The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-26
AUTO CAB DRIVERS STRIKE.
ONLY TWO OFTHE $50 TURNED UP
> FOR WORK YESTERDAY.
Employees Of the New York Transportation
Company Out for More Pay Driv'
ere Help Them-TWO Men Arrested
After q Row Near the Garage.

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Company Out for More Pay Cab Driy.
era Help Them-TWO Men Arrested
After . Row Near the Garage.
There we're no electric cabs to be had
yesterday. all but two OF the $50 drivers
for the New York Transportation Com
pany, at Forty-ninth street and Eighth
avenue, having gone Oh strike.
This happened in the early morning. and
there were rumors Of riot when one OF the
two faithful, William Berry, tool a car out
in answer to a call. He turned south. At
Fnrty-seventh street his car, from which
one Of the strikers had disconnected the
lead wires. short circuiting the motor, got
out of control. While he was fussing with
IL several strikers came along and ran It
UP on the sidewalk next to the ehouse
Of Engine 81 in Forty-seventh street near
Eighth avenue. Berry drew a revolver and
shot twice at the strikers.
There were nothing but blank cartridges
in the weapon. so that all the scare was
for nothing. Inside the car at the lime
was william O'Halloran. superintendent
for the company. He Jumped out and ran
10 help Berry, who was struggling to get
away. A policeman arrested Berry and
ALSO a man named Archibald Rogers, "A
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we're taken TO the West , orty-seventh street
police station and later arraigned in the
West Side police court. Both were held
in $500 bail for examination, Berry, for carry
ing concealed weapons and Rogers for
assault.
That was all the rioting that was done.
There were 80 many men about the garage
That ten police reserves from the nearby
precincts were sent there, and they pre-
served order. The rest Of the day the
striking men hung about the corners and
were driven away occasionally by the
policemen.
Ths drivers employed in the garage a
while ago formed a union known as Electric
Automobile Operatives. Local 267 Of the
International Brotherhood Of Transfers,
With rooms at 229 East ~Forty-frst street.
Willard Perkins was elected president:
Joseph Murphy, vioes president; Charles
LIE Bohn, financial secretary. and Archibald
Rogers treasurer. Last Tuesday these
Officers waited on President Mead, inform
ing him that they came from a union of
his chauffeur. He refused 70 treat with
them as union men, but Said he would
talk 10 them as individuals. They sub
mitted their grievances.
lie Rohn says that under present con-
ditions the chauffeurs get to the garage
AOOUJ 4 u tlOth III w 'tl'lLllIk ollt ~
SoSTds,s as the phrase il when they go out
with a car in order Of seniority Of service.
Pay counts only from the moment the card
Ne stamped. A. great many men may hang
around for the better part Of the day with
out employment. They get IL 2-3 cents
per hour for each hour that they actually
are working.
II was explained bv Eugene Reilly.
another driver. that some men who have
been long in the employ Of the company
may come In and get a car, go out for an
hour or so, and come back and get another
car, while y man who was there waiting
when they first went out still will he wait,
ing. What the mon demand is standard
rate Of t2.50 a day Of twelve hours with an
hour out for lunch, and half time for over
time. They saw that they should be al
lowed TO come TO work at ! O'Clock, have
their cards stamped and draw time from
the time they 20 10 work as receiving pay.
They also ask that they have the control
of the New York Transportation Association,
a benefit society. to which each pays 80
cents a month. If they are sick for two
weeks they get 81 a week from the society.
but not until they have been sick for the
fourteen IN avs. The condition attaching
TO the organization is that the president of
the transportation company must he at the
head of this and that the company shall
control it.. Another grievance the men
have is that they have to have their uniforms
made at their expense in a shop the com
pany recommends and that recently they
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added expense.
The drivers Of the private cars rented
out by the company get 1881 a week
and have to work at all hours. All the men
have to pay for their licenses, a So fee.
The men say that the transportation assoc
citation, although run supposedly Tor their
benefit, never has it's clubrooms open after
Z o'clock in the evening and that many OF
them are there after that hour and get no
benefit from il. They say the company
has recently raised the charge for monthly
hire of private cars from $500 to $3.50 and
they feel entitled TO $3.50 for running the
private cars. The company gets 80 cents an
hour for running the electric hansoms and
slightly more for b~roughams and they
feel that they should get more than 10 2-3
cents an hour for that service.
The demand were refused and yesterday
morning tire strike was ordered.
The New York Transportation Company
has the electric cab service at Martins,
Sherry's, the Hotel Aston and at the rail-
road stations Of the d.. l.: n W., Central,
Railroad Of New Jersey and the Long Island
Railroad. When the company found at 7
O'Clock that the strike was on word was sent
to these places that the New York Cab
Company would serve instead. The leaders
of the strikers communicated with the
Liberty Dawn Association Of the Cabmen's
Union and they refused to take the place OF
the strikers.
All the striking chauffeurs we're paid of
yesterday evening in the Offices Of the COM
paDy. going six at a time through a
guard Of lcliccmen up 10 the paymaster's
room, where two more policemen were.
There ives 70 Ci.turEance. The notice that
drew them there was posted by L.. X. Clark,
general superintendent, and read: AN
driverS who Ia We not reported for duty to-
day will receive their full ray up to date
upon turri nE into the company their switch,
badge. duTlcE tickets, punch and any
property OF the company now in their pos-
session.
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