New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-18
City Suspends
McCil, Leader
OF Lift Strike
tc..tsusd from sas. ono,

Building will receive surprise to-
morrow morning when they find forty
five of the sixty-three cars in the
building operated by students of New
York University. The students will
continue at work. it was announced at
the. university yesterday, until the
strike is over. The management of the
terday and within an hour there were
scores of applications at the Office of
Dean Charles H. Snow, of the College
of Engineering.
Picked athletes were given first
choice. The men will appear for work
early omorrow morning and will work
in shifts
'In times like this" said DR.. Snow,
when it is the duty Of every man and
woman in the country to bend every
effort toward construction and to make
1t their personal duty to see that there
be no interruption in business efficiency
and progress, it is significant and graft
flying to note the attitude of the col
lege men,"
In the Woolworth and Singer build
ings cars continued to be operated by
won IN yesterday. At the former build
ing tenants expressed their appreci-
alton of the womens service by pre-
senting them with fowers-roses, SUM-
mowers and QalSleS.
The service at the American Express
Company Building, 81 Broadway, was
normal. 1t is understood the EMPLOYEES
IN the building who did not join the
walkout will receive an increase in sal
airy to $50 week
All along Park Row the strike had
perceptibly affected the elevator sery
ice. At IL Park Row. where all of the
regular employees engaged had Joined
toe strike. three employees. carpen-
ter, painter and the superintendent.
were operating elevators. Later in the
day some substitutes were obtained in
addition to these three. At $50 Nassau
Street, where all the operators had quit.
the elevators were run by the starter
and substitutes. Virtually normal
service was maintained
None of the hotels was affected on
the second day of the strike. Thomas
}. McGill, president of the Elevator
Mems Union, said the hotel operators.
VINO nave separate organization. have
applied to his union for admission as
body. but Mr.. McGill announced that
while they may be accepted no strike
would be called at the hotels at this
time.
At the office of the union. 1856. Third
Avenue, it was announced Yesterday
that twenty additional employers have
accepted the unions demands. Among
the buildings where settlements were
effected and the men returned to work.
1T was declared, were 6S6 Broadway. ~
West Fifteenth Street, 100 East
Nineteenth Street, the estate of John
}. Taylor, controlling seven buildings.
and others
McGill announced that more than
| 900 operators joined the union yes
terday. The total membership of the
union now is more than 10000, he said
Mr.. McGill said that beginning Monday
regular picket squads will be sent out
from the central meeting place of the
strikers, 140 Second Avenue, to all the
important buildings.
We Will invade the financial and
other important districts with an army
OF pckets on Monday" said McGill.
They will receive strict orders to
avoid trouble and violence, but will try
to pull out all the men and women now
at work. Let the owners and managers
OF the buildings run their elevators
with so-called -olunteers 1t will be
interesting to-khow how long they can
keep it up"
When informed that the elevators in
the Equitable Building would be run
by college boys on Monday, McGill said.
II don't believe that even educated
'scabs' will help them"
James E. Roach, organizer for the
Anne rican Federation of Labor, CO.
operating in the running of the strike,
said that the A. F. CT L. will back the
strikers to the limit
This STRIKE" said Roach, Gas the
backing of the American Federation of
Labor. The strikers will receive all
the moral and financial support nece.-
sary."
Similar sentiments were expressed
by McGill, Roach and other leaders at
mass meeting of strikers at 14O Sec
ond Avenue. The picket squads were
formed at this meeting There will be
a special squad composed exclusively
of women, whose business it will be to
prevail upon the women operators now