New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-08
Roads Call for
Police to Curb
Strike Violence
Carriers Say Union Pickets
Are Intimidating Men at
Work and Threatening 10
Burn Employees Homes
Coaches Are Damaged
Employers Will Be Brought
TO Terms in Two Weeks,
Local Headquarters Saws

Violence and sabotage on a small
scale became factor yesterday for the
| first time in the situation created in
this section by the strike of the rail
road shopmen, which began week ago
to-day At the same time the pickets
thrown around local shops by the
unions in regular eight-hour shifts be-
came so active in discouraging loyal
employees and strike breakers from con-
tinuing work that several of the car
riers found themselves compelled TO
complain to the authorities that suffi-
cient protection was not being given
by the police to their present work
men. The charge was made that the
strikers are threatening to burn the
homes of those who are taking their
places.
Only one instance of sabotage caused
actual inconvenience to the travelling
public yesterday. This was the slash
ing and practical destruction some time
before daybreak of the. airbrake con-
nections of some forty West Shore
coaches parked for the night on a
siding at Dumont, N. j. Some CON
fusion was caused by the necessity of
| handling the early committing traffic
without these cars. As yet no arrests
have been made
Arrest Two for Assault
In this city two former Pennsylvania
electricians we're arrested early vester-
day on charge of assauting one of
the company's shopmen while on his
way. to work in the Long Island Rail
road tunnel. They were fined s25 each
by Magistrate Sweetser in Yorkville
Court
In Stamford striking electrician
YVES held for hearing Monday on a
charge Of tampering with the brake
valves of train.
In support Of the statement that eco
nomic forces will give the strikers the
victory this month the leaders called
attention to the Interstate Commerce
Commissions estimate that 100000
cars were in bad order during the first
eour months of this year, as against
$4,000 during the same period in 1921
and $4,000 in 1920. Alongside these
statistics they placed the estimated
number of carloadings for the week
ended June "a, the most recent figures
available. and showed that these to-
" o. toco. VI oHiy Oo,uUU snort OIL
the record. Figures for the first week
Of each month of this year were Of
fered to show that there has been
steady and rapid increase in the num-
Der of lcadings.
"This means" the statement con-
| cludes, "that the railroads cannot af-
ford to let repair shops lie idle for
any length of time; that they cannot
find men to take the strikers places,
and that they must settle with us or
| bust.
Unions Do Not Fear Reprisals
"The threats of the companies to
take our seniority and pension rights
away are just a matter of form. When
strikes are settled these things are al
ways settled too"
The principal gain reported by the
union leaders yesterday was the defec-
/ ton Of $50 Lackawanna shopmen at
Kingsland, N. j. They also gave out
figures indicating that of 443 foremen
in local shops 251 have joined the
strikers, thereby making it doubly diff
ficult for the carriers to build up a
new force.
| Most important of the other develop
ments in the situation here yesterday
was the claim made at strike headquar-
ters that one of the carriers has al
ready made overtures to its company
union for separate peace. The name
of the railroad was not given out. The
union officials would only say that the
offer of negotiations had been turned
down in accordance with instructions