The sun., 1908-12-23
'NEE OUT AT MORE STABLES
STRIKE or THE CAB DRIVERS
Z GROWS 4 LITTLE,

But the Employers Are stin COnndent
There VIII BE No Trouble and Issue
q statement Denying That Any Point
/ but Closed shep Has Reen at Issue.
The strike Of the cab drivers was ex-
tended yesterday morning to the stables
Of Z. B. Seaman 4 Son at Seventy sixth
street and Park avenue. with branch at
17S West Eighty-ninth street, and r..
Tsggart. Jr., at 1o4 West Forty y-sixth
street. with branch at 50 West Forty
third street. Both firms had twenty-four
hours notice from the COMMITTEES OF
twenty eight. which Is ordering the
strikes. TO accede to the union demands
and refused to do so.
According to the strike leaders more
strikes are scheduled for to-day. Some
Of the stable keepers have number OF
men who refused to strike, among them
the Mason Stable Company, forty Of whose
drivers refused to obey the strike order.
The firm hesitated TO send them out
yesterday In the expectation that the
strike will be over soon, as the men who
remained have been threatened II they
are seen driving. Others, however.
manned their stables. some with men who
refused to strike or with strike breakers.
j. H. Naughton. chairman of the execu-
tive committee of the Livery Stable
Keepers Association, who Is interested
in the Universal Taxioab Company, said:
~Our chauffeurs came to us when the
strike started and said they would not
strike, but would work under protection.
Yesterday morning they came and said
that the other strikers had been jntimidat-
ing and threatening them and asked for
advice. We decided to put the machines
away for the present and told them to
be In readiness when we wanted them.
Representatives Of various strike
breaking agencies went among the
stable proprietors and there appeared
TO be considerable competition among
them for the privilege Of supplying strike
breakers and private detectives One
agency supplied 200 private detectives
and according to its representative has
1000 men in reserve, Some OF the
livery stable keepers will give their old
men a chance Of returning to-day,
In view OF the statements made by the
strike leaders that the open versus the
closed shop has nothing to do with the
strike and that It was ordered for other
Ieommittee at the meeting to issue the
following statement over the signature
Of President Lexow:
The contract existing between the Livery
Stable Keepers Association and Local
287 Of United Teamsters of America ex-
pired on October is. 1924. More than thirty
days after expiration communication
was received from the union requesting
a conference, which was agreed to. We
subsequently had many meetings with the
committee on wage and conditions and
after taking up the tentative agreement.
clause by clause. and agreeing to each
one individually and separately, they
absolutely refused to sign the same unless
he following clause was also agreed upon:
Section TO- That only members in good
standing OF Local Union 267, United Team
sters OF America. be employed"
That was absolutely rejected, the stable
keepers refusing to be made a tool to force
men to Join union or for the collection OF
dues OF same.
The stable keepers Association does not
desire 10 discriminate against any man.
whatever his atiilialions might he. or even
This is an absolutely true St atement
Statement sme f0s to the Contrary from any source
whatever. ,...
Deputy Police Commissioner Bugber
sent out an order last night for policemen
to carry nightsticks both on day and
night tours. The men were ordered to
discard belts. In fight policeman is
at disadvantage when wearing belt,
as his opponent is often able to get hold
on him by grabbing the girdle. A new
echeme Is being tried out In the matter
OF police reserves. In other strikes
policemen have gone from various pre-
cincts to serve during the hours Of the
various tours, at the end OF which the
men returned to their various station
houses. The present plan has called for
one man from each platoon. which means
five from each precinct. These police
men are assigned to the West Sixty-eighth
street station house for duty until the
end OF the strike. They take the same
amount Of duty as il serving at their
own station houses.