New-York tribune., 1903-05-27
HOLD UP ELM-ST. We
Strikers Also Defy Police an The
BTOnT.
NEGROES ARE JOINING THE UNION

A crowd of about fifty subway strikers visited
the neighborhood of Elm and Houston SITS. ana
induced eighteen Italians, who had peeh oi'
strike but returned to work yesterday 10 lea'e
their work and go strike again.
About twenty-five PAYERS, who had been en-
ployed to pave Elm-st., between Bleecker anu
Prince SITS, by the Degnon & Mclean COMPANY
were thrown out of work by the STRIKE as there
were no men left to mix the mortar for their
The PAYERS were able to return TO work yester-
day morning when the eighteen striking ltal-
ians resumed their places but when they went
away again the PAYERS had to stop WORKING IN
voluntarily
Several policemen arrived the scene from
the Mulberry-st. station after the Italians nau
stopped working and drove the crowd away
About one hundred and fifty of the striking
Italians descended on about fifty workmen en-
ployed by Murray & Sons, contractors, IN dig
ging an excavation for a sewer in the MoshoIu
Parkway, near Webster-ave, at the noon hour
Yesterday. The strikers threatened the men IN
the trenches and the reserves of The Bronx
Park station were summoned On the way 10
the scene of the disturbance the policemen. who
were in a patrol wagon, picked up seVerai
mounted policemen and they accompanied the
unmounted men.
The strikers were driven back to Pelham-ave-,
where they made a short stand and defed the
policemen The police rushed at the men ana
drove them to the Italian settlement, at TWO
hundred nd-fourth-st. and Arthur-ave. Inere
the strikers took up determined stand, and 1or
a few minutes the situation looked serious.
Stones were beginning to fly through the ar
and the police decided on desperate measures
With drawn clubs they charged the crown,
striking right and left Two men were arrested
and the others driven. most OF them SUI
ferins from more or less severe bruises, into the
houses.
The men arrested were taken to the Morris
ania court and arraigned before Magistrate
Hogan. The charge against them was us
orderly conduct After giving the men severe
lecture the magistrate discharged the PRISONERS .
The contractors yesterday continued 10 put
new men TO work and this incensed the strikers
wherever the moves of the contractors were
noticed The results of the unskilled laborlng
men refusing to work have put to a great IN
convenience the skilled laborers who want 10
work and who need work. The few strikers VINO
Immediately to quit under threat of bodily harm
The negroes brought here last Sunday by JohIl
c. Rodgers, the contractor, have refused 10 WoIh
on the subway, and have asked the preSluehOS
of The strikers unions to take them in as men,
hers of the excavators and rockmen's unions
lanes Shaw OF Raleigh, \. c., who is the man
in charge of the negroes. having recruited the
men in Richmond Va, said yesterday that tne
man had been brought here by the contractors,
who deceived them by telling them that there
was no strike on in this city. Tito Pacelh presi-
dent of the Rockmen's and Excavators Union.
said last night that q number OF contractors IN
The Bronx had agreements with strikers to pay
union rates he eXpecteu IHelll " Ie'uiii ~
work, he said