Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-11-10
THESTR|KE Of
STREET CLEANERS.
New York City Paying Five Dollars
a Day to Employees in the Street
Cleaning Department.
DANGERS OF A PESTILENCE.
Strike Breakers Guarded by Police
Forty Street Sweepers Attacked BY
One Hundred Striking Transfers.

New York. Nov. 1O.-New York
city is today trying, in municipal
way, the very latest and improved
methods Of strike-breaking, and il
is proving an expensive proposition
added to which is the constant men
ace to public health occasioned by
failure to promptly remove the tons
of garbage that are piling up on the
! city's streets, due to the strike OF
city garbage carriers.
New York has gone into the strike
breaking business along the same
line employed by big industrial cor
porations-employi men at SIS a
day and guarding them with city po-
lice. Already more than 5000 Of
these professional strike-breakers
have been employed.
The 2,445 drivers and extra men
of the Department of Street Clean
ing who are on strike, are using the
'strike-breaking" methods employed
by the city for political ends, and Ia
Dor unions are rallying TO their sup
port.
Notwithstanding this, Street Clean
ing Commissioner big Bill" Ed
wards, is making a determined eff
fort to smash the strike and to re-
move the great masses of garbage
that are accumulating in the resi-
Dental districts and threatening to
become the source Of a pestilence.
Three professional strike-break-
ers were sent out today on every wa
gon OF the Street Cleaning Depart
ment, each wagon guarded by an
armed policeman.
The reply of William II. Ashton,
general organizer of the lnternation-
al brotherhood of Teamsters, who
has taken charge Of the mems fight,
was a move for an injunction to pre-
vent the Civil Service Board from
erasing from its rolls the names of
the strikers. and veiled threat that
general strike of all the teamsters
in the city will be called.
The drivers and garbage men went
out because they were forced to work
at night. They insisted that all gar
bage should be collected during the
day.
Health Commissioner Lederle has
taken official cognizance of the situa
tion and if the city's health is men,
aced he has the power to assume con-
troll of the affair and collect the gar
bage himself.
Every residential district-Fifth
avenue and Riverside Drive as well
as the lower and upper East Side
tenement districts-is suffering from
the stencil of uncollected garbage.
Cool weather fortunately prevailing.
has minimized the danger Of an epi-
demic.
Grave trouble is feared this after
noon if the strikers attempt to car
ry out their threat to form parade
and march to the City Hall for the
purpose of protesting against Mayor
Gaynor's stand, and to demand the
back pay they claim is ten days over
due.
The strike assumed a far more SER
ious aspect today when individual
street sweepers began walking out
in sympathy with the drivers.
When the men left their headquar-
ters, they declared they intended go
ing to the men of every other Sec
tion in the city and try to get them
to quit work.
Forty street sweepers who refused
to strike were attacked by 100 strik-
ing drivers. The sweepers fought
back with their broom handles and
shovels. but were routed. Two police
men, with drawn pistols, dispersed
the rioters. George Defnger, driy-
er, beaten into unconsciousness and
sent to Flower hospital, is in criti-
cal condition.