New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-06
Trench Tactics
Feature Shop
! Strike i'm City
Day. Unmarked by Violence,
Brings Maze of Conflicting
Claims ON Desertions and
Recruits TO Walk Out
Threats Laid to Union
B. r. t. and Edison Co.
Begin Supplying Power
for Long Island Trains

for Long Island Trains
Tyench warfare continued the rule in
are railroad shipments strike here yes
,erday devoid Of incident. but marked
sy optimistic and uniformly conflicting
,nlIetins from both parties to the test
!, strength While the companies
we're announcing that the back ot the
s,r;ke had been broken, that marked
srift back to work was noticeable
among the men and that skilled ne
ebapics were applying wholesale for
the places of the strikers. the union
leaders declared with equal confidence
that, although some two dozen men mad
.oandcned the walk-out more than COO
recruits were obtained for the strike
Yesterday and that the more new men
me railroads succeed in hiring, the
scorer The unions will win out.
aJast let these men that they are
: taking on monkey with the engines and
rolling stock for couple of days and
Che lines will realize that they cent
get along without our men, was the
wsy one delegate deprecated the com
NAMES boast that the places of the
strikers were being filled in record
time.
Another delegate summed up his
opnions of the new employees by cit
inc the example of strike of ais
machinsts in Indiana, IN which the
railroads found it necessary to hire
more than 1900 strike breakers to keep,
the shops going for three weeks.
Digest of Situation
A digest of the situation reported
BY the railroads shows that the Penn
syiyania Yesterday followed the lead
Of the Long Island in announcing that
no more new employees were needed;
that the New Haven now has ,401 on
the first shift of $500 in its shops,
shift which shared with the other $500
New Haven shipment in so per cent
walk out; that in the Jersey Central
shops at Elizabeth 800 strikers re-
turned to their posts; that the 9S per
cent walk-out on the Erie has been
counteracted by the taking on. of 500
new men by the Erie contractors; that
the Lackawanna has hired 250 new men
and made arrangements with the
American Locomotive Company to ham
die the railroads repair work IN it's
Schenectady plant, and that some GOO
men were taken on here yesterday for
service on Southern and Western lines.
Two other claims were made by rail-
road officials yesterday. One was that
Large number of the strike breakers
taken on by the Long Island are former
New York, Ontario & Western shop
men who have gone back on the unions
the charge made by H. b. Voorhees,,
Ohio and official spokesman of the
Railway Managers' Associati on, that
the fears of non-striking shopmen are
being proved upon by strikers threat
enng to burn their homes.
No Violence Reported
No violence was reported in this sec
ticn yesterday, and the union leaders
made light of Mr.. Voorhees, attack
They also mnimized the railroads
statements as to the ease with which
trains had been kept on schedule for
the last five days, asserting that the
companies were compllmentlng, not
themselves, but the efficiency of the
men now on strike, who had put the
rolling stock in such condition as to
permit uninterrupted traffic.
The strike leaders said that practi-
cally the entire force at the Pennsyl-
yania-Long Island power house in Long
Island City had Joined the walk-out,
and asserted that the power for the
electrified sections of these lines was
now being supplied largely by the Edi-
son company and the B. r. T. No &C
ton was taken yesterday on this en-
ployment of outside power, and it was
admitted that inasmuch as the Edison
company has the open shop it is i'm
probable that anything can be done
about the current alleged to be coming
from that source.
One fatality which possibly may have
been result of the strike was report
ed Yesterday from the Van Nest shops
Of the New York, New Haven & Hart
Iofd, where Herman letter, of 80
farkvlile Avenue, was electrocuted by
touching the live wires above an cleo
uic crane which he was oiling The
company would not say whether he was
regular employee, and it is thought
ne may have been strike breaker
ignorant of the electrical arrangements
in the shop.