Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-11
Employees of Express Companies
in New York Declare Con-
ditons of Settlement
RIOTS CONTINUE IN STREETS
Chauffeurs Mob TaxicabS and
Battle with Police, Who
Threaten to Shoot
ASSOCIATED Press)

NEW YORK, Nov. 11.-After con-
ferring for five hours, a committee of
the employees of the five express COM
panies decided tentatively early this
morning to return to work Monday
under the terms of an agreement that
was signed yesterday afternoon. II
the Jersey City men agree, the men
will go back to work; if they reject,
the New York men will stay out. The
drivers and chauffeurs on strike, not
employed by the express companies,
are not affected.
The strike was settled in fashion
at a conference in Mayor Gaynor's Of
flee, but the agreement, though draft
ed and signed by both parties, was
threatened with rejection last night.
The day was stormy in the streets
AMI lowering tonight in council. The
men gathered in mass meeting to con-
slider the agreement submitted to them
for ratification, but the mayor, when
he left his office, congratulated Henry
Towne, president of the Merchants as
sociation, for his part in settling the
strike, even though it was seen the
strike was not settled at all.
CHAUFFEURs STRIKE AGAIN
One hundred chauffeurs who went
out in sympathy with the expressmen
and returned to work again were di-
rected to strike again because the
company would not permit them to
wear union buttons. 1t was ordered
that all garages still hostile to the
union be picketed tomorrow. The tone
of the meeting was quietly belligerent.
A committee representing the en-
ployes-not the union, which has or
ganized and conducted the strike, and
the executive officers Of the transcon-
tinental express companies, met in
Mayor Gaynor's Office late today and
oa1ot for. Mt a
at the mass meeting tonight.
The agreement, in the form of let
ter to Henry R. Towne, president OF
the Merchants association, follows:
1--WE are willing to take back our
| employees who are on a strike, whether
| or not they have Joined a union, re-
serving the right, however, to decline
to take back any of them, whether
they be members of union or not
who may have committed or melted
acst of violence and hostility against
US. -
"Those of our companies whose em-
ployes have raised a question concern
ing their hours of employment or rate
of wages will agree, after the men re-
sumo work, at once to take up these
questions with their employees or COM
mittees, for the purpose of reaching
settlement which shall be just to both
parties, with the understanding that
the former hours and rates of wages
shall continue in effect until Decem-
ber 1 next, and that any changes mu-
tually agreed upon shall then become
effective"
To this offer the representatives OF
the strikers presented as follows:
"The undersigned, a committee rep
resenting the, employees of the express
companies which join in the annexed
the terms of the said letter in settle
ment of the strike and advise the said
employees to resume work thereon at
once and end the strike We proposed
these same terms through the mayor
last Friday at his request and adhere
to them now at his request"
Before the agreement was signed the
day had been turbulent, confused and
full of statements and commensurate
ments.
There was more rioting than at any
other time during the strike. John
Williams, state commissioner of labor,
threatened an official investigation If
matters did not end, to which II. 5.
Julier, general manager of the Amer
lean Express company, replied that MS
company would welcome all pupnclty
possible.
APPLICATIONS FOR LICENSES
Counsel for the Adams, United States
and Fargo companies obtained
an order from Judge Coke in the fed
eral court directing the city to show
cause tomorrow why it should not be
restrained from enforcing the ordin-
ance which requires carriers of inter-
state express matter to take out city
licenses.
Two hundred applications for licenses
were filed this afternoon. In each case
the annIiHanf was required to state
whether he had ever been convicted OF
q crime and whether he carried arms.
The worst of the trouble today came
not from the express employees. but
from the striking taXicab chauffeurs
who went out in sympathy. They
mobbed taxicabs driven by non-union
men and squabbled with the police
until it was necessary to threaten them
with drawn revolvers and with swing
ing night sticks. Bottles, stones,
bricks and loose ends of iron flew
thick. There were many broken heads,