TAXI-DRIVERS' STRIKE
PROTEST AGAINST PETROL TAX (Received February 4, 5.5 p.m.) PARIS, February 2. As a protest against the new petrol tax only 800 out of 7000 taxis were plying for hire yesterday. The strike has been intensified and pickets are striving to lessen the number of running taxis. Meanwhile hundreds of strikers are driving slowly round the chief centres, blocking the traffic. They are immune from arrest while they keep moving.
STRIKE IN NEW YORK } INTERRUPTION OF TRAFFIC NEW YORK, February 2. Taking advantage of heavy overnight snow, which made walking difficult, 8000 to 15,000 taxi-cab drivers brought the service to a halt in a surprise strike early this morning, seriously disrupting the city's transportation system. The unions demand that the accrued proceeds of the city tax of five cents each fare, which later was declared unconstitutional, should go to the drivers instead of to the companies. The Mayor (Mr La Guardia) declared the strike legal, and halted the issuance of new drivers' licenses to prevent owners importing gangsters and other undesirables. He offered to arbitrate. There was considerable violence as unionists picketed the railway terminals and steamship piers. There were scuffles with independent drivers accepting passengers.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21081, 5 February 1934, Page 11
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