Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-11-20
TEAM STRIKERS
WILL TAKE VOTE
ON BIG STRIKE
Express Drivers to Decide To-
morrow on AdvisabiIity of
General WaIkout.

| The advisibility, of calling gem
eral strike of all team drivers in New
ark will be decided tomorrow. A meet
ing of the striking express drivers
+ las been called for Zimmerman s
Hall, G6 South Orange avenue at
| o clock, at which time the matter will
be acted upon.
| Fred Carlin. business agent Of the
striking drivers, stated today that the
question of a sympathetic strike
/ would be taken up at the meeting to-
! morrow and il it was deemed neces-
] sary the other drivers would be asked
| to come out at once.
/ The business agent Of the union.
however, was OF fAe opinion that the
strikers would decide not to call a
general strike unless it could be
shown that the dryers in this city
| were handling the goods of the ex-
] press companies who fafuse to grant
4 the demands of the strikers
The only union men that have re-
| turned to work. said Carlin today,
/ "are the meh that are working Tor
1.-THE companies which have signed the
fnew agreement.
There has been no break in our
| ranks, although overtures have been
made to a number of men to come
| back to work with a promise of big
wages, but the men have ignored the
requests.
s'Of course the union men are being
blamed for anything that happens to
! the men who are working for the ex-
press companies in our places, but
| can tell YOU that the strikers are not
responsible for one bit of trouble that
! has occurred
I'VE are going to win this strike by
neaceful methods and we are going TO
! show the public that we can conduct
our affairs in business like manner
and that we are not lot of 'roughs,'
as the bosses would have everyone be-
| 1ieve.'
Striker Fined for Assault.
Charged with stoning arwagon OF
the Newark Express and Transporta-
tion Company yesterday at Uplon ana
Market streets, as the driver was re-
+,,rnine to the office after making his
deliveries. Charles Baker, aged twen-
| fv-nine years, OF 223 McWhorter
street. was fined $40 by Judge Mar-
cusi- Ungaro. sitting IN the Thlrd
precinct station today
Alien Chamberlain, secretary of the
Newark Express and transportation
Company. the complaining witness.
| fold the court that while he, in com
panv with Detective John II. Sloan, OF
436 East 13Sth street, New York, an
employe of the Val O'Farrell Detec-
tive Agency, Of that city, were driv-
/ ing in AN. automobile in the rear of
f1,e wagon they saw Baker stone the
wa go1l Detective Sloan corroborated
| Mr. Chamberlain's testimony and
added that he saw Baker throw al
least two stones at the wagon.
Mr. Chamberlain emphatically de-
clared after the hearing that the
officials of the express company In
tended to diligently search for any
violators Of the law In connection
with the strike, and that they in
tended to prosecute every one who
was caught destroying the property
of the company. Men, he said, would
he placed on the street for the de-
tection of any wrong doing by the
striking express drivers. and nothing
would be left undone to see that the
Wa esons are enabled to cover their
routes unmolested.
According to Mr.. Chamberlain there
were several attempts at violence in
various parts of the "Ironbound" dis
trict Yesterday, but in each case
fhe offenders escaped without detec-
tion. No one was injured, he said,
INT several of the wagons were
stoned. Captain Peter ]. Christie, of
the Third precinct, said there was
considerable disorder on Pennsyiva-
MIA avenue also, and stones were
hurled at passing express teams, but
|, that no injuries to drivers of wagons
had been reported.