue squad Of police appeared. The
men endeavored to start for Manhattan
but the police lined the roadway ana
forced them at the point Of their re-
volvers to turn back
One police lieutenant, several police
ofhcers and score OF passengers were
injured during the rioting which broke
out In scattered places throughout tie
borough during the day. Many arrests
were made. Most Of these men were
strikers ami were charged with attempts
to inture railway property.
Six of them, arrested following a riot
at Classon and Putnam avenues. were
held In $1,000 bail for examination in
Flatbush Avenue Court. Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Albert Conway has been
assigned by District Attorney Lewis to
prosecute the cases The police plainly
got their backs up after these incidents
and gave every evidence of their de-
termination to press the prosecutions.
More Policemen Than Needed.
Indicating the readiness NJ th. ,oitoo
and the lack of men available to run
the cars, the police gave THE SUN yes
terday afternoon the following table Of
conditions as they were just before the
evening rush hours: