New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-27
FIGHT AFTER DYNAMITE
". Y. HOSPITAL IN DANGER.
Police PreUent Rioting Strikers from
Using EGplosiUe.

The timely action of two Tenderlon policemen
prevented the theft OF twenty-five pounds OF dyna-
mite yesterday morning in a fight in 15th-st be-
tween strikers and non-union men. the explosion OF
which would have wrecked the New-York Hospital.
| The workmen on the new twenty story Stuyvesant
Building. at 15th-st. and 5th-ave.. have been on
strike for four days. their places being taken by
forty-fve non-unon men. Collisions between the
two parties have been frequent There was a fight
Thursday night. and yesterday morning when the
men went to work it was found that the door OF
the dynamite shed. which IS buile up against the
wall Of the New-Yorlz Hospital, had been tampered
with.
Last night when the men ceased work they were
attacked by the strikers The fought all over
the street, until Patroman Riordan tried to quell
the riot single handed. He rapidly getting the
worst Of it when Mounted Patrolman O'Keefe drove
his horse into the thick OF the fight and began
laying about with his nightstick. He was subdu-
ing the mob when two of the strikers broke away
and ran into the excavation to the dynamite she'd
where Waterman named Joseph F. Tracy
on guard Tracy picked up pickax and fought
them of. but they knocked him down with SINH
lar weapons and entered the shed.
The dynamite was already capped and ready for
USE Out as they were about 20 seize several sticks
the two patromen seized them They fought their
way loose and back into the crowd just as the
seTveE from the Tend4rloin station arrived The
crowd dispersed, the police chasing two Of them to
l4th-st. and 5th-ave.. where they were captured
At the station house the prisoners said they were
Joseph Michel and Frank Chamar- Neither the
two patrolmen nor the watchmen could identify
them the men who had tried to steal the dyna-
mite, and they were locked up charged with dis
orderly conduct. Two patroImen have been detailed
to guard the dynamite.
The lockout OF rockmen and excavators is now
likely to prolong the strike indefinitely. To even
up things the walking delegates of the union or
dered about thrty-five hundred more men on strike
yesterday on uptown contracts. Most Of those were
excavations for apartment houses.
fight between non-union and strikers, the
first Of the kind since the trouble began took place
yesterday morning in East 110th-st. About fifty
men were working in excavations when crowd Of
strikers and sympathizers appeared and rained
brickbats the workers. The latter fought back,
but outnunbered. and finally made their es-
cape out of the cellar. squad OF police
rived in time 20 dispense the crowd
Work went yesterday at the Rothsclf4ld Build
ing 15th-st and 5th-ave.. under police protection
Strike pickets succeeded in getting non-union en-
gineers to quit twice The 800 men who struck on
the contracts of Patrick Norton returned to work
yesterday under agreement which does not
involve recognition of the union.
II was learned that the fight will now be mainly
directed against the rock drlers and engineers,
who are well organized and who the employers
responsible for the extensive organiZa-
ton of the eXcavators. The greater number OF
cases the excavators cannot work If the drfllers
and engineers working They made use OF
this, the employers say, to force the eXcaVatoFS
into organizing.