New-York tribune., 1909-05-04
MANY HURT IN STRIKE
TWO BAKERS IN HOSPITAL.
Serious Riots on East Side-300
Police Reserres on DRtg.

With one man badly injured scores suffering
from bruises and beatin%s and number of ar
rests the strike % the East Side bakers took
serious aspect yesterday. From early morn
ing until late night the police reserves Of the
Eldridge. Madison. Delaney and 9Th street sta
Iians were kept dashing from place 10 another
and nightfan estimated that Comms-
siOner Bingham had poured into the affected dis
tTict three hundred extra men 10 maintain
order.
One patrolmap stationed in front Of each
OF The bakeshops affected by the strike. but his
presence in some cases had no effect. Shots were
fred at bakeshop and the patrOlman there was
msuled before aid reached him. The strikers car
Iied their operations up into Harlem, attacking the
wagons of the bakers. destroying the contents
beating the drivers and cutting the harnesses Of
the horses The badly injured is one of The
strikers, and his alleged assailant who was locked
UP in the Eldrdge street station. is the keeper of
~ine shop and bakery. so bold did the strike
sympathizers become that they made denlonstra-
tions outside Of various police stations and had to
be dispersed
1t a SORTING day in the strike yesterday
Many employees ard bakeshop owners, who had
heretofore taken part the trouble. waiting 10
how things turned out decided upon some
course and announced their intentions A number
OF the smaller bakeshops applied 10 the owners
association yesterday for admission. but few Of
them accepted The union also received
number OF members.
While there were a number OF small fights in
the early morning hours. the first serious row was
in the wine cellar and bake shop of Michael No
walk at No l55 Chrystie street Shortly after :
O'Clock yesterday morning Schulern Rubenstein. Of
No SO East Iolst street, and several friends
entered the place kept by Noval and asked for
something eat. Schulem i in Gouverneur
Hospital with Il fractured skull and Michael is
locked up charged with felonious assault. Accord
ing 10 NoVak. RubcnSfejH and bs friends started
10 demoiish restaurant when they found loaf
Of bread without a unou Label on il. N0yak was
hit the head and Mrs. Novsk and several littlo
Aovaks Joined in the fray. The opposing parties
struggled stl over The restaurant. and in the mix
up some one hit Schulem with a sugar bow. As
fell the police rushed Rubenstein. add-
ton being the hospital Is also charged with
having tried 10 knife on the whole Novak
family.
bakery Of Nathan Fryer and Samuel BrokloWer. at
No. ll6 Stanton street. The twelve men who are
employed there were visited 10y q entertainment
committee" the strikers and their friends. There
battle royal which in progress when
Patrolman Patrick McGovern Of the Fldridge street
station. arrived McCiovern saw that II too
much for him. so he locked all OF the fighters in
the bakery and sent for the reserves When they
arrived the entertainment committee consisting
OF nine battered bakers was taken away 10 the
Essex Market court. where three OF them were
held in $500 bail and the others fined s. each.
Fryer and Broklower both went 20 the hospital
Perhaps the most serious outbreak of the dsy
the attack made the bakery OF David Pos
tried to rush Patroman Daniel sullivan. OF
III Brooklyn who duty front Of Jh- bake
shop and his nightstick worked overtime. Posner
seeing that the policeman was being OvercGna fred
2 revolver into the air. IN a minutes Captain
Schlottman and 5ne OF the Madison street
station hand cleaning up In the excite
Iaent some one fired several shots through the Win
dows Of the bakery bat did no harm Ten arrests
were made, and the reserves started back 10 the
station house. They we're obliged to use their clubs
ali the way. and then several thousand people
gathered outside the station and began throwing
bricks.
Clean up said ScAlottmaH, and the reserves
did The street was cleared, snd. as one policeman
said Some Of them running yet"
Joseph Attkuss, d brother-in-Gw OF PosneT was
struck in the face and badly cut He was taken to
C;ouverneur Hospital Sullivan also badly
bruised, but pluckly refused TO leave his post
When the prisoners were srraigned in court
eight of them were held in $50 bail each, one was
hned s. and the tenth discharged
The gang that broke into the strikers headquar-
tiers on Sunday also active last night While
the strikers holding meeting they attempted
10 get admittance upper story OF the building,
but were repulsed with many injuries The drug
store at Norfolk and Delaney streets looked ike a
hospital when the injured had been taken there to
be repaired
The strike has caused much excitement among
the Jewish people on the lower East Side. all Of
them are affected in way or another. Each
faction has large following. and IL is these fol-
lovvines that causing most Of the trouble Many
censed their rough treatment AT the hands Of
the strikers alleging that they getting little
protection from the police organizing them
selves into and retaliating the strikers
whenever they catch unprepared Inspector
FEerihy has adopted heroic measures 70 keep down
The disorder, with difficulty because the dis
trict affected is large He has attempted 10
have the prisoners taken arraigned on the charge
OF conspiracy. Magistrate Hermann has insisted
that this be changed disordery conduct, and has
fined the prisoners a few dollars, which the union
pays.
Several meetings of otner unions were held last
night and resolutions of sympathy passed for the
bakers Tho bakers strike confident that
they Will win III end and in jubilant spirits.
They expect aid from the Central Federated Union
and from the Bakers International Union, which
win enable them continue the strike indefinitely.
Il was said that nearly $4,000 collected yester-
Cay from those bakers who working. their en-
paoyers having agreed the demands OF The union,
Tne bosses" are also confident, and say they
viii fight 70 the end.
WESTON MAKES SIXTY-EIGHT MILES
Glasgow No. MAY S.-Edward Payson Weston
r,sssed through here Al o'clock tonight on his
way west. He spent the night at Slater, walking
sjxtv-eight miles during the DAY.