The sun., 1919-08-15
RIVAL UNIONS MAY
TIE UP INTERBORO
Continued from First Po0e.

p. J. Connolly, acting president, said:
1--WE are not satisfied with the ten
per cent. increase just given ua II Is
not nearly enough. We asked for twenty
per cent. but Mr.. Hedley explained that
tho company could not AFFORD to pay It.
We will organise committees next Tues
day, after which we will prepare wage
demands. We will submit these to the
company and II we are informed again
that they cannot be granted without
increase Of the fares. we will appeal to
the public officials. II they turn us
down we will take action into our own
hands. We will call q strike that will
be q strike. We will call out 100 per
| cent. and not one car wheel will move"
Asked the reason for this action at
the present time Mr.. Connolly explained
that during the war the men had been
unable to get sufficient increases to keep
abreast Of the cost Of living. and that
they had been appealed to on patriotic
grounds not to strike.
He and other officials OF the organiza-
tion made It known that they had been
cherishing n bitter feeling toward Mayor
Hylan eince May "a Of last ysar. when
he snubbed committee that they sent
to see him.
saub By Mayor was Recorded.
/ They produced their own minute book
| and read a report in which the affair
was described. 1t stated that the or
ganizaiion had written the Mayor and
had received an invitation to see him at
City Hall on a certain date. When the
| car mems committee got there II was
obliged to wait, according to the mia
utess ION tho steps Of the City Hall for
four hours" before being called into his
Honor's presence.
The minute the Mayor heard the de-
| mands," read the entry, he turned his
| back and walked out of the room with
| out saying a word"
Asked IL the men would be satisfied
with the rs cents an hour, which the
union has asked for the employees OF
| the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Mr.. Connolly said that II would be no
| where near sufficient.
Harry Post, head of the motormens
branch. interposed the suggestion OF "a
dollar an hour and an eight hour day"
| and Mr.. Connolly said that Il would be
| something like that. 1--WE feel that we
\ should get about so per cent. In addition
he said.
He explained that the brotherhood
| which was formed in 1915 with the APP
prevail OF Theodore p Shonts and other
| company officials. had a system OF arbl-
tration, but that this viii not work be-
cause OF the present inability of the COM
| pany to meet the demands of the men
| Although it has always been run in har.
mony with the management OF the line
/ h. t. q.
brotherhood from calling a strike when
| ever II sees At.
Going into the complaints of its mem
I bers he said:
I'VE cannot compromise. We've been
| holding these men down long enough
| and the time for action has come. We
have had bonuses. but our men are tired
of the bonus business They want what
they are Justly entitled to. and what the
company knows we ought to get.
I'VE believe that we are underpaid
and that what we get is not sufficient
| to meet the necessities OF life. Our men
must have enough to bring up their ia m
lilies. The Interborough. tells us that we
cannot get more because the fare is in
| sufficient The only reason for this ia
that city officials are playing politics"
| Indignant at Amalgsmated.
| Both Mr.. Connolly and Mr.. Mangah
| waxed hot In their denunciation of the
Amaigamated and its efforts TO call q
strike OF its own. I'VE don't need the
Amalgamated." they both said I'VE can
| handle our own affairs"
| THE Amalgamated tied up the whole
Brooklyn system and got nothing out Of
IT," said Mr.. Mangan while they have
arbitration, we. have always had that
| without striking for it."
| Mr. Connolly's INDICATION toward the
Outside organization" which has beer
working day and night 10 recruit new
members among the PETERBOROUGH en-
| ployees, took form in a threat Of direct
| action.
"The Amalgamated," he said. 81,
founded principally to get money with
the Amalgamated dynamited the subway
They also placed themselves on. roof
with bottles and bricks, which the,
hurled at workingmen. We have reat
about the atrocities committed by tn
Huns, which our boys settled in the gooC
old Yankee way. II the Amalgamatet
persists in committing atrocities herr
they will simply compel us to take thu
situation in hand ourselves. In sucl
event we will give those rowdies all tn
action they are looking for. and tn
travelling public will necessarily be tn
sufferer"
Told that the heads Of the Amalgamat
ed claim credit for the New York car
mems raise, upon the ground that !
would not have been allowed but for thei
strike threats, Mr.. Post said:
I'VE have attended to our affairs II
the past without the aid Of the Anal
gamated and we will attend to them II
the future"
Told that the Amalgamated Is claim
ing a large secret organization amonl
the marlborough employees, Mr.. Mangal
said 'They may say they've got 10 pc
cent. of our men, but they haven't go
lseventy-five all told"
Told to he Ready for Action.
Earlier in the day Mr.. Connolly wrot
to all members of the brotherhood in
structing them to hold themselves Il
readiness to take whatever action tn
organization may consider necessary t
enforce justice. His letter follows:
"To the Members of the Brotherhoo
of marlborough RGpid Transit Compan
Employees: BRoTHERs-Recognizin tn
present urgent need of additional buy
ing power in our pay envelopes, you
representatives applied to the officials O
this company to provide it,
AT a conference yesterday at the OF
lficeof the general manager. to whom W
stated that we we're prepared to prov
; we represented more than 80 per cent O
the employees in all departments (and 4
many departments 100 per cent }, W
accepted a temporary relief measure 4
the form Of 10 per cent increase t