New-York tribune., 1907-07-01

-. appeared First Deputy Commissioner Ed-
yards of the Street Cleaning Department saIu
rhat one hundred Philadelphia laborers wouio
he on hand by daybreak to-day since tHe
Health DEPARTMENT has been put in charge OF
,be work Commissioner Darlington has planned
- have at least double the seven hundred Inat
were regularly. employed before the strike. Inns
&c necessary because of the accumulation Oh
,yorI,aga rf the laborers arrive to-day work
vii hcgia with about three hundred men on the
soh srd e the contractor furnishes the 1-oo ao-
ditional Iaborers. as he promised me cleaniIs
~ rho citv may be we'll on its way oef"re
Wednesday.
CRAVEN MAKES PROMISES.
1-oliovv;1,g q talk with Commissioner Craven
Yesterday afternoon. the Mayor said: Every
effort is being made TO get men to work at
cleaning the streets. Commissioner craven h'9
Informed me he expects 10 have a working Ioree
Of Two hundred men to start IN "oIh 'iis M Ia
,7i,e tomorrow morning. Eighteen or lhe olu
mon called at Station G this morning ana asheu
for work They were nut to work Al STATION
A. almost the same number OF OLD men aPpiieu
for their positions. They were put TO WORK.
ike the others. with no Understanding eNOep'
that they wanted work
commissioner Craven has assured me ne
would do all in his power TO relieve Inc Sltua-
tion but il must be done in a legal way. me
Commissioner has sent written notice to the
for lack Of work notifying them they can go 10
work If they wish The Civil Service list OF
one hundred names will be gone thror~h. and
those on the list who want work can cave IL.
After that lis has been exhausted. the Com
missioner will employ any ana all laborerS ne
can get. 10 do this work"
II was learned also that Commissioner Craven
expects 10 have another conference with the
committee representing the striking drivers ana
their parent organization, the United Teamsters
ff
day that they would still stick to their original
demands - forty-eight hours constituting a
weeks work and overtime being paid for at -
cents an hour: no fines being imposed without
an opport1Initv for a hearing: the schedule of
fines being reduced a system of suspension
substituted. and that the badges taken from the
men he restored To them. These demands were
turned down by the Commissioner at the con-
ference on Saturday. and there seems little
likelihood of an agreement unless the terms are
considerably weakened.
Commissioner Darlington has set hard pace
worker. and after having been UP and
about all Saturday night he scurrying
about town Yesterday until almost midnight.
Many of his men were employed last night
sprinkling strong disinfectants on the more dan
Eerous ru bhiSh heaps. Complaints came in from
many places and ali were met with the reply
that as soon could be hired they would
be sent 10 the districts. Sheriff Hayes reported
the evil condition Of Harlem. especially in up
town Little Italy. The Commissioner said last
night that there was no immediate danger of an
epidemic, but that the situation had become
very grave and presented possibilities of dis
ease. Re also spoke highly of the work DR..
Bensel was doing
BOY SENT TO WORKHOUSE.
Tie aftermath Of Saturdays arrests was heard
in the courts yesterday. Goodman Jacobs. the
boy who was stoning strike breakers at a stable
was sent 10 the workhouse for all indefinite
period by Magistrate Barlow in the YorkviIe
court Paul Connors of No. 511 West 18th
str -,
charge of throwing bricks at a strike breaker
He was held i'm $500 bail for hearing to-day
since the strike breaker did not appear against
him.
Commissioner Craven was denounced at the
meeting Of the Central Federated Union. and
blamed for the strike and the filthy condition Of
the streets. The demands Of the street cleaners
were declared to be just and equitable. It was
decided 10 appoint committee TO wait the
Mayor and ask for the removal of Commissioner
Craven In case the Mayor fails to remove
him the Central Federated Union viii ask Gov
erner Hughes to remove Mayor Mcclellan.
II discharging Carl Burdock. who had been
arrested for using water from hydrant to clean
tie streets Magistrate Finn. in the Centre street
court delivered himself Of some strong opinions
He said in part:
The administration Of the affairs of the city
seerns to me 70 be in a completely disorganized
condition
The Department Of Street Cleaning and its
officials act as IL they were imbeciies. It imports
football players from Princeton University and
puts them in charge of the great and vital work
cf cleaning the streets Of this monster city.
They are men VINO have had practical expert
ence in such work and have conception of
their duty. They are called upon perform
these works and undertake 10 do the citys work.
and they deal with the men employed by the city
after a rigid examination-the men who do the
actual wcTk-as if they we're slaves
Despite the fact that there has been a law
passed giving these men the eight-hour day,
officials Of the Street Cleaning Department have
arranged it so that aIl the drivers are called
upon 10 work anywhere from ten to fifteen
hours a day. and the kind Of work they do
the removal OF garbage and refuse-would be
considered by most men a very disagreeable
job
I believe personally that the people of the
citv of New York would had the Commissioner
Of Street Cleaning agreed TO the demands Of