New-York tribune., 1905-08-08
PRICE OF BREAD JUMPS.
Plots IN BIG MEETING.
Strike May Spread to Brooklyn
arbitration Refused.


-,.,lt Of the riots. Rolls rose from seven cents
6ozen 10 cent a piece. and pumpernickcl
.,..s went up TO double prices This did not
=. al dav As more bread began to arrive from
p.ookl,n Kosher bread. OF the size usually
s,sned al four cents a loaf, sold at eight cents
!. me afternoon. and there was not much of it
=, st that price. The strikers say that the
-uarc3tv viii be greater to-day.
r-ns-e was long and exciting meeting last
ming At No 90 Clinton-st 1t began soon after
- she afternoon and continued for four or
g., hours and marked principally by the
-,sv ~ speakers who We're thrown out be-
oouse their sentiments :4.l-5 TO coincide with
those Of the majority
LYMAN Levinson. OF No. 135 Norfolk-st pre-
s,ses and spoke to the two thousand persons
,,sseuf He was followed by Carl Weber Of
No. 505 5th-st, who designated as secre-
,srv OF the meeting. while speeches were also
made by Samuel Kurtz and Abraham Fleisch-
mann After these speakers. an unknown man
arose in the hall and began Grafton in Yid-
dish In a moment the audience arose and, seiz-
inc the unfortunate speaker. hustled him out
snd down the stairs. Another speaker arose,
and his words drew the same action. Then a
third a fourth and so until more than dozen
RAD been unceremoniously kicked cut.
The feature OF the meeting was the presence Of
Miss Fannie Rodman. OF No. 80 East 99th-st.
THIS young woman seamstress counselled the
men 10 hold together. and said they would surely
win then. She exhorted them not to do violence.
Her talk for moderation. and she was
roundly eheered. Her brother is a baker in one
OF the East Side shops. At the close of her
speech, which was in Yiddish. she took up a
collection. and gathered in 81 sc, against less
than s. % obtained from the audience BY a man
who worked the other side Of the hall
President Samuel L Kurtz announced that so
far the strike had been success. All but few
of the bakers. he said, had gone out and by to-
day the strike would extend to Brooklyn. At
O'Clock yesterday afternoon thirty bakers en-
ployed by J. Bucks. in Orchard-st.. declared
their sympathy for the strikers and joined the
union All the members OF American Local
Union No. / are striking, he also stated. and
committee is at work endeavoring to get
every baker in the city TO enter the strike The
fight President Kurtz said further would be a
bitter one, and he had every confidence of the
men winning their demands
Al the meeting a movement was started by a
daughter OF one of the strikers for raising a
fund 10 prosecute Philip Sepler, OF No 1876 Mon
roe-st. who, on Saturday night. shot a baker in
CAnton-st- Sepier was discharged from custody
yesterday in the Essex Market court. The facts
q the case are 10 be laid tomorrow before Dis
fr1ct Attorney Jerome for action.
Tbs strike stimulated the master bakers in
Eoboken 20 send several wagon loads OF bread
% New-Tork for sale. The wagons were sur
rounded by strike pickets. who tried to get the
drivers Of the carts 10 desert but the latter
gere not 20 be inttmidsted. The strikers had to
leave their headquarters. at No. So Attorney
e.. On account OF complaints TO the police that
the strike gathered noisy crowds there, and
hay xyeF IN Paiaca n
70 Clinton-st.
Acting Captain Northrup. Of the Madison-st
staton. said last night that while the police
would be instructed TO be careful. they would
allow no riots by strikers All violations OF the
law would be promptly suppressed.
Robert W. Hawthorne, representing the State
Board OF Arbitration, called at the strike head
quarters and offered TO assist in arbitration
o. the trouble. He was told that no arbitration
was wanted.
AS result Of the riots on the East Side yes
terday and last night ten strikers were pris-
oners in the Essex Market Court Alfred N.
Dittler appeared their counsel. He told
Magistrate Moss that the strikers are not re-
tponsible for the riots He said that the boss
bakers who are not on strike, have allied them
selves with the East Side gangs Of roughs, and
these roughs are picketed TO prevent the strikers
getting their just demands. Alderman Toole, OF
the l2th District, was also in court and pleaded
ior leniency- Magistrate Moss fined three 50
each for participating in a riot at Willett and
Stanton SIS. last night The others were dis
charged.
Shortly before o'clock in the afternoon a
strikers committee visited the bakery os Jacob
Book No. 13S Orchard-st., of the largest
Jewish bakeries the lower East Side. It took
only q few minutes for the committee induce
the thirty bakers employed there to join them,
and they marched in triumph to Great Central
Hall the recruits wearing their working caps
and aprons, just as they had worn them while
az work. The Book men were greeted with
cheers they entered the hall
n he airry fFree
cial Officer Joseph Warpalsky, OF the 18th
Precinct arrested Louis Webman in front Of
the bakery at No. 1S3 Orchard-st for assa ult-
ing him Officer Clark. Of the same precinct
arrested Harry Brucker for turning out the
light at No. 1S1 East Houston-st Jacob
Aoolph the owner. charged Brucker with as
ssult Another arrest was made in front OF