Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1912-12-20
PUBLIC WILL PAY 1
TEAMSTER RAISE,
SAYS EXPRESS CO.
Employers Have to
Dig Into Patrons
Pockets"
PEOPLES co. FINALLY
SIGN NEW CONTRACT
ALI Other Drivers Had Returned
TO Work and Threatened
Xmas Gloom Vanishes.

The public has been made ~ths
goat again.
This time the express companies
have done the trick Five hundred oE
their drivers quit their work last
Monday, asking 81 wage increase.
and now they're back, the companies
having given in by allowing them 3
81 raise. BIT
The public is going to pay the DIFF
ference. The employers admit them
selves that the only way they can
accede TO the demands Of the tean-
sters is by raising the express rates.
The small crumb of comfort the ex<
pressmen give is their own stafenenz
that the express rates in this city
have always been exceptionally low
A committee of the Expressmen,s
Association, which was to have
signed a contract with the strikers.
awaited the teamsters COMMITTEES
until noon, but the latter did not ap-
pear.
The terms of the contract which
was to have been signed in the Board
Of Trade rooms. 500 Broad street.
provides the following terms. terms.
Drivers working only in Newark
are to get $14 a week for single-horee
Drivers working only IN Newark are
to get $l4 a week for single-horEe
wagons and SIS for two horse waRone:
SIS for single-hofse wagons to New
York and 81 for two-horse wagons;
SIS for three-horse wagons IN New
.ark akd SO fol those going 70 NeH
! York fehAeiseurs Of auto trucks. $2e
trips to New York after p. m, s.
per trip. and slf for chauffeurs'
helpers. The men are not to report
at the stables on Sundays and holi-
days unless especially instructed, and
then are TO receive double time. The
drivers asked for 80 cents an hour
for the time they had to wait In New
York after $3.50 D. M No provision
was made for overtime, the under
standing being the men would not
have to wait in New York after 6:s0
o'clock There is an arbitration clause
in the contract, which is made out
for a year, which eliminates the pos
sibility of another strike unless the
agreement is broken by employers.
in which case an arbitration board of
two members from the drivers and
two from employers is to be ap-
pointed, they to select a referee, and
the board to reach a decision within
a week.
Secretary CoIby's Statement.
In discussing the settlement last
night. Secretary Colby said:
I'VE feel that we have won
moral victory because. while the
bosses declared the men would havs
to come back to work before a raise
would be considered, the increase
was actually given while we were
still out. We are glad it is settled.
for we don't like strikes. We would
have come TO the same agreement
Tuesday if the expressmen's COM
mittee hadn't been so arbitrary"
That the raise will come out OF the
pockets of the public was the state-
ment made by Joseph H. Wood. pres
ident of the Newark Express and
transportation Company. who de-
clared there would undoubtedly be an
immediate increase in rates charged
by the companies which do business
between Newark and New York.
while this raise will probably be
small" said Mr.. Wood. .it viii
have to be made, because there simply
isn't enough revenue for us to pay
the new wages out Of our own
pockets. Unquestionably Newark has
had very low transportation rates.
The settlement of the labor difii-
Guilty which began Monday morning
came at the end of a day which saw
more rioting on the part of strikers
and their sympathizers than any
previously, and just at time when
matters were in a critical state. with
much express undelivered, the Christ
mas rush on and employers making
preparation TO employ strike breakers
/ and armed guards. Several arrests
/ were made, the most exciting being
1 after a chase at the Four Corners
I late in the afternoon, when a big
crowd saw a teamster and d youth
taken into custody.
The first personal arrest ever made
by a sheriff in Essex county was
made yesterday when Sheriff John
F. Monahan. while passing through
Plane street. arrested a youth just
in the act Of throwing a stone during