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...owner of Cambridge's Yellow Cab Company will have to open his gas pumps to his cab drivers or lose his license, the Cambridge City Council decided Monday night...
...council voted unanimously to instruct the licensing board to adopt new requirements forcing cab company owners to provide cabbies with...
Arthur Goldberg, owner of Yellow Cab Company, triggered a protest by cabbies two weeks ago when he told them to buy fuel at private service stations because his gas allocation had been cut. Goldberg had always provided gas to his drivers free of charge...
Asked why Yellow Cab didn't simply reimburse cabbies for all money spent for gas instead of limiting them to 10 per cent of the fares collected, Goldberg said he was afraid drivers would waste gas "taking their wives and girlfriends to parties" or idling their engines at taxi stands...
...Cab driver Lowber told the licensing board, "Our livelihood is threatened. We need the right to earn a living, and that's what is being taken away from us for the privilege of profiteering," Lowber said...