New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-07-24
IL S. BEAUTIES TROUBLES.
STREETCLEANERS STOP WORK.
A GENERAL STRIKE WILL BEGIN THIS MORNING
-GRIEyANCFS OF THE MEN

GRIEVANCES OF THE MEN.
IL will take much stronger pull than even Tauf
many has to stir the mud ash and garbage carts,
sprinkers, sweeping machines and other necessary
instruments of the Street Cleaning Department tits
morning against the will OF 800 Of lis employees who
will 60 on strike this morning as protest against inc
extravagant policy Of Hans ;. Beatties department
Not single workman. with the exception Of the
hoStlerS will appear for work at the stables at tho
foot Of East Scventeenth-st to-day, and the paper
chaseIs" under the command Of Sergeant Pickett will
have chance distinguish themselves by standing
guard around the headquarters Of the Department in
Seventeenthst.
a large force Of the men employed in making an al
tempt to clean the streets Of this city went on strike
yesterday but The general strike will be started this
morning. The grievances Of the men Us follows
The hired cartmcn. or Owners Of carts who get - 90
day, say they work fourteen hours day, that they
must cart ten loads Of refuse day but IL they miss
load they locked quarter Of days pay,
while II they cart than the requisite number OF
loads they get nothing extra and that Il Is common for
them to have their cut 10 the extent Of from 81
to %. The machine men, or drivers Of Streetsweep
eFs, that they not allowed 10 work more than
three days week. which at 81 day does not enable
them 10 support their families. Besides this, the force
OF machines has been much reduced that to do the
work properly over the territory given to them would
take eighteen hours a day. Tie drivers OF the
sprnklers complain that they cannot now make more
than ~ a week by being allowed 10 work only two
days week, yet they have to report regularly. The
machine men, also that there are not enough
sprinkers and therefore they liable to he arrested
FOR raising a dust. The ashcart say there Is no
system In the management Of their department
that they have 10 be at headquarters at
8 a. m. and that their wages are cut. The
mud.cart men are also indignant at the way
they have been treated they say that the dump ~
the foot Of West Twenty secOndSt has been closed
thus compelling them to cart their loads from three
fourths ~ one mile farther than they have been ac-
c,sorned to- vet they have to carry the number
of loads every day, while at the dumps now in use
the towing horses have been dispensed with, and
sometimes half hour is spent IN getting heavily
laden cart mp the steep incline and on the wharf.
All the department employees agree in the assertion
that affairs are niscrably managed. The regular
schedule Is ten loads day at b, yet II one load Is
missed they arc fined so ccnts and at the end Of the
week they cannot get any satisfaction. They accuse
Commissioner Beattc Of great extravaganza In expert
mcntug with new machinery, while many old ma
chimes, 300 ash cans, 100 whecbarows and four
patent carts lying idle. They laugh at the as
scrtion that the appropriation has run ont and say
that the salaries Of the clerks aud officers OF which
there for every two workmcn, have been raised
within two months,
Committee, Of the strikers called on Mayor Grant
and superintendent Whaien yesterday but we're told
that nothing could be done for them.
Commissioner Bcattie sent this message through
Deputy Commissioner Dalton 90 the stables yesterday
afternoon
The apartment will employ such nuub,r OF drivers
the balance Of tue Appropriation the d-pora; Of the
d.Inrt1iont for remainder OF the year will permit
Tl, numbr can b. given employment day SundayS
| excepted a, M rat' diem now paid. two dollars
so objection O, "a sod rotun TO n" limit indicated
Of ,cb OF The drivers a. Yesterday voluntarily quit work
\ meeting Of the employees Of the department was
held last night In Twenty Grsst., FirstaVe. and
IL was resolved 20 tlc-up7 everything this morning.
! 4 committee reported that superintendent Whalcu
| would only give thirty SIX carts full time ninety
| curt, three DAYS work week. and tlat no man
would los hi, place on account Of strike If they
| would return Ia work.