New-York tribune., 1905-08-09
BAKERS. STRIKE SPREADS.
KOSHER BREAD SCARCE.
East Side Bakery Wrecked by Mob
of Angry Workmen.

Kosher bread more scarce on the East SIDE
yesterday than on Monday, and to-day If the He
brew bakers strike continues, the bread famine
will be serious. The only source Of supply. except
q eew non-union bakeries. from Hoboken and
Jersey City. Hebrew Bakers Union No. 1853. OF
brooklyn having struck yesterday morning Short
ly afterward il was announced that the douShnut
bakers had gone out.
Twenty men entered the shop of Abraham
Antzer in the basement of No 1871 Second-aye
last night and drove Charles kaufman twho had
taken the place of one of the strikers) out OF the
place in of his life. Then the crowd tore
out the razlght grte scattered the Goals over the
hoor. and threw dough and bread about the
Captain E5uennan OF the East lO4th-st station,
placed guard on the place.
Mrs Vogel one of the largest bakers in that
section of Harlem. whose shop is two doors above
Antzers place said that il had been impossible for
her to make deliveries and that she could not get
bakers
held a meeting in Schwartz's Hail. Humboldt and
Varet sts and decided go out in sympathy with
the Manhattan strikers. The meeting pre-
sided over by Ike Kalb the walking delegate. The
decision OF the union affects about twenty-five
shops in Williamsburg and several in the Browns
Vile district. The only large Hebrew bakery not
affected is that Of Levi & Co, at Flushing and
Knickerbocker aves-. where the employees large
IL Christians and not members of Local Union No.
l6s The police of the Stagg-st. station. in which
precinct most Of the bakeries are located. do not
expect to have any trouble with the strikers.
The employing bakers held meeting At No. 232
Broone-st late Yesterday afternoon consider
the strike situation Lazarus Frieder presided II
was decided TO declare for the open shop and to
adopt q ter-hour work day rule. the wages to be
SO week for first hands and SIS for second
hands.
These propositions were submitted to
,neet,ns of the striking bakers headquarters in
Great Central Palace. No. 90 Clinton-st They were
unanimously rejected. 1t was resolved to accept
no settlement that did not start with recognition
of the union
Samuel Kurtz, the leafer of the strike, announced
that Bakers Union No. l. consisting OF German
bakers was expected TO strike, but had taken no
definite action. He said that the German bakers
again would consider the question Of a sympathetic
strike and he would try get the Hebrew bakers
unions in Hoboken and Jersey City 10 strike to-day
This would off the main supply of kosher
bread.
Assemblyman Hartman. OF the 18th Assembly
District. addressed the mass meeting for an hour
and a half. He counselled arbitration, but urged
them TO stand out for their demands and abstain
from violence. He told the strikers that he had
slept very little for the last two days. as he was
attending their interests He said the East
Side would produce the future great men Of New
York, and he knew that the strikers were in the
right. He continued:
/ attended court this morning when some of the
strikers were arraigned on the charge of rioting
! know, induce him TO deal lenientIy with them
did not DO so with flourish of trumpets how
He went TO say that he did not take up the
cause Of the strikers for political purposes. All
he wanted was 10 help them in a fight he thought
right.
While kosher bread was scarce all the East
Side yesterday, Vienna bread plentiful. There
was a great demand for crackers yesterday and
their prlce began to jump Pumpernickel loaves
were luXuTies, instead OF being usual lowest
priced bread the East Side.
There were few disturbances yesterday, none
them Of serious character. The strikers knew
that police reserves were III readiness all con-
venient stations. In Essex Market Court Louis
Waldman fined s. for assaulting a policeman
and Yudel Jodelsky fined $40 for starting a
fight Henry Dencker was charged with taking
part in riot and held in $500 bonds keep
the peace for three months
Wolff LeVinthal and Eli Scheinwar, a committee
representing the Hebrew Bakers Union, of Bos-
ton, were present at the meeting to-day, and
said that a strike of all union Hebrew bakers In
Boston had been declared. They requested that
New-York members of the unions keep away from
that city They told Leader Kurtz that the Boston
strike would equal III dimensions that the
striking bakers here.
Preparations have been made for a parade this
morning of the strikers from their headquarters
the City Hail, where they hope TO Mayor Nc
Clellan.