OCR Text |
Show I MAYOR TRYING . TO AVERT STRIKE I Calls Chamber of Commerce I and Merchant's Association 1 Into Conference. RECEIVES WARNING .1 Thirty Unions United in Call- f ing for Walkout If Settle- ! ment Is Not Reached. I Now York, Sept. 19. Mitchel called J into conference with him today repre- centatives of the Chamber of Commerce Com-merce and Merchants' Association to try to avert the threatened strike of 700,000 workers in this city In sympathy sym-pathy with the street railway om- ployes. The mayor has received warn ing from the labor leaders that unless he and the committee of business men settle the car men's striko by Thursday Thurs-day night a general walkout of virtually vir-tually all the labor unions in this city and vicinity will be ordered. Thirty Unions Unite. Representatives of about thirty unions united in calling upon their organizations or-ganizations to striko if settlement with the transit companies was not forthcoming. The unions asked to take this action Included 200,000 members mem-bers of tho United Hebrew Trades, S.500 stationary engineers and firemen, fire-men, 2S.000 longsoremen, 20,000 subway sub-way builders, 1,200 master mates and Jjl pilots, 20,000 teamsters, 3,000 tire- -j water ooatmen ana it,uuu macnimsis. I I j Members of the United Hebrew J j Trades, the longshoremen and boat- II I men already have voted to strike, it Is HI announced. II Company Remains Obdurate. I No plan has been proposed for the consideration of the mayor and tho j business men's committees. President II Shonts of the Interborough Rapid l ill Transit company said It seemed ab- surd to negotiate further and that the Ljj company would have no further deal-Ings deal-Ings with the car men's union, but Inj was willing to consider any proposi-tion proposi-tion from the mayor. Today ;the I- I jj street railway strike was extended to HI Queen's county when many conductors ' Ml and motormen of the New York and I ill Queen's County railroad went out in I II protest against the use of their mem- If I Der3 to Perate cars anrt ureak tne j strike in Manhattan. Union leaders stated that fourteen street car lines J in Queen's county were tied up. |