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Show TRAFFIC FIGHT ill p f a C jjOE Strikers Inconvenience Many Commuters, Roads Report Re-port Gains NEW YORK. April 13. Railroads and strikers went into a clinch today for control of strafflc arteries leading into New York. While the strikers succeeded this morning in inconveniencing 10.000 more commuters by shutting down the three divisions of the Staten Island Rapid Transit company and drawing out more firemen on the Long Island railroad, Ihe other roads reported greater success In operating freight and passenger service. The roads were able to move an increasing in-creasing amount of food into the city, while specials operated by volunteer crews began arriving from suburban points in Nov.' Jersey. The Long Island railroad announced that 500 firemen had quit. Sale of tickets for all steam trains was ordered or-dered discontinued. Electric service was reported about ninety per cent efficient. Timothy O'Shea, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engine-men, Engine-men, addressed a meeting of the executive exec-utive committee and delegates of Ihe brotherhood of Hoboken, announcing that the meeting would continue "until "un-til some solution" of the strike was reached. In following the example of their English cousins who during Britain's rail tie-up manned their own (rains, Americans made it clear that (hey favored fav-ored neither side. "This is distinctly a citize i' movement," move-ment," declared Mayor McKenna. of Englewood, who occupied tho cab of one "citizens' special." In Mayor McKenna's train crew were Roger Clark, state commissioner of highways In New Jersey, a Columbia Colum-bia law school professcir, an exporter and a bank officer. Several such I specials were operated on the ErJc and Lackawanna and some engines I were fired by American legion mcm- jbcr3. |