NEW YORK'S TURN

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 252, 8 July 1926, Page 7

NEW YORK'S TURN

TRANSPORTATION STRIKE EXPERIENCES SUBWAY SYSTEM CRIPPLED GREAT TRAFFIC JAMS New Pork, July 6. A partial strike of transport workers has given American metropolitan workers a taste of the experience recently felt in Britain during the general strike. Motormen and switchmen belonging to the biggest subway organisation seceded from the brotherhood composed of general workers, and left work at midnight on July 5 crippling transportation on the system. The situation was rendered more acute when a considerable number of motormen on the elevated lines joined in a sympathetic strike' There is sti’l plenty of transportation of variouskinds available, but those sections of the city served onlv by the subway have been severely affected The train service has been continued with strikebreakers, but is greatly reduced. The strike came at a critical moment, when thousands were returning to the citv from Julv 4 holidays, causing great traffic jams.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Rain, which always drives thousands of New Yorkers underground, on Tuesday added to the transportation problem of a metropolis in the throes of a strike on the principal subway systems Reports at noon showed that a curtailed service was being maintained bv strike-breakers. An augmented service on the elevated and surface lines and buses failed to prevent congestion especially at the morninc rush hour Seventv thousand policemen were assigned to strategic traffic points.— Reuter.