The Jersey City news., 1902-07-14
.BU I CHEERS WIN;
BARRIERS LOSE
Benchmen Keep the City
Shops Tight Closed, but
the Journeymen Are
Not So Lucky.
FEW ARRESTS MADE
Many Summonses to Be Is
sued This Morning-A
Decision on the Law
Involved Anxious
ly Awaited.
FEW ARRESTS MADE

The Sunday closing movement was
continued throughout the city yesterday
by both the butchers and BARRIERS EN-
ployes.
The Benchmen's Association of Retail
Butchers, Branch No. i, which is work
ing for the closing of the butcher shops.
met with great success
4 BUTCHERS on THE WATCH.
At half-past six in the morning the
members assembled at Schlitz's Hal,
Newark avenue near Jersey avenue, anc
received instructions as to the portion
of the city in which they were to work.
The city was divided into sections and
men assigned to each section to look for
shops doing business. A delegate from
the Retail Grocery Clerks Association
accompanied each of the benchmen and
the two worked in harmony.
There were but about twenty shops
open in the whole city and in the ma
jority of cases the owners closed their
doors Immediately when requested to do
so. Trouble was met with in the person
of J. III. Hennessy of West Newark ave
nue., who is the proprietor of the Hem
messy Grocery Company. He positively
refused to close and after considerable
argument William r. Uldritch, of the
benchmens association, procured
policeman and had Hennessy arrested.
A HOT PROPOSITION.
When leaving his shop he told his
clerks to remain open and await his re-
turn from the station house. He also
said that in future instead of closing at
seven o'clock in the evening his store
wonll be kept open until nine O'Clock
and any of his clerks who were not salts
fed with the arrangement could leave
at once. Upon his arrival at the station
house he made complaint against VI
dritch for walking the sidewalk on Sun
day and also for going into his store
Henry Drumming of Morris and Greene
streets was also arrested upon his re-
fnsaI to close when told to- The COM
plant in this case was made by James
Murphy.
On the block between Seventh and
Eighth street. on Henderson, four shops
were found open and two of the proprle-
tors refused to close when spoken to by
one of the pickets. The picket said he
would be back shortly with an officer and
see whether or not he could persuade
them to shut up. On his return with the
policeman the shops We're tight shut.
The Benchmen's Association is highly
elated over the success with which they
ha We met and hope that in week or two
it will be unnecessary for them to do
picket duty. The regular meeting of the
association will be held tonight at
Schlitz's Hall.
BARRIERS UNLUCKY.
The Journeymen BARRIERS Union was
not as successful yesterday as the butch
ers. and it looks as though the fight
would last indefinitely. AS on previous
Sundays the city was patrolled by meni-
bers d sae organization looking for yio-
lations Of the law. A few arrests We're
made, but in the majority Of cases the
bosses had their doors locked and would
open them only for the admittance of GUS
toners. In such cases the picket took the
name and address of each barber and a
summon was this morning procured for
his appearance in court.
Louis Wasserberg, who denounced the
action of the journeymen so forcibly
at the organization of the Boss BARRIERS
Association, worked behind locked doors
all morning, and had his shop full all the
time.
Pickets tried to gain admittance, but
were unsuccessful, and had to be salts
fed with taking his name.
The journeymen made their headquar-
ters at Third and Grove streets, and
when interviewed by News reporter,
declared their intention of fighting it out
on the lines laid down, if it took all
summer The spirit of the bosses is
undiminished and the battle win be una
bated on either side The ruling of the
court will be anxiously awaited by both
organizations.
THE Journeymen's Union will meet to-
night at Buffers Hall, and the Boss
BARRIERS Association will meet tomorrow
evening at Pythagoras Hall. There is a
possibility that the bosses will appoint
another committee to confer with the
journeymen. but the chances are slim for
an amicable settlement of the differ
ence.