The sun., 1894-09-11
RIOTS ON THE EAST SIDE.
SEVERAL ATTACKS ny sTRTETNG
T4IIORs UPON CONTRACTORS.

| ANAAsO"N VI Wv NO@'@
Contractor t'ohen Defended rrou . Mcb ny
Oouug wowan-More Contractors Fur-
| rtsh nonsa-sever.i Thousand Addition
ni aarwent workers Join the Strikers.
The cast side strikers were riotous here and
there yesterday. At present they have the hest
OF the fight, and this fact seems to have en-
| boldencd them to attack individual contractors.
| Ike Cohen, a contractor, who lives at 1872
| Broome street and has shop at 16sIs Delaney
street, came near being roughly handled by n
| mob OF striking coatmakers. He was walking
! through Brocme street about . o'clock in the
afternoon and stopped to speak to one VI his
| hands. He was recognized by a crowd Of
| strikers. and one Of them shouted:
There goes a man who makes his men make
thirty coats day"
Down with him! Kill him!" shouted the
others.
A rush was made for Cohen by the crowd. who
numbered about i've hundred. He fed into Suf-
folk street with the mob bowling at his heels
and pelting him with gar bage and paper pellets.
He took refuge In Tischler & Berman's look
ing glass store at 63 suffolk street. lie dived
behind q mirror and then got behind the coun
ter. A tall good-looking young woman man
aged to keep the mob at bay until some police
rieh arrived from the Union Market station. In
tho ilean time the crowd threatened TO wreck
the place IL Cohen was not delivered up. Two
policemen escorted Cohen home. Part Of the
crowd followed throwing dirt and paper at
Cohen and CursinR him. Cohen denies that he
overworks his men.
\ small riot took place in the morning at
thr shop Of Moses SChnpro. a contractor
nj o Pelham street. Eight strikers belong
ing to the knights of Labor went to
tie shop to talk TO his men. who nom
union hands. Schapiru boltcd and barricadcd
La, hoe, hn,, haa,, ,f
wood and, using it as n battering ram, broke
open the door. Just then Policemen Heaphy,
VI cCarthy, and Sheehan of the Madison street
station arrived. and Hyman Danzig of 173 At
t,rley street who carried the beam, II Is said,
GId ,harles Levi OF II. Broome street, were ar
rested and were held at the Essex Market Police
Court for trial on a charge Of melting disturb
ance.
Another disturbance took place at the shop of
Louis simon. non union contractor who works
with his son at Ss Monroe street. \ committee
OF strikers ordered him to stop work. lie re-
frsei and barrcaded his door. upon which
o; The window and shouted Poiice!'' ' ta After gu
statiun arrived. but by that time simon had
consented to close his shop and the disturbance
The Executive Board OF the Contractors AS |
sociat:0n met at 200 East Broadway yesterday |
striker to eonferenc. The stribers su repled or
that as the contractors individually were giving
bonds they would not treat with the association. |
The Contractors Association decided that IL |
would not recedo from its position OF SUNDAY. |
The committee decided TO call q mass meeting
Of the contractors Ia Everett Hall, in Fourth |
street, either this afternoon or tomorrow after
noon:
This forenoon mass meeting of the Brother |
hood men will be held in New Irving Hail. in |
Brooric street. The contractors may then make |
another attempt at settlement. II was claimed |
yesterday TINT fifty more contractors had signed |
the agreement and given bonds, and that 1000 |
strikers would 20 back to work tO-day.
The overcoat and sack-coat makers were re- |
ported to be on strike yesterday for better wages
out, and 1000 struck in twenty-five shops in |
New York. The contractors have an associa- |
ton which met at 80 Attorney street. Several |
that when some contractors were approached in |
regard to settlement their reply was:
them starve n little longer first"
The childrens jacket makers went on strike |
yesterday against the task-work system. OF |
lyn and Brownsyille.
The knights OF Labor strikers have called a
viii be precedeG ID BY % parade Among Hg tEe SPEAK
ers announced is General Master Workman
81 Orchard street. the hesdquarters OF the
SloaEmnkers, S,l Hs,i Union. Joseph Barondess has
to-day. Arrangements are making for a gem
eral meeting Of the union In Cooper Union on
is oTdersd ss viii Be o
the weekly wage system, instead of piece work,
and the abolition Of outside work, and will
lyn, and Brownsville. 1t Is claimed that under
the piece-work system the operators are often
cajoed out OF any advance in wages given by
The strikes Of Julius Stein & Co.'S cloakmak-
FRS. numbering 1000. and OF Indig, Berg d Co.'s
employees were settled yesterday.