Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-07-12
RIOTING STRIKERS
New York CIoakmakers' Mob
Their Successors.
They Are Rendered Desperate by
tho Cries of Their Wives and
Children for Bread.

New YORK, July 4.-The striking
cloakmakers, rendered desperate by the
cries of wives and children for bread
assembled on Broadway this morning
and assaulted a number of men who hac
taken their places. There are many
pitiful stories OF want and despair
ca used by the strike, and tho violent
temper OF the striking mob, made up Of
men who are usually peaceful citizens,
only goes to show that they are in des
perate straits. Not q few received no
tees to leave their homes, and were
turned out into the streets like sheep.
Last night was cold and cherries and
the rain was coming down intermit-
tently.
Last night on Orchard, Eldridge and
Forsyth streets there were whole fami-
lies who were homeless and hungry.
They had no place to go and nothing &c
eat. This morning in the drizzling
rain, fathers, sons and brothers, mum.
boring over 200 who had been up all
night, went over TO their old work
shops with q desperate resolve. They
massed in front OF Meyer Jonasson d
Co.'S place and the Mercantile Cloak
company, two Of tho largest establish.
ments In the city. Joseph Leyburger,
a buyer in the employ Of Meyer Jonas
son, camo briskly down the street.
When the strikers saw him they made
a rush at him and Leyburger was badly
beaten before he managed to escape from
the mob.
,rbn s,,ccess ~ the attacLr ,non tho
first victim seemed to turn the usually
peaceful men into o body of rioters.
They ran down to the Jonasson store.
the holder ones entered and seized an
Office boy, Charlie Buttner, and in a
second he was receiving the same kind
OF blows which fell upon Ley burger.
VIM. Washer, an operator, Joseph Rodel-
heimer, a packer, and Bookkeeper
Simms were the next to receive similar
treatment as accorded the other two.
Two Italians were then attacked, but
they drew weapons and the strikers
fed.
The mob next gathered around a
cloakmaker named Kunze. He did not
get away so easily as the other men.
When the police, who had been notified,
came running down the street tho
strikers scattered, but they left Kunze
on the sidewalk, bleeding from half a
dozen severe cuts in his head. They
must have kicked him, as his injuries
were serious.
All this time another detachment Of
strikers had been busy two blocks below.
They were the men who had been in the
employ of the Mercantile Cloak COM
pany and they gathered there just as
Co. s and waited for q scab workman to
come along. They were rewarded Just
before s o'clock, when they surrounded
two men, struck them half : dozen
times, and then chased them up stairs.
The mob was then scattered by the po-
lice.
While all this was going on, an angry
mob Of striking cloakmakers collected
at the corner Of Irvington and Eldridge
streets, determined to obtain work or
prevent the bosses from employing nom
union workers. Samuel Villett, q Pole,
has about a score OF men making cloaks
for him. He did not like the looks Of
the strikers. Accordingly he locked
and barred his door. About 1880. when
the crowd was the largest, Villet and
his employees were startled by a crash.
The strikers had broken open the door,
and a mob Of about thirty, led by Abra-
ham Rosenberg, rushed In upon them.
They demanded that all hands stop
work, and, meeting with no success,
began to threaten and intimidate
Villet and his workmen. The strikers
threw out the windows plush cloaks
kfd" "tnUa Sa evvpa I'D 4%apipemreiGpeas
filled with a surging mass of people.
Villet became terrorized and, after re-
ceiving an ugly cash across the right
eye with a knife, whipped out a re-
volver and fred two shots. One bullet
lodged in the back Of Abraham Rosen-
burg, and with q shrek he staggered
out on the street.
At this moment the police arrived.
They captured Villet and eighteen
other persons and carried them off to
Jail. Rosenberg was removed to q hos
pital, whore he lies in a precarious con-
dition.