The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-08-07
STRONG Arm STRIKE BREAKING
Continued from First Page.

ahead of il to Coney. Two shots wer,
fired.
At 1 o'clock Smith street car in charg,
OF Motorman Edward Page stopped al
Avenue I and Coney Island avenue L
take on two women, Nellie Ryan anc
Lillian Sullivan. both Of 24s Water street
Brooklyn. Five men took advantage
OF the stop to throw rocks. One OF the
women was hit but not badly hurt. Page
grabbed his switch bar and beat OF ths
intruders.
Page said that for seven years he had
been a strike breaker. Were having IL
pretty soft. he said, for we get Ave buck,
day. with our meals thrown in. and we
aren't ringing up any fares"
At 1 o'clock orders went out that no
more cars should leave Coney Island be-
cause the tracks were being torn up near
The last car to leave previous to this
order was n Franklin avenue car. 1t
went along Neptune avenue about 600
feet past Ocean Parkway when Miss
Jeannette Spielberg of II West Ninety
sshh strssi ,sis ssnaed sigma the motormsn man. to
than grasshoppers In bayfield,. and
stones began to fly. The motorman did
not want to slow down. Miss Spielberg
jumped from the car. Her right eye was
bruised and her scalp cut. The car got
as far as the high fence by the Brighton
beach racetrack when 1t was stopped by
strikers and stoned. The police made
| two arrests
Late in the afternoon Franklin avenue
car reached Coney Island with two MEM
oers OF the strong arm squad who had
eight prisoners.
| At noon strikers began boarding cars
as they reached Foster avenue. They
reasoned with the crews. They reasoned
| so loudly that crew after crew deserted
their craft and threw away their caps
and badges. The strikers supplied them
| with straw hats or soft caps and took them
in an automobile to the Brighton Beach
elevated line, where they gave the strike
! breakers Carfare and bade them sin no
more. Most OF these deserters were to
be found later running "scab" cars from
the same old Smith street barn.
| Az l2:3O seven cars in a string lay idle
on Foster avenue. 1t was o'clock be-
lore other cars got through and pushed
the derelicts along to Coney Island
-. Inc first woman hurt was Mrs. Lena
| Weisengrun of 1913 New Main street,
with her husband. Herman, hoping 10
reach the Island while the bathing was
good. Al Greenwood and Coney island
avenues chunk of concrete sailed from
the sidewalk and hit Mrs. Weisengrun in
the back OF the head. She fell to the floor
I
the Swedish Hospital thought her skull
was fractured
Policeman John Shea chased a man
who he thought had thrown the chunk.
but Shea tripped over his own billy and
fell The billy few from his hand and
landed on the forehead of twelve-year-
old Michael Brady of 8 Temple court.
The policeman got up bruised only to
encounter cries OF Lynch him." and to
be told by woman that he was a horribly
brutal officer. Shea had just arrested
three boys who said the strikers had put
them up to shying bricks.
A few minutes later a car steamed
down the line past Prospect Park with
ten strong arm policemen aboard. II
| was bombarded at Eleventh street and
Coney Island avenue. Led by Nathan
Whitman. Ajaxs brother. the Central
Office men piled off and dived into the
crowd. Steinert of the strong arms
seized "A man and was himself seized.
His coat was torn and then removed,
but he stuck 10 his prisoner. Two more
| brick throwers were colared. but one
OF them ducked under the side rail of
! the car. ran across the sidewalk and
dived head first through n window in
the house Of one Omena at 597 Sixteenth
street
The Omenas were busy eating Sunday
chicken dinner. The fugitive spra wled
on the floor beside the dining room table.
then got to his feet and raced upstairs,
| Through the same window darted Steinert.
but when he got 10 the second floor his
quarry was Just jumping from a window.
The brick thrower landed in the yard
apparently unhurt and got away. The
other two prisoners were Cha rles Aschoif
OF 226 Ninth avenue and Fred Gatens of
1925 Vanderbilt avenue.
Meanwhile an eighteen-year-o girl
had been hit with a stone an she sat in the
car and had tainted. Her scalp wound
was bandaged by do tor. She was Rose
Cordella Of Henry street. Manhattan.
r., Now comes the story of the sufragette.
She is Miss Grace Raymond, treasurer
of the Womans Suffrage Association
of Kings county and an officer Of the
state W oman 8 Suffrage Association. With
her bathing suit in satchel and Panama
hat over all she left Manhattan at o clock
bound for Brighton Beach. The car was
marked Through. to Coney Island"
but at the Park Circle an inspector shouted
! "All OUT"
The passengers began piling out, but
up rose socialist on the front platform
who said he was Thomas Ring and wished
10 make a Few remarks.
Here is chance" he said as the
passengers settled back in their seats
FOR the great oppressed public to show
what it thinks Of the capitalists. This car
is marked Through to Coney Island.
Let nobody leave until II does 20 through
to Coney Island
MIR: Ring got a ringing cheer. Then
Miss Raymond got up and said she wished
to make her appeal especially to the
| twenty women in the car.
When we bought our tickets" she said
! "the company made a contract to carry
us to Coney Island in this car. for one
will keep my seat until dislodged or until
they take us to Coney Island"
But the crowd on the sidewalk shouted
SO formidably that the twenty women
left the car as one. Some of the men stuck,
Miss Raymond turned to the motorman, a
six foot young man in college clothes who
said that he was Reginald Carter of Cam
bridge. Mass She told Reginald Carter
that strike breaking was no business for
him. She said:
"Oh, sir. throw away your badge and
your cap and find some other employ
ment."
And Reginald Carter did that very thing
Then Miss Raymond buttonholed James
Stern. the conductor. and presently he
too cast his cap and badge into the gutter
and left the car. The sidewalk gallery
volleyed cheers at the sufrragist and
escorted Messrs, Carter and Stern into
cafe. They gave Carter s. to finish mo
at Harvard and Stern So to help him lead
a better life. Julius Nelson OF 1928 East
Fifteenth street also handed Stern his
card with flourish and bade him come
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