New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-12-19
.JEHUs ON A STRIKE.
rur NETWORK CAB COMPANY OBLIGED
,ro SUSPEND SERVICE TEMPORARILY.

-, MEN DEMAND RECOGNITION OF THEIR UNION.
AND DECLINE FOR THE PRESENT TO FILL
THE CoMPANy's ORDERS.
.,out two hundred men In the employ Of the New
,srL Cab Company went strike yesterday. and
"a compauy practically suspended It's cab service
,or the time being The strike is peculiar one mas
,nuch as is not for increased wages or fewer
noprs OF labor, but solely demand for the recog-
,on as the men term It. Of their union. The
s.rkcrs belong TO the Liberty Dawn Association OF
coacs and Cab Drivers. which held meeting
r-srrsdav night and resolved to call the men out.
Tho meeting lasted until o'clock yesterday morn
,r The walking delegates then visited the different
cables Of the NewYork Cab Company and ordered
The men who not at the meeting to leave their
work The strike sudden and unexpected
that the company was unprepared for it. The tee-
rhones in the different stables kept busy
yesterday by customers who wanted cabs-and
r.ar,cd them ouckly-and could not appreciate the
s,tuafion in which the company was placed The
conversation over the phone between the managers
\; the company and their patrons went about
follows
Is this tho Ncw-York Cab Company
YES"
$ nd a cab around 10 the club at once.
I'VE are very sorry. but our men strike and
ve can't do it,"
"NNhat rei2'
is this the Ncw-York Cab Company"
Eyes"
please send cab to No. - ave. right
away"
we are very sorry. hut men all went on
strike to-day. and we have driver would dare
10 send with the cab"
.How provoking | wanted to do shopping
,o-3aV and must have cab. Have YOU nobody
who AN drive cab? Can you not send the super
in.cnd,nt?
Allan Lcxow treasurer of the company. seen
bra Tribune reporter at the companys main offices,
No lls 10 1870 West Thrty-second-st.. last night.
the company" he said. has no fight with its
men but with the Liberty Dawn Association. The
waking delegates Of the association came 10 us six
hours after the strike and made demand
tsat We recognize only members Of the association,
meaning that we shall hire no cabdrivers
those whom the association sends us. When we
wan: men must send to the association and ac-
cep any may choose to send US. be they good bad
or indifferent. We held conference with the OFF,
GERS ~ the association in the of the day but
nothing came of il, as the company will not aban-
don lis principle Of insisting hiring only men
who in its opinion suitable 10 its trade"
James Heifornan general superint endent Of the
company. said that the company wished to be
friendly with the men. and when it employed men
no questions were asked to their union afiilia
lions The trade of the company is high class one
ana il was necessary TO have the best of men. His
company had always paid the highest wages and
treated The men well. The would never have
gone on STRIKE II II nad Deen lc1t 10 tnCn. Inc
company had a number of men who had not gone
on strike. but ii thought advisable not TO re-
sumo the public cab service until Monday next I'M
less the strikers returned work in the time.
Superintendent Heffernan did not blame the men
for sticking to the association but he thought it
was rather hand that they should strike now. when
TIE company had a chance to make little money.
in the summer months most Of the companys
patrons away in the country. and business is
dun. The wages of the men, however. go on just
the same. They receive So each day. whether
there is any work for them to do or not. as long
IS they report the office. The livery establish
nents Of the New-York Cab Company are as fol-
lows No u to 25 East Twefth-st.. ZIG 10 1870 West
Thirtv-second-st Fifth-ave. and Forty-fourth-st..
Nos Q and West FOrty-ffth-st.. Nos. 221 and 22S
West Fifty-third-st.. No. 5 East Fifty-eighth-st
and Seventy -ffth-st and Amsterdam-ave. The COM
pany does not have cabs in waiting at the public
cab stands in the streets in front OF the hotels,
but sends them wherever required. 1t supplies
the Union Club cabs. and also the Colonial. Met
ropolitan Lotos. ST Nicholas. Progress. Harmony.
CITY, Lawyers and Harvard clubs. The company
does not object to the men belonging to the Lib
erty Dawn Association any more than 1t does to
their joining the Free Masons. odd Fellows or
any other society, and II will take back some or
them if they see III TO return before their places
The strikers held continuous meeting at indie
pendence Hall, No l5S East Twenty-seventh-st..
yesterday. Prior to the meeting on the night be-
a circular had been distributed among the men.
part Of il reading as foliows: -
"Remember this is the only large stable In New
York that does not comply with union conditions,
and the drivers in all the other stables say 1t is
The fault Of the men now working for the cab COM
pany Now is the time to send back this insult to
those who say Come. therefore, all OF you
VINO have got a spark of manhood, TO this meet
ing and show to the public that the men employed
IL the cab company are Just as good as those en-
ployed by any other firm
night that pickets had been placed at the clubs
"a other places which the New-York Cab Com
- sunDljed with cabs. and that the members
~ he liberty Dawn Association who drove cabs
~ other livery stables would not obey orders to
g 10 them