New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-17
Volunteer Aid
Balks Tie-Up
In Lift Strike
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IN the Adams Express Company Build.
ing, 81 Broadway Thirty onera+ore
are employed in this building. onlv hall
OF whom quit their posts With the aic
or the strike breakers the service w.s
kept at normal
At the American Express Comnar,
Building, IS Broadway, all the onerat,
ors quit. About half of the cars were
run by women, who operated under no.
lice protection, the women fearing at.
tacks by pickets.
Fred Southack and Alvin Ball ir.,
real estate agents at II Broadway. re-
ported that the cars at rs Broadwa r
and IL Broadway were operating on a
100 per cent basis, while the BUILDINGS
at 277 Broadway, 225 Fifth Avenue and
257 Fourth Avenue, all large Office
structures under direction of the firm
wereegiving from SO to rs per cent of
normal service. The same was true of
other large loft buildings in the care
of the agents, it was declared.
'. The c. F. Noyes Company, 90 Will
liam Street. which has under it's direc-
ton seventy-two buildings, mostly
once and factory structures, announced
that, with the exception of two of the
buildings, the elevator service in all Of
them was maintained 100 per cent with
the aid of substitutes and volunteers.
lhese buildings are scattered from the
Battery to Twenty Street.
Delay in New York Life
Tenants of the New York Life Build
ing, 346 Broadway, experienced consid-
cradle delay when the twelve elevator
men in the building quit. Two of the
elevators were restored to service and
tnose who did not mind waiting man
aged to have themselves lifted to tho
upper stories. Many others walked the
stairs. ''o
Reports of intimidation we're re-
celved from some buildings. mostly
99ne-elevator structures. w. T. Roper.
director IN charge Of operations for
horace S. Ely & Co., 21 Liberty Street.
received reports from men running ele-
pators at lib Greene Street and 80,
broadway, who said they had been
=, IN the Twenty-third Street section
inc metropolitan Life Building was m.
disturbed by the strike According To
she superintendent Of the building. the
lor1y-nve operators stuck to their posts.
with the exception of two extra men
who quit. The starter in the tower
SAID that each Of the operators there
had received wage increase. com
menclng yesterday, and that in addi-
lon 10 tne increase the men EMPLOYED
there will have their lunches served
them and will receive two-thirds of
their pay when i'll.
Strikers Places Quickly Filled
Several of the operators in the Fifth
Avenue Building quit their posts on
the stroke OF 8, but their places were
taken by others almost immediately
after.
All operators in the Marbridge Build
ing, Thirty-fourth Street and Broad
way, one ofsthe largest in the district.
quit, and no substitutes could be on-
tanned by the management Instead
delegation of tenants called on the
superintendent and offered to organ
ize force of volunteers. The delega-
ton consisted of Stephen Yates, pres-
dent of the Real Estate Exchange of
Long Island, and Richard T. Childs,
secretary of the Real Estate Associa-
ton.
Telephone Girls Man Lifts
In the Bush Terminal Building, in
Fortysecond Street, all the elevators
were run by tenants, clerks and even
telephone girls, who had learned how
to run an elevator by working in apart
ment houses where the telephone girl
also is the elevator man"
There was one type of building owner.
however, who suffered. He was the
rent profteer. Landlords in this cate
cory got scant sympathy or cooperation
from their tenants, who stood in the
Hobbies and demanded service.
Department stores were affected