New-York tribune., 1904-08-13
STILL ATTACK DRIVERS.
REEF STRIKERS 4CTIVE.
Packers Fill Their Places Lodge
end B0crd Mca on Lighters.

.l,..,.fl feature Of The meat strike yesterday as
=, 7hurzday. in SPIKE Of the vigilance of the po-
49,. These attacks. sometimes accompanied ny
s,o,u liais sook place at so many points that
,,o.e,, tbcre were hfiy detectives in plain
mes in First snd Second aVes., the disturb
so.ss .yere almost continuous all day.
Mo-. 20 t,e demonstrations We're against the
..i,.o,-s of the schwarzschiId & Sulzberger Com
r,,.,- TIE nrst attach began early in the morn
...r.s single delivery wagon OF the schwarzs-
-, 4 sulzberger Company, which WAS fol-
l.,,-a4 l,- Defective O'Ne of the East Thirty
a.,b-eI station. down Flrst-ave. He caught
= man Ar ,rwenty-first-st. stealthily trying TO
loosen the taiboard so that the meat would fall
a the street A crowd of boys hooted the
a~,yer He kept at safe distance. The man.
,,bo said he was Benjamin Dreckendorf of No.
Al, East Forty-sixth-st.. was fired $40 in York
vile court
about seventy uniformed policemen were sta
,ia5ed by Captain Lantry. OF the East Fifty
6-st-st station. IN the neighboThood of the
,acllng houses in First-ave-, at Forty-ffth
aud me adjacent streets. Captain Lantry took
charge Of the men himself. and had an eye on
c,cwds OF men. women and boys gathered at
different points.
As the beef wagons were sent out with their
loads they were guarded front and rear by
mounted policemen. Members Of the strikers
bjcvcle entertainment committee were seen now
and Then but gave the mounted bluecoats =
wide berth. The mounted police watched the
loads until they were out of the slaughter
house district Then the detectives and police
from the downtown districts took charge
.ariy IN the forenoon James Allen. of No oA4
West Forty-7fth-st., q driver for J. Harrington
T. Co. calf an6 lamb butchers. was arrested for
preventing the passage OF a SchwarZschild "
FiIlz,erCer company delivery wagon while
crowc of men and boys were throwing stones at
the driver. PatroiInan Cavenaugh was struck
On tte head with A stone, which crashed
through his helmet and indicted a severe cash.
The sight or blood seemed 10 inliame the mob,
which closed around the wagon. Cavenaugh
then drew revolver and the crowd dispersed
Ee d5 not FIRE.
Later in the day Cavenaugh was hit in the
seoe With a horseshoe while guarding wagon
hsl5ag:nE to the Schwarzschild Gs Sulzberger
company at Manhattan and One-hundred-snd-
twenty-ffth 1ts. : menacing crowd collected.
anG word Tas sent 10 the West One-hundred-
suG-tveuty dftil-st. station that a riot was in
progress Al the sight OF several more blue
coats the crowd dispersed. Just then Cavenaugh
caught sight of William Posner, of No. l5o West
Eeventy-Rinth-st. and John COnnaughtor, OF No.
246 East Seventy hfth-st. who. he said, were
in the former attacking CROWD. They were ar
rested.
An Italian strike breaker John Jacob, was
go badly frightened by a crowd while he was
getting Z wagon losJed opposite the Schwarzs-
child q sGzbesger plant that he gave up
his jon. lie ran into the avenue 10 go home
uptown. sut in Forty-seyenth-s he at
tackled knocked down and kicked. He escaped
into a hallway end rescued 10y Patrolmaa
Mcmahon, who kept the mob ~ bay until the
man got away.
shortly afterward Patrolman Connolly. Of the
East e-hundred- and twenty y-siXth-st station,
WAS struck with brick thrown from the roof
of house At a wagon which passing near
Forty-ninth-st. aud First-ave. He was tenn
porarily disabled.
The police were kept on the run until evening
chasing mobs Of boys and dispensing them.
Some Of them had their uniforms badly dam
aged by grease from the wagons on which they
were riding while protecting the drivers.
PACKERS WORK CONTINUES.
At The plant Of the United Dressed Bee Com
pany in The mean time business was going on
brisMy President Isaac Blumenthal yook the
reporters through the killing hoor and showed
number of expert men at work.
These do rot look like the tramDs the strike
leaders say employ lie said. pointing
number Of smart looking men. We had some
trouble Al first when the engineers and fremen
struck, as they drew the E-es. II is not true
thar rot furnishing our own agents"
lie admitted that the number oc cattle said 10
hs killed TIE previous day vas overstatel
Yesterday he said two hundred head were killed
lie would not promise. but was hopeful that by
Monday nearly rornlaI conditions would pre-
vail
Ne never kill kosher meat on Saturday." he
said. but tomorrow viii be an exception We
wal kin kosher meat to-ElorFow, as st is q case
o. necessity.
'',a the last week or two we have, Of course,
heea looking after our interests and getting ex-
pert men from Chicago or anywhere There are
llcu;y OF them. hTe offered some of our best
H1ea. who were earning from SO TO SO week.
tyo years agreement - these wages, but The
Cn.on command vas paramount
i Was said at the Schwarzsehild & SuIzberger
Company's plant that it had been doing little in
the Killing line. It was expecting { number of
men to-day.
The United Dressed Beef Company had fits
strike breakers quartered in barges where they
we've hcYsed and fed. The barges were some
distauoe out in the river and each had a cook s
galley sleeping hunks and mess tables. The pc
h'e "h" guarded the barges also were fed on
board. There was enough beef and al all Tho
plants J. was stated that il would last for =
InCrit.
The Independent dealers who had leased roo,,,s
IN the pccking plants. according TO some OF
ihen,, killed their cattle n Hew-Jerse,y inz,ea,;
of a. the New-York plants. This vas 10 rra-
rgn; friction between union ard ncr,-sI,,o- NOR
a. the Ioca. slaughter houses
According TO John Kennedy chairman OF tho
strikers' advisory boz:G. the employers lnagni-
fed the disturbances he said The attacks were
caused by hoodlaas AID not by the strikers
A meeting Of the strikers was held IN the
hs-a~roon Al Turtle Ia No $50 g.,