The sun., 1908-10-04
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strking thaufeufs
The young driver Of the red machine
Cha rIes schirmer Of 500 West i?sth street
reached Forty.fourth street and broad
way, going north. at sis p. NJ. AZ that
point another automobile drew up from
behind and two mon standing in the
car began firing rocks AZ Schirmer.
Some Of the rocks hit him and bruised
his face. He stuck to his wheel. The
other auto got stuck In a Jam presently
and tratfic policeman arrested two men
who were alleged to be the stone throw
ers
Edward Hines Of q West Ninety-eighth
street and Bernard J. Keller Of lsi? Madi-
son avenue we're the names the men gave.
Policemen took them to the West Forty
seventh street station In the strike
breakers taxicab and everybody went
inside the station house 10 attend the ar
raj eminent, leaving the machine alone,
uns,arded even by the police OF that
station.
Tben n crowd of men who had been
iecripg the police janmed in In front
Of the station house. got behind the taxi
cab and pushed it along Fory-seventh
street to Ninth avenue. There one OF
them disconnected the oarbureter and
another crawIed under the chassis and
lighted a match. Gusosene flames hared
up and in a few minutes the rcd car was
a wreck. Everything wooden about It
burned.
A SUN reporter who was sent uptown
v csterday to find out why on earth the
drivers Of the red taxicabs had struck and
why they didn't go back to jobs that the
tipping public has come to believe are
immensely profitable. stopped OF at the
Knick erbocker to find out what Jerry.
the cab driver, thought about IT,
sThe Lord knows. son. said Jerry.
sGiye me the Job of any one OF EN- and
see II I'D strike. They're the lads that's
making the money II old Jerry wasn't
uuch an old akate you'd zee him packing
his booka on 10 the chanffeurs school and
learning to wear one q them Salvation
Army uniforms too. Oh. sure, us cahbieS
10 doing we'll to-day-making g to every
one that came In yesterday. But s'poan
the etrike ends on Monday and Jerry D
earnings goes back to 80 cents. which 10
likely enough, hear--no. sir. ! can't say
that the rampagin' Of the taxicab fellers
makes me permanently. cheerful.
Up at the offices aud garage & the New
York Taxicab Company In West Sixty
secor d street they d dn't eeetn to know.
either, why 100 drivers OF the red pick
u,e-,ps bad refused to lake out their cars
for the day at 7:SO yesterday morning.
with the result that all but three Of those
cars stayed In the stable until, at in the
afternoon, lew trundled forth with
strikebreaking chauffeurs, hastily en-
gagged. and bicycle policemen following
to see that nobody's hea was cracked
Harry Alien. president Of the company.
had started to explain that he also was
mystified and that the chauffeurs had
lust jumped their jobs without present
ing any kind OF O demand or giving him
n chance to treat with them when the
crowd loaflng about the guarded door
OF the garage raced over to Broadway to
learn why everybody all Of sudden was
fastening down toward Columbus Circle
A driver Of one OF the twenty taxicabs
sent forth experimentally from the
garage at 4 O'Clock had been stoned, 1t
developed. Four persons were arrested
They were Lawrence Hand. chauffeur;
Morris Marcus, chauffeur: William
Freeman. iaborer. and Joseph Neadder
coachman.
At Washington Hall in Eighth avenue.
where the striking chauffeurs OF the
taxicabs were frothing In meeting, the
deep seated plant OF the drivers was
set forth
The New York Taxicab Company put
its first car on the streets year ago the
frst Of October. 1t was explained. 1t had
done well. Nearly 500 cars were In use
and 200 more were expected. The men
were paid by percentage. or all they
took In from passep gers they got 70 per
cent. But they had to buy their own
gasoiene, and buy 1t from the TasicAb
company at is cents a gallon, whereas,
the boss striker said, they knew Of other
places where II cents was the price.
From the company the chauneurs
must get thsir uniforms at the rate Of
% cents day. the boss striker said.
and IL was q terrible thing that as soon
al they got one suit paid for that way
the company made them buy another.
Then every night whom the u,achines
set back to garage went On the boss
striker. they have to be cleaned and
clicked up. and the company holds ten
oents out OF our pay every day to cover
the coat OF that
Altogether We figure that out of what
We make on percentage each OF us Is
turning back 10 the company ali the time
a dollar day. To cover that a man.
got TO take In Ss before he begins making
anything for himself. We claim that
these requirements are outrageous and