New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-11-18
MORE TAX|CABS RUNNING
One Firm Resumes Business for
First Time Since Men Went Out.
LITTLE VIOLENCE REPORTED
Few Care to Submit to Possible
Observation-Disclosures Have
Little to Do.

Conciliators from the State Board of
Mediation and Arbitration made another
effort yesterday to settle the strike of the
taxicab chauffeurs, but were unable TO
bring the employers and the men together.
Officials of the taXicab companies contend
ed that the strike was wearing itself out
and that they were able TO furnish plenty
of cabs and supply the demand
There were plenty of taXicabs at the
various cab stations and the hotels yes
terday, but fares were scarce, it was said,
| owing to fear on the part of patrons of in
| convenience and possible violence at the
hands of the strikers and their sym
| pathizers Some prospective fares objected
/ also TO employing cabs while a policeman
was seated with the chauffeur, because
of the unusual attention it would attract
All the companies sent out more cabs
Yesterday than the day before. The New
York Transportation Company. which had
not moved any taXicabs since the strike
! began. sent out fifteen yesterday Richard
Y. Meade, president Of the company. sad
| that they were all manned by old en-
pIOyas who had returned to work.
| Charles ". Foster and other officers of
the chauffeurs' union said last night that
very small proportion of the men had
returned to work but 80 per cent of them
were still determined to remain on strike
until the employers recognized the union.
He said the companies We're having great
difficulty in running cabs, because they
could not get licensed chauffeurs and de-
clared there was no further need OF d,
conference with the employers, as there
was nothing TO compromise on the queS-
ton of the closed shop. = mass meeting
of the striking chauffeurs Is being arranged
! for Sunday
There were several clashes between the
noIice and strike sympathizers yesterday,
! hut no riots of a serious character. A
small crowd gathered in Fifth avenue and
=9th street and marched up the avenue to
. the Plaza, hooting and jeering at pas
sangers in private cabs. Mounted police
men charged the crowd at 59th street and
drove it back 10 55th street. where II scat
| tered into the side streets
| As soon as that crowd was scattered an
other gathered further down Fifth avenue
and pursued the same tactics Although
! the crow5s were boisterous, there were no
stones thrown. one arrest was MADE our
/ ing the police charges and the prisoner
was locked up. charged with disorderly con-
duct There was no disorder at the FaTl-
ons garages as the taxicabs departed and
! returned. 4 large number OF pauolneh
was on duty at all these places
! Patrolnan Connolly, of the traffic squad,
rbile escortfng a strike breaker, George
! Ccxon. to the latter's home at NO. 4l6 East
| e5th street last night, was followed from
/ = garage at Eighth avenue and 49th street
! by a gang of striking chauffeurs ana sym
| pathizers. Finally, at Second avenue ana
5oth street. the fury OF the crowd broke
oUt. and it was only by threatening the
gang with his revolver that the patroInan
was able to continue with his man
At Goth street however, the crowd had
assumed such PROPORTIONS that discretion
was thrown TO the winds and. under a
| shower Of stones and sticks, the gang
charged upon Connolly and the strike
breaker Even pistol shots in the air tailed
! 10 stop the onslaught and only the timely
arrival of patrolmen from the East 9th
street station prevented loss of life the
/ gang falling back at their approach
| Even when CoxOn had been escorted 10
his home the crowd filled the street and
maintained such an attitude that one pa
trolman remained to prevent an attack
uron the strike breaker and his family
Not until the striking chauffeurs and their
syrnra thfzers had dispersed was the guard
withdrawn.
". II. Ashton. general organizer of the
! International Brotherhood Of Transfers
called upon Mayor Gaynor yesterday ana
| left with him list of seventeen OF the
| striking expressmen whom the companies
| have. not reirstated since the strike was
settled The cases of these men. he told
the Mayor. were under consideration on the
question of whether they had been lmpli-
Gated in any acts of violence
| Ashton assured the Mayor that none OF the
seventeen men had done any 1ioung- MAYOR
! Gaynor said he would call on the Police De
narfment 10 give the names OF any Of the
employees who had committed acts OF VIC
lence The Mayor told the labor leader that
he was certain the companies would i've
no to the letter of their written agreement
| and discharge no one unless theE could
| show that he mad been responsive Tor acls
Of violence.