Show CAR MEN lUEN RESTIVE I Big Strike is in the Air in Brooklyn Brook Brooklyn lyn 1 New York Aug Is announced that the motormen and conductors of I the Brooklyn Transit system are restive and have submitted a complaint to President Rossiter The gist of the I complaint is put in the followIng words by one of the leaders The company pays less for trip trippers pars pers runs than it for straight runs runs and the tables are now arranged so that instead of working a aday aday day through itis made two parts We Ve are not allowed to go home In the meantime but must wait around the station in case we are wanted The tables prove proe that men are waiting wait waiting ing for sixteen and sometimes more hours in order to get in seven or eight hours work I was not in the last strike I worked through it and there are a lot more like me but there will not be a single man who will ill sta stay next time if we are arc forced to make that kind of a fight for our lives The demands are in brief All straight runs of ten hours work to pay More strai straight ht runs and not so many swings Thirty cents an hour for overtime Men lIen on extra crews to get for any day he goes to work and loses his lace on the working list That men shall not be compelled to work twelve and sixteen hours on Sun Sunda Sunday I da day and holidays holiday except in rare cases I |