New Britain herald., 1926-07-06
Underground Motor men And Switchmen, In Alleged Outlaw" Walkout, Fail to Grip pie Transportation.
New Crews Operating Trains and Emergency Measures Are Believed Capable of Handling Crowds.

New York, July 6 GP-Trains arc
 still rolling today in the subways Of
 New York.
 Despite a wage strike of under ground motormen and switcbmen
 who seeded from the union recop-
 nized by the Interborough Rapid
 transit company, operators of New
 Aorhs principal sUbways. the city's | millions were transported to their i oHices with only small delay. With almost every train operated by new men, largely imported from other cities, service was slowed. but service continued.
 A few of the larger stations were badly crowded at the morning rush | hour (partly due 10 the strike and partly to rain and returning holiday | players) but after that underground passengers were taken care of ade- quately.
 The strikers claimed recruits from the Peterborough elevated lines. not affected by the original strike order. but company officials said only three
 IT. men had left their posts.
 Brooklyn service was largely abandoned but traffic in BroolSIvn was handled by the Brooklyn-Man- haitian subway, not affected by the strike.
 Some express trains were being operated at l5 minute intervals in- stead or the usual three-minute headway. The local" service. where stops were made at every sta ton, was faster than the express svs- tem.
 No Violence Reported
 No violence was reported Nearly 1000 policemen were assigned at he strategic traffic points to maintain order and blue coats were on every train guarding the crews.
 Thousands of persons on their way to work, anticipating delays. forsook their usual underground routes and took elevated lines buses. railroad trains and trolleys. This caused overcrowding above the ground but made the task of the subway system much easier.
 Rain, which always drives New Workers underground by the thous- ands, added to the subway problem. The bad weather and the influx of returning vacationists to the Penn- Sylvania and Grand Central railroad terminals, damned subway plat forms and greatly increased moral congestion.
 Stations damned
 The stations were the most trou- ble was experienced were at Canal street, the Pennsylvania. the Grand Central and the 125th street stops. Canal street is the junction of the I. k. T. and the Brooklyn and Man hattan Transit lines. The morning flood of Brooklyn residents coming to work on the B. M. T., the only line now operating Into Brooklyn. was dumped in q continuous stream which the Interborough lines found difficult to assimulate.
 Many passengers left the Inter borough platforms when they saw the crowds and took to troreys, busses, elevated trains, or hailed passing motorists for q lift.
 95 Per Cent Reported Out
 Officials of the striking union on- nounccd that 95 per cent of all mo- tormen and switehmen on the I. R T. were on strike. Al the Harlem 200 of the strikers gather- ed to hear reports of a subway check made by strike agents.
 They were kept in an uproar of laughter by accounts of experiences on the part of strike breakers. who hey were told were stopping trains 1t the wrong places. trying to start lp with airbrakes on, and making other similar errors. It was said hat one train was almost reported lost" when a new motorman had rouble with the emergency cord and was unable to move his train Tor 10 minutes while between two stations.
 One striker reported that in ,heck of eleven trains he found that 10 were operated by strike breakers md the other by a former employ ot the l. R. T. who had been dis after q rear end collision.
 Interborough officials issued statement during the morning as- 'erting that service was being main- aimed 75 Der cent Of normal. Strike organizers, said that investigation oy them showed that only 10 per 'ent Of tho usual number or trains vas being run and that by night all this would be cut to five per 'ent.
 Albert Goldman, commissioner of 'lant and structures. who was en- trusted with municipal plans for meeting the situation. announced hat the congestion was caused hy vacationists and not by he strike.
 Emergency Ferries.
 He said that it had been found 10 use q fleet of emer- eney ferry boats from 12sth street O Cortland street and that extra 'usses brought to the downtown sec ion had been returned to their reg lar runs.
 He said that zoo buses many