New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-16
Drivers Threaten
To Halt City's
Supply of Milk
Will Meet This Week -
Formulate Demands on
Borden Company
Grocery Clerks Out
Window Cleaners Also Strike
for Increased Wages and
Shorter Hours :
Grocery Clerks Out

MIX wagon drivers o. the city do.
clare that they ought 70 receive
larger share Of the IA cent, a GUAR,
which consumers nov pay for milk. !.
was learned yesterday. Unless oSci,h
Of the various companies accep, n.
views o. the men IL il likely that marv
OF the latter will strike this week
threat that 1900 emp.oyes Of X.
Gail Borden Condensed Mix Compa,y
would strike yesterday unless twen.y.
two agitators among the driver. wio
had been discharged last week we're 70.
instated led 10 conference SUNDAY
night between representative OF n,
company and the delegate o. the Min
Drivers Union, Local 5si. which has
organized the men within the las, FORT.
night.
p. ID. Fox. a manager OF the Bords,
company, agreed 10 let The TWENTY-FIVE
men return 20 work He said the com.
pany had no objection 10 REASONABLE.
union, provided % represented ma.
jority OF the men.
The Borden drivers are 70 nee.
Thursday A. the Central Opera House
to ratify demands made by their lead.
ers. The demands are for closed
shop, for an increase In salary and for
a weeks vacation every year
Drivers Union Strengthened
According 70 ". J. Csshel, intern..
tional vice president Of The Tesms,er,
and Chauffeurs' Union. with which N.
Mix Drivers Union is affiliated. N.
latter's membership has been increased
10 $500 within the last TWO weeks
This includes drivers OF practically
every company in the city. Demands
similar 20 those Of the Borden en-.
ployes, he said, have been presented %
the Alexander Campbell Mix COMPANY
and the Empire State Dairy Compsny.
The high cost OF living, the scarcity
OF labor because Of the war and ID,
rising price Of milk said Mr.. Ca,h,I
last night. "are important factors IN
the situation. In January. 1915, ~,
Milk Drivers Union had eighty-.our
members. A year later !, had 100,
and now it has $500.
THE drivers Of the Locust Farms.
Clover Farms and several less mpor.
tsnt companies have been unionilsi
for some time. The position OF tie
men is so strong in these compsnie,
that strikes are likely 10 be declared
any minute. The Sheffield Farms
Slawson-Decker Company seems 70 Be
the last big concern 70 hold out agan,:
the union, but considerable beginning
at organization has already been mad.
in it's ranks"
Attempts TO organize the milk driy.
ers year ago were unsuccessful
J. Lowy, II. Shaefer and Louis Men
sky are the guiding spirits in the NH
drivers union. They assert that nesrl
so per cent Of the Borden drivers J,
the metropolitan district have JOINED
the organization. They say that AZ
present Borden drivers average abog.
s22 a week, and under the new arrange
ment would make about s2s.
No Objection to Unions
Mr.. Fox, Of the Borden company
said last night:
"The Borden company has no obiee'
ton 20 the union. When the tendency
was first observed % unionize, year
and A half ago. we gave permission 70
our men TO join If they desired. ] IN
derstsnd demands are 20 he presented
but as yet we have received none. We
do rot desire 20 deal with union o.
ficials unless they represent the ma
jority OF our employees"
Thirty drivers at the Long ls!ahc
City station Of the Borden compsr!
Yesterday notified c. p. Fleischsuer n.
branch manager, that they were ss,ls'
fed with their conditions Of employ
ment and would not strike.
The Grocery Clerks Union yesterday
started a general strike IN 500 stores
in The Bronx, Harlem and the lover
East side. David Brodsky, orgsnii'''
said that this would be followed D! I
general strike in 100 delicates.i
stores. The main purpose Of the stree
Mr.. Brodsky said. was 70 free W
clerks from the custom which requlfS'
them TO board with their employer
Higher wages and sn eleyen-hour Gay
also are included IN the demands. in
organizer declared last night that "
600 grocery clerks would soon
brought into the union.
Window Washers Strike
Discomfort has also spread 20 -
window washers. Eleven hundred
them went on strike yesterday N ~
shops. according TO Peter {. Da.t.
secretary Of the Window Cleaners Pc.
tective Union. Darck said the trsH
was exceedingly hazardous, and VA
four union members we're killed az
fifty injured az the work within "
f.s. ,.a.r Tho s4rfla no added "a Ici
S24 a week Of forty-fye working hour
and for ten legal holidays year.
A desire for increased wages yess'
day impelled the leaders Of Journs!,,
men Tsilors' Union 800. composed o.
Fifth Avenue tailors, TO order a sg'
eral strike vote next week. Moreo'o'
the joint advisory board Of the Cisn'
makers Union yesterday MADE u
rangements for general convention F"
discuss the raising OF wages.