The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-16
Workers Will Give Ultima
tum to Board of Esti-
mate To-day.
MUST HAVE MORE PAY
Police Vacations Stopped
and Mayor Gets 700
Buses Ready.
RIVAL UNIONS IN CLASH
Hylan Calls Interb0rough Re
fusal Plot to Raise Fares.
Angry Session With Men.
RIVAL UNIONS IN CLASH


transit lines was deemed certain by
city officials last night and efforts to
meet the emergency were being rushed
on all sides. Arrangements for the
operation of seven hundred motor
busses on the thoroughfares on Mon
cay morning were hurried through By
the Mayor. while Chief Inspector OF
Police Thomas Murphy issued an or
der stopping all vacations Of captains
and inspectors on the force. All police
were ordered to hold themselves in
readiness from s o'clock this morning.
The strike may come from either
one or two sources or from both. The
Amalgamated Association OF Street
and Electric Railway Employees held
a meeting last night to arrange for
the calling out of it's members in the
employ of the subway, elevated and
surface car lines. The brotherhood OF
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Employees issued the statement that
it would call out all subway and>ele-
waited men at o'clock tomorrow
morning unless its demand for a 80
per cent. pay increase to all branches
Is accepted to-day.
Without an increase in the rate OF
car fares the company cannot, according
70 official statements. grant this Increase.
and in desperate effort TO ward off the
unions bow Public Service Commits
sioner Nixon has arranged through the
. members of the Board of Estimate to
call special meeting OF that body for
o'clock this afternoon at which the
men are to present their case This
hurry call has cut short several pleasure
trips, sent kilograms flying over the State
for distant members. one of whom
Borough President Dowling, was reached
at Saratoga, with a request to return
at once.
In connection with the charges made
by the Mayor that members Of the
brotherhood had conspircd With certain
officials Of the Peterborough to launch
a strike as means OF forcing a higher
fare, subpRnas were issued last night
requiring Frank Hedley, vice-president
and general manager of the INTERIOR
ough, and L. J. Connolly, NJ ]. Man
gan and r. NJ. Fazake-ley, heads Of en-
plOyces' bodies, to appear at o'clock
this morning at the office of Assistant
District Attorney Joab II. Banton.
The Mayor arranged through Joseph
A Guder, acting Borough President OF
Brooklyn, to start II necessary the oper-
, attun of 700 motor buses early Monday
morning for use on the Manhattan side
OF the East River
brotherhood Fights Rival.
10 smash the rival outside union
and make themselves masters OF the
employees sine of the wage fight mem
bers o. the Brotherhood last night placed
! pickets about Lyceum Hall. at Eighty
5 xth street and Third avenue, whore
the ANA gsnated held its meeting, to
prevent car men from attending. This
was done in accordance with an au-
| nouncement which they issued earlier In
the day to the effect that they would
drop all persons attending the Anal
| gamated meeting from their own AMI
| zatlcn ana would demand their imme--
diate discharge by Inc company.
The brotherhood leaders stated TO
newspaper men that If they do not re-
! celve courte teous treatment from the
| Board OF Estimate when they appear be-
! fore that body this afternoon they will
call 4 strike at once and that in two
| hours from the time they leave the City
/ Hall every car wheel on the 1nterborough
system will be stopped.
They were furious over the result OF
| the conference which they had with the
Mayor in the afternoon, at which they felt
! that they were insulted by that official.
The resentment OF the men was based
upon the apparent inclination of the
Mayor to regard their appeals with sus-
plcion and his charge that they had con-
! spired with company officials to launch r
! trike in order to force an increase Of
| fares.
! Their indignation reached the boiling
point several times during the audience
which they had with that executive
and With President Moran of the Board
| OF Aldermen in the City Hall. 1t caused
! leaders of the union TO interrupt his
Honor TO reject abruptly hs repeated
| plea for deferred action, and finally to
leave the place In hun TO launch into
a torrent Of criticism after they had
gained the open air.
Letter Causes Question.
p. ]. Connolly, acting president OF the
brotherhood, felt most aggrieved when
the Mayor questioned him sharply as to
his authorship OF n letter bearing his
signature vhich voiced the grievances
of his men. and which was published In
THH Sun Of yesterday morning.
His Honor's motive was plain He
had said early in the day the strike
move Of the brotherhood looked like IAN
inside Job" and he was seeking to find
If Mr. Connolly were really capable o.
wording the letter, or II It had been hi-
spIred BY higher authority that Nigh
benett by fare increase.
Connolly declared that every word ha
been his own, and submitted to a rikid
questioning on that point. Finally tn