New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-13
II asst N. Y. Trains
Are Hours Late;
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Hardly an Erie Train on Time
On the Erie hardly train left or ar
rived on time in Jersey City, inquiries
at the station showed last night. The
incoming delays averaged apparently
twenty minutes, little longer than
those on the outbound service. The
difficulty was attributed largely TO the
fact that engineers arc refusing to run
the passenger locomotives, which h~ye
been in service since the beginning OF
the strike without the customary over
hauling. Freight engines are being
substituted but this change has, in the
first place, mades it impossible for the
trains to keep up to passenger travcl
speed, and, in the second place, made 1T
necessary to cut freight hauling to less
than half it's former proportions.
Unconfrmed rumors indicated that
freight traffic was practically at a
standstill on the western portion of the
line
The most serious delays on the Erie
yesterday, when an engine on the
Northern New Jersey branch broke
down just outside Of homestead. block
ing four other trains which came along
behind The first train wac finally
pushed into Croxton yards by the sec
ond but before the congestion could
be relieved delay Of more than an
hour had been caused and some 5000
commuters held up.
Definite information was lacking as
to conditions on the Long Island, but
the unions asserted that the crack train
Of the line, the so-called "Wall Street
Special" which leaves Hampstead at
1894 a. M, was forty-fve minutes late
Monday Other inconvenience to COM
mutcrs on this line were referred to by
the unions but without defniteness.
On the Lackawanna the Chicago and
New York express was fifty minutes
late, but otherwise the train service
appears to have been normal yesterday.
To Get Worse, Strikers Say
The statements given ont at strike
headquarters here yesterday we're in
tended to indicate that the situation
was likely to grow worse rather than
mend, and that at a rapid rate.
In the Erie shops in Jersey City,
according to the strike committee,
thirty strikcbrcakers knocked off sat
urday and 102 more yesterday. leaving
less than 100 on the Job. On the DEF
soy Central some 200 maintenance
workers failed TO show up yesterday
morning after receiving their first pay
at the new ate Tuesday. On the New
haven sixteen LOGON olives are tied up
fol- lack of repairs at the Harlem River
r0unahouse and nineteen electrical en-
gines At Stamford.
The New Haven reported complete
success in keeping up normal traffic,
and the Pennsylvania and Long Island
made similar claims. The latter called
attention to the running Of several
and the former to the addion of a new
extra Sunday school excursion trains
train to it's schedules as an indication
OF the ease with which they were meet
ing the situation. Lockawanna officials
denied that the roads shops had been
crippled by the walkout. and the Le-
high Valley and Jersey Central an
nounced STEADY improvement
Cheered by Harding's Stand
President Harding's proclamation de-
nouncing interference with interstate
commerce and the mails was greeted
with applause by the railroad execu-
yves, but the union chiefs described.
1T as unnecessary, after defining its
meaning as they understood it.
The President mentions our indis
putable right to decline to work We
assume. therefore, that he did not
mean In other parts of the document
to impute illegality to our refusal to
work; even If mail trains should be
annulled as a direct result of our re-
fusal to work" the strike leaders de-
ciared in statement issued yesterday
morning.
I'm so far as the President refers to
1 acts of violence we heartily concur.
Inc proclamation was unnecessarv as
lar as we are concerned"
Of acts of violence only one instance
was reported near here yesterday. An
Erle car inspector was struck on the
neaa WIN brick in the company's
Jersey City yards. An alleged striker
was arrested for the assault, but only
after offering serious resistance to be-
ing taken into custody.