Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1910-11-01
UNION LEADERS AND EXPRESS
COMPANY HEADS IN CONFERENCE
All Except U. S.
Express Will
Arbitra ate.
Special b, United Press W,re.


New York, Nov. 1.-The calling
out of 100000 union teamsters,
chauffeurs and helpers in New York
city alone, and the ordering of a ma
tion-wide strike of all the express
ened today as the result of the ex-
press drivers strike in Jersey City
and New York.
The question of calling a sympa-
thetic strike of all unions affiliated
with the international Transfers
Union in New York city will be de-
cided at meeting of the executive
committee of the international body
tonight. Should it be ordered, union
officials declare, that practically all
vehicle traffic in New York city will
at once cease.
So effective has been the tie-up
thus far that the express companies,
with the protection of all the police
of the city, including the full reserve
list, were unable to move only one
third of their wagons today. While
no general srioting occurred during
the early hours, individual clashes
between the strikers and strike
breakers and police are frequent.
OSOAOS nave DScn dIISSI6U.
Three hundred strike breakers
from Baltimore were landed today
at the foot of Cortlandt street, from
pennsylvania ferry. Under guard
OF twenty mounted policemen, the
m9n were escorted to the Adams Ex-
press Company's stables, and there
put to work Immediately.
A CONFERENCE of officials of the va
fsin
Fort, of New Jersey, Mayor Witt
penn, of Jersey City, and Adiutant
General Sadler, of New Jersey, was
held, at which steps were underta-
ken to end the strike.
H. S. Julier, vice president of the
American; I. s. Smith, vice president
Of the National; Frank H Platt, gen
eral counsel Of the United States COM
pany; G. W. Stockton, vice president
of the Welis-Fargo, and Joseph Zim-
norman, vice president of the Adams,
met with the governor, mayor and ad-
jutant general in the directors room
of the Commercial Trust company.
The governor said he saw no reason
for calling out troops. He had previ-
ously met a committee of the strikers.
AT the close of this conference it
was intimated that all the companies
had expressed willingness to recog-
niZe the union of the drivers and help
ers except the United States, and ther,
were prospects of that concern beins
won over, in which case negotiation,
would be opened which would end iii
the calling off Of the strike.
Meantime the strike leaders say they
will organize q movement to stop "ev-
erything on wheels unless the compa-
MES agree to their terms. This means
that an attempt will be made to enlist
the sympathy Of teamsters in all lines.
A riot, In which one man was in
tured seriously and two arrests were
made on charges of felonious assault
occurred at the American express sta
tion at Forty-seventh street and Madi-
son avenue. About 250 strikers were
standing in front of the place when
wagon with the usual police guard
approached. Some one threw stone,
and Immediately the air was filed
with missiles
AT the first volley William Hoyt,
helper, who was on the seat beside
the driver, was hit on the head and
knocked from his seat to the ground.
He was carried unconscious into the
express station.
The police, mounted and foot, charg-
ed the mob, using their long night
sticks freely. Central Office detec-
tives scattered among the mob also
used their clubs.
With mounted policemen gathering
about the streets driving off riotous
strikers at one point, guarding ex-
press wagon drivers at another spot
and with policemen on foot in clusters
at nearly every corner with drawn
night sticks, many displaying revoly-
ers.. the vehicles of the employing COM
panies meantime dashing to and fro i'll
an effort to avoid showers of rocks
hurled by the striker and their sym
pathizers, the strike situation was not
only full of danger and excitement.
but also exceedingly picturesque