New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-11-17
POLICE ESCORT TAx|CABS
IMon-Union ChauffeurS Have Lii
tie Trouble in Carrying Fares
STRIKERS MAKE CONCESSION
Vote to Waive Open Shop Should
Pay Be Raised-Dlsturoers
in Fifth Avenue Quelled-

in Fifth Avenue Quelied-
rt,c .axicab companies Su'N -,,,a,
,,,,v business yesterday, hut On d 80 80
.rale Six of the seven large COM
ea.+es bv the chaufeUrs' strike moved
about 100 taxicahs during me "eS' - -
ore-ssxth Of the normal number Inc New
~ TRANSFORMATION Company did not re-
s,,,,,e onerations. There were three tunes
&C MANY patrolrnen detailed TO ride on the
,ahs as was found TO he necessary
1-l,e-, First DEPUTY Police Commissioners
Triscou learned Yesterday afternoon thal
che cornnanies were sending out eonlpar d
.i7-elv few cabs and that many OF 'ile
-7s-rolrnen were loa6ng around the garages
Ne withdrew two hundred OF them an" =,
dared them hack 70 their precincts to 90
regular patrol duty.
At the same time the CommlsSloflaf III
.,rroa5 -fe -axicab companies that if they
s-eased more T7atrolr1en to-day they couid
communicate with Police Headquarters ana
The additional men would be provided Inc
..ayicah company officials said last nlshI
itha- they Intended u move double the
number Of 1axicabs today and hoped 1"
increase the output for the next Few Gays
until normal conditions again prevailed
They Were well pleased with the ponce pro-
lection given them YESTERDAY
The presence Of the patrolnen on the
-aTica1s which were sent out had a quell-
ing effect on the 1voul1-be disorderly fac
zion cf The strikers There was very little
violence or -iotine- Crowds Of strikers ana
.syrnpathizers gathered al times at the
various taxicab stations Al some % the
hotels but a. a rule no attempt was made
70 modest the cabs
Richard W. Meade. president OF the Ne"
York Transportation Company. said the
~ -saF-
day because II was impossible 10 get IN
rouch with old employees in time He said
-hat = meeting Of eighty of the old chauf-
felIrs was held in the oompanys garage at
.q-h street and Eighth avenue yesterday
afternoon and the men voted TO return 10
work to-day and TO bring with them some
of the old employees who had not attended
The meeting.
Michael J Reagan, of the State Board OF
mediation and Arbitration. who was in
detrimental in bringing the employers and
1.-THE strikers, committee together at pre-
svious conferences will make another effort
E1o-day to see both sides with view to ar
srancfng a conference and -efecting settle
iment.
Willing to Work for More Pay.
The strikers held q series of meetings
yesterday al union headquarters. at No Isl
i4.iefth avenue. 10 discuss the situation At
one meeting Of six hundred chauffeurs II
was voted that the men would he willing
TO return 10 work on the open shop plan
.offered by the employers provided their
wages were raised 10 s. a day. They con
rend that they nave been getting from 80
20 So q week The proposition will he pre-
scented 10 the taXicab owners to-day if a
conference can De arranged. il was said.
This is the first time the men have eX-
any willingness a work
any other conditions except full recognition
OF the union.
Charles w. Foster. secretary OF the
chauffeurs' union. declared last night that
practically none of the old chauffeurs re-
turned to work Yesterday. He said that
the companies had sent letters to all their
old employees requestfong them TO return TO
work vesterday morning Ninety per cent
Of the men turned in the letters Al union
headquarters. he said. and had not respond
ed to the request. He declared that the cabs
fhat had been sent ou1 yesterday We're
manned by strike breakers and that the
placing OF raIrolrnen on them would do
NOR - tncire rioting than ANYTHING else
-1f The corQanies continue 10 use strike
ihreakers the officers Of the union won't be
responsible for the temper Of the men,"
said Nj Foster
n o. Perkins. president Of the chauf-
fthe unions have not agreed to the COM
spanies plans for a settlement Is that they
ldtstrust the faith Of the company officials
In the strike Of 1906" said Mr. Perkins
.'rhe New York Transportation Company
,agreed not 70 discriminate against union
;rlen hut soon after the men had signed the
sagreement the company officials insisted
THAT all applicants for places he asked If
fJhey belonged 70 a labor organization or a
sThis certainly is regarded as an attempt TO
discriminate against union men
Reserves ouell Oisturbers
One outbneak occurred in the plaza at
SBeth street and Fifth avenue yesterday
eefterncon IN which the police reserves
7chareed the crowd with drawn night sticks
yand made one arrest. The trouble started
at 55th street and Fifth avenue when a
yellow taxicab Of the Connecticut Taxicab
tCompanv going north was attacked by a
tcIowd Of about one hundred and fifty men
tThere was 10 policeman riding with the
tchauefeur- TWO Of the mounted squad on
!duty near by charged the crowd. and the
E,aXicab got away, but the crowd, which had
Increased 70 about five hundred, gathered
at the Sherman statue and made demon
istrations against the taxicabs lined up in
Iron, Of the New Netherlands, Savoy and
plaza hotels These cabs We're driven from
their stands
The reserves from the East 5Ist street
astation were called, and, headed by Captain
kO'Connor. charged the crowd. using their
.sticks freely Stones We're hurled at the
spolice, and Captain O'Connor had to send
f1or re5nforcements. The crowd was finally
fdriven through 59th street toward Sixth
.avenuc and scattered. one man was ar
tIested and locked up in the police station.
Vincent II Allen. the striking chauffeur,
who was arrested as one OF the rioters who
attacked and demolished q cab at the Wal
dorf on Tuesday, found guilty OF dis
orderly conduct by Magistrate Barlow, in
The jefferson Market police court yester-
Gay. His case was held over for final dis
position for forty-eiEht hours at the re-
quest Of the defendants counsel