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with %h* new proposals, said: "If Be- !
ceiver Garrison doe? not meet your
committee within the next twenty-four
hours, I say we will have the mem?
bers of the Locomotive Brotherhood
of Engineers, the signalmen and the
toweraen oat with us."
Earnings of $40,500,009
; Hoe? ta? B. B. T. receivership will
tsko th? proposition is a matter of
speculation. When Receiver Garrison
offered the men a 10 per cent raise
over the wages they were getting on
August 1,1919, he pointed out that they
Bad already received a 25 ver cent in?
crease on that date and that in making
tile new offer the company had gone
to the extreme limit in the matter of
wages.
In the year ending Jane 80, 1920,
he declared, the B. R. T. had gross
receipts of $40,600,000 and expended
for wages $24,000,000, or 60 cents on
every dollar taken In.
Judge Mayer's position is that in
ease of any financial awards by a board
"" of arbitration he would have to restrict
the advance to the ability of the com?
pany to pay.
, Officials of the B. R. T. believe they
have broken the backbone of the strike
and are confident that if they can con?
tinue the present progress in adding to
,the transit facilities the strike will
shortly have been won.
- For the first time since the begin?
ning of the strike, surface cars made
their appearance on the streets. Be?
ginning with eight cars at 7 o'clock
in the morning, the number was in?
creased gradually during the day, un?
til at 6 p. m. and* through the rush
hour, the figure reached seventy-seven.
Operation of these cars, however, was
discontinued after 7 p. ra. and will be
resumed at 5 o'clock this morning.
Cars Inclosed in Cages
The cars in many cases were inclosed
in iron and steel cages, or netting, and
the conductors and mot?rmen were pro?
tected against missiles by heavier grat?
ings or gates. Two policemen and oc?
casionally a detective rode on each car.
The cars were well patronised, partic?
ularly during the rush hours, and at?
tempts to interfere with their opera?
tion were few.
They were running over tho Flat
bush and Seventh Avenue, Park Slope,
Fiatbush Avenue and Gates Avenue
lines. Officials declared that hundreds
more were available as soon as police
arrangements for their protection
could be completed.
The elevated and subway trains were
increased to a maximum of 116 two
car trains during the rush hours. This
aoproaches the midday figure of
166 trains run in normal times. The
company heads promised to have tho
subways and elevated lines running on
a completely normul basis within a few
days, or as fast as the new men can be
trained to handle them.
There was a greater outburst of vio?
lence reported yesterday than on any
previous day of the walk-out. One
boy was reported killed as the result
of a riot in Coney Island, where
- strikers stoned a West End train. To
prevent further attacks on Sea Beach
trains, the officials decided to suspend
operation on this line until things
quieted down.
Reports that all the women ticket
agents on the subway and elevated
lines had joined the strikers were
found to be untrue in a tour of the
stations yesterday. It was disclosed
that of the' 1,260 women agents, only
sixty were absent from their posts.
Of these, forty were said by B. R. T.
officials to be ?"rt strike.
Men Losing Enthusiasm
More than 8,000 of the strikers at?
tended last night's meeting in the
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Mayer, Compromise-Proof,
Is Expected to Stand Pat
Past Record of Court Said to Indicate He Will
Not Be Swayed by Conferences When Once
Assured of the Justice of His Ground
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Federal Judge Julius M. Mayer, the
center of contention in the B. R. T.
strike, is of stature entirely dispropor?
tionate to the prominence of the posi?
tion he holds in the public eye. He is
but a few inches taller than five feet
Yet his appearance is not without a
suggestion of strength. .-His broad
shoulders and somewhat heavily built
frame give an impression of immobil?
ity. Once he had dug his toes in he
might be expected to be a hard man to
move in a tug of war.
That is precisely what 4ie is proving
to be in the m?l?e of conferences and
attempted compromises that have grown
out of the walkout. With his judicial
toes implanted firmly in what he con?
siders solid legal ground, he has not
moved an inch from the position he as?
sumed when the union leaders first
carried to him a threat of the contest
three weeks before the final action
taken.
