The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-11-08
TAXlS TOO FEW TO GO ROUND
DRIVERS AND CABS MAILED M
THE STRIKERS.


rriminate Against the Cnisa Men
Mere threats % . General strike
Thoexpress strike situation was worriei
yesterday by the taxicabbiss. Enough OF
them went on strike to tangle up the
transportation arrangements OF most Of
the hotels and the labor heads are con-
fdsnt that they will pull, ont still morn OF
these drivers.
The leaders say they can order general
strike OF everything on wheels, and they
add that they will meet for that purpose
Tomorrow 10 an agreement isn't made
before that. Their reason for holding
on until then. they said yesterday. was the
hope that there would be pacihcatory
conference between the employers and
the men in the interim.
So many policemen will be required on
election duty to-day that there can be no
protection for express wagons and very
little for the storm centres about barns
and Offices. For this reason the express
companies and department stores have
decided not TO send out any vehicles
to-day. Bat il was minated last night
that the neighborhood OF even motion
lees wagon would not be healihfu. Taxi
cabs that venture ont will not have sven
as much guarding as they had yesterday.
Fifty detectives attached 10 Police
Headquarters were ordered last night TO
put on uniforms and report for patrol
duty early this morning In the region
around Grand Central station Many
Of the men ~ho have been there since tho
strike began were drafted from precincts
outside OF Manhattan. and These vsre
ordered back to their stations This Is
the first time that Headquarters detectives
have done patrol duty on election day.
The effect Of drawing Oh share Of tho
city's taxis was immediate. Rsckcty old
coaches were brushed up and sent to a
lot Of the hotels. Even conveyances
generally used for nothing but funerals
had to do their part along Fifth avenue.
Early in the day the sidewalks were much
more crowded than ordinarily and streams
Of women who carried packa GEES on which
delivery could not be promised edged
around the entrances to the storce.
A person who walked the length Of
Fifth avenue 10 Fifty-ninth street saw
only three taxicabs yesterday morning.
The companies whose men waD nos out
had one telephone call after another from
the hotels. There were not nearly enough
TO go around. The subway was densely
filed in midafserno0n.
IL was a harvest time for the bucan-
GERS. as those men with independent
tasis and not always reliable meters are
called. Some Of then. stripped on their
met ers. and IL you didn't want TO employ
them you could walk. Most Of the no
tells shooed them away from their doors,
but in some cases they formed the regular
line There are something like 900
Of hese cabs in the city.
The exact number Of channeurs who
quit work vest er,iay 10 difficult to estimate.
The companies were pretty generally
disposed TO beat down the number. and
IN. labor men were just a. anxious to-
make IL considerable. About two hgn-
dred 81 rikers came from the Taxi-Servics
'
Company. and the rest. possibly 800 or
tGO. from the smaller concerns The
labor leaders had il that the whole CO..
% the New York Taxicab Company were
out too Bat a, the offices 81 the company
it was said that about one hundred and
forty 81 hair cars. the red ones were sent
out ihrou ghou' the day and that none OF
their men had given notice that he was
on ~ rike-
A. many striking chaufeurs as could
do II iramped M the narrow sse''s a.
washin gton Hail. a little three story
br!ilding AZ Isl Eighth avenue, where
in snok. and semi darkness q meeting
appearance Of three cent raj once de-
tective come to hunt out firearms in
c,ipboards and closets. Nothing was
found TO indicate that young arsenal
was being organized. The men them
selves were not searched.
The taxicab strike does not appear
20 be wholly a move 10 help the express
men Two years ago the red drivers
turned out. and after few weeks OF AZ
gressive striking were Obliged to sur
render II apparently has occurred to
them thar this 10 a good time TO try it
again. ne CBAuueufa - Douy VAIN
q twelve hour day with an hour on for
lunch: they want q fat daily wage OF
q 50 day instead Of working a. u cents
an hour. a. they do now. They don't
want TO he locked for repairs. They
arc essentially the same demands that
were made before.
There we're rough receptions waiting
for the red cabm-n who went out before
tho waking delegates arrived and even
rou CHER for those who stuck TO their jobs
after the call. The general procedure
was TO haul down the chauffeur and slash
his tires Broken windows were found
in cabs that had been abandoned by their
drivers. Three OF these dereiicts with
tires OF were tOwed to the garage from
rhe Hotel Manhattan. Ten chauneurS
were more OF less hurt and nearly fifty
cabs were banged up
AZ the request Of the New York Taxicab
Company q policeman was sent 20 every