New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-29


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The wagon was manned by driver
and two helpers. and did not meet with
any trouble until il reached Fifth ave
nue. and 10th street Here crowd OF
more than hundred strikers were gath
cred. and at once began 10 stone the
men. While the driver and his assistants
were busy lodging the missiles which
came their way. others among the
strikers started 10 puls the men from the
wagon. 1t was here that the police ar
rived on the scene and used their clubs
freely in dispensing the gathering The
wagon was driven back to the sheds and
The trip abandoned.
Another attack on an American EX-
press wagon was made a short time
later. when the wagon was at the corner
OF Madison avenue and 42d street. Here
again a mob was doing picket duty, and
as soon as the driver saw the menacing
attitude Of the strikers he jumped from
The wagon and ran into a grocery store,
from where he escaped into Vanderbilt
avenue
Patrolman Knitcher. Of Traffic Squad
c. was on hand and saw a man hurl
brick at the driver. He chased him and
caught him AZ 44th street but just at
this moment Knitcher was set upon by
a crowd Of strikers. who tried to wrest
his prisoner from him. He raped for
assistance bringing Patrolman Jacobs,
Of the same precinct. The two officers
had hard fight to get the prisoner to
The East 51st street station. He gave
his name as Edward Donohue, Of No
c4a East 4Sd street.
LOYAL Workers Join Strikers.
r. r. Balfour. general agent Of the
American Express Company. was the
indirect cause Of more than two hun
dred helpers and drivers joining the
strikers yesterday morning. These men
had remained faithful until Mr.. Balfour,
in talk at the barns at 4Sd street and
Second avenue. told them that if they
preferred not to work during the strike
they had better go to their homes. All
hut two Of those present then marched
out
The Adams Express Company was
apparently making no effort 10 send out
freight Yesterday. the sheds remaining
closed throughout the DAY. Only one
attempt was made to send out a truck
and that was attacked by strikers. but
continued on its way after the police
had scattered the crowd.
Two hundred strike breakers made a
rush for eight wagons of the Wells
Fargo company. at Pavonia avenue.
Jersey City, yesterday morning. and be
q -. 80
sixteen strike breakers were injured SO
badly as TO require medical treatment
They were all bundled into wagons and
taken TO the Hudson Street Hospital. i'm
Manhattan, and after being treated
went home.
An express wagon Of the Wells Fargo
company WAS stopped at Fulton and
William streets yesterday morning and
the driver and guards were attacked. Au-
gust De WitUe. of No. COS Tenth avenue.
WAS arrested. after a hard fight Men
and boys We're injured in various sec
lions Of this city and Jersey City by
strikers. and the police were leBt on the
Tun throughout the Gay and night.
Although the express comparieS said
they would make the usual deliveries to
cay and tomorrow. inquiry at the Of
fees disclosed the fact that business
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also said that the Long Island Express
fomrany's forces would go out TO-DAY.
The strikers held q meeting in Jersey
city yesterday. and Dominick Jennings,
= local representative Of the American
Federation OF Labor said that the ex-
press companies would be forced Ia zee
ognize the mems unions before peace
could be restored.
A meeting WIN be held at Eldorado
Han to-day. 10 which John Mitchell. the
labor leader. as chairman Of the con
citation committee Of the National Civic
Federation, has been invited
Says Strike Is for Open shop.
Valentine Hoffman. first vice president
81 the International brotherhood of
y Transfers, is personally conducting the
strike
The fight. as he states ii. is unprece-
uented in labor annals. in that II is a
nshl Tor the open shop. Primarily. the
heiperS struck for an increase Of 81 a
month. The second demand is that there
SnaH he no discrimination against non
union men
As You put il, said Vice President
Hoffman IT is strike for the open
shop strange as II may seem There
are four thousand men out now in Man
haitian and Jersey City and we are busy
enrolling men at the headquarters here
tNo- 81 Eighth avenueD and at Hawks
Hall Jersey City
The strike VIII not be confined 70 +be
express companies alone but Accord
3hg 20 Vice President Hoffman viii ex
ieno 10 all the department stores the
drivers and helpers on the Department
store wagons but awaiting the word IN
80 on strike.
The organization of the helpers has
bren gong on secretly for some time
= hose who have not Joined the organiza- /
non. said President Hoffman have
not done so in many cases because they
had not been approached. II is to nro- /
tect these men that the demand that M |
discrimination be shown noD-llnjon men
Is being made he said
Allowing the Strike to Drift.
representative Of the American /
company said lot night:
We are making no serious atten7pt 70 1
break the strike al present. We tried /
sending wagons out early in the dav
each escorted by "a mounted policeman /
with jewelry and other valuabIes which /
we're wanted Al once. but they all came |
neck. The drivers We're afraid of the
1usillade o. rocks that they met at differ
fnt corners. This is d boys strike. and 4
The boys may in a day or two be fighting
10 get their places back. The same con-
d'uons existed at the depots Of the other
companies
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