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Show lIEW YORK CARMEN TO RESUMEVWRK TODAY Street Railway Companies Agree to Mayor's Plan cf Settlement. NEW YORK, Aug. 7. The strike on the surface railway lines hereNwhicb threatened to extend to the subway and elevated systems and thus completely tie up the transportation facilities in Greater New York, virtually came to an end tonight. Directors of the New York Railway company and the Third Avenue Railway ' company, the two principal lines ai-fected, ai-fected, voted, after being deadlocked for twelve hours, to accept a plan of settlement proposed by Mayor Alitchel and Oscar S. Straus, chairman of the i public service commission, after representatives repre-sentatives of the strikers had agreed to it. It was then announced that normal service would be resumed tomorrow morning on the lines which ratified the agreement. One of the chief concessions in the settlement gives the employees the right to organize, which was the issue the strike leaders said they were determined should be fought to the end. The companies agreed to treat with grievance committees of their employees irrespective of the fact that they may belong to a union. "Wage demands will be arbitrated, the provision being made that negotiations must not begin later than August 20. "The settlement between employees and officials of the New York Railways company and the Third Avenue Railway com pan v makes it inevitable that the other lines must settle their differences,'-' declared Mayor Mitchel. Officials of the Second Avenue railroad, rail-road, the Richmond Light & Power company, com-pany, and the New York and Queens County company were invited by Mayor Mitchel to meet with him and Mr. Straus tomorrow morning to consider measures to end the strike on those lines. Although the agreement reached tonight to-night concedes the right of the employees em-ployees to organize, the union is not recognized by the company. Prosident Theodore P. Shonts issued a statement calling on the strikers to "let bygones be bygones and get to work, giving New York the best street railroad service in the world." "The strike has been won. Practically every demand we have made lias been granted," was the statement with which William D. Mahon, president of the Amalgamated Amal-gamated Association of Street and Electric Elec-tric Railway Employees, greeted more than 1500 strikers assembled here tonight to-night to hear the result of Ihe negotiations. negotia-tions. The demonstration following this statement continued' five minutes. "We started out for the recognition of the organization," he continued, "and we have won It. That was a signal victory. We started out also for the proposition of having the company deal with its men in their disputes without prejudice, and we have won it." PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 7. Despite the strike order of the local division of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Klectric Railway Emplovees, cars of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit company were operated without interruption today and tonight. Leaders of the strikers 'claim that 1L00 men quit their posts, but officials offi-cials of the company declare 150 would be an exaggeration. Cars on all lines appeared to be run- j ning as usual tonight and no cases of dis- 1 order were reported. In an effort to se-cure se-cure additions to their ranks, the strik- 1 era have planned a series of mss' meetings meet-ings for tomorrow. I |