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Show 1 STRIKE ON WHEELS. New York Car-Drivers Oo Oat and Go In Again. Steinitz Wins Ills Second Game for the Chess Championship of the , World. They Made No Mistake,' Bnt the Mexicans Mex-icans Mnrdered Crawford. New York Car-Drivers' Strike. New Yobk, February 4. "Tell the public," pub-lic," said John Caville, general auditor of the Knights of Labor, in this city lsst night, that the executive Board of the Empire Protective Association and myself have spent two weeks trying to settle THE CAB-DBIVBBS DnTIOTOTIES With the President of the New York Street Railroads, but they have made f oola of us. We have offered every inducement to them, and even accepted their compromises, but all to no purpose. February 1st they posted new time tables, which are even worse than the old ones, because they make a pretense of making a change for the better. IF THE PUBLIC IS INCONVENIENCED It must lay the blame at the doors of presi dents, iiiurly last month, petitions requesting request-ing a reduction of hours of labor to twelve a day for all hands drivers, conductors, hostlers and hitchers were sent to the various vari-ous New York City railroads. We gave them until yesterday to carry out their agreement, but the Fourth, Sixth and Seventh Sev-enth avenues, and Broadway roads have not done so. During our interview with the presidents of the roads we were asked whether we thought that the railroads of this city could afford to pay $2 a day for nine hours' work. I said that judging by what I read in their reports to the railroad commissioners com-missioners they could afford to pay $3 A DAT ON EIGHT HOUES' WOBK, Especially when theSixth avenue road could declare a dividend of 119 per cent, and some of it on water stock at that. The programme given by Coalville has been carried out; this morning there are no cars running on either the Fourth, Sixth or Seventh avenue lines, and but one or two on the Broadway line. The strikers number about 1,750. Not a car has been run over the Fourth avenue surface road since an early hour this morning. The strike is due to the refusal of the company to operate the road according accord-ing to the recently-adopted time schedule forced upon the company by the executive board of the Empire Protective Association of New York. ALL OF THE EMPLOYES OF THE BO AD, Including conductors, drivers, stablemen and hitchers, are affected by the strike. The company's stables, at Thirty-Third street and Fourth avenue were deserted this morning. Cars stood empty on the tracks, and no more than half a dozen Can be seen about the place. Superintendent Newell yesterday afternoon after-noon was visited by a committee from the conductors and drivers, who demanded that the schedule be so arranged that the men will work less than twelve hours, and that the present pay be continued. The drivers asked that the pay of $2.35 per day be continued con-tinued for a reduced number of trips. The board of directors held a short session today, to-day, at which Superintendent Newell laid before them the demands of the men. He explained that owing to the stormy weather and the blockades the working time had exceeded ex-ceeded twelve hours a day. If the trips could have been made on schedule time there would have been no grounds for .complaint. .com-plaint. . THE DIRECTORS VOTED TO CONCEDE The demands made by the men yesterday, and Superintendent Newell was instructed to notify the strikers that within a week the schedule would be arranged in accordance accord-ance with their wishes. It is rumored that the men will all go to work this afternoon. The directors of the Sixth-avenue line have also conceded the demands of the strikers, and cars will be started on Broadway, Broad-way, Seventh avenue and Sixth avenue as soon as the tracks can be cleared of the snow. New Yobk, February 4. The difficulty with the Fourth-avenue line ended this afternoon after-noon by an arrangement between the company com-pany and the drivers, and at 2:30 p. m. the cars started running. The difficulty has now been adjusted on all the lines, and the strike is at an end. |