Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-29
STRIKE OF THE |CEMEN
Temperate Weather Helps
Gotham in Its Distress.
DELIVERY WAGONS SCARCE
Some Bargemen and Helpers Join the
Drivers.
CAR TIE-UP IN SAN FRANCISCO
Company officials Not Inclined to
Make Any Concessions to
the Operatives.
DELIVERY WAGONS SCARCE
AR TIE-UP IN SAN FRANCISCO

NEW YORK, June 29.-Prospects were
that the Ice famine due to the strike OF
drivers of the American Ice Company s
wagons would be more severely felt today
than any day since the beginning OF the
strike, owing to the Sunday requirements.
Fortunately heavy clouds tempered the
heat Officers of the company were max
conceding the demands of the strikers, and
were able to move a considerable number
of their wagons. In Brooklyn, where the
strike has been severely felt. owing to the
lack of competition by other companies,
the officers of the American Ice Company
said they have about 100 wagons in service
and manned chiefly ty their regular drivers,
who either did not Join in the strike or re-
turned to work after quitting.
Bargemen Join.
few of the men employed on the Ice
barges and at the distributing depots joined
the strikers in Brooklyn today, adding to
the seriousness of the strike in that
borough. The general manager of the COM
pany said he would give the strikers until
Tuesday to return, and if they failed to do
so would fill their places.
Officers of the drivers union say today
that they would hire wagons and deliver
ice to the hospitals and charitable instl-
tutions if the companies were unable to DO
so Many of the large consumers employed
drivers to haul the Ice from the deoots OF
the company. but had some d1mculty IN
finding men for the work, the members OF
the teamsters' union generally refusing to
eSrye.
Street Car Strike.
SAN FRANCISCO, June ga conference
between President Calhoun of the United
Railroads and a number of labor leaders
who have been playing an important part
in the conduct of the carmen's troubles
was held here yesterday. The strike sltua-
ton engaged the serious attention OF the
conferees for something like three hours.
and when the del CATION Of labor leaders
finally withdrew from Calhoun's office the
story spread that the street car strike was
in fair way to be settled. The settle
ment. IL one is reached, will not. 1t Is de-
clared, involve any conces sions from Cal
houn or any action whatever on the part
of the street railway company.
The trouble will be brought to conclu-
sion 1t is said. by the withdrawal OF an
the support now accorded the carmen
carnations represented on the campaign
committee of the allied unions: >E>
White Wings Under Guard:
Under a strong police guard the first
systematic cleaning of the city streets
since the strike Of the department Of
street cleaning drivers was instituted was
begun today. Progress was slow, however
the health department. which now has
charge of the work, having much difficulty
in hiring men to take the places OF the
strikers. Crowds of strikers gathered at
many points and bombarded the. new men
with sticks and stones, and in some cases
went SO far as to pull the drivers from
their seats on the wagons. George Burdict
one of fourteen drivers who started out
was attacked by a gang Of fifty strikers
at 18th street and Pleasant avenue. After
being the target for clubs and stones. he
was pulled from his seat and roughly
handled before he could be rescued by the
police Antonio Amazaro, who was ar
rested and identified as one of Burdict' s
assailants, was sent to the Workhouse Tor
an indefinite term.
The conditions in some of the side streets,
particularly in the upper east side, are
regarded as extremely serious. Great
heaps of refuse, which have accumulated
since the strike began, are piled up along
the curbs, a menace to the health of thou
sands in the crowded sections. So great
had the quantity of rubbish become in some
places today that householders, disregard
ing the fire regulations, built bonfires IN the
at reefs to consume the garbage.