New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-05-02
WOMAN SHOT AT LODI
DEPUTIES FIRE OK SILK STRIKERS
STRIKES GENERAL IN NEW
JERSEY.

JERSEY.
New strikes in the main Of minor Importance
and as a rule affecting few men, were begun in
several cities in New-Jersey yesterday, while
the silk manufacturers closed down their mills
and will keep them closed until the strikers sig
Nifty their willingness TO return 10 work at the
old rate Of wages.
Bloodshed marked the silk strike situation at
Lodi on Wednesday night. Many strikes were
averted by the employees and their bosses COM
ing TO agreements.
Up to that time, the two mills having been
closed down. the strikers contented themselves
with placing stones the trolley tracks ana
carrying on small depredations. on Wednesday
night John J. schoonmaker. employed in the
Boettger mill. found Frederick Behn. striker
lurking near the engine room. Schoonmaker at
tackled Behn. and, with the help Of the engineer,
put him out Behn was beaten before he was
let go.
When Schoonmaker started for home he was
set on by a crowd of strikers. and nearly killed
before he managed TO escape. He recognized
Behn as one of the party. Schoonmaker hurried
10 Main-st., where he called a dozen deputy
sheriffs. and they followed the crowd. The
party went to Behns house, and the deputies
surrounded the place. Behn and another man
had hidden in a barn. The deputies called
TO the men 10 come out. and when they did 50
they fired at them. Mrs. Behn, carrying her
little child, ran out just several shots were
fired. One shot struck her in the arm and Just
grazed the child which she carried.
Behn. /. Belaisne and B. Parqula were taken
into custody. Yesterday, before Judge Ammer-
man. Behn was held in bonds. while the other
two were relea sed.
a reporter thrown into the Saddle River
by The strikers who declared that he had In
or and
closed down. They will remain shut the owners
say, until the strike is over.
WORK IN BURNED DISTRICT STOPPED
Paterson was full of strikers yesterday. and
there was considerable excitement throughout
the town, as the strikes temporarily held up
the rebuilding in the burned district. where all
the contracts are being rushed. The hod car
riers demanded an increase of five cents an
hour, or a uniform rate of 50 40 a day, and
when the contractors refused to pay it they
went On strike The masons and bricklayers
stopped work because they would not work
with non-union hod carriers. The carpenters.
who went on strike on Wednesday, are now
confident that they will win in their struggle.
as over half dozen contractors signed their
schedule yesterday, and others have promised
TO do so. The electrical workers went on strike
T yesterday but there are only a few Of them in
kEsterson.
The plumbers were to have gone on strike
yesterday. but came TO an amcable agreement
with their employers Wednesday. The
dyers' helpers are doing nothing except
holding daily meetings and hearing reports
from shop committees.
At PIainfeld the men of all the building trades
went out Ali the carpenters painters, paper
hangers, timers and plumbers Joined the move
ment The men presented their demands for
increases on Wednesday night and the
strike was called
SOME OF NIXoN's MEN OUT.
twenty-five coppersmiths and tinsmths at
Nixon's shpyards, at Elizabeth, went on strike
for an increase Of 90 cents q day. They
now paid So a day. It Is expected the core
makers at Nixons viii also strike soon as
they obtain permission from their national or
ganization. They win ask hour less day
at the old rate Of wages. The coremakers were
content until Monday, when it was announced
that the employees Of the Worthington Pump
Works had been surprised by ne firm announc-
ing cut OF an hour day IN working time
and the continuance Of the old rate of wages.
The Nixon men want the same concession.
All the building trades of Elizabeth are likely
20 be involved in a strike which began yesterday
among the painters and hodcarriers. The two
hundred painters were getting 81 - a day for
eight hours work. They demanded 50 a day,
which the bosses refused. The one hundred hod-
carriers were getting 50 day for eight hours.
-
an hour and this the master masons would not
give. The masons and bricklayers thrown
idle because of the hodcarriers' action. There is
a big rush Of work hand in the building line,
there being orders ahead TO keep the men busy
for year.
The union men employed in the wood mould
ing and trimming mills OF Hudson County quit
work yesterday because the millOwners re-
fused TO accede 10 their demands. The strike
only affected the sash and blind makers but il
IS probable that union carpenters, masons. pas-
terers. etc, will refuse 10 work on buildings in
which the products Of the mills being used.
About one thousand men struck.
YIELD IRON MOULDERS' DEMANDS.
Forty firms. including the members Of the Iron
League. have granted the demand Of their iron
rnoulders for a nine hour workday, though the
National Founders Association. as body and its
local branch have refused the demand The forty
firms employ about thousand moulders in the
New-York district. and the demands were grained
without strikes. They represent only a proportion
OF the firms in the NewYork district. The Iron
Perrfne. walking delegate OF the iron moIldere;
conference board. enbodying the demand When
the demand for the nine hour wOrkday was refused
by the National Founders Association and a.
New-Ycrk branch. IL with the yndersta rding
that as they could afford il the members ~
the two bodies would grant the shorter workday