New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-11
Counsel Valley to Repre-.
sent Analgannated at
Farley Agreed Upon i'm
His Plea to Governor
Men ON Walk-Out
= Held Without Bal:
Accused of Stoning Ca.
ON Which Slain YOUTH
Was Passenger; 2OHur:
as Trolley and Bus Crash

An effort to settle the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit strike will be made
by, Governor Smith and Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, when the two
meet in conference Monday at this
Hotel Biltmore. James II. Vahey
of Boston, counsel for the Amalga-
mated Association of Street and
Electric Railway Employees, the
strikers organization, also will par
ticipate in the conference.
Governor Smith agreed to take
a hand in an effort to settle the con-
troversy which has crippled the
transportation lines Of Brooklyn. in
a telegram sent from Albany yes
terday to Mr.. Vahey in Boston.
In his telegram accepting Mr.
Valleys suggestion that he use his
good Offices toward bringing the strike
to an end, Governor Smith expressed
his willingness to meet Mr. Gompers
Nine Strikers Indicted
Nine B. r. T. strikers were indicted
yesterda. for murder in the first de-
gree for alleged participation in this
stoning Of Sea Beach train near the
Fort Hamilton Avenue station, which
resulted in the death of Frederick
friedman, seventeen years DID, a pas
senger.
There was no additional violence on
the part of the strikers during the day.
An accident caused, by collision OF
Fifth Avenue car with a sightseeing
bus at Fifth Avenue and Sixty-eieb9
Street resulted in injuries to twenty
persons, most of them women. Three
women Suffered fractured skulls.
The b. R: T. continued to operate
many of its lines yesterday. Company
officials said that ffty-one surface
lines. with 737 cars. and 1877 subway
and elevated trains, with S98 cars, were
run. The Park Slope surface line be-
gan operation last night for the first
time since the beginning of the strike,
Normal rush hour service on the sur
face lines, Of which there are sixty
seven, is 1900 cars. On the subway
and elevated lines, 215 trains Of 300
cars are normally operated.
Members of the Communist party
continued their propaganda among the
strikers yesterday, exhorting them to
violence and distributing leaflets in
which the leaders of the strike were al
legged to have betrayed the men. The
ieanets called upon the strikers to rise
IN armed force and emulate the Boil
sheylki in Russia. The leaflets were
scattered broadcast at meeting places
OF the strikers, and at subway and
elevated stations. They contained bit
tet ATTACKS upon Judge Mayer and Re-
ceiver Garrison.
The leaflets said in part:
Get ready for armed revolution to
overthrow the capitalist government
ana create workers government-as
your brothers did in Russia.
stop asking merely for little more
wages. Overthrow the dictatorship Of
the capltalist-the present government
OF the United States-and through the
oovlets and the proletarian dictator
and of eveH mil. mine. fac factory %, n rail, !.
States. '''"
The Communist Party Of America
sounds the call for revolution-for the
armed uprising of all the workers.
Strike-yes, but-strike for politi
cal demands strike to overthrow the
capitalist state and abolish wage slav-
cry" '-"'
The leaflets were signed by "the
Communist Party, Local New York
Leaders of the strikers, as well as
the men themselves, scorned the pror,-
uganda Of the Communists as TRAITOR
GUS"
The strikers yesterday placed all
their hopes upon the Forthcoming con-
ference between Governor Smith and
Mr.. Gon1pers. They would not discuss
any particular plan which they NAV
suggest to the Governor for the settle
ment Of the strike. Receiver Garrison
when Informed Of the Governors tele-
gram agreeing to meet Mr. Gompers,
would make no comment.
Patrick S. Shea and other leaders Of
the strikers appeared to be extremely
gratified with the result of Mr.. Mshon's
mission and seemed to be of the opin-
Ion that the Governors action will re-
suit in an agreement satisfactory 70
the men.
Mr.. Shea and Louis Fridiger, counsel
for the union, declared that thew i'm
tend to carry to Mayor Hylan a pro-
test against the alleged manner in
which policemen are oproaching strik-
GAO a"u urging thc2 20 return to W0pe.
Contr G-ctory Claims
Contradictory statements as to the
number Of strikers returning to work
were issued yesterday at the Offices Of
the B. r. T. and from the BROOKLYN
headquarters of the Amalgamated. The
company claimed the strikers were re-
turning at the rate of 175 day. The
union leaders declared that only 1872
men Of the 1900 who struck had re-
turned to work
Surface car traffic over the Williams
burg Bridge was suspended after z
O'Clock last night. The elevated lines
crossing the bridge ran trains of five
to seven cars. AT one time the sale
Of tickets at the Essex Street station
was halted on account Of the jam on
che platforms. The busses operating
across the bridge did a big business.
Elevated trains Of all lines were Old.
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