The evening world., 1894-10-16
ASSAULTED BY STRIKERS.
Foreman Weiss and q Cutter
Roughly Handled by a Mob.
Many Manufacturer Signing Agree
ments With the Me..

Exciting and turbulent scenes, grow
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 Brcome street, all eagerly discus
sing the situation, Foreman Weiss, OF
Bernstein, Adler & Co, cloak manufac-
turers. at 55s 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 a 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
a tall man gave the cutter a sap across
the face with the palm Of his hand. This
started n 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. blows and kicks as he ran,
into cigar store. and sought refuge
behind woman.
Policeman Green, of the Eldridge
street station, came running up and
the crowd dispersed. Weiss was es-
corted to his home.
The cutter was subsequently taken
from the grocery store and also escorted
home by a 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
and the cutter.
Essex Market Police Court was crowd
ed with striking cloakmakers to-day
when Leopold Taveletta, of $50 Wooster
street, and Francisco Sketona. Of III
Elizabeth street, cloakmakers, were ar
raigned before Justice Simms on the
charge of feloniously assaulting Police
man Thomas Heaphy, Of the Madison
street station. Heaphy stood at the bar
OF the court with his coat thrown loosely
over his left shoulder, which he said had
been dislocated by a blow from a bale
stick in the hands Of Sketona..
$3.50 bail each for examination
Nathan Schissel was also held to
await examination on charge. of as
saultng Mrs, Cohen. Ovid Bogert was
held on the charge OF asaulting non
union cloakmaker
Ephriam Wedang and Abraham Tune
were held in $500 each to keep the peace
after a hearing in the Jefferson Market
Police Court on the charge of forcibly
entering the cloakmaking shop at SO
Spring street.
At the headquarters Of the Executive
Committees Of the Cloakmakers' Union
and the Cutters Association. IS 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
1000 men will return to the shops of
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 a contractor at the same
time. Immigrant cutters also receive
union wages over 100 non-union men
Joined the union to-day.
Eighty-three manufacturers have or
ganized the Claok and Suit Manufac-
turers Association, with Daniel Rich
man as President and Andrew Crawford
as Secretary. 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,