Daily Republican., 1882-07-12
LABOR TROUBLES.
n COLLISION between Striking
FreiGhG Handlers ana italian
BHhBtlIutes,

JERSEY CRY, N. j., July 1.-THE
general aspect of the strike in JERSEY
City remains the same. The various
railroad companies are working with a
lull force OF men, and claim to be able
10 handle all the freight that NAV be-
sent to them.
A committee of the strikers visited
harsimuc Cove to-day for the purpose
OF inducing the checkers" at work
tnere to join the strike, but were order
Oh TO leave the premises of the COM
paDy.
The strikers held another meeting to-
day.
JEREMIAH MURPHY,
President of the union, stated that he
had received reliable information to
the effect that there were not over 4, 900
carloads Of freight standing on the side
tracks of the New York, Lake Erie and
Western Railway between Jersey City
and Port Jervis. He further stated
that the Pennsylvania Railway Com
pany set seventy'five men to work at
Z. M. Gu Saturday last to load thirty
cars with flour. At $50 P. M. only 8
cars had been loaded, and the men quit
WORK. After most of them had gone
the foreman discovered that two bar
rels belonging 10 another lot had been |
put into the wrong Car by mistake, and
seven cars had to be un-
loaded. Resolutions were adopted de-
nouncing the action OF the gang of
hoodlums who assaulted the Russian
Jews at the local freight station yester-
day afternoon, and denying that the
strikers approved ofany such measures.
NEW YORK, July 1.-THE condition
Of the freight handlers strike remains
about the same as yesterday. The
companies declare that they are dispos.
.ng OF the freight received almost as
ast as formerly, and that the new
lands are rapidly becoming skilled at
he work. Shipping was light this
morning. Committees from different
ierman societies are engaged in visit.
ng the different piers persuading their
ellow'countrymen from working againt
he strikers.
THERE WAS SOME SERIOUS
lotlng this afternoon at the Jersey !
;!ty docks of the Erie Railroad Com :
any between the strikers and the Ital- n
ans who had taken their places. The II
trikers numbered 400 and the Italians +
D. The latter were armed and the for. a
Ter were not, except with missiles they
Ould hastily pick up-such as coup +
ng pins, etc. After emptying their n
'Volvers the Italians fed, pursued by r
10 strikers. One Italian was drowned a
his attempt to escape. s
THE POLICE L
pom their arrival at once cleared the Il
ard OF al but the employees of the
'ilroad company. The Italians were
aced on barges, where a committee of
le strikers were given an opportunity In
identity any Of Them whom they had v
en- using firearms. Four of the Itsl- h,
ms were arrested on complaint Of h,
g strikers for assault with intent to re
Il. re re-
THE POLICE N
zen thoroughly searched the Italians er
d barges, finding eighty.nine knives or
ID r-zOrs, a sword and seventeen On
aded revolvers. Twelve of the IJal- IN
ns who had weapons on their persons
,re also arrested. The wounded IN
'ikers were taken to st. Francis stl
)spital, where their wounds were or
essed, and then they were sent home. ma
e Italians, many of whom were badly MI
aten, were lett on the barges without oe
'dical attendance until they reached
w York.
If the strikers Michael Pendis got
evere wound in the back; jeremiah
lrphy was shot in the right elbow;
nry Reed was shot in the right leg;
III Hassiday was shot in the leg;
omas Mccarthy received severe tuI
und on the right shoulder, and Ed cul
rd Murphy was wounded in the arm shS
| right hip.
oUTH CHICAGO, ILL.,, July IL ga!
was quiet at the mills of rep
umet Iron and Steel Company this 4
rning, although large crowds were wa
hered around the depot. Prepara- @ho
ms were being made to start up eau
% of the sixteen furnaces with non
On men.