New-York tribune., 1922-07-02
Trains Here
Are Delayed
By Walk-Out
CONTINUED from paoc one,

lay notices in Grand Central terr,in al
last evening. The vast concourse was
packed with waiting travellers.
The Port Authority of New Yor.
issued brief statement carly in the
day, in which it was said that meas.
ures previously arranged to nrotec,
the city's food supply would be made
effective at once Federal government,
cooperation in all necessary measure:
has been promised.
A series of special police order.
missioner John A. Leach yesterday
shortly after noon. Patrolmen on va
cations are ordered to keep in touch
with their precincts; all inspectors are
required to remain in their districts
day and night. A plan for an emer
gency force prepared to 60 into actor
at moments notice was prepared b,
Chief Inspector William j. Lahey
GUARDS were placed at all railroad
power houses and extra men were or
dered in for duty at all precincts nea,
points of possible trouble.
Over 1900 Are Out
Ofhcial statements were issued dur,
ing the day by all railroads, which ad,
mtted that the strike of shopmen was
e%tenslve.' The roads repeated THEN
promise to maintain normal schedules
and intimated that measures had beer
taken to guarantee this result. The
roads refuse to commit themselves as
to the number Of men affected. The
unions claim 100 per cent strike. A
round figure estimate places the mum.
ber of men out in the New York dis.
trict at between II 600 and 10000.
The first reported walkout came from
the Erie officials, who said that almost
the full force of the Jersey City shops
Of the Erie had gone out at 10 o'clock
The Erie reported two hundred locomo.
tives ready for service in reserve and
ample freight cars to supply summe,
traffic. The statement added that the
labor market is glutted with skilled
workers.. and the inference is given
that if the ,shopmen persist in staying
out their places will be quickly filled
There are approximately 5000 men en-
ployed in the various Erie shops, all
Of them supplied by outside contrac.
tors.
There was general exodus from,
both the plants of the Long Island
Railroad. Officials in g statement is.
sued at noon said that Several hun.
dred men" had gone out. More serious
difficulty was indicated by defections
in the electrical department of the
road and among signalmen. A general
walkout of electrical signalmen would
seriously affect all the roads entering
Manhattan and would make it exceed.
lngly difficult to maintain service
approx!mating normal on Long Island
side were almost entirely deserted
Car inspectors at Greenville and Wa.
verify, N. j., walked out, and there was
general exodus from the Meadow
shops at Hoboken and the Waldo Ave
nue. plant in Jersey City.
The Lackawanna announced a com
plete tie-up of its shops.
Roundhouse men employed by the
Lehieh Valley at Jersey City went out
The Lehigh also reported the detection
Of timers at its Jersey City plant
This branch comes under the "mainte
nance of way" classification, which wa:
supposedly outside the influence Of the
present strike
New York Central employees at Mot
Haven and New York, New Haven and
Hartford shopmen at the variou.
Bronx shops and yards responded e
the strike call in body. The striker:
at the Mott Haven yards include Z
number OF electrical workers, Cal
cleaners and car inspectors.
Thirty special trains were sent ou,
from the Grand Central Terminal Z
cope with the unprecedented volume O.
holiday traffic, in addition to the regu
larly scheduled trains. This rush Of
greatly. The Twentieth Century Limit
ed was dispatched on time, but Other
trains were delayed.
A labor bureau calling itself tht
Williams Industrial System, operating /,
the basement of a private house at S0f
East Fifty eighth Street, engaged 1900
men to work as strike breakers on the
Southern and Western roads, according
to a statement by it's manager las'
night Applicants were promised tina
they would not be exposed to danger
and offered double union rates for ser
vice as long as the strike should last
with board oar and lodging. This organi
zation will send the men recruited yes
terday to Columbus, Ohio, and to New
Orleans, it was said. The bureau alsc
plans to place 1000 men in Chicago
shops. The operations we're conducted
with muc hsecrecy.
New York Central Optimistic
Officials Of the New York Central, in
statement summarizing conditions UP
to 6 o'clock last night, insist that the
strike has only been partially effective
on its system. "The employees Of the
shopcrafts who quit their duties to-
DAY IN response to the strike call were
distinctly in minority, taking the
New York Central as a whole" the
statement says. "The extent of the
walkout varied widely at different
points, the forces remaining at work
without single detection at some
points. Small groups left ct numerous
places, while at few engine terminals
and at some of the smaller shops all
but the foreman and others of the su-
pcrN isory forces went on strike. Shop
operations were continued on q good
scale at every one of twenty odd differ
ent points and at not single shop was
work entirely stopped"
The delay in dispatching from the
Grand Central Terminal. the staten ent
says, was due to the sudden quitting Of
car inspectors, air brakcmen and others
having to do with the makeup and in
spectlon Of passenger trains. Other
men, it is explained, were in waiting tt
take the places of the strikers, but
there was an unavoidable delay in tran
sltlon Of the outgoing and incoming
forces, and this reacted on the service
Officials of all roads agree that no true
estimate of the extent Of the strike
could be made until to-day, because the
men work in three shifts and the re-
suits of the strike up to last night
could not include more than two.thjrd s
OF the employees subject to the call.
New Haven Trains Delayed
New York Central officials faal ,,..