New-York tribune., 1891-04-24
sTONEMASONS ON STRIKE.
SOME OF THEM ARRESTED FOR INTIMIDA-
TON.
FORTY ITALIANS QUIT WORK WITHOUT WARN
ING AND ATTACK THOSE WHO RE-
FUSE TO JOIN THEM.

ING AND ATTACK THOSE WHO RE
FUSE TO JOIN THEM
gang OF Italian stOnemasons caused conslderapie
excitement yesterday in the Thirty tDrd Polce rfo
cinct As a result OF the fun they had sixteen Oh
them are now in prison awaiting examlnauoh' inc
trouble was the result OF massmeetng OF stOheason'
held on Wednesday night at the Germanc Assembly
Rooms, No. 293 Bowery. The masons nave Deen soV
ting SO 80 a day for nine hours work Inc oo!e0.
Of the meeting was to have either the wages ralSeu
or the time reduced The meeting was auu'e's0 So ~
Nicholas Conforti, president of the Ne"-forA % go
masons' Protective Union samuel GompeS' Pfe'u','
n the American Federation of Labor and George r.
Iloyd of the Tin and sheetlron Workers froVeo.Y0
Association The result Of the meeting 1t was unuer
stood would be a strike If employers "ouiu "0'
contnt to the demands Of the masOhs' oo
The first evidence Of the strike was seen aV - o0
q m Yesterday when about forty stonemasohs oi'
Moved on the new station Of the Portchester haoa1
Company. in course of erection at .,... ,
third St and wilHs-ave left work without any
,varninr They were all Italians After gun
ting work they went TO DuIiu'ns Oe nt
,rcctcd AZ One-hundred and-thirty- y-hftst' anu 0',
Ann,s-ave and tried TO induce the lhaSohs eihP"'0
there. seven Italians, to join them ms Vle Se'o"
masons refused 10 DO and The Subjects Ne" O's"'.
,bNvv stones Several policemen arrived about tns
.i,e and the Italians scattered. The foreman OF 'o
masons yincenzo Lacon of No. 333 Fast One-hunuIeu
anasixtieth-st was seen hourislhng reVoIVer' "'O
IN examination proved to be loaded. lie hau "ia"
\, ,nrorcb fear that the strikers would attnck mih'
mt had not attempted to use it, lie was Pliceu ""U.
arrest for carrying a revolver without hcepse. As
no was beng taken to the Thirtythrd Precinct o'aoh
.levon of the strikers followed him, and these "erS
arrested at the station door.
John Entwistlc of No s45 East One-hundred-anu
thirty fourthst Is the contractor eTecung INC Uulue
where the strikers tried to cause the trouble. Ho
cogn,zed 4he eleven as some Of those who tricd 10
complaipt. Officers were sent to the locality whefo
the trouble had taken place, but the cro"u n"l US
nerscd some OF the Italians afterwaTd fouhu
In Onc-hundrcd- and forty -ninthSt.. near tOulfaNo
where they were trying TO induce some maSohs 70 p"
work on a wall they were building. They ran away |
when the police came but four Of them were capOurou
Renewed excitement was caused by the report thaU
Captain MoCullagh, Of the Thirty-tlfd Precinct i'u
sent TO Police Headquarters fOs reserves Inc Cap'd
did send down request for ten extra pOlcemel ds 'o
sixteen prisoners were almost too much for MS men
TO handle and at the same time properly pfotec' .Io
district His men, however, proved themselves "oi0
10 manage all the trouble there was.
The prisoners were arraigned before Justice Diver
I'm the Harlem Court in the afternoon. Nearly all
of them had murderous looking knives, and hVe ol
them had revolvers Several Of the weapons were Oh
most curious and unusual pattern looking s0methhg
like small rifles One man had revolver with fifteen
barrels. All the men had plentiful supply OF am
rerOuS- looking club. The various weapons are now
Resting ON Captain McCullaghs DESK and they form
held under $500 bail for dsOrderly conduct and FIVE
of them held in 800 ball for bTeaNng a Guy |
ordinance I'm carrying weapons without a license. |
They will have hearing on Saturday. Inc NAMES
of those held on two charges are NhceHaO Laoo,i a
William sea Tetor nSeG c One qs Cbsr aTe %nthSny
DelanG-, Lorenzo CallasiOna, Veto Deboyao, Sabra
GOdsey, Frank GreO' Joseph KoSsie, LOUIS bOmI i
and Andrew Celtic.