He has come through every confer?
ence, including that with the Mayor
and members of the Board of Estimate
Tuesday, firm in his determination to
reserve for the court the right to ap?
praise the company's financial ability
to meet any awards that might be
made if issues involved were submitted '
to a board of arbiters.
Those closest to Judge Mayer be-1
Heve the only basis upon which the
present tie-up can be ended is the one
he already has outlined. They say the
so-called victory of the union last year
was won through a strike that took the
court entirely by surprise. They
point to a long career of public serv?
ice, singularly free from compromise,
as evidence that he will stand pat in
the present situation.
Judge Mayer is in no wise new to
such controversies. As Attorney Gen?
eral under Governor Higgins the duty
of enforcing the law in the Equitable
case devolved upon him, in 1905. From
that date his political and judicial ca?
reer has been marked by a seires of
contentions.
Judge Mayer is fifty-five years old.
He was graduated from the College of
the City of New York and Columbia
Law School. In 1902 he was appointed
by Mayor Low a justice of the Court
of Special Sessions to succeed former
District Attorney Jerome. He resigned
from the bench two years later to en?
ter the campaign as a candidate for
Attorney General. He was appointed a
Federal district judge of the Southern
District of New York by President
Taft in 1912.
Labor Lyceum, Brooklyn, where the
men have made their headquarters.
There was a noticeable lack of enthu
smsm und many complaints were regis?
tered that Shea and Fridiger were not
displaying sufficient energy in the
fight. About 160 of the men bore signs
of beatings which, they declared, were
administered by the police.
Sheridan amplified his statement re?
specting the threatened walk-out of the
motormen, signalmen and towermen on
the elevated and subway lines by say?
ing that he had just been in confer?
ence with Edwin Smith and Hugh Flat?
tery, member, of the executive commit?
tee of the Amalgamated, who had re?
turned from a secret meeting of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,
with which the motormen are affiliat?
ed, in South Brooklyn. At the meet?
ing, according to Sheridan, a delega?
tion of the signalmen and towermen
was present.
The brotherhood decided to send a
delegation to Judge Mayer to-day,
added Sheridan, to make one last ap?
peal to him to agree to arbitration of
the differences between th? strikers
and the officials of the road. Sheridan's
announcement left the strong impres?
sion upon the workers that the brother?
hood men and the men from the two
other departments would walk-out un?
less something was done to end the
deadlock before another day passed.
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Gomp?rs Calls Open-Shop
Referendum Dishonest
Attacks U. S. Chamber of Com?
merce Vote; Defends Labor's
Right to Organize
From The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.?Character?
izing the referendum of the Chamber
of Commerce of the United States on
the question of the open shop ?a "dis?
honest," Samuel Gompers, president of
the American Federation of Labor, to?
day vigorously defended the right of
labor to organise.' Gompers said the
chamber's vote was in reality a refer?
endum for m closed shop against union
men.
Discussing plank two, which touched
on the open shop, President Gompers
said:
"This is a direct challenge to the
trade union movement coming from
the heart of America's financial power.
The proposition set forth by the United
States Chamber of Commerce in this
plank involves no 'principle. On the
contrary, it is merely a statement of
what the United States Chamber of
Commerce hopes the employers of the
United States will do if they have the
power to do it.
"The entire declaration is a cunning
? device calculated to create the impres?
sion of fairness, while wielding the
favorite weapons of treachery^'
200 Armored Cars
To Be Run To-day
On Surface Lines
Arrangements for police to man
more than double the number of sur?
face cars in operation yesterday were
made last night by officials of the Brook?
lyn Rapid Transit Company. It was
announced at the office of Receiver
Garrison that at leas. 200 cars would
start this morning. Normally 1,650
are run.
Only seventy-five surface cars were I
operated yesterday and these did not
appear to be heavily patronized,
though many Brooklynitea made use
of them during the pvening rush hour.
All the cars were inclosed in heavy
wire netting and^here was a policeman
on front and rear platforms. No at?
tempt was made to run cars across the
Brooklyn Bridge to Park Row.
Service on the elevated and subway
lines yesterday did not show a marked
improvement over that of Tuesday.
