1,000 BLACK AND WHITE CHAUFFEURS ARE OUT

The New York Times
November 18, 1922

Strike Against Proposed Reduction in Pay Following Fay Merger.

A strike of 1,000 chauffeurs, mechanics, washers and other employes of the Black and White Taxicab Company was called yesterday by Daniel Coyle, delegate of the Taxi Drivers and Chauffeurs Local Union 267, in protest against a reduction in pay. Coyle said that when the Black and White Company was taken over by Lawrence Fay and merged with a company of which Fay had been the head for some time, Fay announced that he would put into effect a new scale of pay for the Black and White Taxicab Company employes.

The new scale, according to Coyle, was equivalent to a cut in the fare percentage going to drivers from 40 cents on the dollar to 33 1-3 cents, with the minimum amount to be paid in to remain the same as before. Coyle said that drivers working nine hours a day earned an average of $21.60 a week, while drivers on a ten-hour day made $24.

"In order to make wages at the lower percentage the drivers will have to drive recklessly," asserted Coyle.