Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-11-13
FIRST VIOLENCE
CROPS OUT IN
DRIVERS STRIKE
Non-Union Teamsters Say That
Strikers Hit Man and Cut
Harness.
"HoLD-UR" TAKES PLACE
ALONG LINCOLN HIGHWAY
Both Sides Claim That They
Have the Upper Hand in
Controversy.

The first report of violence in the
strike Of the express drivers was
made about 3:30 this morning. when
four men, who said they were en-
ployed by Louis Blumenfeld. whose
stable is at 115 Barclay street, re-
ported at the Third police precinct
that they had been held up four
hours before by gang of thirty men
at Vincent and Ferry streets.
Sixteen machinists are said to be
ON strike at the Newark Rivet Works.
26S Lafayette street, for an increase
of 20 cents per day in wages. That
there is strike at this plant Is de-
MED by members of the firm, but the
men who have walked out assert that
there Is.
The complainants described then1-
selves as: William Seidner, seven
teen, 120 Barclay street; Watson
Adams. twenty, 221 Livingston street:
Albert Dietes, twenty, So Peshine ave-
nue., and Isaac Zimmerman, twenty
eight, 81 Allen street, New York.
They said they were returning to
Newark from New York about IL 80
after a days work there. Seidner
and Zimmerman were on one wagon
and Adams and Dietes on another,
and both wagons close together when
they reached Vincent and Ferry
streets.
Here a crowd of thirty men sur
rounded the wagons and demanded to
see the union cards of the drivers
and their assistants. When told the
four had no union cards. someone cut
the harness of the horse driven by
Adams and others beat Zimmerman,
although ne had no scars to show.
None of the others in the party
claimed to have been struck. All
continued their way back to the
stables, where they were told to re-
port the encounter to the Fourth pre-
cinct police. There they were sent
to the precinct in which they said
the trouble occurred. The police are
their stories.
Joseph Wood, head of the Newark
Express and Transportation Com
pany, said today that he was done
with the union and knew from previ-
Gus experience that he could get
along without members of the Inter
national Brotherhood of Teamsters.
81 have two men working today
and tens more hired for Monday
morning already he told q reporter
for the Evening Star. 4 can get all
the men / want and we win be going
along with full complement in q
day or two. don't need the union
men.
I'VE have been having trouble with
those. fellows for four or Ave years.
Give in to them in one respect and
they come right back with new de-
mand Two years ago. We signed
contract with an arbitration agree
ment but here they present a de-
mand and walk right out without an
attempt at arbitration.
ut is not reasonable for them to
expect US to pay overtime ON New
York routes. They know before they
start a New York job means thirteen
hours. They leave here at in the
morning and the days work is fin
ished at 6. They do not come home
on their own time, and they know
what that means. If they we're paid
overtime they would loaf on the job
all day and build up big pay en-
velope. We can't stand for that and
we are through with them"
Strikers Say Quick victory.
Fred Carlin, business agent of Local
No. 47g. International Brotherhood of
Teamsters and Chauffeurs, members
of which are on strike, stated that
the union will win their strike and
that it will be settled in a very short
time.
Paying for overtime is the only
question involved in the present
strike" said Carlin today. There ~
no question about the scale of wages.
which ia s17 per week for a ten-hour
day. This does not include the time
spent in driving between this city
and New York, which we figure about
two and half-hours, which time you
might say we give to the bosses
: I'VE are asking thirty cents an hour
for all overtime spent in New York
city delivering goods. We had an
agreement with the Expressmen's
Association last year that they pay
the same rate, but in only one or two
instances did they live up to that
clause In the agreement.
This year we presented the same
to them for their sigma
lures on October IL, month before
the expiration of the old agreement,
and they refused to sign it under any
Last Wednesday night a commit
tee, consisting of Joseph H. Woods. of
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