Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-12
TRY TO SETTLE
EXPRESS STRIKE
BY ARBITRATION
International Organizers in Con-
ference With Members of
Local Association.

William Ashton and Michael Cashel,
of New York, international organizers
of the International Brotherhood Of
Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen and
Helpers, together with Albert d. NAL
lette, president Of the local Teamsters'
Union No. ATS, are in conference in
the Board of Trade rooms today with
the members of the Expressmen's
Association. The conferees will en-
deavor to arbitrate the differences be-
tween the drivers and the express
companies.
About $50 men employed by nine ex-
press companies In this city went out
on strike yesterday for overtime pay,
at the rate of thirty cents per hour.
The men claim they are not looking
for more money, but merely want to
be insured against working until 8
and o'clock at night.
The men want the bosses to Sign a
new contract with clause providing
that they will not be compelled to
pick up freight after 6 o'clock in the
evening, so that they will have an
opportunity to get back TO the stables
and unload their wagons by $3.50
o'clock. If the men load or unload
their wagons after $3.50 o'clock they
demand that they be paid overtime
Joseph c. Wood, president of the
Newark Express and Transportation
Company, who has been commits
Stoned as spokesman for the express
mems association, said prior to the
conference that the bosses will hold
n hn mi fe,
tude in fairness to the public, he
said.
"The controversy between the driy-
ers and expressmen is no nearer
settlement than when it commenced" ]"
said Mr. Wood. There Is no ques-
ton as to rate OF wages, but the
whole controversy hinges on the de-
sire of the drivers TO fix an arbitrary
time when they shall stop signing for
freight and express matter on their
routes The express bosses have
| agreed to pay for overtime when
such overtime is caused by teams
being sent out at an hour when it
, would be impossible for them to get
back to the yard before $50 p. m, at
the rate of thirty cents per hour, and
have Furthermore agreed to pay
extra at thirty cents per hour for
any work done outside of the work
connected with driving the wagon.
/ The reason the expressmen object to
| the arbitrary time of 6 O'Clock to
! stop signing for goods is because 1t
would impose "a hardship on the gem
eraI public. If a driver was unavoid-
ably de'ayed ten or fifteen minutes
al Two or three places where he was
| to pick, up goods and should have
+ e. os-ax3tllsee Souses at clock thai
had not been called on the goods Of
these last houses would be left In the
: building.
.If view of the contract which the
drivers we're working under which
was not TO expire until December,
1915. and the fact that the bosses are
willing to pay for overtime outside of
the regular express work, the express
men feel that they have shown a dis
position to be fair sand right with
their employees and at the same time
to protect the interests of their Gus
toners The drivers have not only
broken their contract but have re-
fused TO arbitrate the difference
which their contract specifically pro-
vides for"
Mr.. Wood, who had prior to the
strike offered the services of his
company for the handling of the sup
plies being gathered In this city for
the relief of the Belgian sufferers,
said that the strike would not inter-
fere with his intention of transport
ing the supplies from this city to
New York. The goods will be car
ried to New York on the freight
boats of the Newark Express Com
pany, so that the strike of the team
sters will not, affect its transporta-
ton. Mr.. Wood said that the only
hot 1nff hi efo h lac- tfds
was sent out to cart the supplies
from the headquarters of the relief
association to the company's wharfs
on Passaic avenue.