New-York tribune., 1904-08-12
MOB ON-UNlON DRIVERS.
STRIKERS BIKE" FORCE.
PARIS Entertainment Committee
Tactics m Butchers Trouble.


,sgrr,e,t Committee were used That the at
lacks on drivers were made by organized gangs
either of strikers their sympathizers' Was
soon apparent A bicycle brigade OF scou'S
followed noI-union drivers. and every time one
Of the brigade sgnalled from his wheel eaHs'
watch was near by, would appear ready "Heii
Che quarry was pointed out. to start an at
tack one driver was badly hurt ana aiio'i'e
beaten. and several arrests were mace
The bike entertainment committee a. iie
l,i,,-cIe brigade came to BE- called knew every
Mace where meat was delivered, and appeared
IA be posted at every lonely place where q
non-,lnion driver was likely TO pass James
Hart. OF No l67 Tillary--st, Brooklyn. a driver
for the schwarzschild 7s sulzberger company
was sighted by P member of the committee at
rwenty-seventh-st and Lexington-aNe, who
gave signal. and a gang or strikers seemed 10
rise out OF the ground
The strikers jumped on the wagon and Hart
was knocked down. and fen nearly under the
horses feet He was being struck with stones
and bricks. when policeman came along The
strikers dispersed, but not before one Of them
Isaac Beckman, who, Hart says, struck nm
with q stone, was arrested. Beckman Was held
in 81 900 bail on the charge Of assault in York
vile police court later.
ATTACK ANOTHER WITH STONES
Nearly at the same time a bicycle scout gave
the signal that another driver for the same COM
psny was going down First-ave- to the Long
Island ferry at Thirty -fourth-st lie was sur
rounded bv an angry mob Of strikers and called
or the police for assistance Two policemen de-
tailed to the neighborhood got on the seat with
him and the mob followed. At Thirty-seventh-
&, where there is a marble yard. attack was
made on the man and his escort Another po-
licenan came Just the driver was hit by a
jaRged stone. He arrested Henry TowneS.
youth, Of No. 239 East Forty-fourth-st.. who
was fined SO in Yorkville Court.
Benjamin Brecondorf was arrested at Seven
feminist and Avenue A for threatening one Of
the schwarzschild & Sulzberger drivers He at
tempted TO pull the driver from the seat but
was arrested. and a mob which followed him was
dispersed. Brecondorf was charged with olsor-
der1y conduct, but was released on bail
A race fight between negroes and white men
took place at the slaughter houses near Forty
sixfh-st- and FIrst-ave. on a Forty-second-st
crosstown car. The negroes were employed AT
some OF the slaughter houses Two men, named
Joseph Ackernan and Don Casey, were badly
slashed by the negroes. who jumped or and
escaped when a policeman appeared. Later
negro who said he Kit Red. Of 10. 3I9
Johnson-ave, Jersey City. appeared At the East
Fffty-frst-st- station. his head covered with
blood. He said he had come here to look for
work. and at Forty-third-st. and First-ave. was
set on by mob, who took him for nol-union
driver.
The upper East Side along First-ave., hris-
tied with minor nights i'm which women and
boys took part The police used their clubs
freely. One man was chased by a crowd of five
hundred boys and women at Forty-eighth-st.
and Kicked into Inconsistencies. A policeman
held the crowd al bay and the man was taken
into a store at No. SO First-ave., and the door
ut when it came the crowd dispersed. Other
en- were chased at intervals Of every fifteen
inutes the warcry Of "Scab" being enough
draw a crowd. The non-uuion men became
SO scared toward nightfau that they looked on
every group Of persons as a possible attacking
party.
Putting aside the rioting. there was little APP
rearanoe Of A strike al the plant Of the United
Dressed Beef Company yesterday The COM
pany was better prepared than the Schwarz-
schd & Sulzberger Company, which admitted
that everything was more or less tied up so far
as operations were concerned. The firm had
plenty OF meat on hand and no killing was done.
At the plant OF the United Dressed Beef Com
pany a number Of killers had been secured,
but not the fun number required
ENGINEERS AND FIREMEN co OFT
After a meeting of the allied trades in Min.
called out at these two plants, the order for the
hremen TO strike having arrived from Presidep,
Timothy Healey Of the International Fireroar.s
Union the night before. Before they went on
strike they banked The fires and left ever,,-
thing in apple pie order. The chief engineers re-
mained at work
Sanuel Wen, secretary Of the Schwarzschild &.
hulzberger Company. said that there was no kill
ing done, but killing would De started to-da,
with new men. He added:
We have enough meat ahead tn last for man,
HteAs ! ne main trouble is the attacks on otir
9glFeIs- We can get all the fireinen We want.
Inc nremen do not require 10 be licensed ,,d
We have the chief engineers
fISI president Josephs Of the cornnanv
coiHrned this statement He said thar the Err,
catch up. - "o-4N SUM
thirty killers were at ork at the plant of the
= = nlted Dressed Beef Company, where there Kyas
ue Alue appearance Of a strike. Irving BlumantbaI
salo, speaking FOR his father Isaac BI1Irnentbal
president of the company:
A.. W. Killed three hundred head of cattle to.
aay, lle usual complement being FIVE f,,n,5re1
We nave all the skilled killers we yvant In
lacl All the places are filled on the killing fIoor
We usually employ six hundred people aItogetb
- 81. 80 nave no" Three hundred and fifty which
B - hot bad showing during a strike our Grst
oaIe was 10 get expert killers
IL was stated by both these firms that ,1.,,
we're making arrangements with floD-II1,i,. -,
slheers. As TO the teamsters they could ~
replace all who struck bat i'm cases yybaTa ~ ~.
""uld not do 80 they told their custor,ers -
me latter came with wagons ana
"a, meeting lg OF the strikers WAS held at Turtle
saN nan early in the day. where thev wore aJ
dressed by Homer d. Call the national go
1ats- n L. Elchebergcr John Kenned,- ana
=, ne ADVISORY board of the strikers met
=. the afternoon AT No. So First-ave Secre
taIy Call admitted that a large number of ~
,L .lo1 .hsA We're merely employed. He said fbat
.There IS no ,3ea5 ., As 10 prices he said:
meat through this strike The ipds,a,1,5,,'t
tben, cI ai ,b suppLy me demand. and we win give