New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-15
60 Per Cent of
Stationary Men
Reported Out
Strike Order, Effective Next
Monday, Obeyed Ahead
of Time by s. F. E. o. Men
i'm the Metropolitan Area
1000 Are Affected Here
Shoprnen Greet New Call as
Sign That Rail Labor
Expects Them to Win


ers were felt almost instantaneously
yesterday in the railroad yards and
power plants in the metropolitan dis
trict, although the walk~out is not
formally authorized until Monday. By
nightfall it was estimated that fully
60 per cent of the members of the
union here had quit their jobs, but Of
this number by far the greater por.
ton had gone out through sympathy
with the shopmen long before the
heads of the organization took action
The formal order served merely to
spur an already existing drift, but this
became SO pronounced yesterday that
it is expected that before the hour fol
the walk-out all who are planning to
leave their work will have gone out.
According to union estimates, some
1000 men around New York are af-
fected by the new strike order-700 in
Long Island City, 500 on the New York
Central and the New Haven, and SOC
in northern New Jersey.
At the headquarters Of the striking
shopmen here the report of the acces-
sion to the walk-out was received with
leaders apparently considered the news
important chiefly as an index Of "a
growing confidence ION the part of rail
road labor that the present strike will
be won by the men" and as hint OF
what may soon be expected from the
+ maintenance of way workers. They
declared that the shipments strike is
being watched by railroad employees
throughout the country as test of ac-
ton, and that the decision Of the sta
tionary firemen shows that these in.
terested observers, in close touch with
the situation, are becoming convinced
that the carriers can be beaten.
"The real significance of this move,
strike call, "lies in what it portends
Exactly the same tide of informal
walk-outs is rising among the main
tenance of way workers. 1t will sweep
the way men over into a formal strike
just as surely as the walk-ou among
the firemen resulted in Healy's order
Press reports to-day indicate that the
pressure on President Cradle almost
has reached the breaking point.
1--WE estimate that the strike order
for Monday will pull out 500 or 600
more of these key men than have al
ready gone out"
Companies Say No More viii Go
In this last conjecture the company
executives would not concur. They de-
clared that by this time all the firemen
who are going have gone, and went on
TO deprecate the Importance Of the
firemen's walk-out in general. The
unions replied that the Lackawanna
yards were tied up for an hour and a
half by failure of the compressed air
to operate the switches at 1880 Thurs
day evening and that the Erie ex-
perienced similar difficulties earlier in
the week. Such break downs, they de-
clared, will become increasingly COM
mon now that the stokers, whose fires
supply the energy to compress the air
have been called out.
Important among, yesterdays devel
strike was the union assertion that the
New Haven has been added to the list
Of roads whose service is being i'm
paired by desertion of the repair men
Hitherto almost no delays have been
experienced on this line except dur
ing storms, but yesterday the strike
leaders declared that the State of
Maine Express was an hour and ten
minutes late, the Boston Express, due
at 1:H p. m, an hour late, and the
Boston Express, due at 2:31, an hour
and twenty minutes late. Other de-
lays running as high as half an hour
trains coming in after.4 o'clock.
On the New York Central the situa-
ton appeared as serious as on the two
preceding days, with the first section
Of the Twentieth Century forty min
utes late, the second section fifty min
utes, the Hudson River Limited forty
minutes, the Detroiter an hour, the At
lantic Express an hour and fifty min
utes, the New York Limited two hours
and thirtyfive minutes and the Chicago
Express an hour and twenty minutes
B. & o. Express Four Hours Late
The strikers also reported the Balti-
more Ohio New York Express four
hours behind schedule, and asserted
that on Thursday considerable incon-
venience was caused to Lackawanna
passengers by the breakdown Of two
engines on incoming evening trains.
Otherwise there were few important
strike developments in this section
yesterday. Such statements as were
issued by the roads showed no increase
Or falling off in the carriers confidence
and determination and unanimously
reported slight improvement.
Headquarters of the I'd Army Corps
on Governors Island denied the receipt
of any communication from Washing
ton as to the use of Federal troops TO,
strike duty. The unions declared that
SO far as the soldiers were concerned
they would not besneeded
United States Marshal Hecht ap.
piled to the Attorney General for au.
thority to swear in 500 special deputies
to protect the mails and interstate
freight in the southern New York dis.
trict and announced that although he
expects no trouble he will be prepared
as soon as action is taken upon his
request in Washington to put 200 OF
these new men into service on twenty.
four hours notice. Port Jervis, Har.
mon, Middletown, Maybrook, Pough.
keepsie and White Plains probably will
be the danger points if the strikers be.
come belligerent, according to MI
Hecht.
In New Jersey Marshal Mulheror
added fifty new deputies to the thirty.
fiye whom ne swore in Thursday.
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