About 100 trains, comprising 400 cars,
were running when the service reached
the peak of efficiency during the af?
ternoon.
Brighton trains were run to Coney
Island, but no attempt was made to
operate over the Sea Beach line, where,
two trains were stoned Tuesday night.
Additional trains will be added or. all
subway and elevated line? to-day, it
was said by the management.
Policemen on motorcycles along the
lines over which cars were operated
augmented the guard at either end of
the cars. It was a heyday for the
strike breakers. The fare registers in I
many cases remained stationary and
the men made no secret of the fact
that pickins' were good. About one
fare in twenty was recorded for the
company on gome cars.
Mine Workers Lose Appeal
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
TOPEKA, Kan., Sept. 1.?-The Kansas
Supreme Court to-day denied a rehear?
ing to Alexander Howat and other of?
ficers of District 14, United Mine
Workers.
At the time the Industrial Court was
sitting at Pittsburg last spring Howat
and four other officers of the district
organization were summoned to appear
and testify. They refused to appear
and Judge A. B. Curran sent four of
them to jail. Later the mine officials
gave bail and appealed.
It is expected that the mandate
which will send Howat back to jail will
be issued at once. Howat's attorneys
may appeal to the United States Su?
preme Court.
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Bus Business
Drops as B.R.T.
Service Gains
Persons Seeking Profit by
Handling Rush Hour
Crowds Find Patronage
Sliced 50 Per Cent
No Disorder at Bridges
Four-Car Trains Run From
Times Square to Brooklyn
on 8-Minute Schedule
The number of trains operated by
the B. R. T. last night had the effect
of eliminating almost 60 per cent of
the passenger business carried on by
privately-owned busses, trucks and
vehicles of other types on Monday and
Tuesday evenings.
There was a great mobilization of all
sorts of motorized vehicles at the
Williamsburg and Manhattan bridge?
heads last night, but they catered only
to customers who were either afraid
to take a chance on the embattled B.
R. T. or were in too much of a hurry
to wait for trains. In most cases
those who intrusted themselves to the
trains reached home far ahead of those
who preferred the motorized routes.
The police governing all traffic on
the three big bridges reported last
night that there were no accidents and
no disorder.
Police Reserves Called
The heaviest crowds last night were
handled at the Times Square subway
stations of the Interborough and B. R. I
T. The rush at these points between
5 and 7 o'clock became so great that
reserves were ordered there from the
West Thirtieth Street police station.
They encountered little trouble, how?
ever, as the emergency schedule insti?
tuted by the Interborough did much
toward relieving the extra pressure.
Four-car trains on the B. R. T. were
operated from the Times Square sta?
tion on an eight-minute schedule, all
bound for Brooklyn, but the crowd
seemed skeptical and preferred to take
a chance on the jammed trains of the
Interborough.
The inconvenience with which down?
town Brooklyn commuters have been
struggling for three days appeared to
I have been brought to a minimum last
I night as a result of improved emer?
gency devices. More large concerns
were operating their own vehicles for
their own employees and independent
owners, working for profit, had dis?
tributed their routes so efficiently that
umple motor service seemed to be tap?
ping every section of Brooklyn.
Transportation prices failed to soar
during the rush hour last night, as
they did on Monday and Tuesday even?
ings. More or lesa comfortable accom?
modations were available on trucks
and busses to any point between Park
Row and Coney Island for 25 or 30
cents.
Amonk yesterday's additions to the
impromptu passenger service was a
hose wagon given over to the use of
stenographers employed in the office
of Fire Commissioner Thomas J.
Drennan. The wagon made stops at
Saratoga Avenue, Bergen Street, Reid
Avenue, Broadway and Gates Avenue
and Broadway ?fid Marcy Avenue.
U. S. Employees Her? to Send
6 Delegates to St. Louis Meeting
Six delegates will represent the Fed?
eral employees of Greater New York at
the annual convention of the National
Federation of Federal Employees, which
begins at St. Louis on September 6 with
representatives of more than two hun
dren locals of the organizations attend?
ing.
Questions to be discussed are the
! Nolan minimum wage bill, the establish
j ment of a civil service court of appeals,
j upward reclassification of salaries, and
1 control of the civil service by a central
? body on which the employees shall have
: equal representation.
