Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-07-09
RIOTlNG IN NEW YORK.
Many Hand-to-Hand Fights on Lower
Broadway.

Auh .dnu-LO-I1duu ElSHU vi Lower
Broadway.
New YORK, July 3.-An outbreak
bordering on a riot occurred this morn
ing on Broadway, between Leonard and
White Streets. A crowd of about 200
striking cloak-makers gathered 1T the
hour when the hands in Meyer &
Jonassens' shops, at 354, and the Mer-
camille Cloak Company's place, at 1914
Broadway, were going to work. These
the trade and are battli ng in the front
row of the Employers Association
against the strikers demands. When
their employees appeared and tried to
enter the shops they were surrounded
by the strikers, who forbade them with
vehement g~esticulatiOns to enter. Some
were frightened away by the crowd, and
escaped, while those who persisted in
tE3 effort to enter the shops were
seized and hustled away by force. In a
few minutes Broadway for two blocks
was the scene of a dozen running fights.
For a short time the strikers had it all
their own way. The assailed men
pluckily fought back. AS a consequence
damaged heads among the strikers were
plentiful. The working cloakmakers,
however, generally got the worst of it.
Around Meyer & Jonassen's shops the
battle ragged most fercely.
A dozen strikers caught Charles But
Ter, a stock clerk, dragged him back
ward off the steps and maltreated him.
Joseph Lerburger, a buyer for the
house, was beaten. An old operator
named Quincy was set upon and S 70
badly beaten that he had to be removed
to his home in a cab. William Wisner,
another operator, received severe scalp
wounds. He was taken to Chamber
Street Hospital for treatment. Neither
pistols nor knives were used in the
melee, the only weapons used being
fists and dubbed umbrellas.
When the police arrived inforce they
had no difficulty in dispensing the mob.
They used their clubs freely. Mr..
Meyer of the cloak firm said he noticed
violence would be used. He had sup
piled the places of the strikers, he said,
and work vas progress sing as usual.
Men so weakened by hungertha they
stagger when they walk, and famished
children crying in vain for something
to eat, are scenes to be seen among the
locked out cloakmakers. Not a few of
the 1000 men and women and their fam
lilies have for nearly two weeks lived
on only bread and water. Men with
-aunt, haggard faces and eyes wild with
hunger are to be seen by the scores
around the headquarters of the union
on Forsythe Street. Girls who were
once pretty mingle with them at times,
but hunger and privation have driven
all traces of beauty from their faces.
Since last Saturday in all $583.60 has
been received to be distributed among
the distressed workmen, and when it is
taken into consideration hat this was
divided among 1000 persons, the major
ity of whom have large families, it
can we'll be imagined how much
privation must exist. A more forbear-
ing, accomplishing set of people is sell
dom e Scarcely eve can a word of
complaint be heard from them except
In a quiet way to the leaders in the lock
out. Rent day has arrived, and the
anxiety has been added to by the ex-
pected arrival of the landlords agents
to collect the rents.
Abraham Rosenberg and a crowd of
about thirty other striking tailors visit
ed the tailoring shop of Samuel Dillett,
of 1872 Eldridge Street, this forenoon;
and began an indiscriminate at
tack upon Dillett, his wife and
the workmen in the shop. Dillett
defended himself with his revolver. He
fred into the crowd and shot Rosen-
burg in the back inf1icting a serious and
probably fatal wound. Rosenberg was
removed to the Gouverneur hospital,
and a coroner has been summoned to
take Rosenburg's ~ante-mortem state
mont