The New York herald., 1922-07-10
Rail STRIKERS CHEER
DROPPING OF TRAINS
Union Leaders Say Other
Roads Will Be Forced
to Follow Erie.
COAL SHORTAGE BUNK
N. Y. Central Suspends
Brakemen Who Refuse to
Repair Brake Hose.
TRAINS DOUBLED UP TOO
Men Appeal to Commuters,
Saying Cut Makes Pay
Only ST., a Year.
TRAINS DOUBLED UP TOO

The cancellation this morning by the
Erie Railroad of twenty-one trains on
New York and New Jersey divisions
was attributed by the road executives
to a coal shortage. Leaders of the
railroad shopmen's strike, on the other
hand. said it was the first cleancut
Nothing in the East compared with
the reported disorders from the West,
necessltating the calling out of troops
to thwart more serious disturbances. al
though guards at the Erie shops in
Hornell and the Lackawanna shops in
Hoboken were armed with riot guns.
A situation regarded as containing
the potentialities Of trouble was reported
to have been created between the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and
the New York Central over the alleged
suspension of three brakemen who re-
fused to install brake hose on the
ground that 1t would be strike breaking.
1t also was reported at strike head
quarters that the employees federation
on the New York Central had filed a
complaint with the Interstate Commerce
Commission that strike breakers in the
Seventy second street yards were not
properly blowing off boiler scale in the
locomotives and that proper inspection
Of staybolts was not being made.
A report reaching strike headquarters
was that certain New York Central
trains, notably Nos. 81 and 20 outgoing,
had been coupled in one unit as a re-
suit of car shortage. Another report
was that twenty-seven maintenance of
way men had quit the Jersey City shops
of the Erie last night and that others
in the Weehawken shops of the Erie and
the West Shore had Joined the strikers
ranks.
Cancellations by the Erie.
The Withdrawals OF trains from the
Erie's New York division. five in all,
and patronized largely by New Jersey
commuters. with the substitution ar
Train 1913, operating between Jersey
City and Paterson. Scheduled stops to
be made by Train lei. (Leaves 8
p. NJ
Train 1877, operating between Jersey
City and Paterson. Scheduled stops to
be made by Train 1875. (Leaves S 80
p. NJ
Train so, operating between Suffern
and Jersey City. Scheduled stops to be
made by Train So. (Leaves 10 A. M
Train 120, operating between Ru-
therford and Jersey City. stops to be
made by Train l54. Leaves $50
A. M
Train ia. operating between Lake.
view and Jersey City. Stops to be made
by Train 10. (Leaves 7:42 A. ny
The other cancellations are
New Jersey and New York Rail-
road-Train 6o4, operating between
Spring Valley and Jersey City; stops to
be made by Train sos. Train 627 be-
tween Jersey City and HillsdaIe stops
by Train s2s. Train 625 will stop at
Anderson street.
Northern Railroad of New Jersey
Train 1105, operating between Jersey
City and Cresskili; passengers to be
handled on Train 1107. Train iii, be-
tween Jersey City and Nyack: passen-
gers handled on Train 1119. Train 1924
between Cresskill and Jersey City !;
stops by Train 1925. Train $40 stops
Nyack and Jersey City; stops by Train
1140.
Greenwood Lake Division-Train
404, between West Orange and Jersey
City. passengers handled on 406 on
Orange Branch and one SOS Forest Hill
to Jersey City. Trains 407 and 41S on
Orange branch annulled. Train 419 be-
tween Jersey City and West Orange,
annulled; passengers handled on train
$50. Jersey City to Forest Hill. Train
537 stopping at Arlington. Train 503
on Caldwell Branch annulled. Train SIS
between Essex Fells and Jersey City !:
stops covered, Great Notch to Jersey
City, by train $40. Train 521. between
Jersey City and Essex Fells stops made
by trains 523 and b25.
New York. Susquehanna 4 Western
Train 933. between Jersey City and
North Paterson; stops covered by train
915. Train 946. between North Paterson
and Jersey City; stops covered by train
s22."