Show BOHM URS TIED U P I 1 nearly five thousand men are out SURFACE TRAFFIC STOPPED every line but two minor Bran brunches clae 33 blocked locked forced to work twelve hours in violation of law and bralio less than n dollar a day electricians go out with motormen countless accidents I 1 1 I 1 I 1 J I 1 V i 4 brooklyn ivilyn N T Y jan it 11 at 5 its morning all the street cars cariln in T klyn acre t tied led up the employees employee a raising SI sing to tc a tk take 4 e out the cars over jover solmen m quit ault w work 0 r k this includes mo to tobyn na n f conductors electricians elc a switch ditc itc me meland and others employed at the va trial I 1 power houses all it but one of the sur surae P e roads and that a comparative comparatively annor or concern are effected r it Is cliferd that the strike will extend to the hes of the brooklyn elevated ralley C company in pan the contract be tween kings county elevated hallway hallwa wa Y and its employees Is such it Is believed there cain can be no A that line distria disteli assembly no 75 knights ot of labor falch has control of all the trolley I 1 lib J employees in Brool ilin has held varius meetings during tile past I 1 lew few eek aril d aitor fter the meeting an saturday heir executive I 1 committee waited upa u P president lewis of the brooklyn hights I 1 bights road anil asked that he grant amr demands they dla cussed bussed th tho 0 astion tor for three and a halt half hours lz pres iden ka lewis is office and finally M ail lewis ref refused use d to grant brant their d demands amand the outcome outcome of 0 this was the livid A 1 meeting which ended ati ata this morning at which it was decided to tie tic up all 1 the roads in une tty ty of brooklyn a alth ath let tho the exception c L eption or smith and jay 0 street lines this done this morning effi and not a ca outside ot of the smith and jay street MICA is running the companies expected that the men would go out this this ITI orning and determined I 1 I 1 to anticipate alem tiam they asked the electricians aboul imio 1000 in number it they would take ott the as cars this morning every one if them returned to do so BO thy they wc rethen told that the there e was no work for tiem one foreman was asked if he was willing to take out a oar ear lie he refused to do it lie he wag waa the only forema 1 naked to go out this morning the people cople had to use the elevated trains were made up w with estr caas to accommodate corn the rush the public was greatly inconvenienced the court street line of t the e brooklyn city company ran out seven cars beginning at 5 the cars were manned front and rear by two policemen there was no trouble there was one car running on the th fifteenth street branch grievances OF THE M MEN rn the mews mens grievances vances and dealand de are thus stated the state law tf videa that a days work for street rf way employees shall be ten bot ho within twelve hours alleged that the corporation the men to work eleven hours even twelve hours with no trat intel longer than toll ten minutes for lunch even depriving them of th that lt brief it til inmost instances the wage r ra agreed upon a year ago was waa 2 tor for statutory days work the com compan la it Is alleged have made po no allowan allo want for overtime the men demand it in h cherence rence to the law or for a dayi day twelve hours hou 1 LESS TITAN THAN A DOLLAR A DA daya an address issued by the execute committee of district assembly no alleges that the trouble wasl wa pre bated by tile brooklyn heights C CJ pany jai in excluding electric wor from work the statement says the flagrant violation of 0 tile the ten law has mentally and physically Pacita ted the men for their work the companies run trip grippers trippers pers so go the can mako make only from 40 to 80 cc day while the corporations ere are no owed by the law to run at a ra speed over ten miles an all bour through ache schedules dules are arranged so care have to be ruu run at a ot of from fifteen to twenty miles art an h hd in consequence nearly one hund fatal accidents have occurred since 8 trolley was introduced and counti injuries to passengers nil all caused 1 the greed of the corporations 1 the employees in the power b hou u are organized d as a knights of labor it tl samp same as the motormen and conduct oi and when the signal Is given to at t work they will fall into line and noti not car can be moved LEFT THEIR CARS at midnight the executive board boar dei el aided upon pon the action and un an hour later all the toaster roaster workmen seventy live in all left the hall ball with ansti u 1 eions to notify the motormen and conductors of tile the tie up the master workmen visited each car house and as the cars came in the men were WM O told that a tie up had been ordered the men left their cars and walked out without a word to the foreman or superintendent perin it wills was a complete de sair tion of the cars on tho the part of tho the mer men and the companies nere mere left without men to handle a single car or put one la ili condition to be taken out it Is the work of the electricians to put the cat cai a in fit order connect the tha trolley wires SK fix motors and me aeo that every everything ng on the car Is in good runn running ing order every car vi was vias as lert left in the tha condition it came in and not one was ned up there are all told thirty live five lines of cars cara and 42 men exclusive of about A electricians employed i in tile hie city R estimated that th iho e brooklyn city 1 employs men tho th atlantic Atlant lo me lie W mom tho the Dron klyn city and aton ora VW and the queens county making a total of men anen the only cars cap that went out v wore were seven cars cani on tile the pt f street line ne which is part of the city system DER rolice POLICE protection Z large crowd of men stood IL a few tho the stables sta bliB end and an the along they threw several barrel jot in front of them the motorman mot onnen got on off the tha cars and amid of bibs realia ci bs removed removed the ashen effrom the track on each car werl fouli policemen two in front mind and two ilithe in I 1 the rear with drawn clubs an aln ident cameron arnerson of hb It runway Allway to told bodet det ot of to 4 asir |