The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-11-16
TAXICABS TO RUN TODAY
WIN 900 OR SO POLICEMEN
ABOARD TO GUARD THEN. .

Reluctant striker. Go Back Co work
10 Yeu want 10. yea', 10 Protected
The announ cement was made yester-
day evening on behalf OF the New York
running OF the auto cars which has been
interrupted by the striks of,h chauffeur
union will be resumed to-day from all
the garages under police protection
This decision WA reached after an ell
day session OF representatives ~ the
association In the Hotel Imperial.
! The police are going TO do their best Co
keep the cabs running Four hundred.
possibly five hundred. policemen VIII
ride In the taHicabs or on tho front seat
along with the chauffeur They arc
picked men and have orders TO keep thinss
moving. As many OF the cabs as can bs
fixed that way will be open. 40 that tho
! policemen can So. what is coming and 10
ready for II
The following companies were repre-.
sented at the Hotel Imperial nesting
The New York Transportation Company,
New York TaSicab Company. Cab
! and Taxi Company Of New York.
kayton Taxicar and Garage Company,
Connecticut Cab Company. Mason Sea
man Transportation Company and thu
Universal TaIimster Cab Company Prssi.
dent Allan Lexow Of he association said:
We will have plenty of cabs in opera
Z To
with something like n normal servioe
Our men wan, to return to work and a
number of them have reported for work
We will have number Of new men -
looked on the stoppags OF work in tho
garages a. a st rike and could have started
IN 20 resume work before this time. but
we did not want to expose our chauYeuns
TO violence at the hands Of other strikers
or sympathy
Asked il there would be adequate polics
protection he said:
There will be lots Of protection We
have no formal statement TO make be-
yond what | have said The Mayor.
understand. will have n statement. Our
action tomorrow 10 not breaking n strike,
Police Commissioner Cropsey haa
agreed 20 increase the police detail ON
strike duty from 500 to l 200 men They
will be stationed in a zone across the city
in the region where the cabs are most
frequently seen in times OF peace. On
the West Side the zone will extend from
Fourteenth street TO Seventy second
street. with special protection accorded
go d. "a. sa, 49, H.
northern extremity Of the zone.
The East Side zone will extend from
Fourteenth street to Ninetieth street.
Most Of the police will he stationed on
Fifth. Madison. Park and Lexington
avenues. and upon the principal cross
streets. such ~ Twenty-third. Thirty
Seventy second
In some of the police stations in this
precincts where most Of the taxicab
garages are II was said last night that
policemen had been assigned for duty
to-day in the non-union garages and
that taxicabs would 60 out with polics-
man sitting alongside the chauffeur.
One OF the larger companies had thirty
men assigned to it. and others were to
be protected IN proportion.
Of the State Board of Arbitration. called
at the Mayors Office yesterday and had
n brief conference with Mayor Gaynor
Reagan said that he had been among the
men who had been employed AZ the
different garages and tried 20 get them to
compromise on the subject OF the closed
shop. but they told him that they would
=, and out for the closed shop IL the strike
were TO cont niue indefinitely. He added
that the Mayor would have a statement
covering he situation
The statement Of the Mayor Was in the
form 81 copy Of Il letter sent by him to
John Hackney. member Of the COMMITTEES
Of eighteen striking employees Of tbs
West colt company which visited him
several days ago and told him that tia
West colt chauffeurs had struck unwil1-
ingly and admitted that they were well
paid and had no grievances. This N ths
letter which is supposed to be somewhaa
addressed TO the chauffeurs Of the other
companies
CRY OF NEW YoRK
OFFICE or THE MAYOR.
November IS. isio-
DEAR SIR After your delegation of
eighteen NJ the taxicab drivers Of tho wsse-
colt company al the Grand Central Station
thai all Of your 2Oo men were satisfied with
their wages and treatment and wanted TO
40 back 10 work but that the union would
not permit them IN | brought about a
between the employing companies.
th. leaders 81 the union and representatives
oI the state Board Of Mediation and Arbi-
tration last night.
The employers conceded tho demand In
respect OF terms Of employment and agreed
Ia take all Of the men back without regard
20 whether they belong TO tho union not
and thereafter not To discharge any ono
for belonging 10 the union. They thus con-
coded the open shop AZ 10 IL called.
namely. open to union and non union men
without discrimination. But the union
leaders demanded that every one be az
cl,Idsd from employment except union
men and would not yield on this head: In
other words thsy demand the CLOSED shop"
% closed against every one except union
men.
The case - Just tho reverse Of that Of the
r1ureas companies strike. There the men