The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-21

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tflct frsn Fourteenth street ~ the Battery,
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aecofsilnG h. Nv" uniUn made, tru,ihlr ftr
dsty weddlngt
Tho union densmds sia . se's tos Ne
mesnbsrs and tweive hours N o'ft ~ evrrp
t~venty.fouf Sfhg SAWS denfait ess
made ny the uptown union IsDctloit wiic't
made IN agreement lat verk hy shtch
the wages demanded wsre eftntei and tht
drivers got ten bo,ffa out ~ The twsntys
four.
The downtown union aliou' IN, iin' ~
the strike 81 thp uptown drivers Ind niahs
an agreement with tho Finsral Cplc'i
Owners' Association ty Wilton they wars
N recsivc siS q wcrk, They felt core a tho
uptown drivers getting 81 week mpr,.
and assert also that the employers wers
not even living w 10 the terms OF thair
agreement.
IL was admitted by tho employer, nearly
all u whom are undortakers. that ctrrisgss
were scarce yesterday. Sunday IL ala =
great day for weddings and many We ihi1s
parties had TO take 60 tho street clr.. Th'p
u the downtown employers who hal hve~S
stables jumped up the price % q c17c1
in some cascs, but even then they could not
do business when a walking delegate APP
pcared.
The strike committee 81 the union INST
at it, headquarters. ~ Suffolk street. whcrs
committees were sent out every time that
scouts OF the union brought In word that
a funeral or wedding party was under way.
One or two funerals were stopped nni II
some cases the undertakers drove their
own coaches. President .JOeeph O'Brien
Of the union reported that twelve out Of ths
thirty-iive coach owners aTecsei hui
granted the demands. The first 10 grant
the demands was Charles Blcig llupo, 25's
Mulberry street, who IL the biggsst MN
in the business on the East Side.
A funeral was about to start from tbs
stables OF Levy Greenberg, at 224 Division
| street, when the union delegates came
along and called the men OF. The carriages
were taken back, and Mr. Greenberg drove
the hearse himself.
hC "0T away @ iiabh 'Sfi ''D 49,
sta BILE and asked for a carriage to take his
child who was III at his home, at 22s Madison
street, to Mount Zion Hospital, Mrs. Green
berg could find no dri vers and the man got
a cab and horse, which he undertook to
drive himself. When he left his child at
\ the hospital he drove back to his home
| and found q crowd of strikers there,
He telephoned to Mrs, Greenberg, and she
-,..t a.. poa NJ laon oIra,t and rrnnrNtlv
elected two strikers from the cab. Then,
mounting the box, she drove back TO tbs
stables. Later in the afternoon " men
called at the sta BILE and asked for a carriogs
or a buggy to take a dead baby to the ceme-
terry, Offering TO drive 1t themselves The
watohful agents of the strikers tipped OF
the members of the strike COMMITTEES, and a
subcommittee was sent to interview Mrs,
G%reenberg,
Mrs. Reenberg was ready for The COM
mittee. The leader Of the committee began
to talk with her, when she gave him a heave
and sent him out to the middle OF the street.
Mrs. Peshkin, the wife Of Zeliok Peshkin.
who keeps n stable at 100 Chrystie street,
was struck by a driver who had formerly
been employed in the stable while her hus-
band was away driving o hearse, She
wears glasses and her face vas cut by the
blow. The man fed before the police
arrived, but Mrs, Peshdn says she knows
his name and VIII get @ warrant for his
arrest.
A coach driven by o member Of the up
| town union which was following @ hearss
was sont back at the Williamsburg Bridge.
The hearse was allowed to 20 over. Julius
Sheuer, an undertaken at 800 East Houston
street, had a hearse and eight coaches wait
ing for a funeral In Sixth street when
delegates of the strikers came along. They
found that the coaches and hearse were
being driven by members Of the uptown
union. The men on the coaches gave up
the job, but the relatives Of the deceased
made a strong plea to the union delegates,
and according TO the latter they allowed
the hearse to 60 on.
While the funeral OF Samuel Diamond, VIC
died on Friday at a. Avenue G, was nearing
the williamsburg Bridge yesterday to cross
the bridge, a shower Of stones was thrown
from a roof in Norfolk street at an open
carriage In which were the relatives OF the
dead man.
Undertaken Greenberg OF. IA Division
street had charge Of the funeral and drove
the hearse. The open carriage followed
the hearse and 300 mourners followed on
foot. None Of the occupants Of the car
rage was hurt. They stopped the funeral
and made their way to the roof, but the
man who threw the stones had disappeared.
The funeral then crossed the bridge.