The sun., 1919-08-08

never has refused to meet commit
tee Of the employees.
''But 4 will not treat with com
mittee Of an organization that rep
resents only a minority of our men,"
he declared. "That was my position
In the beginning, and all the violence
in the world will not change me from
that reasonable and Just position.
: o"We have the best police force In
the world. I have every reason to
believe that Mayor Hylan is deter
mined that we shall have order and
that citizens who wish peacefully to
work for us shall be permitted to do
90. Yet the police have mislnter-
preted their orders. They, have as
sumed a position Of passivity, when
they were ordered merely to be neu-
trail The result is that the mobs
have got into violence and the men
who are willing to run the cars are
refusing. very reasonably, to risk in
Jury or worse"
Disagree as to Number Involved.
: Receiver Garrison was reminded
that many persons wilt interpret the
more complete paralysis of the sys-
tenn yesterday as evidence that the
strikers under the Amalgamated As
ISOLATION of Street and Electric Rail.
way Employees do control a majority
of his men.
rViolence can't alter the fact that
only 1000 men responded to the origi-
nal strike CALL" Mr.. Garrison replied.
ssWe have the men in the barns to
run the cars II the. police protection
n adequate"
Strike leaders mock this claim OF
Mr.. Garrison's. They say that they
have already enrolled 5000 Of the
company's 1900 operating forces.
Thomas Reilly, one Of the union or
ranizers, asserted that hundreds of
the men who are apparently loyal to
the company and are held In the
barns In reserve are actually with
the strikers and will refuse to take
out cars when called upon to do so.
This viewpoint coincided with that
Of high police official, who after
looking over the situation asserted
fhat many Of the men In the barns
were "trying to carry water on both
shoulders" He said that they were
using an alleged lack Of police protec.
ton to cover their actual sympathy
with the strikers.
Possibility Of the strike spreading
20 other lines and to Manhattan was
virtually eliminated yesterday will
Che announcement Of w. 9. Griffin Of
the Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engi
neers that that body would not joir
the strike. These men are the motor
men and signalmen Of the B. r. T
subway and elevated lines. Louii
Fridiger, the Amalgamated attorney
refused to talk Of the possible eIten
sion Of the strike to Manhattan which
he had threatened on Wednesday.
Brooklyn, at any rate. suffered from
q transit tieup much worse than tina
Of wednesday, the first day Of th
strike. Mr.. Garrison himself ad
rnitted this. In one barn, where Their
were IS crews on hand Wednesda!
morning. there were only forty-five oil
hand yesterday. Only eighteen o
them got the police protection tina
enabled them to get out on the roa'
and Of these only three succeeded q
completing their runs to Borougl
Hall.
: Unoficial records available yester
day from company and police report
showed the progress of the strike a
follows:
At z A. NJ. 353-cars were in operation
FAT car crews waiting in the barns an
600 police on hand for their protection
From certain of the car barns cam
reports that there were no police o.
hand, that the police were not in SUI
(cisnt number for protective purposes o
that those promised had not arrived.
AT o'clock the number Of cars on
had been reduced to 236. Two hundre
and ffty-four crews were ready In tn
OaftiS, LOO poAiSo "eio VA Aoie ~ kAS
tAct them.
At the same hour ITS elevated an
subway trains were in operation.
Eat s rs the first of the car crews be
GAn to return to the barns with report
Of violence and threats of violence froI
strikers and sympathizers along III
tines
At s:25 the superintendent OF I'll
Myrtle avenue barns reported that tn
police were furnishing no real protectio
70 his crows. that some of them had az
tually Joined IN insults to the crew
thumbing their noses at them and cal
Ing them scabs.
At :55 the crew of a car at De Kal
avenue and st. James place was pulle
from the car and beaten and the glat
IN the car broken by stones.
AT 10 :35 the number OF cars In operl
ton had been reduced TO 161. only fift,
three crews waited in the barns. wit
ass policemen on hand.
At IL :26 more crews turned in the
cars. many Of them having been. beate
many with their uniforms torn and the
badges stolen.
Women Join Attacks ON Cars.
AZ 40 women threw rotten eggs
cars at Third avenue and Thirty-nini
street
At 1895 there were 104 cars in o.
Grafton, 27l crews in the barns and Al
policemen available.
At As sixty-six cars were on u
lines. 2tS crews waiting in the bari