New-York tribune., 1910-11-13

most OF whom were middle aged and
evidently married men. appeared 20 be
that a settlement was near at hand any
wy. and they wsneed 10 be hack 81
work right away. Some threats were
made and it was Freely predicted tha'
thsse who returned to work before the
eet,ieu1ent was actually announces
would be expelled from the union pu'
the returning drivers had had enough
and they wouldn't be threatened
That broke I'D the strike to some ex-
TENT. and made the action taken in Jer-
sew City and the succeeding announce
Inent in New York all the more iiiipei" d.
tive. Virtually the strike was pIohtl'
or at least half broken, before the OIL
cial announcement. but as IL WAS aL
handled yesterday the union "fllc'als a.
in a position 70 assert that their e1lol' %
were successful
When the news Of the Jersey city oe-
c9sior7 reached New York strike mead
.y11a-ters. at No. 7e1 Eighth avenue, there
acre many disgruntled ones, most OF
them Younger men, who declared mat
fhe New York drivers should have an
other chance to vote on the proposition
b,It Ashton and his aids took the ground
that the New York men had already
snnroved the proposition and. taxing
Che hit between their teeth, they pro-
,,ulgsted their official announcement,
.bssed on the vote Of Thursday might.
7 was Whispered ahout strike head
s,7,srters that the New York men who
vert over 10 the Jersey City meetings
OF, Friday and created the demonstra-
uon in favor Of continuing the strike
had been noted by the union officials
and were likely to be dealt with later.
Jersey Strikers Get Into Line.
Also II developed yesterday that the
Jersey City vote on Friday, which Was
announced as q rejection Of the terms
sr the Towne letter. was unofficlaI- as
ons union man explained ii, they should
have secured q twc-thiTds vote before
announcing rejection. whereas 'fle
proposition vas turned down by onlE
one cor1pany's employees, and then pS d
vote Of ao1 to COZ. That Left them free
.o consider the same proposition again
YESTERDAY. with the result that II NaS
accented hy a large majority. Inc VOL
.ns was done IN an executive session.
IF course. but afterward some oil lile
members said that the proposltloh' ai0et
having been accepted by huge MAJOR
srv. was voted on again ana accep'6u
pna nin1ously-
t-antain Campbell. the general super
,,+endA,f Of tie United States Express
<-ompany's men. speaking generally loI
.he enployes. said that the express COM
panies were acting in perfect gooo lalth
with the men He couldn't say eAactly
what terms the companies would agree
on In adjusting the December scale, pul
he was satisfied they would be far.
There has been d misunderstanding
Sc 10 overtime work. said captain
,-7nnbeII- 1T seems to have been the
general impression that men have TO
work overtime for nothing, put that
wrong. They have received and VIII re-
-a7,-a overtime on q scale OF something
,,1.e IN cents an hour for the way-blil
,1arl.s 20 cents for the platform men,
and 221a cents an hour for the callers,
and the drivers get one-ouarter OF
.iarrs nay 81 they're sent out after hours
at all
The DAYS activities IN Jersey City
hesan with z meeting of a. committee or
fifteen Of the strikers in Mayor Witt
7,enn-s Office The committee decided to
r--com,nend TO the men that they accept
the terms offered in the Towne letter,
after er address by Mr.. Towne, and
three meetings of the men, one for the
errpleyes Of the Adams. the Wells
Fargo and the United States companies.
the three companies which operate in
Jersey City. we're called for the after
noon. They also listened 10 Mr.. Towne's
argument z and then approved OF their
committees recommendation. ending the
strike as far aE Jersey City was con-
cerned-
Around strike headquarters in New
York last night the sentiment seemed to
he ali IN conmendation of the decision
-nade late in the afternoon by the Jersey
city men and Of the announcement by
Nr. Ashton. for the New York drivers.
) Union Men Satisfied.
Thomas bTclsally, business agent of
tie Building Material Drivers Union. an
Organization that voted last Sunday to
strike II caIied on in the aid Of the ex-
fress drivers and other union represen-
tstives Of organizations not on strike,
voiced the general sentiment when they
said that they wers relieved 10 have
the matter brought to d settlement with
cut the necessity Of q general strike Of
sean1sters or, what would be much worse,
g general strike of all labor IN the city
Earlier IL the day some one raised the
t,rsabec Of e. o. pratt's possible advent
sTpcn the scene. which would presage q
general strike Of streetcer. elevated road
era subway operatives. Pratt was the
rnsn wfae managed the Philadelphia
.treetcar strike early last spring, but
sre r7yrrcr Of his taking q hand IN the
New York labor situation was taken with
grain Of salt, even by most Of the union
raen who heard of Il
TT was given out al the strikers head
quarters early yesterday that the Long
island Express Company had adjusted
all difficulties with It's men and that
.hsv were going back TO work on Mon
asv morning. The management ar
ranged with them practically on the
same basis as was later brought into
11se In the New York and Jersey City
rrcubla-thaf sn adjustment OF hours and
wages would be arranged TO go into ef-
feet December /.
Henry n. Towne's methods of compro-