New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-11-16

| bakers dozen return to work To-Day, ne
said. and the rest would stay on strike
as long as it was necessary to gain union
recognition.
Mayor Promises Protection.
| Mayor Gaynor's statement was in the
form OF a letter written to John rack
ney member OF the Wescott company
committee, which called at the City
| Hall II read as follows:
! After your delegation Of eighteen Of the
taxicab drivers of the Westcott Company
at the Grand Central Station. called on me
yesterday and assured me that all Of your
| TWO hundred men were satisfied with their
wages and treatment and wanted 10 go
back to work, but that the union would not
permit them to. l brought about q meet
leaders of the union and representatives
Of the State Board of Mediation and Arbt-
tration last night.
The employers conceded the demands in
respect of terms Of employment, and agreed
TO take all of the men back without re-
gard to whether they belong to the union
Or not and thereafter not 70 discharge any
one for belonging 10 the union. They thus
conceded the open shop, az il is called,
namely, open TO union and non union men
! witnout discrimination. But the union
leaders demanded that every one be Elk
Guided from employment except union men,
and would not yield on this head: in other
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closed against every one except union men.
The case is just the reverse OF that of
the express companies strike. There the
men withdrew their demand that only
union men be employed and the companies
held out for a week thereafter on the prop
osition of discharging al union men or not
employing any, which they finally with
drew, for the reason that enlightened pub
lie opinion was against ii. That same opin-
OF the cab drivers union that the shop be
closed 10 ali except union men. 1t holds
that one side has no more right 70 demand
closed shop than the other Employees
are now demanding what they condemned
employers for demanding last week
adsls d Eoq "a al 70 20 9s9k 70 ~9Tk az
from street idlers Or Ioafers a policeman
will be sent out with you on the cab. the
was given TO every express wagon that
went out during that strike
Have no fear that YOU will not be fully
protected I have given the same advice
and assurance TO the employees Of the Con
necticut TaXicab Company, who are en-
tirely satisfied With their pay and desire 70
go back also. Very truly yours.
John Hackney, ESQ.
A crowd of strike sympathizers at
tackled 4 cab belonging TO the New York
Cab Company IN Aston Court Just west
OF the Waldorf Astoria yesterday after
noon, and a woman passenger barely
and running into the hotel when the
trouble began. The crowd cut the
horse loose. overturned and practically
wrecked the cab, and gave the driver.
Alexander Walton. OF No 206 Ninth
avenue g bad heating before the police
interviewed.
The attack was carefully planned
The strike sympathtzers had concea led
themselves, some in doorways and some
in the alley which runs back Of the
Waldorf between 34th and 35th streets.
and at a signal from some one who was
acting leader suddenly surrounded
the cab as it was entering the court.
Walton was pulled from his seat. His
whip was taken from him and he was
beaten over the head and shoulders
with it
The woman inside the cab was quick
TO realize what was happening and she
jumped out as the driver was being
hauled off his seat A riot call was sent
10 the West Both street station and the
reserves We're turned out on the run
The crowd scattered when the police an
peared. Walton who was bleeding from
cuts on his face and head was treated
by an ambulance surgeon from the New
York Hospital
The police arrested a man who was
said 10 be d rtngleader among the rio+-
ers When arraigned in the Jefferson
Market court the prisoner gave his
name as Vincent H. Allen, of No 2S2
West Hath street. and said he was
chauffeur. He was held for exantna-
ton in $1,000 bail on a charge Of assault
and malicious mischief There was No
other rioting reported to the police dur
ing the day.
Reagan Calls on Mayor.
Michael J. Reagan % The Stato RSa=z