The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-13
PUSHCART HEN AFTER RIGHTS,
80 THOUGHT SUNDAY SELLING
WAS ON AND GOT ARRESTED.

Louis ZeItner Intercedes and Gets EN- on
-Stories About the WELLER Report
Started It--Mass Meeting 70 Formulate
Demands - 900 Ready to Parade.
Rurnors about the nature OF the report
Of Lawrence WELLER, chairman Of the COM
mission that has formulated a method Of
regulating the pushcart pedlers, have
been floating around the East Side for the
last week or 30. In their transmission from
English to Yiddish these rumors have taken
on an exaggerated, Oriental color. 1t was
said that the pedlers, under the WELLER
dispensation, would be permitted to sell
on Sundays until 10 O'Clock in the morning,
and thirty-ive pedlers tried the expert
ment yesterday morning and got locked
up.
Louis Zeltner, the wireless news expert,
was among those who interceded for the
pedlers, who we're discharged by Magis-
trate Wahle at Essex Market court. The
commissions report, which has not been
made public, was discussed at a big meet
ing Of pedlers In the hall at 90 Pitt street
yesterday afternoon, and after the apothe-
osis Of Louis Zeltner and the passage Of q
resolution Of thanks to Magistrate Wahle
for his kindliness the meeting decided to
have a parade, II necessary, Of 1000 organ
lied Yiddish speaking pedles from tho
East Side to the City Hall on the return Of
Mayor Mcclellan to ask for the preservation
OF their rights and privileges, which, they
understood. were threatened by the Veil
Ter recommendations.
The speeches were mostly pessimistio.
al 0,,,,,pl Cab rt1 praoilart 80 tha TTnifol
Citizens Pedlers' Association Of Greater
New York, said he had taken a ride In the
automobile Of Deputy Police Commissioner
Waldo on Friday TO look over the unsanitary
conditions ON the East Side that had been
attributed to the pedlers. He called the
attention Of Mr.. Waldo to the fact that the
pedlers cleaned up near the places where
they had their carts and hat most Of the
dirt really came down from the windows
Of houses. Always the pedler was the
victim. II tho police were shy IN arrests
they simply sent out and gathered in q
b undred pedlers.
Mr.. Rosenblatt made his speech In Eng
lish, 30 that the reporters Of the English
papers might understand what the meeting
was about. He said it seemed to him that
the pushcart commission wanted to clear
the streets OF pedlers. That was i'm
possible. He understood that there were
going to be licenses for ~favorite corners
that would cost from 500 to $500. These
he called the stationary licenses" which
he declared very few pedlers could afford
to buy. The moving licenses would be
cheaper.
The we'll to do and the poor pedlers should
unite unless they wanted to be knocked
out. They must all get together and go
to the City Hall, not as beggaTs. Blu rs
citizens with rights as dear to them as the
rights Of the big merchants are to them.
He thought that the .pedlers ought to have
on Sunday morning just as the storekeepers
were permitted t. do. Gabriel Bucholtz,
vice-president Of one OF the unions. advo-
GATED the sending back OF women pedlers,
except widows. to the kitchen. The wife
%it ssdaS q have " no q iR&lssssnissee. 'n Jossph % s per.
president Of the New York Pedlers' Benevo-
lent Association; Harry Platkin. president
of the East Side Pushcart Pedlers' Union,
and Louis Zeltner, president Of the Friends
1t was decided to adopt as q badge OF
the pedlers a button with the picture OF
President Seep on 1t. A different oolored
button will be given every month to every
member who has paid his dues. II any
member gets arrested for violating a cor
oAio oiAhAo pAoW ti0
button with the proper color the union
will not pay half his fine, as 1t does when
the member is in good standing. By the
change in the color Of buttons It is hoped
that the pedlers will be induced to pay up
regularly.
While the speechmaking was going on
o committee on resolutions. OF which
Adolph Stinemetz, secretary Of the assoosH-
tion, was the head, got up a deolaratica 81
principles which said that In union tfxsN
was strength and that 1t was only by tfe
amalgamation Of the various .~organiza-
tions that the pushcart men and womeI-
there are about 100 women In tho business
could obtain their rights. No member OF
the union should be permitted 70 ran two
p~ushcarts, and no p~ushcart man with a
proper and ~philanthropic regard for his
fellow pushoart mon should be permitted
to run q pedler's wagon or q grocery store
and q pushcart at the same time. No
woman except q widow should nave a push
cart no pedler who has beef in America
less han a year should be admitted to the
union no pedler should attempt to take
the place Of another pedler II the other
gets there first no pedler should shout
his wares; no official OF the union should
accept any money contribution from any
members to help in his reelection; a chari-
table fund should be established from which
any union man while ill may borrow with
out paying interest to help tide him over
his sickness; no union man should work
earlier han 0 A. M. nor later than 10 P. M.
AS Louis Zeltner left the hall he was
oheered and referred to as the pushcart
nap'o paNf candidate for Mayor