Show SITUATION IS I l I MORE SERIOUS I I Father OHara Working in Behalf I Be-half of the Brooklyn I Strikers I I l II MEN HOLDING THEIR OWK I I MAJOR COChRAN DErVOLIfCED AS A MURDERER I i Brooklyn HeIghts Company Willing to Talce Back Some of Their Employee Em-ployee Under Certain Conditions New Men Arc Induced to Leave the Cars Almost as Fast as They Arc Pnt on Cars May Run Today Protected fly the Military Brooklyn N Y Jan 25At the I tables of the Cross line on Kent avenue ave-nue Green Point the situation today 1 was more serious than ever before Reverend Father OHara who has charge of Graen Point parish spoke to the new motormen and conductors wh wera taking out the cars He begged them to leave their cars and join the Strikers They will take care of you eon e-on men act like men and join the strikers was his oftrepeated request And several men jumped from the cars amid cheers from the onlookers Big crowds congregated in the vicinity of the stables and the tracks were obstructed ob-structed with barrels boxes and refuse Father OItnras Work A good deal of stone throwing was done by the mob despite the efforts of Father OHara who frEquently entreated en-treated the men not to use violence The police charged the moo with their nightsticks and the crowd fell back Father OHara received 3 letter from Mayor Schieren sent oy messenger The mayor said that i the disorder at Green Point did not cease he would at once send the militia there On receipt re-ceipt of this letter Father OHara went out on the street to induce the crowd to disperse I Traffic on the Hamilton avenue line twelve was resumed this afternoon after days suspension S The Third avenue line ha been operated oper-ated with scarcely any interruption and little show of hostility Thirtyfive property owners residing on Hicks street and on Sackett street sent a petition to the grand jury this I afternoon denouncing the killing of i Thomas Karney ColdBlooded Murder I The petition denounced Major Coeh ran as a old blooded murderer and demanded an investigation into the circumstance attending the shooting The following notice to former employees em-ployees of the Brooklyn Heights Railroad I Rail-road company has been sent out I bears the signature of President Lewis Notice is hereby given that the Brooklyn Heights company is ready and willing to take into its employ such of its former employees as motormen motor-men and conductors as are needed to i fill existing vacancies paying them the I market rate of wages for their sar vices providing such employees will r accept the regulations of the company as to the frequency with which cars shall be run and the number of cars which shall be run Messrs Feeny Robinson and Purcell comprising the state arbitration committee com-mittee which left Abany last nightS night-S for Brooklyn were in secret session at I the St George hotel this afternoon and j II subpoenaed Messrs Lewis and Norton whom they examined a to the cause and status of the strike The committee I also sent a not to Mayor Schieren of that official requesting the presence ofeial at the examination but the mayor positively posi-tively declined to attend i tyely decUne I At 530 this afternoon the trolley t wires that were cut on Fulton street near Saratoga avenue at 1030 were II fixed and the cars which had been stalled on both tracks for four hours proceeded Guards fraiv the Seventy I first regiment preserved order while the men were at work repairing the wires S An Encouraging Day This is the most encouraging day we have had during the strike said Master Workman Thomas Murray to the Associated Press representa eWe e-We are getting the new men away from the railroad company as fast as they arrive From a this morning until un-til 3 this afternoon we induced 20 men 1t leave their posts at Ridgewood and so far today we Siave rescued 30 men at the other end of the line to say nothing of the number we stopped before I be-fore they reached this side of the rivei rve 1 from New York We have done all I I this remember without any violence i or intimidation and the newcomers in I every case have yielded willingly We bring them to our headquarters warm and feed them and furnish a ticket to return home no matter how far nwsv I they live They have been deceived incoming I in-coming here They say they knew nothing of the strike hut after getting themhere they wanted to earn enough to get back home Some of them forfeited for-feited the money the company owes here they wanted to earn enough as that While the reporter was talking with the master workman a number of nonunion I non-union men were brought in by the I strikers One of these was a motorman motor-man named Squires from Baltimore He said he was an expert motorman hut coming from a warm cMtnate so thinly clad and being compelled to feed on red horse and punk and and and sleeping sleep-ing on the floor he did not want the job bad enough to stay longer He said the company owed him 3 From observation the reporter found many conductors handing in their envelopes en-velopes on return trips without money What more whitewash said one of the officials Yes didnt have a passenger on the trip w the conductors retort Do you look out for passengers on sidewalk was the next question Me I did not dare to look for anything any-thing but my head said the conductor torThe The blockade at the corner of Green Point avenue and Franklin was raised at 630 by a crowd of men sent down from the depot of the Green Point and Myrtle avenue station Quiet has been restore in Green Point but it i doubtful doubt-ful if the road will run cars tomorrow without the protection of the military Everyone that went out today returned in a badly damaged condition |