New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-17
Expect Harding
To Order New
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days each in the workhouse or charges
of disorderly conduct The men were
arrested by Patrolman John n Nc
Laughlin, Of the West Sixty eighth
Street station, who said they had
thrown milk bottles through the win
dows Of the New York Central barge
Buffalo, where strike breakers were
quartered.
Other minor outbreaks were reported
from the Jersey side of the river. Jo-
seph Finn. machinist employed by
the Central Railroad of New Jersey.
reported to the police that the win
dows Of his house in Jersey City had
been broken early in the morning while
he and his family were asleep. Finn
did not go On strike with the other Jer-
sey Central machinists
Peter Comorowski, Lackawanna
fireman, and Joseph Burchanski, an en-
CINE cleaner who is on strike, were in
volved in an argument, in which the
latter was cut slightly. Comorowski
told the police that the cleaner had at
tackled him because he had not gone
out and he had hit Burchanski in self
defense.
Hindus Become Riot Center
Two Hindu laborers who were paid
off by the Erie Railroad on Saturday
| became the center of small riot at
the Erie terminal in Jersey City, where
strikers and their friends were han
ding them roughly. The men were
Aldo HAHN, go East Thirty-seventh
Street, New York, and Marta Gehmaha,
tx Washington Street They said they
had been hired by an employment
agency and had been working on the
Greenwood Lake division of the Erie.
Both were rescued from a ooisterous
mob by the police and held as disor-
derby persons.
Threats that 800 men employed at
the Kingston shops of the West Shore
and 100 at the Ravina roundhouse
would go out within the next forty
eight hours were reported yesterday to
Parker by John Bergin, the local chair
man at those points. Bergins report
added that 800 men quit the Kingston
shops last week
IN the event Of strike of the way
workers the weakest link in the local
systems, according to Parker, would be
the New York Central viaduct extend
ing from Ninety sixth Street to the
Harlem drawbridge. All trains run
ming into the Grand Central Terminal
use these elevated tracks, and the con-
slant traffic makes constant attention
to the roadbed and the sub-structure
imperative. The results Of twenty
four hours neglect would be discern
IDLE and in q week the structure would
be unsafe, Parker declared.
The effects of the shipments strike
to date have been uneven, the strike
committee comedies in statement is
sued last night, but it is insisted that
all the roads will be equally hard hit
If it continues. The Pennsylvania, &C
cording to the committee, Is in the best
position, and the Erie in the worst;
but the statement adds, "as the Erie
is now the Pennsylvania will be two
weeks from now, if the strike con-
tinues."
Pennsylvania Equipment Better
This inequality" the statement
says, "'has not been due to any differ
ence in the strength or unity Of the
strikers, but to the state Of each roads
equipment when the strike was called
The Pennsylvania equipment for in
stance, has always been maintained
much better than that on the Erie.
Had the cars and engines on the Penn
sylvanla needed repairs as much as
those on the Erie when the strike broke
out, there would be the same deuorali-
cation at Thirty-third Street and Sew
enth Avenue to-day as there is at Jer-
sey City.
But even the best of equipment
eventually needs repairs. The penn
sylvanla rolling stock may collapse
later, but it will collapse just as sure
ly as that on any other road
The New York roads in the order
OF the present state Of their collapse
are as follows: Erie, Baltimore &
Ohio. West Shore, Jersey Central.
Lehigh Valley, New York. New Haven
d Hartford, New York Central, Lacka-
wanna and Pennsylvania.
This order corresponds almost
exactly with the order Of financial
stability and operating efficiency of
these roads in normal times"
Mr.. Parker's claim that the strike of
MAINTENANCE Of way men would
seriously affect the New York Central
viaduct was denied last night by
Miles Bronson, terminal manager for
the New York Central. and superin-
tendent of the electrical division. Mr..
Bronson said any vacancies occurring
IN the track forces would be promptly
filed, and added that the viaduct sec
ton would receive preferred main
tenance treatment. "There will not
be the slightest cause for public con.
Germ on this matter" Mr.. Bronson
said.
Stationary Firemen Out To-day
The fremen and oilers Of stationary
engines in power and engine houses %
out this morning. Both sides were
busy yesterday making contradictory
claims regarding the effect of this
movement upon The situation. The
roads insist the walk-out will ,,aie
little or no difference, saying that ~
the 1000 men affected by the order al
except 200 are already absent fron.
work. Tha pnioRa profess to halisva