New-York tribune., 1905-08-06
RIOT IN BAKER STRIKE.
SHOTS FIRED IN FIGHT.
Policeman Attacked and Injured
Tventy Reserves Called Ont.

The reserves of several precincts were called
out at II o'clock last night to que what for a
time threatened to become a serious riot in
Monroe-st, between Clinton and Montgomery
SITS There has been strike in progress on the
East Side for several days among several hun
dred Jewish bakers who want shorter hours
and more pay.
Late last night stone hurled through the
plate glass window of Louis Stemples bake
shop, at No. 169 Monroe-st., and Stemple
against whom the strike had been directed, drew
a revolver and fired into the street The bullet
hit Morris Kuresky, of No 16S Monroe-st. in
the left side. Kuresky is carpenter. The act
aroused the neighborhood, and in minute the
street in front of the bakeshop was filled with
bowling mob all bent revenge
Patrolnan Wright. of the Madson-st. station.
with difficulty got the injured man in an am
bulance and then started to take Stemple to the
station Other policemen had to go to his
assistance and some sent word to the sta
ton that a riot was in progress. A similar
message was sent to Police Headquarters and
telephone messages were sent from Head
quarters to several precincts. Twenty reserves
soon collected at the scene of the trouble.
In the mean time Acting Captain Northrup of
the Madison-st station. and several of his de-
tectives had heard the noise. and with drawn
clubs plunged into the mob. There five
thousand persons crowded into the street and
the police had a difficult time in dispensing them.
They arrested ten men who refused to comply
promptly enough with the orders to move on,
and after an hours hard work managed to
restore peace.
In the melee Policeman Kruse, who was on
his vacation fought his way to his captains
side only to be seized by a dozen men and
thrown into a box of fresh mortar. He was
got out with difficulty and sent TO Gouverneur
Hospital where the hose turned on him and
fresh clothes were supplied.
Kuresky. after treatment at Gouverneur. was
taken to the station house. where he identified
Stemple as the man who shot him.
On the eve of the Fast of the Nineteg. during
which the orthodox Jews of the East Side live
solely on bread the Jewish bakers of Manhat-
tan have gone on strike. and from the success
of the strikers so far a bread famine is
pected among the Jews of this city. The Jewish
Local Union No % of the Baker and Confec-
tion Workers International Union of America.
having 460 members, struck for shorter hours
and cleaner quarters at o'clock on Friday.
meeting of the strikers began yester-
day : o'clock, and In session all
last night and will continue to-day. Four COM
mittees, each composed of fifteen strikers, were
sent about the bakeshops and succeeded in en-
rolling fifty union bakers in Local Union
No. % A committee called on four other locals
yesterday and these will hold meetings to-day
to consider whether they will join the strikers.
The locals which to meet to-day are the
Hebrew Brooklyn Local No. 1853; Newark. NO.
167 and Harlem Local. No. 3O3. The strikers
believe that these unions VIII go out in SYM
pathy and tie up all the bakeshops in Manhat-
tan BROOKLYN and Newark Much of the bread
consumed in the Jewish section is furnished
from Brook YIN. Jersey City and Newark.
Samuel Kurtz, of No. 134 Suffolk-st., chair
man of Local No 23, said last night
We tolerated the boss bakers as long We could,
bur the time has to strike. and strike hard
We are willing 10 work ten hours day, but when
we are forced put in thirteen. sixteen and TWEEN
tv-four hours believe il time TO strike Ihe
bakers are compelled to work in cellars where thefe
is no air. and In many places are forced 70 Steep
in the room where the bread is baked THESE con
ditions exist in violation of the regulations Oh te
Board of Health.
The New-York State law which prohlolteu
bakers from working more than ten hours
day was declared unconstitutional py the
United States Supreme Court last spring. Ihe
court held that it was a violation of the free
dom of contract The law had been upheld ny
the New-York State Court of Appeals, and was
passed on the ground that 1t protected the
the helre