The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-07-01
FIGHT STRIKE TO
STOP EPIDEMIC
GOTHAM HEALTH BOARD PUTS
POLICE GUARD OVER THE
GARBAGE COLLECTORS.
STENCIL BREEDS DEATH
Say Doctors Who Are StrenuousIy En
deavoring to Prevent Plague
Ice Mems Walk-Out Adds
Terror to Tenements.

IT New York, June 30.--Under a stron,
, police guard the first systematic c,ean
ingaof the city streets since the strik,
10 he department of street cleanin:
drivers began started today. Progress
was SLOW, however, the health dc
pertinent. which now has charge OF ths
work, having much difficulty in hirin-
men to take the places of the stris
err
! Crowds of strikers gathered at many
points and bombaded the new men
| With sticks and stones, and in some
leases went SO far as to pull the driy-
ers from their seats on the wagons
iVers Attacked BY Strikers.
George Burdict, one of fourteen
drivers who started out was attacked
! by a gang of fifty strikers at One Hun
| dred and Eighteen street and Pleas
ant avenue After being the traga.
for clubs and stones, he was pulled
from his seat and roughly handled be
fore he could be rescued by the police.
Antonio Amazaro, who was arrested
and identified as one of Burdict's as
sailants, was sent to the workhouae
for an indefinite term.
The conditions in some of the side
streets, particularly in the upper East
Side, are regarded as extremely ser
ious. Great heaps of refuse. which
have accumulated since the strike be.
gan. are piled up along the curBs,
a menace to the health Of thousands
In the crowded sections. So great
had the quantity of rubbish become In
some places today that householder
built bonfires in the streets to con
snme the garbage.
Physician ThoWs Down Gauntlet.
DR. NalIer Bensei. who has Lean lsui
In charge of the work with full pow
er, personally directed the onslaught
on the garbage heaps today. II is a
curious fact that the people whose
health and very lives are menaced BY
the prevailing conditions yesterday
aided he strikers in an attempt to
sent to remove the refuse.
Realizing this situation, DR.. Ben |
sci called for and is receiving ample |
police protection.
God help the man who interferes
with my work. he said today. Il
am going to have this mass Of garbaga
in less than two days the
men working night and day until the
work is accomplished In addition to
the police reserves we have our own
force of sanitary policemen, who will
take care of the men,"
The strikers are showing signs of
now that the health de
partment has taken hold and have |;
sent communication to the newspap
srs offering to arbitrate.
Several doctors who have visited
he districts where conditions are the
worst say that a great deal of sickness
Ind many deaths must necessarily fol
ow as a consequence of this disastrous
itrike.
Clouds Relieve Ice Famine.
Prospects were that the ice famine
Iue to the strike of drivers of the
american Ice company's wagons wonlfI
,e severely felt owing to todays re- ?
uirements. Frequently heavy clouls
empered the heat. Officers of the
ompany were making strenuous ef
orts TO deliver ice without cOncedine
he demands of the strikers, and wer
bic to move a considerable number
I their wagons.
In Brooklyn where the strike has 7
cen severely felt owing to The laci Is
( competition by other companies. =
le officers of the American Ice com q
any said they had about 100 wagons 7
service, and manned chiefly by their 7
ecular drivers. who either did not a
lin the strike or returned to work n,
tier quitting.
A few of the men employed on the =;
q barges and at the distributing de ~
,ts joined the strikers in Brooklyn Il
,day. adding to the seriousness o IN
n strike in that borough. The ger ),
al manager OF the company said he re-
ould give the strikers until tues 70
Nv to return. and If they failed to dc
would hIl their places. !,
Offer 10 Save Some Lives.
Officers of the drivers union sa' =
day that they would hire wagons
ID deliver ice to the hospitals ano .;
aritable institutions if the compan
5 were unable TO do so.
Many of the large consumers en
Dyed drivers to haul the ice from ths
pots Of the company. but had some
Hicuity in finding men for the work bo
@ members Of the Teams. ers' union o
nerally refusing TO work st
NeiII Talks With TeIeersphers. -
Commissioner of Labor Nell retrrI- Jill
to Washington this afternoon Ths co
imary purpose Of his visit here was on