New-York tribune., 1910-11-04
STRIKE NEGOTIATIONS
RESULT IN DEADLOCK
Express Drivers Insist Upon
Union Recognition, Which
Companies Deny.
WALKOUT MAY BE EXTENDED
Many New Men Imported ana
Rain Keeps Down Rioting-
Employers Complain OF
Disorder in Jersey.

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Disorder in Jersey.
The efforts being made bv MaVor
/ Gaynor and the conciliation committee
| Of the National Civic Federation TO ac-
complish an amicable adjustment Oh
| the differences between the express
companies and their striking employees
reached q point yesterday where con-
ferences were held between representa-
tives of the companies and committees
| from the strikers.
The result of these conferences dld
not tend to clarity the situation ana
negotiations resulted in deadlock
with little hope of any immediate set
| tIement Of the strike. The labor lead
ers apparently insisted that the COM
panies should recognize the union, ana
this the company officials unanimously
refused to do. 1t was conceded tnat
| the strike committee got little satls-
| faction from the employers before Whonl
! thev laid their demands in series OF
| conferences at the various express COM
pany offices yesterday afternoon.
! a statement issued in behalf of the
companies last night was short ana
misleading to the extent that II IN
| cluded no reference to the men who ap-
| peared before the employers as repre-
sentatives Of the strikers in this city,
but confined itself to the New Jersey
situation. 1t read:
Won't Yield to Union.
Committees came to us to-day rep
resenting a part of the Jersey City
men who formerly worked for us ana
submitted a list Of demands. Among
| them was one that we should employ
! only members of their unions. we, OF
course. cannot consider such demand.
We are ready to receive applications
| from those of our old men who wish to
come back. and we have under con-
sderation the matter Of wages ana
/ hours"
! IT is understood that the express COM
! panies consider that they have the sltu-
| ton in this city well in hand, and are
hopeful of breaking the strike here and
resunins normal business conditions
within q short time. The cruX of the sit
uation appears to lie in Jersey City,
where the express company officials say
they cannot secure proper police protec-
tion 10 move their wagons. With the
present protection afforded by the local
Do1ice the representatives of the COM
uanies feel confident, it is said, that they
can soon get sufficient wagons moving
| TO relieve the congestion at the express
| transfer depots. Representatives of the
companies declare that they are having
nc difficulty in getting all the men they
desire to take the place of the strikers
Several hundred strike breakers arrived
here Yesterday from other cities.
Strikers Mass Meeting To-day.
Th- reports Of the strike committees
which conferred with the employers yes
terday will be presented TO the strikers
in a body at a mass meeting to-day IN
the Teutonia Assembly Rooms. No. 15S
Third avenue. W. II. Ashton, general or
ganizer Of the Teamsters' Union, and
other labor leaders. when they learned
Yesterday that the employers had deCid-
ed to meet representatives Of the men.
expressed themselves as confident that a
settlement was in sight. and went so far
as to announce hat tO-day's meeting
would be In the nature of a ratification
meeting Of any agreements which might
be entered into with the employers.
1t is hard to tel what the result will
he when the committees report the little
they were able to accomplish Mr.. Ash
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insist upon recognition of the union or
they would not return to work, irrespec-
tive of the question Of wages and hours
which some of the company officials
seemed inclined to adjust.
Referring TO the possibility OF a gen
eraI strike among all classes of drivers
IN the city. the labor leader said he did
not believe it could be prevented in the
end, even If the leaders desired 10 pre-
vent II, unless the employers conceded
the demands of he strikers. He ex-
plained that the men in insisting on
recognition of the union did not carry
the demand so far as TO include the
closed shop.
Rain Kept Down Riotins.
The heavy rains yesterday kept most
OF the strikers off the streets, and there
was a consequent falling off in rioting
and assaults throughout the city. The
express companies succeeded in sending
out more wagons than on any previous
dav since the strike began. The Adams
and American companies kept wagons
moving out and in all day at their main
transfer depots, in Madison avenue. at
47th and 4sth streets. They continued
TO move in caravans of six or eight at
time. guarded by mounted men and
bicycle policemen.
The congestion of undelivered express
matter at the transfer sheds was hardly