Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-14
Rabbi Roughly Handled
by Women in Butcher
Shop Strike.
KNIVES AND HATCHETS
FLOURISHED in FIGHTS
Prince Street Seething with Dis.
content-Merchants Plan
New Move.

Two arrests were made. rioting oc-
Cured in front of kosher butcher shops
and several assaults were reported in
the strike of the women today. Few
kosher meat shops were open, and
. wherever an attempt was made to do
business a crowd gathered and warm
arguments. which were participated in
by many resulted. A hatchet was
flourished by a rabbi, butcher knife
played a part in a scuffle. while Ben1a-
min Nowick, kosher butcher, of 124
Prince street. had his clothes torn from
him and says that someone tried to
stick knife into him.
Prince street was seething with dis
content all day. Starting at o'clock
demonstrations began, and women
angrily shouted TO the butchers who
went to their places of business ask
ing when meat would be cheap enough
TO eat. Tauntingly they stood ii front
of the stores until calls were sent to
the Fourth precinct. Roundsman
Seipel, finding that things were hap
pening simultaneously at many points,
asked for mounted men, and Mounted
Policeman Henry Wolf and Policemen
kroelmelbein, Bernhard and Mascalus
We're sent to the street to maintain
order.
The principal trouble during the day
occurred at the shop of Benjamin No
wick, 124 Prince street. Meat was ex-
posed for sale and some people bought.
Soon the women collected and threat
ened to take meat from anyone who
i,1fn he
Things were on the verge of a climax
when NJ Yatkowsky, president of the
Kosher Butchers Association, arrived
with B. Amade, Isaac Schoening and Fl.
Menson. To them Nowick explained
that he had intended closing up tonight
but was trying to get rid Of meat he
had in hissbox. He said that he refused
to take in any stock this morning and
was anxious to sell what he had before
closing.
The women heard him say that he
would sell. They missed the greater
portion of his talk and riot was at
once precipitated In the scuffie No
wick had his vest torn from beneath
his coat. he was thrown down and
= trampled on by women and the butch
ers in his place who were there talking
over the situation with him when he
made the unfortunate statement tried
to keep order. Nowick accused Men
: son of assaulting him, and there was
a free fight, in which Nowcl1 says
somebody tried to stick a knife into
! him.
While this row was in progress Rabbi
AlAbraham Max Grossbart, Of 135 Prince
&street, who kills great deal of the
#poultry for the Jewish people of that
9squarter, rushed into the crowd with
ia hatchet and shouted that the crowds
were disgracing the Jewish people and
kriel 20 dispense the rioters. He was
ka,r-.ss., the hatchet taken from him
5<s--, - went back to his place, quieted.
r~s- ,solice arrived in time to disperse
the. hundreds of people who crowded
about the place, but order was not
RESTORED for hours.
d Isaac Segal, of 261 Prince street, tried
Ito sell out ten pounds of meat y'hich
xhe had on hand. The women heard
that he had taken in a large quantity
*of meat from the wholesalers, and went
Ein body to his store. where they
$crowded about, preventing him doing
4any business. Segal talked from his
Esteps. and said he was in sympathy
with the movement. Others spoke in
|Epeople collected while frantic speeches
for and against the selling of meat
&were made from his doorstep.
The members of the Kosher Butchers
k.4Association arrived and tried to quell
1.-THE trouble, but for some time several
4tried to talk at once. Women shouted
2for cheap meat and asked what the
Christians were paying for it, Com
parisons were made by the butchers,
who tried to show that the kosher
butchers were underselling the others,
and appealed to the police and others
to substantiate their statements as to
the price of ordinary meat. The women
We're unbelieving, and still tarried about
the door after being warned by the
police that any dsorderly conduct
MOULD be followed by arrest.
az One woman offered herself to Rounds
ihan -SeiLel and said she would pay any
price if she could do her people any
s kood and get for the families what they
Xanted so badly and could not afford
&eipel refused the sacrifice. warning
Her that they should be quiet and not
a Interfere with others.
III Miss Braverman and Miss Ida Fried
#inan. the committee appointed by
ladies Branch No. 102, Workingmen S
Htircle, We're on the scene all day, talk-
mig at various places and accompanied
zzby members of the Workingmen's Cir
fle. Miss Brayerman was mixed into
the centre of crowd on Prince street
Ind in getting out says that she had to
{rike a man in the face
*The first arrest was made when the
Nice in trying to clear the corner at
eince and Morton streets. were OBJ
ucted by large number of women.
Fo who were slow in moving and who
re in the crowd which was rioting
continued en- second Pagc.)
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