The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1909-05-04
STRIKING BAKERS UNRULY
POLICE KEEP BUSY SUPPRESS
lag BABY RIOTS.
Many Prisoners Taken n q Few
Persons. Injured. Go to Hospital Non.
inion Men Captured, Wagons Over.
turned and Bread Thrown In street.

MON Men Captured, wagons over.
turned and Bread Thrown In Street.
The striking Cast Side bakers and
their sympathizers kept the police busy
Yesterday. Non-union bakers were cap
,nred at their homes. in the streets and
the bake houses and taken to the head
quarters Of the strikers, where they said
they would stand by the strike. Bread
wagons we're overturned and bread was
scattered through the streets,
The most serious trouble came about
O'Clock in the afternoon at the bakery
Of David Posner, 81 Market street. A
committee Of the strikers rushed down
the cellar steps into the bakery. which is
a large one and has been al open shop
for a long time. Policeman Daniel j.
sullivan of the Madison street station
went after them. A crowd gathered
and shouts Of Throw out the soabs!"
we're heard. Some n threw a brick
which crashed through a window and
struck Joseph Attkus. Posner's brother
in-law. Posner fired a revolver several
times in the air.
The crowd poured into the cellar and
followed Policeman Sullivan to the street
with two strikers whom he had arrested.
Men threw things at Sullivan and women
scratched his face. Before he could use
his club he was thrown down and kicked
He was having a bad time when Sergt.
Gilmartin and Policemen Extadt, Assnato
and Durante Of the Madison street station,
who were riding on a Madison street car.
heard the noise. They arrested Joseph
Janolsky, who was accused OF throwing
the brick; Jacob Weinstein and Jacob
Bernstein.
By that time the crowd had increased
10 about 400 and the res erves of three
stations we're called out. When the pris-
oners were taken to the station the mob
followed and began to revile Posner.
He complained to Capt. Schlottman, who
sent out several policemen. and more
arrests were made. Five prisoners were
taken to Essex Market court and each
held in $500 bail to keep the peace, three
Of them for three months and the others
for a year. Magistrate Herman said
that there would be prison sentences in
future for such cases.
As early as S A. NJ. committees OF the
strikers began to 60 to the bakeries to
get the n%on-union men to join the strikers.
About that hour a large crowd assembled
around two bread wagons with nom
union drivers employed by E. Gottfried.
1879 Second street. which we're deliver
ing bread in Harlem. About thirty of the
boss bakers have closed their shops in
Harlem rather than face trouble and some
of the downtown bakers, among them
Gottfried, undertook to see that Harlem
did not want for bread. The strike
breakers we're green men who knew lit
tie English and less Yiddish, and grinned
helplessly when they we're told by the
mob to give up their wagons. The moi
then pulled them on the wagons and
kicked and cuAed them. The traces of
the horses were cut and the loaves thrown
out of the wagons. The disturbers got
away before the police got around.
Boss Baker Gottfried told his woes to
Secretary D. H.. Brayer Of the East Side
Boss Bakers Association. who had a talk
with Police Inspector Herlihy Of the FIRST
Inspection district as to protecttong a
number Of new men who are going to de-
liver bread In Harlem this morning. Presi-
ient Book OF the association said later
that the downtown bakers had received a
Zip to the effect that mobs will be on hand
this morning to attack the bread wagons.
An attack was made in the morning on
the shops Of Nathan Frier and Samuel
Broklover at 11h Stanton street. The boss
bakers nj their families were kicked and
mauled. They were rescued by Police
men Walsh, Harrison and / ynch. Nine
men were arrested on the charge OF feloni-
Gus assault and the two boss bakers were
attended by q doctor.
Early in the morning Schulen Rubin
stein. a baker OF s15 East 1Olst street. went
into a small wineshop kept by Michael
Noyak at i55 Chrystie street. Rubin
friends, called for wine. and Novak re-
fused to serve him on the ground that he
was drunk. He then asked for food, and
Raid: oh, l just want a Loaf
Rubenstein looked over the loaf and,
according to Novak. leaped on biz and
dan ghters Gussie and Sadie and his
elghteen-year-old sol Morris came TO his
assistance and all pummelled Rubinstein.
Policemen came finally and got Rubin
stein, who was taken to Gouverneur O
pital a prisoner on the charge OF ~felonious
assault. He made a counter charge
against Novak. who also was arrested.
Four arrests were made in the after
noon at the bakery OF Louis Mendelsen.
a3 Allen street. The prisoners had gone
into the bakery and were proceeding
10 throw things around when they were
naDDed. 1hey VIII De arral8neQ IN E6eex
Market court to-day. Seven arrests
we're made at a bakery in 1877 Hester
street and several were made at other
bakeries.
A meeting OF the executive committee
Of the East Side Boss Bakers Association
was held last evening at 232 Broome street.
Afterward Secretary Brayer said:
If the Magistrates start by giving jail
sentences instead OF fines the trouble will
he over in a few days. We hav no COM
plant about the police, who are giving
US all the protection possible
The strike leaders said that seventy
boss bakers had signed the agreement.
and according to Strike Leader Kasi-
inirsky most Of these belonged to the asso-
cation, This was denied by the officers
oi the association. who say that six more
hoss bakers have joined the association.
Organizer Charles Ifiand OF the
lourneymen Bakers Inc Confectioners
International Union came here yester-
dfhv and will assist in managing the strike.
lie said he was surprised when he heard
the hakers were on strike. The joint
executive board Of the Bakers Unions
u, Greater New York will meet this
afternoon to consider the matter OF sym
pathetic strikes Of the bakers in other |
,oealS in the different boroughs. The
lnlted Hebrew Trades met last evening
~ sN Forsyth street and Endorsed the