New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-09
POLICE ON NAIL WAGONS.
ATTACK. ON DRYERS.
Postmaster WdIcor Pays Respects
to Cortright-Little Delay.

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Every wagon carrying mall was guarded
yesterday by policeman, and even the empty
wagons were so guarded when returning 70 the
stables. That this precaution was necessary
shown by the crowds of strikers and
sympathizers who lined the sidewalks as the
empty wagons returned TO the stables. Many
offensive epithets were flung at the new drivers
by men and boys who ran after the wagons, as
we'll as mere substantial things, in the way Of
deoayed fruit and vegetables. thrown by women
from windows.
The contractors say that the absence of the
police on Thursday was the cause OF fifty new
Eierl deserving, number of them being roughly
handled before they gave up. Postmaster Will
cox said yesterday that he was at a loss to
understand why the police were withdrawn from
The wagons. Both Commissioner McAdoo and
Inspector Cortright had at first refused to fur
nsh this protection.
Il asked the inspector he said why the
department assigned a policeman for every
truck during the meat strike. and refused TO
furnish protection for the mails. He replied
that the trucks might be overturned and the
meat destroyed. 1 asked him If the mails were
not equally valuable and he said that was
another thing / had finally to write TO Com
natestoner McAdoo demanding protection before
u was given. won't undertake to say what
this strange proceeding meant. I leave you to
guess. will be charitable and only say that it
was due to lack of intelligence in one branch of
the city administration.
Mr.. Wilcox said that with the police pro-
lection afforded the mails were delivered. AS
soon as one man deserted another took his
place.
THE strike" he said. us not against the
iPostofiice. but against the contractors. They
i have the responsibility for carrying the mails
and bound to carry them
The International Brotherhood OF Transfers
has Endorsed the strike. and Vice-P President
Gould came here yesterday from Chicago to
take charge Of il. It happens that the stables
of the New-York Mail Company are the
headquarters of the strikers, and yesterday
. delegates and other officers Of the union
swarmed around the stables. Some of them
went in after the new men, and were put
by the police.
Many of the new drivers surrendered their
wagons unable to stand the threats and ridi
cule of the strike sympathizers. Fifteen of them
were more or less injured by attacks from mobs
while the police were away. One of them came
IN trembling and bleeding from cuts and said
he had been stabbed in the face
The Civic Federation took hand in the dis
pute yesterday. and will try to settle it at con-
ference which will be held this afternoon. E r.
a
Company said last evening that in response to
q request from the Civic Federation he would
as an sct of courtesy give his side of the case.
He added:
1.-The men exaggerate the hardness of their
work and are paid more than they say. We
pay overtime and some of the double team
drivers earn 81 week.
Mr.. Ashton business agent of the livery coach
drivers branch of the teamsters. who was
x-;-L-1 to-
sense.
IT am willing to go before Mr.. Travers,'' he
said. and prove that the men work overtime
for nothing.
Secretary Herman Of the Mail Wagon Drivers
Union, said:
I'VE have been fooled right along by the con-
tractors The wages We have been getting make
ashamed of being driver"
As the mail wagons do not belong to the fed
eral government but to the contractors, TO at
tack the driver of a mail wagon is not federal
offence. This the strikers all seemed to know
yesterday AT the office Of the New-York Mail
Company it stated last evening that the
traces some of the wagons had been cut.
Nearly all the trouble it is alleged. occurred
while the police guard withdrawn. on
Thursday night some one cut the telephone wire
connecting the stables with the General POST
Office.
Assistant Postmaster Morgan received infor-
nation yesterday morning that there was likely
TO be trouble in Jersey City and Hoboken. As
the information apparently came to Mr.. Morgan
from trustworthy source most probably
through secret agents of the government he at
once conferred with United States Marshal
William Henke Although Jersey City and Ho-
boken are outside Marshal Henkels jursdic-
ton. he at took steps to prevent any
tack being made the mails the driv-
Marshal Henkel communicated with Chief
Murphy of Jersey City and Chief Donovan of
Hoboken by telephone. and they assured him
that the police forces of both cities would
10 It that there would be interference with
the trans portation of mail Chief Murphy and
Chief Donovan also said that they would have
special details of uniformed to meet the
wagons at the ferries, and that they would be
well protected on their way to and from the
railroad stations.
was Martin Ziegler, forty-eight years old. who
had been employed as a driver. A peculiar feat
ure OF the case is that Ziegler assaulted
after he had acceded 10 the demands of q walk
ing delegate and had quit his job After leaving
his wagon Ziegler appealed to the police for pro-
lection and escorted to the elevated station.
When he left the train at Chatham Square he
assaulted by three men, whom he identified
as strikers He managed 10 escape from his
assailants and took the train back TO 22d-st,
where ne made complaint to Captaip Hussey.
An ambulance summoned from Bellevue
Hospital and Ziegler. who suffering from
fractured jaw. attended to by DR. Bowman.
After his wounds had been dressed. Ziesler. in
company with Detectives Hersey, SmalIey.
Kuefln and kenney, went back to Avenue 4 and
1eth-st.. where the four detectives arrested John
Kahie, twenty-five years old. of No. 25S Ave
nue. A The latter was identified by Zegler a
of tfe men who assaulted him. but he was
many men in the place at the time