The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-11
STRIKERS GIVING TROUBLE.
POLICE CALLED ON TO PROTECT
NON-UNION BRICKLAYERs.

] Two Union Negroes Arrested for In
terfering with Laborers on the
Weed BuiIding-Crowd Followed
the Non-Union Men From the
Building and Held Up a Hickman
Who Carried One of Them to His
Home-PoIice Put "A stop to the Dis
turbance by Arresting Two of the
Lenders.
| The strike situation developed another
phase yesterday. AS the result of the
efforts of the strikers to get hold of one
of the non-union bricklayers on the Weed
building and their anger as being thwart-
ed by the aid Of a hackman, who drove
the to them obnoxious non-union man
home, some of them were led to hold up
the hackman with threats of what they
would do to him. Violence was avoided
by the timely approach of Policeman
Frank Wall. Two of the men, John
Grant and Henry Frazier, whom the
hackman, Henry Hammond, identified as
being among the most prominent of his
would-be assailants, were arrested and
taken to the barracks.
The trouble is the direct result of the
effort of the day before to get hold of
the other bricklayer, which was frustrat-
ed by the policemen. During the after
noon, although the men at work on the
Weed building do not quit work until 6
O'Clock, the union men began to gather
at the corner of Broughton and Barnard
streets at o'clock, the number gradu-
ally increasing, until at O'Clock, there
were probably $50 of them, white and
colored
Two officers were on duty at the cor
ner as the result of the former efforts
of the strikers to get hold of the work
men, 1t was thought that if any at
tempt was made on the men at all that
the bricklayers, of whom there are two
would-be victims, so one of them, I'M
der the escort of Officer Wall, got on
street car and started for home, where,
under the officers protection. he arrived
safely. The policeman then returned and
accompanied by Supt. Steinacker and the
other bricklayer, started for the home of
the latter. The three men started down
Broughton street and their going was
the signal for move in the same direc-
ton of the union men, who, on the north
sidewalk, kept pace with the officer and
his charge, jeering the policeman, and
making several personal illusions
to Superintendent Steinacker. Be
fore the men had gone a block
1t became necessary for the officer to
cross the street and notify them if their
conduct was continued he would put the
next one under arrest, but despite this
warning the jeers were kept up from time
to time. In this way matters went on
until Wall and his protege reached Lin
coin and Broughton streets. They stop
ped there until the strikers passed by,
Though many of them manifested a de-
sire to stop, then the policeman and the
two men went down to Oglethorpe ave-
nue. to the barracks, where a report of
the affair was made.
Knowing the direction that would b. ak
en-. after leaving the barracks the strik-
ers hurried on down side streets and lanes
to again come up with the course of the
men. At Oglethorpe avenue ard East
BROAD street the policeman and the brick
layer were but a short distance ahead of
the strikers. At this point a hack was
called the workman put into it, and the
driver started for the bricklayer's home on
Wheaton street. The officer ard Super
intendent Steinacker then started back on
Oglethorpe avenue, but had gore lets than
two blocks when the crowds runnirg in the
opposite direction attracted their atten-
ton, and they went back to investigst-.
Talk OF a riot" excited the fears of The
men that after all their man had ben
reached Wheaton street, they SAW, several
blocks ahead, the hack in which the man
had started, surrounded by a mob. Jump
ing into another hack they hurried to the
scene and found that the hackman who
had taken the bricklayer home, on his re-
turn, had been held up by some of the
colored bricklayerS or their sympathizers,
whom, he said, We're en- the point Of at
lacking him when the officer arrived The
two men, Grant and Frazier, were point ID
out as among the most violert and they
were arrested. Though both white an /
colored men had followed the p Dress on
for quite a distance only negroes were
charged with the hold up.
Frazier was released on bond later in
the evening.
The free restaurant for union men out
of work, it is said, will be established to-
morrow, and in connection with it a con-
missary. 1t is expected that only part
of the strikers, probably between three
and four hundred, will need this assist
ance.
The officers of the unions state that not
only are accessions being made daily to
their ranks but that they have received
/ number of resolutions of sympathy from
I other organizations. and in some cases
more substantial proofs of their good
will.
At a recent meeting of the carpenters
and joiners, test vote was put as to
whether they would stay out, and, the Off
| GERS say. the answer was unanimously in
| the mega tive.
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INJURED ON A DREDGE.