The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-11-08
COMP AN|ES' STAND
IS WRONG SAYS
MAYOR GAYNOR
Public Will Have no Sympathy
With Their Position
ARE ASKED TO RECEDE
Refusal to Re-EmpIoy Men Because
They Had Joined Unions Severe
~ Criticised

New York, Nov. s-Strong pres
sure to end the express strike which
has so seriously hampered business
was brought to bear late. yesterday
afternoon ON the six trans-contmental
EXPRESS companies involved By the
Merchants association of New York,
Protesting that the position of the
companies is unreasonable and pre-
vents a settlement, the association in
letter demands that they recede
from this stand. This action follow
ed the sympathic strike of 1000 chauf
feurs and cab drivers to aid the ex-
press employees.
Copies of the letter were sent 10
the officers OF the companies who
have been in charge of the strike sit
uation, while the same appeal was
made to every trustee and director OF
1.-The corporations concerned. The let
ter quotes that statement of Mayor
Gaynor that the negotiations for a set
telment failed on one point only,
namely, the companies would not ac-
auiesce in the request of the men
that none of them should be discharg-
ed for the reason that he had Joined
the union and continues
Assuming this position to be that
held by the express companies, we
feel that you should understand that
merchants of New York, represented
in this organization, who are among
your largest patrons, will have no
sympathy with that position. Such an
attitude, namely, to refuse to re-em
ploy merely because a man has chos.
en- to join a union would in effect re-
suit in the application by you Of the
principles of closed shop.
While talk of general strike was
heard freely the strike leaders would
: give no intimation that such action I;
! contemplated for several days, al
least.
The strike of chauffeurs brought
many of the employers hurrylng tC
: headquarters to effect settlements
and nearly half Of the men returned
/ to work before night. Attacks OF
T taxicabs were frequent, however.
; The question Of licenses for drivers
was brought to the fore when Francis
, W. Magstadt, an escaped patient from
, the Middletown state hospital for thu
insane, was arrested while acting al
! strike breaker. A two foot clul
was found in the leg of his trousers
+. When Magistrate OConner, befor,
whom Magstadt was arraigned, hear,
q the circumstances, he expressed
: great Indignation. And this kind o
,, men we allow on the streets as
guard he exclaimed. I'll hold yol
. in $500 bail for general sessions
i The asylum authorities have been NO
. titled Of the mans arrest.
| Attacks on chauffeurs who stuck I,
k their Jobs were numerous Twenty
P eight machines OF one company got Il
= to the home garage badly crippled
: the tires on all Of them being cut an,
the windows smashed.
Some of the smaller companies al
! fected by the strike made settlement
y with their chauffeurs during the fore
l. noon, and 1t was estimated that abou
y 900 of the 1000 men who struck In IN
: morning had returned to work.
&c Daniel T. Tobin OF indianapolis
4 general president OF the Internatlons
Brotherhood Of Transfers, left Ne,
n York said to be bound for Chicae
n or st. Louis. 1t is declared in labc
Il circles In this city that the situ
4. ton in both Chicago and st. Louis
n now as acute as II was in New Yor
OS day or so before thesstrike.