The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-10-04
ADAMS MEN WEARY.
Full Force at Work Today, but More
designations Threatened.

One might easily imagine while calmly
looking over the Adams Express pier ad-
joining the Pennsylvania depot today
that affairs between the company and its
employees had been settled. The usual
lumber of hands are at work. But
close inspection will reveal the fact that
many of the porters are green and the old
hustlers and clerks look jaded.
Superintendent Evers directed my
attention to the activity displayed. "The
men are all satisfied he said, ''and we
anticipate no further difficulty. The re-
ports that goods are piled up about us
because OF an insufticient force to handle
them are malicious lies. We haven't
pound of freight that we cannot handle
as promptly as we have always
handled %
Notwithstanding Mr.. Evers' serene re-
marks have good reasons to believe, If
the conditions under which the men are
now working are not further ameliorated,
there will not be a single old helper left
in the company's employ after Monday
night. The men will not talk because
they are afraid. The inducement held
out to them night before last, viz, an
hour off and a check for 65 cents on the
Keystone restaurant or so cents cash, was
continued last evening, and while the
men appreciate this they say they cannot
stand the working from six in the morn
ing until near midnight.
1t is reported that two more clerks
threw up the sponge yesterday. One of
these was William Marshall who has
been a faithful employe of the company
for the past twenty-seven years. His po-
sition in connection with the southern"
scales, it is said, cannot be Immediately
filled. Superintendent Evers denied that
Mr.. Marshal had left the company's en-
ploy. "He was merely under the
weather" said the superintendent hest
tatingly.
I called at the general office of the
Adams Express Company, IN New York,
yesterday afternoon and asked President
John Hoey if the fear of the withdrawal
by the government of its contract with
his company to have its bullion shipped to
and from the United States Treasury in
favor of Tom Platt's United States Ex-
press Company had anything to do with
the reduction of salaries and force of the
company's employees.
The president at first gave me this en-
phatic answer;-
mo, sir. We are shipping bullion to-
day."
to anticipate that the contract will even
tually be given to the United States Ex-
press Company"
well, we can't tell what an hour may
bring forth. But we are resting securely
in our seats"
When asked if he was willing to give
out the true reason for the reduction OF
force and salaries, the president remarked
drly:-
"It is not matter that directly con-
Germs the public. If you had house and
found you had too many servants would
you consult the public in reference to the
advisability of discharging some of them?
Well, that is just it. Some few of the
men laid off may have been
laid off for other reasons
which do not concern the public
Some Of the men left because they were
asked to work little overtime during a
rush. That was their business. Those
who did as requested will not be for
gotten. And the other men who refusSd
to do the work would not have been for
gotten. We would have found a way to
make it up to them"