Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-08-07
n. Y. CAR SERVICE
IMPAIRED BY STRIKE
All Lines in Brooklyn, Surface,
Subway and Elevated, Will Be
Tied up Unless Adequate Pro-
lection Is Provided
MAY INCLUDE MANHATTAN
Union Clnims 5000 Men Are Out and
1900 Moro viii Follow To-day
strike Sympatbizers Attack Nom
Union Crews

New York, Aug. determination OF
the first day of the Brooklyn stseet
car strike brought promise Tonight
from Lindley NJ. Garrison, receiver of
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit company,
of greatly improved service tomorrow
and conflicting prediction of officials
of the Amagamated Association of
Street & Electric Railway Employees
that subway, elevated and surfac. car
service would be almost completely
tied up
Notified by Mr.. Garrison that ne
would suspend all service tonight un-
less police guards were placed on all
surface cars and adequate protec-
ton" against disorderly strikers given
to subway and elevated trains, Mayor
Hylan ordered Police Commissioner
Enright to provide 1900 men for the
service. and the cars were operating
tonight under armed guards.
PICKETS ARE USED
Although Mr.. Garrison maintained that
, scarcely more than 1.C00 of the pany's
1900 employees We're on strike it was
admitted that the 1000, by their pcketing
activities, had badly impaired the service,
and during the rush hour tonight, Off
cials of the system found it necessary to
suspend the sale Of tickets at the municipal
building terminal and the Metropolitan
| elevated line station in Manhattan totl
long intervals in order to prevent danger
GUS congestion on the loading Platforms
The occasional trains that ran We're
/ literally jammed with passengers. while
/ automobiles and trucks, operating as
| "jitneYs," flowed across the East river
| bridges in a continuous stream Ferry
boats also were abnormally crowded with
| Brooklynites unable to get home on the
| B. r. T. lines. Thousands gave up the
struggle to get home and spent the night
in hotels or with friends in Manhattan.
| STRIKERS "ROUGH HOUSE" CREWS
The number Of mon on strike could not
be learned with any degree of accuracy.
| The union claimed that fully 600O men
We're out and that 5000 would be on strike
by tomorrow, while Mr.. Garrison as
serted the number little more than
LOCO and that the greatest part of the
| impairment of service was resulting from
! rough house" tactics OF the strikers,
which intimidated loyal men.
The union announced early in the after
noon that motormen on the subway and
elevated lines, who are affiliated with the
brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
would strike later in the day. but these
men still were reported to be at their
posts tonight and Mr.. Garrison declared
they would not strike
Union leaders sent out messages to-day
to national officials of the union asking
for more leaders. with the announced
purpose of extending the strike to the
Manhattan Transit lines and those of
other boroughs.
Officials of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
company, after a strenuous day of effort
lines in Brooklyn in the face of a strike
members of the Amalgamated Association
Of Electric and Street Railway Employees,
ordered a temporary suspension of service
on all lines at ten o'clock tonight. 1t was
expected the lines would be dead" at
midnight. but that operation would be
resumed at five a. m tomorrow to care
for the rush hour crowds
The temporary suspension was ordered
at the request of the police department
after police officialas Informed the COM
pany they had not sufficient men to fur
nish 24-hour guard necessary to pro-
} tect non-striking employees from the strik-
ers
Tomorrow, it was stated, the police
will be on duty on all cars during the
morning rush hour from 500 to 900 a m,
and again during the evening rush hour
ana an attempt VIII pe nlduS 10 give lull
service. For the remainder of the day,
the police will be off duty and the COM
pany will render the best service pos
sble."
Company officials denied tonight a
charge that they were hiring strike break
} ers. The report was. said to have re-
suited from the fact that the company
has opened an employment office to hire
special guards for it's property.
One serious riot was reported in Flat
bush tonight after police had manned
the cars, and several cases of stoning
of cars and cutting of trolley ropes We're
reported. In the Flatbush riot. a mob
of about 500 men charged surface car.
smashing windows and menacing the
crew. Police reserves were called and
fight ensued in which the police used
their night sticks freely. Several mem
bers OF the mob were injured
Nearly score of arrests were made
during the day, the majority of those
taken into custody being union men.