The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-03
The ICE STRIKE ABOUT OYER
DRIVERS HUSTLE TO GET RACK
THEIR OLD .JORS.
Some Throw Away .1v,rir lnlo0 Esutt Ons
-knerts to t!et the Forenien tpwt Eaib
Men st the Uptown stations Refuse
90 60 tput -Irtr situation la IsrOoklyn.

-FdtWtNN 10 Naft tue tOFfUtfu ttuV uAIt
Men NJ the Uptown stations Refuse
60 Go tbut -Irhr Situation In IgrOoN ~ u.
The strike 81 the ice wagon drivers and
helpers against the American lce Com-
pany received it's d~eathblow yesterday
morning at Station A In Fast Ninth
street. where the strikers broke ranks and
returned TO work a dozen al a time After
the meeting Of the strikers in Saengcrbund
Hall in Brooklyn ON Monday night it. APP
pears that there was a division ~ sentiment
regarding the wisdom Of the strike and
some Of the strikers denounced the strik-
lenders.
The dispute was carried ON early yester-
day morning in the saloon at Avenue u aud
Ninth street. where the strikers have been
meeting. Words ran high and a dozen
~ the strikers declared their intention Of
returning to work. Business Agent Fer
retti. who ordered The strike, tried To argue
with them, but they would not listen.
They made a bee line for the Fast Ninth
street bridge and announced that hey had
come 10 work. More men ca me until nearly
the normal force was around. Most Of he
returning strikers were very angry and "A
number Of hem said that they were through
with the union. Some Of them toie oil
their union buttons aud gave them Ia S,Ii
Van Gift.
Al this station fifty Ioe wagons were
s-nt ont during the day. which ia the norial
number. Only four " the new men were
required. About 3O0 of the old drivers
and help ers returned. Some 81 The strikers
returned To work At the Franklin street
station and other places The East Ninth
street bridge, however, was the only place
where the strike went to pieces, but il ia
expected Ia collapse generally to-day
The effort 90 the strike leaders to get
the foreman ON WAS a fat failure. Only
one or two who had been formerly drivers
and were in the drivers union quit. Some
Of The foremen who are not in the union
3 ent among the strikers at the Fast Ninth
street cafe. VIII ere they met and induced
many Of he strikers To resume their jobs.
As the day wore on the barge men 90 the
Franklin street station heard thar the
strike was breaking up. When thew made
sure Of this they went back TO work.
II had been pla nned to extend the strike
TO the uptown stations yesterday morning,
but the men refused to strike. Meetings
of Inc strikers had been held here and there,
but no definite plan had been arranged.
DtNPU WtU quiz W ING Bbbt NltcIN-UiHt
street station and Chief Clerk Lind. As
sistant Superintendent TiedemaD and a
bookkeeIer named Sullivan served the
routes on the strikers wagons. The seven
men gave mp the strike n little later. The
drivers at tho East Ninety seventh street
station absolutely refused TO quit. There
the are we'll to do and tips are
plentiful.
President Wesley NJ. Oler OF the Ameri-
can Ice Company said Yesterday hat he
was not at all surprised at the collapse
OF the strike.
The grounds for the strike were 40
poor" lie said, that il could not last. IL
was not a strike Of the drivers. but Of the
officers OF the union. who want to have
some excuse for their salaries. and the men
after a day or two began to realize this.
The strike had no effect uptown at any
time. IL did not affect The Bronx or
Jamaica or Flushing. but affected lower
New York. Gresnpoint and Brooklyn.
We would have hnd no difficulty in a day
or two in filing the places Of the strikers"
He was asked IL the new men would he
discharged to give room to the returning
strikers.
Il believe a good many OF them will
leave. anyway The people who act as
strike breakers, as q rule, are q class by
themselves and seldom care to stay long
in one place. Before the strike broke we
were sitting out the men who were likely
to remain. One thing, the strikers have
had u little lesson
Regarding the efforts OF the independent
concerns to get part Of the trade Of the
company during the strike, he said that
The Gust omers Of the company would wait
and those who had to go TO other sources
for their ice would return.
There was no decided break in the strike
in Brooklyn. but here and there a number
Of the strikers were returning. The new
men were q little awk ward and were tainted
by the strikers. One Of the new men, a
man Of large physique, after listening To
the taunts Of one Of the strikers for fifteen
minutes or more knocked his tormentor
down. he latter did not show fight and
the rest OF the strikers let the new man
A meeting Of the strikers was held last
evening in ~Saengerbund Hall. Smith ADD
Schermerhorn streets. Brooklyn. The lead
ers said that it had been decided TO keep
the strike up. but IL IN believed there is an
understanding that the men will go quietly