The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-08-11
Will STOP BAKERS RIOTING.
noRTR1GHTS SHARP TALK 70
EAST SIDE STRIKERS.
Wanted Permit to Hold Meetins IN nut
gers square, but It Wa Refused-Cspt.
Murtha Attends Meeting Of tho
Bakers-Employer Name Committee.

-srs suuare, but II Wa Refused-Capt.
S,urths Attends Q Meeting Of the
nskers-Employers Name Committee.
A eornmittee from tho Omitted Hebrew
Trades, accompanied BY Assembiyman
Hartman OF the Sixteenth Assembly dis
,riot. went TO Police Headquarters yesterday
morning to ask a permit for mass meeting
Of the striking Hebrew bakers In Rutgers
Square. In the committee were MAJ Mon
na,h Of Local 1903. Brooklyn; Samuel KITE
lea der OF the bakers strike; v. Weokstefn,
business agent Of Local 1877 OF Newark,
and j. j. Langenthal OF Local sos OF Har'
lem.
seret. Charles o. Sheldon OF the Bureau
Of Information has charge OF such permits
The committee went to SEQ him. Sheldon
spoke to Chief Inspector Cortright, who
told him to refuse the permit Then the
committee tried to see Commissioner
McAdoo, who is away. Then they went to
see Cortright. He has boon moro than
thirty-five years on the police force.
-You needn't come to me for sympathy,
said Cortright, when he heard tho COM
rnittee. "You won't get 1t. And III tell
you now that there must be law and order
on the East Side during this strike. II
there is a repetition Of yesterday g perform
ance I will have the police drop on you and
drop hard, too.
1T isn't the strikers said Assembly
man Hartman. sits the thugs. They have
firearms
THE police have no right to search per-
sons on the street TO see II they have
weapons" said Inspector Cortright. II
YOU see man with revolver tell police
man. He will arrest him.
its not the strikers who make tho
trouble" persisted the Assemblyman. Its
their sympathizers.
.oh. shucks!" exclaimed the inspector.
'l've heard that same cry for twenty-five
years There is nothing in it.
Then Inspector Cortright told the com.
mittee that he proposed to see that order
was maintained; he didn't care who caused
the trouble. Under the present condition OF
affairs. he said, there would be no mass
meeting In Rutgers Square. When be got
through talking the committee gave 1t up
and went away.
The police made a new move yesterday
hy sending Capt. Murtha OF the Eldridge
street station to mass meeting In Great
Central Hall, 90 Clinton street. He wanted
to find out what the strike amounted to
and II there was anything In the stories
told by the strikers that the employers hired
toughs and thugs to fight the strikers.
Capt Murtha was accompanied by Bern.
ard Rubino Of the legal aid department Of
the Hebrew Educational Alliance and Alfred
A. Otter, lawyer for the bakers union.
Both lawyers warned the strikers against
violence.
Capt Murtha tried to set some informa-
ion from Hyman Levinson, the chairman
Of the meeting. as to the status Of the strike
He asked Leyinson il any attempt had been
said that the demands of the bakers had
not been sent to the employers. They had
been made public in the newspapers. he
said, and he thought the bosses would send
q committee.
LAWYER Otter said he had attended, at the
request Of Police Inspector Schmittberger,
a conference between Inspector Schmitt-
berger and Inspectors Titus and Brookes.
and Capt. Murtha' q visit to the meeting was
the result
that the strike district had crowded
population and they did not want to risk
a repetition Of the riots which took place at
Rabbi Joseph's funeral. The police. they
said, were ready to give all proteotion.
the day and it was thought that the visit
ofCapt Murtha to the meeting would have
good effect. Everything was compare
lively quiet until a man with a pushcart
containing seventy leaves OF bread Gov
street into Clinton street. Before the police
could interfere crowd Of strikers sur
rounded it and threw the bread into the
mud The man fed and the loaves were
never delivered.
John Eeinz, general organizer OF the
Jouneymen Bakers and !Confectioners'
International Union, arrived here yesterday
10 look into the situation. He had cen
ference last evening in a hall at Sixth street
and the Bowery with the G reater New York
hoor ri ~ tho hakaraS nninna
The prominent part Assemblyman Hart.
man is taking in the strike was not looked
on favorably by the beard. After the meet
ing strike leader Kurtz made the following
statement.
aThe board decided on a general strike
Of the bakers, but permission would have
first to be obtained from the International
executive board. We have telegraphed to
the international executive board. which is
its sanction I believe that strikes will be
ordered in the German bakeries which
deliver bread to the Hebrew districts. -,
B. Weckstein Of the Newark Bakers said
that the Newark bakers had an agreement
In the lunchrooms Throughout the Hebrew
districts yesterday cake was served to
customers instead of bread; There was
plenty Of Vienna bread and it had not
advanced in price.
The Hebrew Boss Bakers Association
met all the afternoon and evening at 2s2
Grand street After the meeting was
over Jacob Book, the chairman, said the
boss bakers were willing to grant some
of the demands, including higher wages,
the ten hour workday and some OF the
holidays, but would not recognize the
union or sign contract. He complained
Of the police and said
They are not giving Us protection.
strike We are losing $4,000 a day, but
could open. up tonight If we could get
protection.
The employers have appointed a peace
committee OF three.
Committees OF both sides will 60 before
Acting Mayor Fornes to-day and ask for
better police protection.
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