New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-08-24
RIOT TN NEAT STRIKE.
F4NTNE NOT PROBdBLE.
Companies Filling Places and Refuse
TO -4rbiHate.

Of the strike of the five hundred meat drivers
who haze tried to tie up the delivery business
Of al the big packing houses and branches IN
New york The half-portion riot came at the
close Of the working day after the executive
committee of the packers had announced to
NJ J. Regain. of the state bureau of arbitration
and mediation. that :here nothing 10 arb-
trafe and that places of the strikers We're beirg
filed. TIE delivery of meat at the markets and
retail shops had been somewhat delayed in the
morning but by the aid Of strikebreakers ana
police guards the packers were able by noon to
SUNNY those firms that did not send their own
trucks CT express wagons 10 the packing
towns of the extreme East and West sides 81
Manhattan
From TIE time the drivers struck at o CLOCK
on Thursday afternoon the police had been y
the lookout for trouble. Fully two hundred 81
rhe;n mounted and on foot. were distributed
about the packing centres of the Sd and
9Th inspection districts, that are under the
command Of Inspector Burns. Until late in the
afternoon they had little TO do except TO keep
the crowds from lettering near the plants WITH
every wagon belonging 10 one of the packing
houses and driven 10y a non-union man there
WAS guard. either patrolman on the drivers
seat or a mounted policeman riding close to the
front wheels
shortly before 6 o'clock two big trucks laden
with beef started from the plant OF the New
York Butchers Dressed Meat Company at 3Sth
street and Eleventh avenue, TO make the last
delivery TO Brooklyn shops At that time EleV-
e-lth and Tenth avenues We're filed with the
gangs that made such an impression on the po-
lice during the I9ngshoreme;Is strike a few
months ago There were TWO mounted police
men escorting the trucks. and for a time the
crowd that trailed along contented itself with
hooting and yelling -scab." at the drivers and
the tod
wheel about and charge toward the mob, which
scattered at once The police had no time 10
chase so the caravan made haste across town
10 Third avenue and then up TO AID street over
which IL went toward the East 42d street ferry
1t was now in the heart of the East Side pack
sng town Those who had followed from the
West Side were Joined by their fellow strikers
Of the neighborhood-
SMALL RIOT STARTS.
Acting Captain Con Casey. of the East 51st
street station. at First avenue. from which
point long line of wagons and carts of all sorts
was waiting TO go aboard the ferry To get the
meat wagons out of the danger zone as soon as
possible, Captain Casey ordered the mounted pa
troifren TO take their meat wagons out of the
line and get them aboard ahead of the others
that Were not targets for the crowd The gate
tenders at the ferryhouse refused 10 let the
meat wagons in before the others. While the
policemen were arguing the crowd Of strike SYM
Tathizers charged down upon the stalled meat
trucks a few bricks and chunks of pavement
we're thrown without effect. The mounted po
Gicernen wheeled their horses about and just at
the edge of the huddled mob they backed the
animals SO that their hoofs stamped about on
The toes Of the front rank of would be rioters.
BY this time Captain Casey had summoned
ten pstrolrnen foot from along First avenue
They came UP the with their night
sticks ready and the crowd turned and fled. -
few were struck by the men on foot and the
mounted men charged after them for a block
or two until all had faded away into the side
doors of saloons or the entrances of tenement
houses. Then the ferry gate tenders permitted
the meat wagons TO go aboard
Less than half hour later the seat of war
shifted across town. A wagon belonging 70
+ Berrnan, a butcher of No. sos Columbus ave-
nue. was being driven UP Tenth avenue by Ed
ward Gregory of No. 76f Columbus avenue,
who was accompanied by iugger, or helper
IT WAS not protected by policemen, since It's
owner thought there would be TO trouble. At
10Th street however, gang of mon rushed
Oh. from doorways where they had evidently
been hiding. They surrounded the wagon and,
while three held the horses. the rest overturned
IN. vehicle Gregory and his lugger jumped
out and escaped without injury. The hold-up
committee made no attempt TO assault the pair
and escaped before the police arrived The
vason was injured slightly.
The first trouble OF the day also occurred on
The West Side, when a crowd tried to drag
ex-Po1ice Captain Brown from the seat OF a
wagon belonging 10 the New York Butchers
Dressed Meat Company. in Eleventh avenue,
near 3afh street FN-Captain Brown is now
superintendent of the company. AS the strike
Sv,,,patrizers crowded around the wagon. order
Eng him to get off the seat, Superintendent
Known fassoed one of them around the neck
with his whipIasl. Then, leaping 10 the street,
the ex-poIiceInan grabbed his man and slammed
him against a lamppost The other rioters were
So amazed that they stood by until Brown
warned The man TO go on his way and to be
ou,ck about St Then they all departed from
There before the reserves could get 10 the place
DAY UNEXPECTEDLY QUIET.
Revond these incidents, yesterday was unex-
cectedlv quiet The managers OF the packing
nIants had been making every effort 10 get
.trite breakers for their wagons The steam
hnat Northern, that has figured as a Heating
hotel for strike breakers several times In labor
uars came down the East River In the morn
snr and unIoaded at various points about one
hunared men gathered by detective agency
The newcomers did not look so husky and bull
recjxod as the striking union men, and iugger
WAS sent out with each driver one or the
demands made by the union men at the con-
s.repcs which ended in break on THURSDAY
xras that they have luggers 10 help them carry
she beef They also demanded week OF sixty
five hours with wage OF $40 ana extra pay