The evening world., 1904-05-23
DOCK STRIKERS RIOT
ON THE RIVER FRONT
Attacks Made on Workmen at Various Points,
Police Guards Are Doubled and Hundreds
of Pinkcrton Men Are Engaged in View
Of Threatened Trouble.

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Several hundred kept the police of two precincts busy around The New
York, New Haven and Hartford piers at Gouverneur slip to-day. The rail
road officials tried hard to move freight and succeeded in getting some
work done on the piers and also in having a number of truck loads of
stuff carted through the streets. But the strikers made it so dangerous
for those engaged in the work that late in the afternoon it was practically
given up. .-..
The freight handlers gathered in Gouverneur Slip early. At every
corner there were ten or fifteen doing picket duty There were a lot of
synpathizers about too, and, as usual, the sympatizers made most of the
noise. The men were alert because they had information that a number
of men had been employed to take their places on the piers and had in
structions to approach one by one so as not to attract attention.
There was another dkordorly demonstration by the strikers and their
friends IN Rutgers Park, at the foot of Rutgers street, late this afternoon.
James Johnson, a negro from Brooklyn. walking toward the river front,
as held up by strike ptckets. A large stone struck him in the mouth, cut
ting him badly. with blood streaming from his mouth. he rn toward the
river. pursued by a crowd which swened in numbers until at Water street
there were over a hundred. All were yelling and many were throwing
stones
The negro ran into the arm of a policeman. who tried his best to
defend him, but one buny fellow grabbed the unfortunate nal and knocked
him down, while a shower of stones as aimed at him. The policeman
whistsd for help and a number of policemen responded. The crowd then
dispersed and the negro was escorted to n place of safety. No arrests we're
made.
The first MAJ attacked vas met by a delegation of strikers at the
Water street and Gouverneur Slip. He was ar Italian. and n half block
away other Italians vert approaching. James Cannon, of No $40 Cherry
street, who the police say is one of the strikers. approached the italian
and asked him if he was going to work. The Italian said that he certainly
We'll, wen AZ il 50 you wont do any work to-day" said Cannon, and
seconds ten e werea at the Italian. beating and kicking him '" '"''
LEFT UNCONSCIOUS IN Rec
Policeman sChoentell came up o the rn and the strikers dispersed.
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y The biggest demonstration made by the strikers occurred at Cherry and
Clinton streets when u truck of the George Cooper Express Company, Of
No. So East Fourteenth street. driven by William Hayden, OF No. 255 West
One Hundred and Fourteenth street, was attacked by oe n hundred
strikers and their sympathiZers.
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e Armstrong, of No 81 Broadway. As he was driving off the pier, he
sny a man approached him and tcd him II he didn't Immediately leave
HIS load he would be killed before he had gone a dozen blocks.
!. HAYDEN paid n O attention, and wasn't molested until he got to the
OF Clinton and Cherry streets, where, he says. nearly nifty len sur
rounded the truck, Gu the harness on the horses and Gu the ropes holding
the cases o n the truck, with the result that they fell into the road. Some
of the cases broke, and dozens of spools of silk rolled into the gutter
There as a conference ut the Grand Central Depot to-day between
representatives of he strikers and the New Haven officials. but 1t came 10
naught. The railroad officials practically ignored every demand OF tho
strikers, and refused to recognize thu leaders except az individuals The
committee Of six which called left in high dudgeon,
o IOTIN THIS
Charles \. william. of No 13 West One Hundred and Fifth street
receiving clerk at Pier No 40, and H. Rogers. nineteen ears old q No So
Columbus avenue, was set upon by a nowIng'mob of 30O STRIKER nj Cherry
and Pike streets. on their way home shortly after 6 o'clock.
-v-r Bricks we're thrown and Williams was seriously injured by beIpp bt
on the head by a bricF. while Rogers escaped with a lesser wound on h
SIDE oil the mead. Both were taken to Gouverneur Hospital, where their
wounds were dressed and they were afterwards sent home.
evidence.
~ An immense crowd of ne awaited the closing IF business bt tr,rtL,
was avoided by tn company which arranged to take the mel away by
boat. landing them at points uptown and in BROOKLYN.