New-York tribune., 1920-08-31
City Baffled
By'W Walk-Out
In Brooklyn
1,5OO Buses and Extra
River Craft Unable to
Cope With Crowds to
and From Manhattan
81 IL and Subway j
Trains Operated
Union Leaders to Appeal
to /. r. T. and New York
Railways Men to Quit

|, The strike of the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit employees was 80 per cent
effective yesterday. Sixty-one sub
way and elevated trains carried on
the only service maintained by the
company. Officers predicted hourly
improvement in those branches, how
ever, and expected to send out 500
surface cars late to-day or to-mor-
row.
James Sheridan, a strike leader.
addressing a union meeting in
Brooklyn, declared that soon the
strike might spread to Manhattan
and the Bronx, as P. j. Shea, of the
unions executive committee, and
Louis Fridiger, its attorney, were
comforting with employees of the
1nterborough and the New York
Railways Company concerning q
sympathetic strike.
II hope in a few days." he said,
that the whole City of New York
will be tied up as tight as Brooklyn
is tonight"
His statement concerning the
probability of sympathetic strike
on this side of the East River was
denied by Shea. Shea declared that
he had been in consultation with
members of the Brotherhood of New
York Railways Company Employees,
but only as to unionizing the en-
ployees. The proposition Of a sym-
pathetic strike was not discussed, he
said, nor were any representatives
of the 1nterborough brotherhood
present.
The Public Service Commission be-
gan hearings in an investigation of tlsa
trouble. Receiver Lindley NJ. Garrison
spoke for the company and Patrick ].
Shea, vice-president of the Amalgamat-
ed Association of Street and Electric
Railway Employees of America. for the
strikers. Beyond airing charges and
counter charges, nothing definite tow.
ard adjusting the controversy was ac-
compllshed. The hearings will be con.
tinued to- day
Hylan Seeks Arbitration
Mayor Hylan continued his efforts ia
settle the strike on his own account
requesting Federal Judge Julius M
Mayer to modify his stand with regard
to arbitration. This the judge refused
RI Id \
meet the union heads because thew had
broken their contract with the com
pany.
mere were comparatively few acci.
dents or acts of violence Evidences Of
sabotage, however, cropped out, and
arrests were made
Sherldan's announcement concernino
the likelihood of sympathetic strike
IN Manhattan and the Bronx was made
at meeting in union headquarters.
brooklyn Labor Lyceum, Myrtle and
wliioughby avenues. The 1900 men
at the meeting received it with wild
cheers and threw their hats into the
air
we don't want to inconvenience the
pubilc,'' said Sheridan, who presided.
but were going to win this strike. Bv
tomorrow we may know whether there
is to be sympathetic strike"
Ihere was more cheering and hat
throwing at this, but the approving
yells took on belligerent tone when
Sheridan proceeded to read a letter he
had received from the Brooklyn Cham
Der of Commerce. That BODY took the
union to task for calling a strike. de-
cIarlng that IT was a violation of it's
agreement with the company and a re-
pudiation OF the principle of collective
bargaining, for which it pretended To
be fighting.
The Chamber of Commerce urged tbe
men to return to work and submit the
points in dispute to arbitration by
Mayor Hylan and Judge MAYER. who
appointed the receiver for the lines.
City-wide Tie-op Predicted
.,,, Yah, Yah, YAH" howled the audience.
Well never go back"
We won't go back till we've won
the strike" Sheridan amended. "But
we're going to win, for we've cot tss
road tied up now"
After the meeting he said that he
mad received information that the mem
bers of the Interborou~h Brothcrhood
were dissatisfied and ripe for a str;s.
that would tie up the subway and eIe-
yated lines IN Manhattan and the
Bronx. He thought that the surface
car men would DO likewise.
These statements were fatty cortr.
dicted by Shea He said that ths aa
ference at the Hotel Continental deal,
solely with project to dissolve tho
brotherhood of the New York Rail
ways Company employees and enrol,
its members inn the Amalgamated As.
sociation of Street and Electric Rail.
way Employees of America. the or-ar-
;5ation which called the strike IN
Brooklyn. IN
mere was no strike proposition nm
a. the conference" he said. "We .orp
lelrsd with members of the brother
no noou OF tne New York Railways Com.
pany about Iaipipn h. ~Ssh~