The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-12
STRIKE RIOTS IN BROOKLYN.
HORSESHOERS AND TRENCH DI6-
GERS KEEP Police BUSY.
First Battle Fought with Red.Hot Iron
and Burning Coal-Bands Of Italians
Roam Around Attacking Workers
and Are Well Pounded BY the COps

| NnoH t1e SNOW was over TOUT oi tHe ooh
Of Unrest, all Italians, were in Jail ant
three other men, who defended their RICH
TO work irrespective OF union permission
were in the hospital
The Journeymen Horseshoers' Associa
ton first took the centre Of the stage q
about o'clock In the morning. Some
fifteen Of them marched to the blacksmith
shop OF Alexander Adams at So Sohermer
| horn street. The members Of this associa
| ton have been on strike for several months
| in all the boroughs Of the city.
The Brooklyn branch heard on Saturday
| that Adams had more work than he coule
| we'll attend to and that non-union black
smiths we're helping him. When they loomec
up on the threshold Of the shop yesterday
morning Adams was putting tire on wager
wheel. Eben Jones was shoeing horse
| and John Kane a young apprentice, was
| blowing the bellows. The leader OF the
strikers told Jones and Kane that they
would have to quit work.
James looked the crowd over and then
for his answer threw the red hot horseshoe
he was making into the middle Of the
bunch. Judging from the howl that went
up, every striker must have been branded
They fed from the shop in disorder, but
reformed outside and came back through
the doors on the double quick. James
had pair OF tongs in his hands, whose ends
were nearly as hot as the horseshoe. When
the strikers rushed at James he sailed In
with his tongs and laid on until he was
put out OF business by rap on the head
with an anvil hammer.
Adams and young Kane in the meantime
had gone to Jamess assistance and a
general mix-up occurred, two men doing
what they could against fifteen. Kane
concluded, early in the scrimmagc, that q
few red-hot Goals from the forge would be
handy. so he ducked out Of the mass, got
around where he thought they would do
the Tb most s,| Essd WI, instantaneous. The
strikers retired to oool of, but not before
they had taken all the combativeness out
Of Adams and set Kane a-dreaning,
Whilo the fracas was going on somebody
telephoned for tho police at the Adams
the Brooklyn Hospital. The ambulance
surgeon patched UP the wounds OF Adams.
James and Kane and the police went on
The strikers were next heard up at the
blacksmith shop attached to the Brooklyn
Riding and Driving Club at the entrance to
Prospect Park. Two non-union men were
at work there. These the strikers threat
ened with all sorts OF terrible things IL they
didn't quit work.
While the threats were being made one
Of the smiths, a strapping big fellow, kept
right on working as If nothing had hap
pened: Finally he put down his tools.
oso%d ssss ms na a Ten s ss
"You fellows evidently came around
here looking for trouble. I'll take on any
two OF you at the same time. and II don't
lick you 40 your own mothers won't know
yoSS o sn y yod se s1kers ssa ANYTHING
for q moment. Then the leader exclaimed:
-Aw. come on, boys! Let the damned
sea b go"
They walked out OF the shop. and the big
smith resumed his work.
WAS heard from later in the day over in
Williamsburg. G. j. McGinness. who has a
shop at 100 South Eighth street. has been
having a lot of trouble with the union
He is the secretary Of the Master Horse
ehoers' National Protective Association
and Of the Brooklyn branch Of that order.
Mr.. McGinness heard yesterday morning
that the strikers were going to pay him
visit during the day and he asked for
police protection. A solitary cop was
sent to guard tho shop. Two or three
strikers camo around, took look at him
and went away.
After the news Of the doings of the horse
shoers had been noised about the borough.
the Diggers and Excavators' Union con
is made up mostly Of Italians.
There were other outbreaks of violence
yesterday on the part of the strikers in
Brooklyn, and the trouble is so general
tina Police Inspector Mclaughlin notified
the various commanding officers to keep
enough men In reserve at the stations to
meet all emergencies
The two or three thousand Italian laborers
who have been now idle for a week, In bands
Of from 200 to 900. started out early in the
day bent on mischief. One Of these bands
about a:9o o. clock and attempted to terrorize
the sixty men who have been at work night
and day under Contractor James Quinn
repairing the street.
The men refused TO quit work and put
up such bold front that the strikers went
on without committing any violence When
they returned, two hours later. they found
Capt White Of the Bergen street station on
hand with a dozen officers and they we're
quickly dispersed with the vigorous use Of
the police clubs. They fed in confusion up
Third avenue and along the cross streets.
Three arrests were made, the prisoners
being Antonio Ferraro of 10 York street,
Sandro Mannino Of ? Navy street and Luigi
Gaboli of ~ Navy street. Mag
Manner in the Myrtle avenue court held
orderly conduct.
The dispersed gang soon reformed and.
descending on the works of tho Brooklyn
Aloatraz Company, foot Of Third street.
succeeded in driving OF most Of the men
who were at work there. Proceeding to
the Uvalde yards, foot Of Sixth street.
they forced a SCORE or more OF the Italians
who were at work there to Join them.
just as they we're marching of, cheering
and hooting, Capt. Reynolds Of the Fifth
avenue station arrived with his reserves
and dispersed them. Policeman Charles
Lnkletton broke his club on the head OF one
OF the strikers just as the latter had attacked
him with shovel.
There were several clashes between the
police and the strikers in the Flatbush
district. In the morning over 200 strikers
appeared at Rutland road and Bedford
avenue and made an effort to put stop
to work on the construction Of the sewer at
that place. With tho exception of about
dozen men who Joined the strikers, all the
others refused to bulge.
While the rumpus was in progress
Roundsman Knox appeared at the head
of a squad from the Grant street station
ard dispersed the mob, clubbing the strik-
era right and left.
Two hours latcr the same mob was driven
by the police from Albemarle road and
Flatbush avenue. where paving il In prog
ress, across Ocean avenue.
The police Of Parkville were kept busy
all day protecting the laborers employed
on street work in that district. In ono
Of these encounters Giuseppe Bevacqua,
who il said to be a walking delegate, was
arrested ard held for examination In $500