Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-06

reports Of i subway check made BY
strike agents.
They were kept in an nproar Of
laughter by accounts Of alleged green:
ness', on the part OF substitutes who.
they were told. were stopping trains
at the wrong places, trying to start
with air brakes on. and making other
similar errors. 1t was said that one
train was almost reported lost"
when q new motorman had trouble
with the emergency cord and was I'M
able to move his train for 10 minutes
while between two stations.
New Men ON Trains.
One striker reported that in check
of IL trains he found that 10 were
operated by new men and the other by
O former empicye of the /. r. T., who
had been discharged after q rear-end
collision.
Albert Goldman, commissioners OF
plant and structures. who was In
trusted with municipal plans for meet
Ing the situation, announced that the
only congestion was caused by re-
turning vacaticnists and not by the
strike.
He said that It had been found
unnecessary to use fleet of emergency
ferry boats from l29th street 10 cort-
land street, and that extra buEs6e
been returned 10 their regular runs.
He said that 200 bussesy many from
out of town, were held in readiness
for emergency use. but that as vet
no condition that could be called an
emergency had manifested itself.
The Jerome avenue ear harms or
the /, r.. T.. in the Bronx were being
used to house workers brought from
out Of town. Flooring was laid over
the tracks and cots were put In.
Large supplies of food were stored
there and preparations made for
serving meals. !.
Guards patrolled outside aIldtit was
planned to meet all the mems needs
without having them so onto the
streets. s4s
It was announced during the morn
Ing at the strikers meeting that
George Dunn, vice chairman OF Local
No. ! Of the Brotherhood Of Inter.
borough Employees, which includes
motornen and swftchmen on the
Second and Third avenue elevated
lines, had quit his job and joined the
strikers, It was said that a group
Of his fellow employees had seeded
to the new union with Dunn, but tiie
number Of the secessionists was not
given.
1000 Reported on Strike.
The strike, called for higher wages,
went into effect at midnight. The
strikers newly formed union, the
Consolidated Railway Workers OF
Greater New York, claims member
ship OF 704 Of the 752 motormen and
sWitchmen OF the marlborough Rapid
Transit Co. The strikers also de-
clared their forces had increased to
1000 through the addition of other
employees.
Interborough ohicials brought 400
motormsn from Boston,. Philadelphia
and Chicago to take the places Of the
strikers. A special train left Chicago
for this city, with some recruits and
with additional men waiting to be
picked up at cities on the way.
The Interborough elevated linea
running up and down Manhattan
were not. affected when the strike
began and there was no indication
| that they would be. But the New
| Yorker takes the fast subway unless
the IT, = more convenient
higher Scale Demanded.
The strikers, who bottled from this
Brotherhood OF Interborough En-.
plcyes, the company union. to form
the new organization, demand q Nat
| rate of 81 per hour for motormen and
| rs cents an hour for switchmen, APP
proximately q 20 per cent increase
All men work seven days In the week
Motornlen are paid from $3s.64 to
I 1852 per week; switchmen from
/ $82.4s to $S4.16. During the strike
the company II paying s1 per hour
/ and expenses.
1 The 1witchmen's duties ara Il
bring the trains from the yards ia
the starting points on the runs. and
take them back to the yards aftel
1 the runs.
w. ]. Coleman. national organize
OF the Anialgamated Association b.
Street and Electric Railway I'm.
ployes, an organiSati Ion which I'll,
tuterhorough drove from New Yori
10 days ago. has come TO town.
The Brocklyn- Manhattan Tranei
CO., which operates ofe subway Il
doWntown Manhattan and hiss extern
sivs lines In Brooklyn, was not AZ.
fected by the strike.
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