The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-10-16
ASSAULTED BY STRIKERS.
Foreman Weiss and q Gutter
Roughly Handled by a Mob.
Many Manufacturers Signing Agree
ments With the Me..

Exciting and turbulent scenes, grow.
ing out OF the cloakmakers' strike, were
enacted on the east side to-day, and
two men were severely beaten.
While 5000 cloakmakers were as.
sembled In and around New Irving Hall
PA Broome street all eagerly discus.
sing the situation, Foreman Weiss, OF
Bernstein, Adler & Co., cloak manufac.
turers at SOS Broadway, came along the
street with one OF his cutters. in search
OF some of the tailors who formerly
worked in the shop of his employers.
Weiss found some OF the old hands
and walked around into Ludlow street
to have talk with them. with a view
to persuading them to return to work
The. parley had scarcely begun when a
crowd of strikers gathered about the
foreman and demanded to know what
business Weiss and his men had there.
It's none OF your business" ex-
claimed the cutter
The words were scarcely uttered when
q tall man gave the cutter a slap across
the face with the palm Of his hand. This
started general attack by the crowd.
The cutter fled down the basement
stairs of a grocery store and secreted
himself. His face was bruised and blood
flowed from several cuts.
Weiss was driven across the street,
receiving blO"S anu hlChS rs ne ran,
into a cigar store and sought refuge
behind woman.
Policeman Green, of the Eldridge
street station. came running up and
corted to his home.
The cutter was subsequently taken
from the grocery store and also escorted
home by n policeman.
No arrests were made, but an agent of
Bernstein, Adler & Co. appeared on the
scene and endeavored to obtain the
names Of the men who assaulted Weiss
Essex Market Police Court was crowd
ed with striking cloakmakers to-day
when Leopold Taveletta. of $50 Wooster
Elizabeth street, cloakmakers, were ar
raigned before Justice Simms on the
charge of feloniously assaulting Police
man Thomas Heaphy, Of the Madison
of the court with his coat thrown loosely
over his left shoulder, which he said had
been dislocated by a blow from bale
stick in the hands, of sketona..
Justice Simms held the prisoners in
$3.50 bail each for examination.
Nathan Schlissel was also held 10
await examina.iol on a charge of as
held on the charge of asaulting a non
union cloakmaker.
Ephriam Wedang and Abraham Tune
after hearing in the Jefferson Market
Police Court on the charge of forcibly
entering the cloe kmaking shop at SO
Spring street.
At the headquarters of the Executive
Committees Of the Cloakmakers, Union
and the Cutters Association As Franklin
street, President Dion w. Burke, of
the cutters, said to-day that the manu-
facturers were coming in quite freely
and signing the new agreement. over
5000 men will return to the shops or
these employers.
The cutters are successful In wiping
out cutting on The east side and In pre-
venting a man from being a manufac-
turer and contractor at the same
time. Immigrant cutters also receive
union wages. over 100 non-union men
Joined the union to-day
Elghty-th manufacturers have or
ganized the Ciaok and Suit Manufac-
turcrs Association, with Daniel Rich:
man as President and Andrew Crawford
as Seer etary. They declare they will
not treat with the Unions, but will re-
ceive committees of their employees and
make terms with them.
A meeting Of contractors Is announced
to take place tonight In the Metropoli-
tan Hotel. under the auspices of the
manufacturers Association.