http://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0386988
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2019-12-03
issued: 1916-09-07
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note: tftf Tho only paper in tho Interior of British Columbia carrying the full service of the Western Associated Praia over its own leased wire. The Daily News has the largest circulation of any daily newspaper in Canada in proportion to the population of its home town. POL. 15 No. 124 NELSON. B. C., THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1916 5Qc. PER MONTH I ON LINES IN NEW YORK CITY Trouble Spreading to All Roads in Metropolis HEN ONE LUTED I \bout 4000 Men Are Now ■ Being Housed and Fed in Oar Barns (By Dally News Leased Wire.) i NEW YORK, Sept. 0.—A strike (was declared at 9:50 o'clock tonight by union employees of the subway and [elevated, railway lines operated, hy the Interborough Rapid Transit company in this city. About 1500 of the 11,700 carmen ln the company's pay voted at \\ mass meeting to quit work immediately, Officials of the union asserted that .with the possible exception of the lines in Brooklyn, New York's electric | transportation facilities would be completely paralyzed by morning. They were, confident, they said, that the motbrrtten and conductors on the surface lines in Manhattan, Harlem and ►.he Bronx also would strike through -.ympathy. . - <■ Employees on the "green car" line of the New York Railway company rdiortly after 11 o'clock tonight also voted to go on strike at once. This is one of the. most important of the -surface car linos in the city. The men icted in sympathy with the subway and elevated employees, whose demand for an annulment of individual contracts binding them not to seek wage increases for two years was denied by the 'interborough Rapid Transit company. Shonts Makes Promise Theodore V. Shonts, president of the, -Tnferhorotigh, deplored that with adequate police protection the com- [pany would.be able to cope with the .iltuatlon and "guarantee transporta- ;lon to the public." He said that only i small number of employees had be- !ome unionized. As soon as the strike (vote was announced scouts were sent *rom the union meeting placo t…