New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-08-25
STRIKERS KEEP SHARP WATCH
THE LoNGSHOREMEN BRIGHTEN ITALIANS
FROM TIE PIERS.
LITTLE VIOLENCE. HOWEVER, WAS OFFERED.
AND FEW ARRESTS WERE MADE-TuE IDLE
woRKMEN SAY THEY DON'T WANT
FOOD GIVEN TuEM-rRGED TO

AND FEW ARRESTS WERE MADE-TuE IDLE
woRKMEN SAY THEY DON'T WANT
FOOD GIVEN TuEM-URGED TO
BETTER ORG ,NIZATION.
Southst. is q great street for Italian fruit anu
peanut vendors. On "A fair day there are hundreds
OF these swarthy curbstone merchants In that
thoroughfare below Roosevelt-st. There was not
one Italian fruit venier 10 be In Southst
Yesterday The striking longshoremen were on the
lookout all day for "Ginees." as they call the
Italians Several hundred Italians have taken the
places of the strikers. So yesterday. when an
Italian appeared in the neighborhood of South-st.
he was promptly taken in hand by the strikers.
one man. Irshman. mistaken for an Italian
because he n SLOUGH hat. Before he could
explain that it was only his hat that was Italian
he was chased several blocks and thoroughly
pounded. on the whole, however. there was Hfuch
less violence yesterday than the day before. There
more policemen than usual on duty in south
and Front SITS all day and during the evening.
The South-st sidewalks were more crowded.
probably. than those Of any other thoroughfare IN
the city Fully 1000 'longshoremen were waiting
TO prevent men from taking their places on the
piers of the Mallory Ward and Clyde lines. Two
wagon loads of Italians driven up In front OF
the Mallory pier about l o'clock Two hundred
'longshoremen yelled at them and asked them to
leave the. wagons. The Italians promptly left the
wagons. The ongshoremen told them to move
on which they did in lively manner up Fulton
ST. Peter Johnson engineer on a lighter at
Pier IS East River was attacked by 1onSshore-
men. The police drove his assailants away.
Thomas Freey, Of No. % Cherryst.. longshore-
man formerly employed the Clyde docks, was
arrested and held at the Tombs Court for assault
ing an Italian. Frank Banansevona, an Italian
was assaulted in Rooseyelt-st. His nose was
broken.
Joseph Colino another italian. got ugly scalp
did II. but just away as fast as he could.
'longshoreman said Of him: "lie was hit because
lie was tryn' TO lift ton OF coal alone by him
self 1t was too much for Gince, We dropped
coal on his mask
Say, put in de papc dat don't want charity
See? a bloke down de street says he's givn' away
soup and beer to us. It's lie. We don't want
bread. We amt Hebrew tailors. We want pie
Sec? added the striker
SO the day passed There were few ar
rests. but as a rule. the strikers were simply told
to move In the evening one of the leaders
of the strikers phil" German. got a crowd OF
seventy five of the men together in hall at Park
Row and Pearl-st man named Russell urged
the mon to organize themselves into permanent
union and TO appoint committee of ten sober,
reliable man to watch each pier
Trouble is expected to-day when the steamship
Cherokee, OF the clyde Line, and the Niagara, OF
the Ward Line will be unloaded. They arrived
last evening about ~ o'clock. The men said that
they had heard that the Ward Line would take
back to-day the men who struck on Monday