Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-10-29
New York Striking Ex-
pressmen Make Trouble.
Adams Co. Makes No Attempt
10 Start It's Teams.
Drivers for American and Wells
Fargo Stoned and Beaten.

I troops or New Jersey nave Deeil VI ooi
| ed to be ready to march into Jersey
City, in event the strike OF the ex-
press companies employees passes be-
yond the control of the police, the first
outbreak of violence in this city. oc-
Cured today, at the corner of Fifth
avenue and 46th street.
Some $50 strikers and their SYM
pathiZers We're gathered at the corner
| when an American Express wagon
drove up. The mob pelted the driver
with stones and grabbed the reins.
Two lone policemen succeeded in driv-
| ing the. mob back, and the express
| drivers turned their teams about and
galloped the horses back to the stable
after another driver was attacked and
! abandoned his wagon.
Decisive action on the New Jersey
side of the river was expected today,
following last nights serious rioting,
| in which two policemen were badly in
jured and a number of strikebreakers
terribly beaten by a mob of strike
>ympathizers. Mayor Wittpenn and
Chief of Police Monahan of Jersey
city, however. insisted that the city
| authorities felt able to cope with the
strike situation.
The Adams Express made no effort
today to send out any of it's wagons.
On the other hand the American Ex-
press seemed determined to carry on
| It's street deliveries and collections re-
| gardleSS of the bitter attitude of the
| strikers
All the drivers of the Adams Ex-
| press in Manhattan, who remained
faithful to the company Yesterday.
went out on strike today. Two hun
dred more of the helpers and drivers
81. the American Express. also icined
the ranks OF the strikers. after A. r.
hallour, general agent of the Ameri-
an Express, had told them that if
'here We're any among them who did
NOT care to work during the trouble
ana take their chances they would
serve the company best by soine. to
their homes
"nile there We're more disorders in
Jersey city. today the early outbreaks (
were not as serious as last nigh, <
Floting. An Adams Express wagon
Was attacked near a ferry bv a crowd
"l men stones We're thrown and the
Strlkepreakers We're badly beaten IN
me hCrses We're unhitched and the
wagon was toppled over across the
aiiroad tracks. Frightened passengers
IN the cars that had been brought
I" q stop fled. and owners of stores
'h tce Viclrlty sought protection under
ilelr counters. Police reserves drove
ne n?OD away. One Strikebreal,er was
.ound unconscious,
me most serious clash Vet in tho
ANpr"Ss strike occurred when a do
t"fmlncd mob swooped down on eight
wagons leaving the Wells Fargo
'tablns i'm Jersey City. Scores of ner-
sons We're injured and many knocked
INTO Inconsistencies before the police
inal;v quelled the riot. Sixteen So
flously injured strikebreakers were
'iaced in wagon and ferried across
ne Hudson river to the Hudson Street
'osrital i'm Manhattan.
Disorder continued through the fore
noon on both sides of the river One
group OF rioters in Jersey CITY first
formed an express wagon which had
colllded with a trolley car and then
"'tacKed the car. breaking every WIN
COW IN It, The passengers tied In
terror when they saw the crowd an
'roachlng. A little later three strike.
breakers were dragged from a Wells
Fargo wagon near the Erie ferry ana
"h'nHrcifully beaten One man was
taken to hospital in an unconscious
condition. In an attack on an Adams
"a%on near the Grand Central in
-iannattan. traffic policeman was
truck with brick and painfully in
1reG.