New-York tribune., 1907-06-03
PUSILCART MEN ASTIR.
AFTER .NCLELL1N BILL.
Send Delegation to IIbary to Pre-
rcRt Its PQSSaoc.

Every Yuz!.cart merchant in New York city is
In arms. 4 hill has been introduced by Senator
Frawlcy in TIE state Legislature, known the
Mayor Mcclellan TCshCaTt bill" TO restrict the
Tusncart industry the corgested districts Of the
city - limiting them four TO n block, Thirty
minutes the tirHe allowed each vender in given
place. first offence IS not punishable, but II
guilty d second time man may be fined so and
sentenced 10 months Imprisonment
Il understood by the pushcart men that This
measure voulc be tabled untii one better adapted
30 the needs Of the East Side could he drafted
When word received frOIA Albany that the
b'i would la taken up during the present session
the pushcart mems Indignation knew bounds.
Yesterday howl Of protest went up from the
East Side. Eight indignation meetings held.
q which all KINDS of sharp things said about
The nil and pens TO thwart its passage were con-
s'dered- IN consequence. n delegation OF seven,
representing all the pcdiers' unions Of the East
Side. viii 20 To Albany this afternoon. carrying
a volume % resolutions Of protest Prayers for
their success offered IN al the synpgogues in
the city last night
At odd Fellows Hall. No qS FORSYTH street big
mass meeting held. Over thousand push
cart men attended The hall was so crowded that
an overflow meeting had to be held upstairs. Sigis-
nund Schwartz. president of the United Citizens
Pedlers' Association of Greater New York pre-
sided He opened the discussion by referring to the
injustice of the measure.
He said tie pushcart men couldn't do business
outside of the congested districts. and they should
The people of the East Side. lie said, preferred to
buy Of the pUshCart men, because they We're con-
Nenient TO their homes, and sold goods at low
prices. Thousands OF vendors had all they pos
Eessed invested in pushCarts. and their little stock
in trade If their places OF marketing taken
away from them they would soon be starved out.
Now. chentemen. vat will you do about id?'
asked Chairman Schwartz
We viii hire a poat und go the river the tay line
10 Albany oop. We will take der frau and kinder,
and beef il TO dem peoples in dot Legislature. yah?
was a suggestion offered by Abraham Cohen, a
Pedler from Hester street.
oh. dot is fine" shouted another. "Ve viii
march der Capitol by. Dot viii stop en-. Ven dey
see al us mems und yimmen they will be scared
ride oud q der wits.
This seemed to meet with general approval They
all wanted TO take the Capitol by storm. Fine!
Fine!" There uproar Everybody tried to
talk Yiddish and German the same time. Chair
Schwartz with difficulty restored order. He
then explained that Albany further away than
Williamsburg, and it would take time and conSlq-
cradle money get there He suggested that II
would be better to send a committee, representing
the unions. This plan adopted after the I'M
possibility Of general outing had been explained
Delegates were appointed by each OF the unions
follows: Sigisnund Schwartz representing the
United Pedlers' Association; Harry kalnenson
the East Side Pedlers Association Harry Fosher
the Citizens Pedlers' Association Of Greater New
York Gabriel RUcholtZ. the New York Pediers
Association; Jacob Fishbach, the Orchard Street
East Side Pedlers' Association. and Adolph
ton Louis Zetner. president OF the Wireless
News Association named delegate-at-laTge.