B.R.T. Conductor Splits
His Fare Grab 4 Ways
A passenger in a well patron?
ized "cage car" on one of the
Brooklyn surface lines took occa?
sion yesterday to call the atten?
tion o? the conductor to a glaring
discrepancy between the number
of passengers and the figures on
the register.
"That's all right," said the un?
perturbed conductor, "it ain't
ethical to overwork the register
during a strike."
"You must be feathering your
nest in good shape," commented
the passenger, with an apprais?
ing glance at the crowded seats.
"Oh, I don't know," was the re?
sponse, "I don't have so much left
after I split with the motorman
and the gurrds," indicating two
patrolmen on the car.
Volunteers Flock
ToB.R.T.FromAll
Points of Compass
Men in Rags and Palm Beach
Suits Comprise Army of
Strike Breakers; Ex?Sol
dier Dislikes Quiet Job
They're not called strike breakers any
more. The term strike breaker is de?
cidedly antique stuff, and it doesn't go
for a minute in the unfprtunate borough
across the East River.
The band of ununiformed free lances
I who are defying the Amalgamated As?
sociation and keeping a semblanco of
life in the strike-afflicted B. R. T. sys?
tem are "volunteers."
Thia^heterogeneous army appears to
have flocked to the assistance of the
stricken B. R. T. from all poi?ts of tho
compass. They present a far more in?
teresting study than the line of adver- ,
tisements above the heads of the peopie
on the apposite sides of the car.
Watching them slamming the gates,
on the Myrtle Avenue, Broadway and
other lines yesterday, a reporter found
that some were in rags and some in i
tags and some in Palm Beach suits. In
their weather-beaten and dissimilar
ranks were found melancholy professors,
ex-bartenders, veterans of the World[
War, broken-down prize fighters, an in?
digent novelist or two, a scattering of
actors of the "ham" variety, soldiers of I
fortune and a few who had played 'em i
wrong at Saratoga. For the most part, !
they looked like persons on whom the
tide in the affairs of men had run out
and forgotten to come back.
There was Riley, of the Myrtle Ave?
nue line. Present address, Ninth and
Rodney streets. Brooklyn. Over his
port eye was tilted a straw hat of the
"repeater" class. Under a shabby coat
of what had once been a Palm Beach
suit he wore an army shirt and a bright
red tie. His trousera were patched i"
numer?os places.
"Afraid to give yon my address?"
Raid Riley, as he puffed contentedly on
the stump of a cigar and announced
the next station as- Fresh Pond Road.
"I should say. not. If .any of them
strikers could find that address they'd
hare to be better men than I am. Half
the time I can't find it myBelf.
"I took this job thinking tnere would
be some excitement in it. The most ex?
citing thing I have seen is the Fresh
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Pond cemetery. There's no fifSt ia
these strikers. They wouldn't have the
nerve to take s dead fly from a blind
spider. I've only see 'em once. They
stopped me on the street one night and
tcld me I was likely to get beat up if j
I didn't stay off the trains,
"But on the level, this is a heluva ;
i job. If I hadn't thought there was
j some chance of trouble I never would,
have took it. If I stayed here I'd have
to get a secretary to learn the names
of the stations for me. I'm going to
quit next week and go to work for a
friend of mine who is a wealthy boot
j legger. I'm going to drive his fcuto
i mobile for him."
| British Leaders
Expect to Avert
National Strike
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(Triple Alliance of Unions
Looks for Compromise
by Government? Home
i Awaits Labor Parley Offer
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From T?- Tribune's European Bureau
Copyright, IS.O, New York Tribune Inc.
LONDON, Sept. 1.?The British in?
dustrial situation is extremely grave,
but there still is justification for hope
that a national strike will be averted.
The chief reason for optimism Is the
knowledge that the British generally
reach a compromise when danger ?
threatens all classes.
The Triple Alliance, a gigantic com?
bination of union workers, met again j
to-day after deciding that the coal j
miners' demands were both reasonable j
and just, but the leaders are simply [
marking time, hoping that the govern- j
i ment will make a move which will re- j
lieve them from the responsibility of
throwing the whole country into chao?
through stoppage of all work.
