The semi-weekly messenger., 1903-05-08
THE LABOR STRIKE.
Violence Threatened by the Strikers
in New YOrk-TaIk of Putting Ne
a:roeS in Their Places

New York, May 4-Police reserves
were called out today in many different
! parts of New York to quell disorders
growing out of various strikes.
: The subway strikers gathered in up
/ per Broadway in such numbers that q
7 policeman was stationed at every block
! between 64th and 10th streets. y
crowd Of men gathered around two
foremen at And street, and Broadway.
who were putting men at work in The
subway and the fOremen were nearly
rushed off their feet. Men applying
for places We're threatened and the re-
serves of the west And station were
ordered out to scatter the crowd. On
seeing the police coming the crowd Gis-
persed.
From Broadway to the Fourth ave
nue. in Sind street. there was a long
line of policemen guarding the subway
A rumor that could not be traced 10
any reliable source reached the ears OF
the police to the effect that negroes
were to be substituted for the strikers.
Five hundred striking laborers on the
Brooklyn subway attacked men who
were working at ROckaway avenue
from work
Reserves from the precncts were nee
essary to restore order. Ten arrests
We're made. Fourteen hundred en-
ployes Of the Chelsea jute mills in
Green Point Brooklyn, went on strike
and handled roughly some non-union
men who tried to go to work. The re-
serves were put on guard over the fac
tory.
Lowell, Mass. May 4-The contro-
versy between the operatives and the
cotton mill mana gers here involving
$4,000 hands and seven corporations,
which are shut down, pending a settle
ment entered upon its sixth week today
with little prospect of an Immediate
change. An estimate places the loss in
wages at nearly 5000, 900. There are no
figures to determine the approximate
loss to the mills. The city is losing in
population every day. Hundreds of
houses are empty and rooms are adver-
Vertised to let in all sections. Business
in general is suffering and the savings
banks have stopped making loans as
the money is needed to pay depositors
who are making Withdrawals daily.
New York, May 4.-The strike Of
Italian rock drillers and diggers took
a more serious turn in the Bronx tcday
and fifty policemen were sent to keep
order along the excavation for water
mains where men are working IL the
strikers place The police were plcketed
along the excavation and all Italians
near it and not working were ordered
to move on. a big box of explosives
which were in a shanty for the exca-
waiting work in the Bronx was ordered
buried b ythe police and two guards
were stationed near to watch it.
Secretary Frank Duffy of the United
Brotherhood Of Carpenters and Join
ers announced today that the Rrother-
hood had decided to take every men,
in the city, increasing the number of
strikers from four thousand to ten
thousand. The purpose Of this action
is to try to compel the big buildings
to discharge the carpenters who are
members of the amalgamated society
of carpenters and joinerS which the
brotherhood Us seeking to force into ITS
own ranks or crush it out entirely
Chicago May 4.-The strike move
ment of the laundry workers was aug
mented today by the closing down Of
five of the steam laundries in Evans
ton. the northshore suburb. and the
labor leaders declare that not a Wheel
will turn in any Evanston laundry
until the Chicago trouble is settled.
All the laundries in the city remained
closed today, and restaurant prOp"le-
tors have been issuing printed apologies
for the noticeable absence of napkins
and for the decidedly sOiled table cloths.
The strikers are making great efforts to
induce the Chinese laundrymen to join
them.