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Show SUBWAY STRIKE ras CRISIS I POVER HOUSE EMPLOYES MAY JOIN MOTORMEN IN URBAN TRAFFIC TIEUP Service Estimated By Officials At 77 Per Cent; Ultimatum Issued; Transit Train Leaves Rails and Crashes in Tube New York. The forward truck of the fourth car of a ten-car southbound south-bound Interborough Rapid Transit train left the rails between Bowling Green and South Ferry stations early Thursday, throwing the car into the concrete wall of the tube. The fifteen or twenty passengers aboard the train were assisted to emergency exits without with-out confusion. No one was injured and only slight damage to the tracks resulted. Dense clouds of smoke from torn insulation of the third rail caused erroneous reports re-ports of fire in the tube. New York. The chief developments develop-ments of the third day of the strike were claims by strike leaders that all Interborough power house employes em-ployes would join the strike, and an ultimatum by subway officials that slrikiers failing to return to their jobs by Monday will be permanently replaced re-placed by new men. Edward P. Lavin, one of the strike leaders, announced that there would be "something of a startling nature in tha fcext forty-eight hours." Asked if this promised development had to do with a possible settlement he replied, "perhaps." "In any event," he added, "if we lose we will be good losers and if we win' we will be modest winners." So far the strike has been confined to motormen and switchmen on the Interborough subways, the city's main underground arteries. The strikers broke away from the union recognized by the company and formed their own organization in an effort to enforce demands for higher wages. Varying numbers of recruits have been claimed from the Interborough elevated lines, but company officials have said what small defections there have been have not affected service. Subway service was estimated by the company to be 77 per cent normal and some of the Brooklyn area in which service stopped when the strike was called was reopened. j |