New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-05-11
AWES MOB WITH "GUN."
| MEN PURSUE CAPTAIN!
Chief Strike Breaker Turns ON
CrosCd and Holds 1t Back.

strikers recognized Captain Bowen. the head or the
agency, yesterday afternoon. as he was passing the
| North German Lloyd docks In Hoboken
"Hey bows" he shouted, there goes the head OF
the strike breakers!"
The news taken to the strikers. VINO were
| massed outside and with shouts aud imprecatlohs
they bore down Captain Bowen. who sprlnteu
along the docks, with the crowd yelling Oei'nu
! him until he reached the Hamburg American
docks. where he turned at bay
The leaders in the chase about to make
! grab for him. when they found themselves cor"
! fronted with revolver held by the captain Inc
crowd stopped when Captain Bowen shouted;
! Back all Of you! If a man dares to touch me
| I'll shoot"
The strikers looked at him for minute. and theh
! began to fall back. He advanced a step or TWO
and the strikers fed believing he about to fire
He then returned TO the North German Lloyd docks
and the strikers gave him a wide berth
With locked horns both longshoremen and
steamship men are strainlng for any possible ad-
vantage. but any gain. fanced or otherwise, MADE
yesterday by side offset by some gain by
the other. If there is real change it has
been to the advantage OF the steamship lines, but
the strikers say that when all the big boats get
In to-day there will be another story to tell At
the usual nightly meeting last night the leaders of
the strikers announced that they
out to win, although the steamship lines earlier in
the day had weakened the determination of some
of the by announcing that unless the men
returned within a week they would be locked out
with chance of return The steamship lines
loath to take this radical action if it be
avoided. for stevedores, like poets, are born and
not made. The piles OF broken crates and boxes
on the piers where they have been smashed by the
green hands, is proof enough Of this.
Several hundred strike breakers arrived in
Brooklyn and Hoboken yesterday. These have
been found with so little difficulty that the steam
ship lines inclined to state-at least for pub
Ncation-that the backbone of the strike is broken.
The compromise of the Savannah line with
,-ho
men got an Increase of about five cents an hour.
did encourage the strikers much. either.
Many of them asking. after they the
work, why they should be beginning 10
feel the pinch of poverty when non-union men
getting what the union could Their
leaders however bolstered up their determine
ton by talking OF plans call out the Market
Drivers Union, the coal trimmers and the tug
boat crews.
They also sent delegations to tell Assistant United
State Attorney Frankfurter that masters of tugs
had been carrying passengers TO steamboat piers
IN violation Of the Federal statutes They were re-
ferred to United States Attorney Stimson who said
that he would get after any offending masters If
the longshoremen could make af1davits to any al
legged violation. This did suit the strikers who
wanted Mr.. Stmson get right after the shippers.
Previously they had visited the Customs House,
where they passed on to the Federal Build
ing. The American and White Star lines are plan
ming 10 house and feed their strike breakers and
the longshoremen are preparing complaint 10 the
health board on this
The spread Of the strike the Fail River Line J
does not appear 10 have encouraged the strikers /
much and reports from Fall River say that 1t has
affected traffic little at that end of the line the !
company had an extensive strike OF its own two ;
or three years ago. and is familiar with strike !
conditions.
The strikers were orderly and well behaved yes ,
terday except for the Bowen chase and trihins .
White Star pier fight but II may be only the lull !
before the storm. Commissioner Binghams de- .
c'sion to hold up the police parade, II necessary.
may have caused the men 70 lay low. so that. de-
ceved by the apparent peacefuness OF the sitUa-
ton the absence OF the paradinE police would give
them a chance 10 get back at the steamship
owners Their leaders. however, say that not only
have the been warned to be peaceable. but
have been ordered 70 leave all their weapons at
home.
Coroner Dooey went TO the New York Hospital
yesterday 10 get the ante-mortem statement Of
Giuseppe Deyino. whose skull was fractured when
he HIS son, Tony. assaulted by strikers
on Thursday night. lie cannot recover His son
was held in $500 bail by Magistrate Wahle
charged with having discharged revolver at the
strikers when he attacked The four men
rested IN a boat by the harbor squad yesterday for
"threa teninR' when they displayed banner bear
ing the words Strike at this dock Keep away"
were discharged by Magistrate Breen, who could
not anything threatening in this
Since the strike began the Bowen q Post agency
has brought about I'VE thousand strike breakers 10
different companies. Mr.. Post who attends to the
detailing OF strike breakers, said last night that
the day had been fairly quiet the pursuit OF Cap
tain Bowen being the most exciting incident. Two
strike breakers. he said were assaulted in Hoboken
during the day, but not seriously.
we brought one thousand strike breakers on to-
day from Buffalo and Philadelphia" he said and
put them 20 work the piers OF the White Star
North German Lloyd. Holland America and Ham
burg American lines and the Bush company's
docks In Brooklyn. They of all nationali-
ties. including Italians swedes and Hungarians.
and they glad get 80 40 cents an hour for
day and night work"
About three hundred struck at the Fall
River and Providence Line piers. They formerly
belonged TO the freight handlers union which has
gone to pieces. far this city is concerned
There were several reports during the day that
the teamsters would strike In sympathy with the !
longshoremen, and some of the companies were
anxious about the matter, strike of the truck
men would tie UP everything Michael J. Rognn. OF
the New York district council of the United Team, |
sters OF America, said last evening that the mann,
bers OF his organization. which has seventeen ar {
eighteen branches would not strike In sympathy
The local branch Of the International Brother
hood OF Transfers. Il rival organization which or
ordered the last strike in Chicago has taken no ac
ton in the matter.
The harbor boatmen's branch az tho A,I,r., |
Coast Seamen's Union reported last night that
orty men composing the OF five boats NJ
me Nierow Towing Company had gone on strike
against conveying strike breakers the piers Tho
lnion will order strikes I'm all such cases
About one hundred and fifty men quit vor, .. !
ne Cunard docks at o'clock in the afternoon ,yho
we're said TO be new men. report that the long
horemen OF the Troy Line had gone on strike ,vo.
ienied by the company.
n meeting OF the striking longshoremen was held |
GFeeh"lch Hail. hudson and Christopher streets
yesterday afternoon at which It was unanimoueI, |
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