The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-07-24
GRIEVANCES OF STREET CLEANERS
Five Hundred Struck Yesterday and All
VIII He Idle To-day.

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VIII He Idle Day.
| About 800 hlrod cart mon. water cart men
ash cart men, mud cart men. and machine ant
sprinkler drivers in the employ OF the Stree
Cleaning Department atruck yesterday after
noon. and over 1000 laborers are thrown gu
OF work. The different kinds OF cartmon have
| different grievances. One grievance which
they have in common is that tho Commissions
always complains that tho appropriation ism
big enough to go around comfortably. while
they say, the salaries OF the clerks and othoi
officials in the department have been raised
within the past month. Besides. they say thai
there is one officer. a foreman, superintendent
or clerk for every two mon, and this force theJ
think can be reduced. Then, again. they al
complain OF being unableto obtain any salts.
actory explanation when they ask why their
pay has been cut at the end OF the week. They
say that whom they make any inquiries in this
direction they arc sent from ono official to
another.
The hired cart men receive $3.50 o day. for
which they must furnish their own horse and
cart and work fourteen hours day. On every
pay day those men say that their wages are
cut from 81 to IS. In certain wards In the
city ten loads are considered days work. n
they lose load they are docked one-quarter
OF their days pay and lose 81 cents FIRE.
9nently they cart thirteen or fourteen loads a
machine drivers work eIeven and twelve hours
eo Say 9r e. ThSg sax that hey
has lately mapped out r Tor them an i would take
eighteen hours work. Their principal Griey-
ance is that they only get work three days in
sonse ah dfysFs
GTP bsy ToTE two days n the week az 81 day.
The ash cart drivers have to report at S A. NJ.
and get through at $3.50 P. N. They, object to
these Long hours a3d want to work five daSs
begin their tour at midnight, and dc, not tie
up their carts before or o'clock in the after;
of. Within two days the department has
closed the dumps at West Twenty second and
Jackson streets, which makes a difference Of
oiioads must be delivered. At those dumps
which ,!are still in operation the tracing
up the steep Incline, have been taken away.
ns o G led on inhspsefbor MhSen
down and that 1t was utterly impossible. TO
provide moro work. Tho men say, that Mr..
were plenty OF machines in good condition idle
in the stables. They say that the department.
four Patent assn CARTS for whieh tSonsands Of
dollars were paid. but which arc not used.
Mayor Grant was visited Yesterday by COM
ing Of William Welsh. John Duty. James Sulli.
van. Robert Caswell. and John Landers. They
ehlu tuoy ndu Deen ueputel 70 lay Inolr grew
nnces before him, and to ask him to use his in
tluencs to have the street-cleaning appropria-
ton increased, 80 that Commis siOner Beattie
could give them steady employment The
Mayor said that he knew OF no way IN which it
could be done. as the tax BUDGET cannot be re-
opened and there is no unexpended balance or
extra appropriation from which o transfer
could DO made.
Joseph K. Pickhard. superintendent OF tugs
and scows. an $500 position. resigned yester-
day at the request Of the Commissioner. The
low state OF the appropriation was also the
cause OF lhis trouble. General Superintendent
Whalen will assume the duties OF Mr.. Pickhard
In addition to his OWE.
Commissioner Beattie sent this message
through Deputy Commissioner Dalton to the
stables yesterday:
:" The department will employ such num-
Der OF drivers az the balance OF the appropri-
alton at the disposal OF the department. Tor the
'emainder OF the year will permit. This num-
!er can be given employment every day lSun:
lays exceptedl at the rate per diem now paid
50. No objection is raised to the return. to |
he limit In indicated OF such Of the drivers as
yesterday Voluntarily quit work"
The building trades section OF the Central
Labor MON decided last night to organize the
art drivers in tho Street Cleaning Department
Ia trades union. number OF Italians en- |
oloyed in the broom and shovel gangs were
!sn ed TO take the places OF the drivers yester-
lay. but they refused