Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-07-30
STRIKE IS SPREADING.
Sixteen Thousand Garment Workers
I Idle IN New York and Vicinity.
Clash Of Union and Non Union
Men In Brooklyn.
Police Promptly Arrive and Many Rioters Arc
&.. Now Nursing Wounds.

NEW YORK, July 30.-Thc strike OF tho
Brotherhood Of Tailors Is now In full
swing. OyG 1900 hands are out. and in
clude operators. buttonhole makers,
tailors, fnishcrs, presscrs, bushelers,
basters, filters and thread pullcrs. or the
total number on strike, 5000 were until
yesterday employed In this city. The bal
ance were employed In Brooklyn and
other surrounding cities.
The strikers contend that 1000 workmen
here were locked out by 30 contractors,
and that the contractors failed TO carry
out an agreement entered into last fall,
when piece work was abolished. Meyer
Schoenfeld, the general organizer OF the
United Garment Workers, who led the
Brotherhood of Tailors In their successful
strike last fall Is directing the strikers
movement and is sanguine OF success.
"The strike was forced upon us" said
Mr.. Schoenfeld, "but we will win, as we
did last year. We then agreed to IA week
of go hours, with minimum scale OF
wages, ranging from 80 to $l5 week. We
now demand 59-hour week, as all our
members are Hebrews, and we require an
hour on Friday night to do necessary
shopping to prepare for the due observ
ance of our Sabbath. Our men I'm Chicago,
Baltimore and Boston will also strike and
insist on the same hours as we do"
The strikers are most determined tho
women, who number n third Of those now
unemployed, being as steadfast in their
refusal To go back to task work as the
men.
A mass meeting Of the strikers was held
yesterday afternoon at Walhalla hall.
The proceedings were orderly
Rioting, Attended With Bloodshod,
occurred yesterday in the Hebrew colony
on Siegcl street, Brooklyn, caused by some
of the striking tailors attempting to pre-
vent nOn-union men from working.
One hundred and sevcnty-three tailors
went out yesterday morning from the two
establishments ut 81 and "a Siegel street,
and when a few non-union men applied
for work they Were pushed away. A large
crowd soon assembled Some Of the nom
union men were beaten when they insisted
on trying to enter the shop, and as they
ran away, one or two Of them bleeding,
an alarming report spread that many per-
sons were killed.
The police reserves OF the sixth precinct
were soon on hand, and they charged the
crowd. Some of the strikers were hurt in
the sharp skirmish, but were taken away
by the retreating strikers. During the
riot number Of shots were fired by the
rioters, but no one was seriously hurt.
This was about 1045 o'clock, and the po-
lice went back to the station house, leav-
ing everything quiet.
Fifteen minutes after the departure of
the police, 30 strikers who went out yes
terday from the shop of S. Challs at 81
Even street, aided by many other strikers,
began an attack ON Challs' shop and q
few non union workmen. They were
wrecking the place when the police re-
serves ran to the scene and scattered the
crowd
A Mrs. Silverstein Of 81 Even street,
whose room was broken into by the strik-
ers, had her scalp cut open with pitcher.
There were no other cases of serious in
jury. Dozens of the strikers and their
friends were seen with hands and heads
bound up, evidently from being dubbed.
A Knight Of Labor began an argument
with number Of the strikers in a saloon
adjoining Walhalla hall He was at once
set on and badly beaten. A squad of po-
lice was quickly on the scene, but the mob
disappeared before any arrests were made.
A small riot also occurred outside the
tailor shop Of Jacobs & Sons, Grand and
Orchard streets, where several non-union
men are employed The strikers threat
ened to do up the Boss and the "Scabs."
When their manifestations Of violence be-
came apparent, they were driven of by
the police.