Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-08-17
Subway and Elevated Lines
in Most of City to Stop
at 4 Am.
FARLEY ATTEMPT FAILS;
INJUNCTION is ASKED
Workers Deny Collision to Raise
Fares; Mayor Organizes Autos
to Carry Traffic.

NEW YORK. August 13.-Su-
preme Court Justice Richard Ly-
don granted "A temporary fnjunc-
ton carly this morning restrain
ing omcials of the Brotherhood OF
marlborough Rapid Transit Com
pany Employees from Interfering
with operation of the Inter-
bOr0uGh's lines.
NEW YORK, August ia strike.
which union leaders declared would
completely tie up the vast subway
and elevated system of the Inter
borough Rapid Transit Company in
Manhattan. the Bronx and parts of
Brooklyn and Queens, at o'clock to-
morrow morning. was called tonight
by P. j. Connolly. acting president of
the Brotherhood of Interborough
Rapid Transit Company employees
Corporation Counsel Burr and at
torneys of the PETERBOROUGH tonight
were seeking a supreme court justice
who would sign an order enjoining
union officials from making the strike
order effective, but even if such an or
der were obtained. it was admitted,
there was little hope of blocking the
walkout.
Drank Hedley. general manager of
the marlborough. said every effort
would be made to give service. but
added that the best possible service
would be very SLIM" as fully IS per
cent of the company's employees are
members of the union.
Will Not Use Strikebreakers.
This would leave about 700 men
loyal to the company, which number.
Mr.. Hedley said. would not be aug
mented by strikebreakers.
Mayor Hylan has ordered Police
Commissioner Enright to furnish the
company with full protection in it's eff
forts to run trains. and Corporation
Counsel Burr in a statement declared
that trains would be run "if it takes
the entire police force of New York
and the military and naval forces of
the state to do it,
The mayor, apparently regarding
the strike as inevitable, announced he
hdu OotoihCo a Adi 8 e HuiHOcT VI dutO
trucks and sightseeing buses to
handle traffic, and appealed to citizens
who own motor cars to employ them
for transporting workers to and from
their work.
Other Lines May Lack Power.
Employees of Manhattan surface
lines. which are under receivership,
have made no demands, according to
Job E. Hedges, federal receiver, and
are expected to continue at work.
statement issued by Mr. Hedley
tonight, however, indicated that the
green line one of the largest sur
face lines in Manhattan, and the Man
hattanQueens line would be serious
power. These lines receive their
power from the marlborough power
houses
The portion of the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company subway and ele-
waited system running into Manhattan
also uses Interborough power, he
said, and probably will be crippled, if
not tied up, as result of the strike.
Injunction Not Speedy.
The Injunction suit by which it is
hoped to end the strike, or to make it
less effective, will allege that the
brotherhood violated contract call
ing for arbitration of all differences.
1t was stated by Mr.. Burr, however.
that the injunction will not affect any
individual official of the brotherhood
until he has been personally served
and the serving of processes is ex-
pected to be long and tedious pro-
cedure.
Ofhcials of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation of Street and Electric Rail-
way Employees, which recently won a
strike victory on the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company lines, were busy
enrolling employees of the INTERIOR
ough tonight and a fight between the
two unions may complicate the strike
situation. 1t was intimated that the
amalgamated members would con-
brotherhood's power.
The public service commission an.
nounced it had obtained promise.
from the New York Central Long Is.
land and New York. New Haven anc
Hartford railroads. as well as severa
steamboat lines. that extra seryic.
would be furnished
Conference a Failure.
Eleventh-hour efforts made at a con
ference late today to avert the strik,
proved futile. At o'clock, the hon,
set by the Interborough Brotherhood
for satisfactory reply to its ultima
tum demanding so per cent wap.
increase. the representatives of III,
organization walked out of the con
ference room at the city hall. shou,in.
''Good-bye!'
Officials of the company union,
fostered by the Interborough Rapit
Transit Company and the New Yorl
Railways Company, when questioned
today by District Attorney Swami
denied any understanding between
them and the railway management
and insisted that they had no inter
est in the financial affairs of tn,
companies beyond enforcing their de-
uauo Tor higher wages.