The sun., 1919-03-18
BOTH SIDES WIN
IN NEW JERSEY
TROLLEY FIGHT
Employees Virtually Gain
Their Point of Union
Recognition.
SERVICE RESUMED 4 A. M.
Statement Made by McCarter
Arouses Carmen--Another
Storm May Be Brewing.

Trolley service in northern New Jersey
VIII be resumed at o'clock this morn
ing. all the locals of the union having
ratined yesterday the agreement nur-
Vested on Sunday by the War Labor
board ana accepted by the Public Ser
resentatives. But Judging from the NAV
OF neat lightning over union headquar-
ters In Newark last night there NAV be
another storm gathering.
lhad some OF the union leaders them
selves did not fully understand the
asreement they had approved, although
charlton Ogburn. the Federal conciliator.
seemed TO have won their entire conf
dence, was evident yesterday morning.
Among the Newark conductors and mo-
tormen there was such a strong sus-
picion that their principal fighting point.
complete recognition Of the union. had
not been gained that Il took nearly two
hours for James II. Valley, general coun-
sci for the Amalgamated Association of
street and Electric Railway Employees,
ana union leaders to win the Newark
local to ratification in n noisy meeting
As soon as the strikers In the other
cities got the word that their Newark
comrades. who form the largest organi-
zation in the State. had o. KID the COM
pact and decided to return to work this
morning all the others followed suit.
McCarter Issues Statement.
Late in the afternoon a published
statement from Thomas n. McCarter,
president of the Public Service Cor
poration and its subsidiaries, including
the street railway companies. reached
William Wepner. the Amalgamated
state president and leader of the strike.
In few minutes strikers were calling
up from everywhere ASKING wepner II
he had seen Mr.. McCarter's statement.
A meeting of the conference commit
tee OF heads OF all the locals was called
Immediately; It lasted until late last
night. Its object was the preparation
OF a reply to the company's president
and an Interpretation of the agreement
that had been signed.
From their meeting place in the Ord
way Building the conference committee
tried to communicate with President Nc
Carter and ask him to withdraw his
statement. He was out of town. Strike
Leader Wepner then had a telephone
talk with Edmund w. Wakelee, vice
president of the company. after which
the feelings of the strikers seemed
soothed. Mr.. Wepner said he would
issue a statement to-day interpreting the
settlement as the men see it.
The trouble with Mr.. McCarter. from
the standpoint Of the strikers. was that
he said the settlement was upon the
exact terms offered by the company
before the men went OUT He did not
say in so many words that It was a
great victory for the company. but
the strikers SO construed his intent.
As the leaders had been telling the
men all day that the great victory was
on their side. that the company was
licked" and would deal with the union
hereafter. the agitation produced by Mr..
McCarter's summary of the terms is
comprehensive.
In the formal proposal offered by Mr.
Ogburn. Arthur Sturgis and William p.
Harvey, representing the War Labor
Board. to the Public Service Railway
Company and Strike Leader Wepner. the
first suggestion was that the company
and its employees adopt the ruling on
collective bargaining made by Chairman
William II. Taft and Basil II. Manly of
the War Labor Board in the Omaha
case.