New-York tribune., 1911-11-10
Expects to Break Strike Soon.

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Mr.. Edwards has had no sleep for the
! last twenty-fOur hours. He has been all
over the city i'm his automobile, en-
couraging the sweepers to stick to their
work and visiting detective agencies
ana other points To arrange for the hir-
| ing Of men to take the strikers places.
Last evening he said he probably would
have j,199 new men at work by Sunday,
with the result that, in his opinion, the
strike by that time would be broken. He
will have three men to each cart, driver
and two helpers, the latter to protect
the driver and to assist him in dumping
ashes and garbage into the cart.
These men will be distributed as fol-
lows: $3.50 in Manhattan, 1880 in
Brooklyn and 80 in The Bronx. Yester-
day he succeeded i'm getting five hundred
The Bronx. OF these. two hundred were
sent out from Stable c, Broadway and
i30th street, with a guard Of one hun
dred patromen. Under heavy police es-
cort. one hundred strike breakers also
were sent out from Station II. and
others were being mustered q Station
L and in other stations Of the depart
ment
big Bill" became more and more ami
mated rs he saw the strike breakers going
to work "We'H show EN-" said he The
city Will not back down an inch. We have
Ilanned TO III the place of every striker
until We are able 10 get new men from
the civil service lists The strikers are
under suspension and none will he taken
back unless they return to work at once.
We have nearly a thousand strike breakers
already and by Sunday we will have all
the men we need. We also will have ample
police protection. Commissioner Waldo has
given us nearly three thousand men. and
the reserves will be held in the various
police citations for emergency work.
Following the declaration Of the strike.
Mr. Edwards had kilograms sent 10 Bos-
ton. Baltimore. Springfield. Worcester and
other cities for strike breakers TO come
here. About five hundred OF these arrived
yesterday.
Calls Night Work American"
W. RI. Ashton. general organizer Of the
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and executive head of the drivers on strike,
called at the City Hall yesterday. lie did
not see the Mayor, but said it was I'M
American and unfair TO compel night work
on the part OF city employees and that it
likewise was unfair TO underpay them.
81 have been told" said Mr.. Ashton,
that the Mayor has no legal right to COM
pei these men, who are civil service em-
ploves to work at night. II the Mayor
wants to institute a reform in the work
let him make his Commissioner adopt the
use of two horse-drawn trucks with COW
cred tops and have two men handle each
VA 2on. In that way fewer men would he
hurt in lifting the heavy ash cans. which
weigh from 100 to 200 pounds. Since April
o.. when the present service was put IN
operation. more than four hundred drivers
have quit their jobs through having been
ruptured while lifting the heavy ash cans.
The Mayor says night collecting is done
in European cities. Well, many OF our
men left those cities to come here just be-
cause Of that"
Very few carts left the stables Of the
Yesterday. Patrolmen were
stationed at each stable and idlers and
strikers were not allowed to loiter near
them. The three largest and most i'm
pnrtant stables are Station q, No. a. Ham
ilton street: NJ, in Sullivan street near
ineton street At each of these stables
strikers and their sympathizers gathered
early. but police reinforCemcnts awed them
and they soon drifted away.