The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-08-09
new PHASE OF SUGAR STRIKE
CENTRAL LiBOR UNION TikES
4 HiND ~ THE GAVE.
Refneries MD Not Open Yesterday ~ Was
Expected OnirialS Now say o. u
War To the End WIN TRY To Resume
Work To-moFrOw Win Al New Hands.

The Williamsburg rrtin-riaS " IN"
! American Sugar Refining Company were
not r"opensd YESTERDAY. l@cau-s' 81 the
failure 10 secure more than a hundred ~
tbs. 3n0 men required a. nperat" ia" plant
The refinery officials hal mad" all ar
rangemsntA ~ resume operations. even
To the extent Of starting up all the fur
naceS. hut when tho time came for tho
men to return only a few presented them
sslves. The company will Try Ia start
the plant tomorrow with AN entirely
new force
Vice President Samuel & Hooker re-
fused 10 meet . committee IT the Central
Labor Union ~ BROOKLYN yesterday IN
order 20 discuss the strike In view "f
the attitude ~ the refining company th"
Central Labor Union made IL known last
evening through J = I.oushln char
man of the cancellation hoard. that ~
proposed ~ Civ" the strikers financial
support.
In the helief that nearly all the strikers
would return To work only about a hundred
policemen were sent - the rrfn~ri"s
yesterday morning They wer" under
the command II Borough Inspector
George \ HolahAn. inspector Dennis
the Bedford avenrI. police station. IN
whose precinct the rahnsrIes arr located
deputy Police Commissioner Reynolds
was also ~ the sCsna
Al y o'cloCkIonly few men applied for
work Som" Of these wcr" accompanied
by their wives, who insisted upon their
going back Meanwhile the more aggr---
slve Of tho strikers insisted that unless
all the men were taken back the strik"
ahs Ia EN-. on
was refused by tho company Tn" striH-
ers established piCkets for many blocks
around the r"flnerisS and every striker
who went m the direction ~ the plant wdS
intercepted. and was alleged many W"r"
intiInidatad and threatened with death
" they dared 70 rpttlTn To work
Three lighters with men aboard went
20 the South Third Str,~'t pier Half NJ
the men were new drivers who after
ward were sent "It with trucks under the
protection Of sTe'1al policemen Two
Polish strikers who attempted To rasa a
diHturhsnC" al South Fourth street and
Kent avenue wer" arrested and after
ward committed to jail for ten DAYS
IN the Bedford avenue pulIC.' court II
was stated that the company had several
thousand applications for wo,a and that
IN view Of th" attitude 1T tn" strikers
selections would b. mad" from this list
tn operate the plant Tomorrow
The decision Of the BROOKLYN Central
lADpT Union 10 neIi tUe H'TiNsTN NdH Cpil-
veyed TO the latter while they wer" hold
ing q meeting last evening IN Cecilia
Hall in Grand street To reporters Mr.
Coughlin last night said
We have found the condition ~ these I
sugar refinery strikers To 10 most appal-
ing Our object in trying "a have "A CON
ference to-day with Mr. Hooker and
others was 10 have all the men return To
work and then submit the matter To arhI-
Iration We had "A minister with ~
and also Mr. Reagan Of the state Depart
m~nt ~ Labor Mr. Hooker would not
only not rs hut We wer~ informed .
hat the company would fight th. strike
o tho end 40 will we We have de
erInined To Civ" the strikers ont moral
and financial support