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Show Subway and Surface Tied Up by Strike j f Fifteen Thousand j raction Employees. Disorders, but Both V .ides Are Firm; Real ' 'est of Strength Is p .ooked for Today. ' -'l'"i'-'crsal Sen iee. EV YORK, Auj. IT. All subway and fated railway lines of the Interboro (Id Transit company were tied up to-1 to-1 by the strike of lo,(W0 members of - Brotherhood of Interboro Employees ich went Ir;to effect at 4 o'clock this P;-:Tmlrig. Xo attempt was made by the .(!.. Ipany lo run trains on any of the r?K-; a during the day. urface cars, which were running at ut normal schedule in Manhattan and '.'.'-iBrom, and jitney lines, which sprang j"..;.,.) Mux overnight, were sufficient to s) --ry the passenger traffic, which was if:. H'Jally light, due to the rain that fell FJ:r: Ing the morning and early afternoon. real test will come tomorrow after-i after-i n In the rush hours. The lines affected ,.::.tte !trll!e carry an average of 3.371,000 tensers a day. The congestion is al-i; al-i; terrific on the downtown trains in. morning and on the uptown trains In evening. ' p Td " ! 'as a peaceful strike. No disorder el C:. I reported anywhere, but at . mass d is - itlnj of the strikers held, in the Star 'V'-r ,r-. the sentiment was unanlmously M3"' '1VOT f hokll"E out until tho company jf3!V'' t0 tne le,nands for a 50 per cent :2'',"e '" P' nd an eight-hour day and vj:::-: titration of all future differences. ;?.,'NXELLY ADMITS t JUNCTION SERVICE. Connelly, president of the broth-)r(:.- tod, admitted that he had been served j...; .11 an Injunction obtained by the Inter-f;rj:: Inter-f;rj:: lo restrain him from calling the rp'tw strike was called before the in-OIK- Won was asked for and I couldn't 5$ ' " It anyhow," he said. "Now t;;;,' llt has started, not a wheel will w'-i m ";e Interboro until our demands fi!.: Panted. w-e can-t be .or3e off than 3Da 'i ve been for the last two years." f;.;:;!et sellers and choppers and many by!'rm guards remained on duty today oW members of the Amalgamated asso-p; asso-p; ion were outspoken in their denuncla-ick. denuncla-ick. i of the brotherhood men for havinK "ir-.- al this time and offered to run he(f , comPany so desired. Power- ;f ft men, too, remained on dutv. but ;;:.t : tsnal men went out. - mentil Y,ork Central has announced 'r":'', 'W' p!,, ratting extra trains on the i .'f"lSam "'visions, which run V,K:- I ;;' U ,v nx' to rarry etra loads ke W ,0W" on lhc lines tomorrow. Wth'th. tHaven' whlch also ns '"V ' that Jlrnx- plans to "store the 'CEY BUSSES ONLY ! :rM 'JJX8 FOR TRAVEL. j m S" rXr',L,Vve.U!per Manhattan, how. !1 - ' W,f ,7 " !" seht except what 'V Us tc i! nel h; J'tneys and the extra ,.ff: f "aPy atetl by ths Flfth Avenue oJ 4aRiiI; w,l,.tini to operate its V SI rmVnd 1,16 Hud8n Tunnels Pr.;-: S;-lVlfl street" ,rain8 to and from ' atocnsP'rcy on the part of the i.i';;. 'oroe t;,e rcai;se the strike In order ... tl tort,,,. Jl? of Hn Increased fare ' Rrorv D.18trlct Attorney Mar- I & lit, SHl(i he had been and a'h,?;1""1? ar0 bel"S paid ! ' l!h'- rein-, Wn,le t,,e str-lke lasts. L"'"t "-'e i reac-ied him to the ef-I ef-I itf k( fan h?P yc,.a who opposed the I "'.. M Vo ,-RUM tnev were making if'1". , M be rtUr.),'" 11 Jwcek wre told they C';.n;;",'Ch,r!j they did' not join 5; tlio-onih i M''lr:in said he would 1 f, 0 ,!r,i?h niulr- Into this phase wtV '"mofrow and would co-' co-' ! co(h :r,nt Attorney Swann. 9,-;. ,raitan. "" a similar Inquiry In NOT STRIKE, EER DECLARES. for'" wHarra teu- not a strike." de-ic?' de-ic?' ,"1M,nal organiser of V f5,u Aswtatio of Street ' L'";;-s inTy Employees, todav at ''.v. I? 'i''".han. "Our organt- ' .''0'0 to a tnousand men to the t? ;,'"' are ? to "-'! immediately. 1 r" ml. ? 1 wanted." -V eel in the Star .5Kr declared tnat Fra-k rfiL "KinuM T " , oa Page o Colmnn 2 ) CI TRAFFIC BLOCKED II HE M1IS i (Continued From Pago One.) I IcJIoy, vice president and general manager man-ager of the Interboro, had rejected an offer of the Amalgamated a?floclation to Supply GOO men to help break the strike. He quoted Medley us saying: "No; I ill deu.1 with the brotherhood and no!)idy elne." V. H. ManRun, secretary of the Intor-boro Intor-boro brotherhood, said at the meeting. "Wft are f:2htin the intcrboro and not the e'ity adhilnlatrntlon, a sonift people peo-ple seem to think. Wc are not interested In the poverr y of the Inter borough, but we are interested In our own poverty." M&tiKan warned tho men against violence. |