Sir Robert Home, who is acting for
j the Cabinet, seemed confident that th_
workers' leaders would approach him
j with an offer which might serve a?) the
I basis of negotiations and eventually of
j a settlement of the differences. Robert
j Sm?lie, president of the Miners' Fed?
eration, has won the moral support of
leaders outside the coal trade, but
nevertheless there is little sentiment
L favoring a strike even among workers,
? who would suffer just as much as the
I disinterested public. ?
I To-morrow is the date fixed for hand
j ing in the strike notice, which would
? expire on September 18, provided no
? settlement is reached meanwhile.
i LONDON, Sept. 1 (By The Associ?
ated Press).?The Evening News as?
serts to-night the Triple Alliance of
I labor?the railwaymen, transport work
? ers and miners?will not adopt media
i tion between the miners and the gov
| ernment. On the contrary, the news
! paper says the railwaymen and trans
i port workers have pledged full and
I active support to the miners should a
! strike be decided upon at to-morrow's
conference of delegates Of the three
| unions.
Only 40 of 1,260
Women Agents on
B. R. T. Join Strike
Sixty Absent? but Twenty of
These Axe Reported HI;
Equal Opportunity
League Member? Loyal
A careful checking up of all the
stations of the elevated and subway
systems of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
yesterday shoved that only sixty of
the 1,260 women employed as ticket
agents were absent from their posts.
According to Superintendent Burns,
chief of the stations department of the
B. R. T., about forty of the sixty
women are out on strike. The rest
| have reported ill.
Eight hundred of the women of the
B. R. T. are members of the Women's
Equal Opportunity League. The rest
j either have no union affiliations or be
: long to the Amalgamated Association.
Many of those holding membership in
the Amalgamated were found to be on
duty yesterday when a special train car?
rying officials of the Equal Opportunity
League and several reporters made a
tour of the Brooklyn elevated system.
When one of the women was asked
whether she intended to strike she re?
plied: "I should say not. My hus?
band died in the war and I've a child
to support. When some representa?
tives of the union came to me and told
me to stay home I told them I would
quit for a month if they would pay me
four weeks' salary in advance. That's
the only way I would strike."
In answer to the same question an?
other member of the Amalgamated said:
"Nobody has asked me to strike. I
don't even know what it is all about,
and I don't want to know. The strike
may be all right, but it won't make a
hit with me until the milkmen leave
free milk and the bakers give their
bread away."
Yesterday's tour of inspection was
made under the direction of Miss Mary
A. Murray, president of the Women's
Equal Opportunity League. Miss Mur*
ray, accompanied by Miss Amy Wrenn,
counsel to the league; Miss Lottie
Godfrey, secretary, and Miss Alice
Read, treasurer, previously had visited
all the subway stations of the B. R. T,
system. Miss Murray aaid that the
day's work had shown that every on?
of the B. R. T. employees belonging
to the league were at work, and all had
expressed their intention of remaining
there.
"The time has come," said Mis;
Murray, "when the women of the Equa
Opportunity League must choose be
tween the B. R. T., which is giving
them their livelihood, and the Amalga
mated Association, which aims to ge'
all women off the road.
Six Cent Fare Cmc ifeaw. i
Many Complaints on Tobe.
Charges, Says Jersey Official
Robert Carey, attorney for the Hud?
son and Manhattan Railroad Company,
declared yesterday at a hearing in Ho
boken before the New Jersey Board of
Public Utility Commit ioner. in the
matter of the six-cent fare which th?
company charges between Jersey City
and Hoboken that there had .been no
complaints from' passengers concern?
ing it and the source of all the trouble
was Charles F. X. O'Brien, Director of
Public Safety in Jersey City.
Mr. O'Brien interrupted him to say
that Mr. Carey apparently had not
read th? New Jersey newspapers and'
that his office had been deluged with
complaints concerning the six-seat
fare. He declared that the company
had placed "strong-arms" as guards at
the stations and was attempting to in?
timid?t? the public
The commission reserved d?cision.
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