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Show MAY QUIT JOBS. New York Truck and' "Wagon Drivers May Abandon Vehicles. NEW YORK, Oct. 20. The truck and wagon drivers vho signed in May last an agreement for a year with the New York Truck Owners' association, by which a strike against the association was averted, are reported to be on the verge of quitting their jobs. From 40,-000 40,-000 to 50.000 people would be directly or Indirectly aftected. Edwin Gould, first vice-president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Team-sters, said, In discussing the situation: "The agreement, which provided that there should be no discrimination against union men, and also for a fixed wage schedule and abolition of the Sunday Sun-day work, is being violated right and left. Not only is It violated In all essential es-sential particulars, but some employers are trying to get their drivers to sign Individual agreements repudiating the union." 1 President McCarthy of the Truck Owners' association admitted that there may be employers paying less than the prescribed scale, but he asserted this showed that th union could not control con-trol Its men. A successful teamsters' strike would tie up all the whblesale dry goods business busi-ness traillc and all traffic to and from the piers, east and west, south of Twenty-third street. This takes in the district covered by the agreement. |