The sun., 1919-08-18
'FRAMEUP' CHARGED
BY AMALGAMATED
Union Leaders Say WalkOut Is
Not a Strike at All, but
Only Collision.
GETTING MORE MEMBERS
Subway and "L" Workers Lose
Jobs for Aiding Rival of
Brotherhood.
GETTING MORE MEMBERS

The Amalgamated Association OF
Street and Electric Railway Employees.
which claims to have enrolled so per
cent. Oh the marlborough and green car
line employees. calls the strike frame
up"
This is not a strike at ALL" Harry
Jones, national organizer of the associa-
ton, said yesterday at Lyceum Hail.
Third avenue and Eighty-sixth street.
at is a deliberate 'walkout' and one OF
the rottenest pieces of business l have
seen during many years as q worker for
the unions.
at is plainly to be seen that there Is
collision between the railroad and the
brotherhood, which is nothing more than
the railroad itself There Is no doubt 1t
Is a frameup."
The Amalgamated Is enlIsting mem
bers at the rate of about 900 day at
Lyceum Hail despite the fact that bull
letins have been posted in all the car
barns of the Jnterborough and New YORK
Railways warning employees II they join
the union, or even II they go to the union
meetings. they will be discharged.
Union Members Lose Jobs,
Yesterday, according to Amalgamated
organizers, 100 subway employees were
dismissed for listening to the union. In
the last three days between 200 and 400
have lost their Jobs for the same reason.
Many OF these were at the meeting
yesterday loudly discussing their griev-
ances Harry Brown. 239 West Fifty
seventh street, who fought in both the
British and American armies during the
war, was one OF the ex-Interborough
men who said he had ben laid of be-
cause he sought TO Join the union.
Brown also told of n conductorette,
May Rose, 162 East 113th street, who
was discharged after eight months ser
vice on the subway because. Brown said,
she had talked to him about the union.
Il. Ehrlich. another former INTERIOR
ough man. said he had lost his Job be-
cause he had been organizing for the
Amalgamated. He Is an ex-delegate OF
the brotherhood and at a meeting of all
the delegates few days ago. Ehrlich
said. General Manager Hedley asked
them II they were willing TO go down to
the Mayors office and recommend an
increase In fare.
Most OF the delegates agreed to do
this. but Ehrllch refused. He was laid
off next day
Says strike Is Hedley's Child.
Union organizers would not say
whether the street car men would 60 out.
In answer to that question Patrick ].
Shea, vice p resident of the Amalga-
mated. said: ITS not our strike. It's
Hedley's ohild--let him take care of it."
A notice was published Saturday on
all of the bulletins of green car barns
signed by the president and secretary OF
the brotherhood. informing employees of
the green car lines that Job E Hedges.
the receiver, had agreed TO grant n 10 per
cent. increase pending the adjustment
Of a new wage scale and that the
brotherhood had asked him to discharge
any employee seeking to disrupt the or
ganization by going over to the Anal
gamated.
Union organizers charged that pickets
of the marlborough company were
posted around Lyceum Hall to take the
names Of subway and elevated railway
men visiting the union meetings there
About 1000 motormen and conductors
on strike went to the meeting yesterday
Most OF them signed applications and
paid 81 to Join the union.