Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-10-31
THE TRANSFERS STRIKE.
No signs Of Yielding on Part Of Men
or their Employers.

dong DuSlDeSS III Nch 1Oih, ocioNJ
City and Hoboken, to break the strike
OF drivers helpers. Wagons laden with
matter that has been held up in the
depots for days we're started out OF
every barn before daylight today. On
each wagon were the driver, two help
ers and from three to ten armed guards.
The latter carried shot guns and long
ash riot sticks, excellently loaded at
the end for head breaking.
There was no real disorder in the
early hours, due to the vigilance OF
the police. In Jersey City and Hobo
ken the entire strength Of the force
was massed between the depot and the
ferry houses. All drivers took the
same route and there was a policeman
on each side OF the street at intervals
OF FIVE yards. These men kept their
backs to the wagons and watched the
sidewalks and windows and roofs OF
houses along the way. No one was
permitted 10 stand still, and men with
their hands in their pockets we're close
" watched. The result was that fully
100 wagons we're moved without dis
turbance.
The Jersey police are no longer using
soft measures with the rioters. They
have been warned that il there is any
more rioting, Gov. Fort will rush troops
into the affected cities, no matter what
the effect may be on the present politi-
cal campaign. Tho police therefore
kept their rcyolyers in plain sight to-
day and known disturbers we're hurried
off the main thoroughfare without re-
gard to their feelings. In Manhattan
early today, police reserves patrolled
the various ferry stations and the vi
cinity OF the Grand Central depot.
These men had orders to use their clubs
on all disturbers Of the peace, and the
result was that the strikers and their
sympathizers gave the depots a wide
berth.
Whether the strike is to be given a
national character will be decided on
within the next three days. Danal j.
Tobin, national president Of the Inter
national Brotherhood OF Transfers, sent
word from Boston today that he has
organizers hard ut work getting the cx-
press drivers in every large city in the
United States into the union. He has
promised the support OF the American
Federation in the present strike and il
was announced at union headquarters
here this morning that the union Will
begin paying strike benefits todoy.
The formal demands were filed today
with the superintendent OF the several
express companies. The scale provides
for eighty dollars a month for route
drivers; seventy-fivo for assistant drivers
and ffty-fye dollars month for wagon
helpers.
| John Mitchell, head OF the concilia'
ton bureau OF the Civic Federation
conferred with Frank II. Plat OF tic
United States Express Company, today
| in an attempt to settle the strike. He
is being aided by the mediatorS OF the
State Department OF Labor There
was q minor outbreak at the offices OF
| the. American Express Company on
West l25th street today when a force oil
strike sympathizers attacked guards
| there. When city police arrived The
guards were being severely beaten, but
the mob was quickly dispersed.
Philadelphia. OF. 91-Four hundred
strike breakers, enrolled by j. A.
Brown. a professional strike breaker,
will leave here on the 2:20 p. m. train
over the Pennsylvania Railroad fol
| New York and Jersey City TO take the
places Of the striking express wagon
drivers in those cities.
Brown, who has opened recruiting
J station here, is Offering men S3.oO
day.
New York. Oct. 31.--Unless the
present strike Of wagon helpers EN-
ployed by the various express com
panies about New York is speedily
settled, the most serious labor tie-ur
in the recent history Of the city is be-
Iieyed certain.
| Officials Of the ieamsters' union,
enragcd because police Inspector
Schittberger placed uniformed men
on the wagons OF the express today
declared that they will call out every
union teamsters in the greater city
unless the police attitude is changed
In addition they named a committee
to visit Mayor Gaynor and object tc
city police acting as private guards
The temper OF the strikers is ugly
again.
Efforts to bring about compromise
have so far failed, the companies posi-
lively refusing to recognize the union
Offers OF an increase OF pay without
union recognition have been refused.
The leader OF the strikers in this city,
Val Hoffman, who is vice-president o
the International Brotherhood oil
Transfers, said this afternoon that he
has the department store drivers in suct
shape that they will leave their teams
on a moments notice. The same STATE
Of PREPAREDNESS exists, he says, in th'
p. ranks Of the drivers Of the mammoth
coal delivery companies which deliver
coal daily 70 the downtown skyscrapers
Between 500 and 900 strikebreaker'
we're smuggledinto this city by the ex,
? press companies and they were placed
! 10 the barns to be sent out as fast al
they can be used. There we're mum
, Der OF minor disturbances during The
morning, but no one was seriously hurt
. While orders have been issued TO thu
express drivers on Long Island and i
Brooklyn 10 hold themselves inreadl
ness to strike, the actual order TO qul
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