New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-13
Stung to Madness by Apparent
Failure Of WaIkout, They
Turn to Violence, and
Many Are Hurt.
VICTIMS GO TO HOSPITALS
Police Have Busy Time, as Out.
breaks Are General-Numer.
Gus Prisoners Fall Into
Their Net, but Major e.
ity Are Discharged. "a

Dismayed over the facility with winch
the coastwise steamship lines are hand
ling their freight and passenger steam
ships the striking fremen, sailors and
longshoremen of this city resorted to
violence last night and sent many VIC
tins OF their attacks to the hospitals.
The day began with noisy parades
along the waterfront where strike break
ers were working, and ended last night
in riots in the neighborhood OF Tenth
avenue and 30th street. Judgment and
caution were flung to the four winds,
and the maddened strikers made at
tacks even upon innocent persons, entire
strangers to them and to the sort OF
labor they had elected to quit.
A band Of sixty strikers became dis /
orderly late in the afternoon at Tenth
avenue and Both street, their cries and
general disturbance causing shop keep
ers and dwellers in the neighborhood to /
call upon the police for protection. Capt.
tain Reidy and Lieutenant Gilhooley, oil
the West 9th street station, responded
with the reserves and arrested fiftys}
three of the marauders, all Of whom}
we're discharged later by Magistratsf
Butts, in the West Side court
Hardly had the men been liberatedt
when a horde Of 800 marched through
the freight yards Of the New York Cen1
tral Railroad on Eleventh avenue. neari
Goth street, making an effort TO get 250t
men employed in the grain elevators to
join their ranks. Reserves were called
from two precincts and dispersed them
easily. /
A desperate fight occurred near the
Morgan Line piers in West street. about
8: 30 p m, when James Mccarthy, Of No.
156 Bergen street, Brooklyn. was set
upon by three strikers and badly beaten
with clubs about the head. Mccarthy,
who is a driver for an ice company. had
put away his. team and was on his way
TO Brooklyn, when Frank NJ. Mosteria, \
Spaniard Of No. 1871 Perry street, and
two other men attacked him. Mccarthy
tried to explain that he was not strike
breaker, but his assailants would not
listen to him, beating him into uncon-
sciousness.
Victim Rescued and Man Held.
Patrolman Goldberg, Of the Charles
street station. saw the attack and res
cued Mccarthy from death by beating
off the three strikers. Two got away,
but Goldberg held on to Mosteria and
t., ba eto of
called an ambulance to care for Nc
Carthy.
While this encounter was in progress
four men, one Of them O patrolman'
were attacked In a riot that started
near Perry and West streets. all OF them
being seriously injured at the hands of
the striking rioters. Manauk Bosken, q
cook. nineteen years old, was taken 70
ST. Vincent's Hospital with his left eye
knocked out by strikers club, eight
teeth missing and badly bruised body.
Another cook. called Villachio Safer
nino. was taken to the same hospltai
after knife had been plunged deep into
his neck. His condition is critical John
Macdonald, OF East Chester. was bruised
about the body, and Patrolman Coakiey,
of the Charles street station, was in1urso
in the left leg by heavy stone thrown
from a roof near by. DR.. Kilbourne ad-
ministered first aid to all the injured
men. Coakley, II Is said will be lame foS
- % long t,ms ~At
AS soon as the news OF the riotinSI
reached the Charles street station Lieut.
tenant Hallahan responded with reserves
but had difficulty in clearing the streets
because of the presence OF women ana
children. who had sought refuge from lns
heat Of the tenement houses.
Women and Strikers Driven Away. ~
When the women were driven away
the police drew their nightsticks ana
the strikers promptly fled.
Passing through llth street, the re-
seryes encountered stubborn crowd OK
strikers who lived in several lodging
houses close by. When ordered TO as
perse the men offered resistance, but
when the police arrested John Lucey, one
of the party. the others moved away.
The police patrol in the striking dis-
tricts was doubled last night to preVeh.
further outbreaks. Captain Martens saio
he would ask the steamship owners !"
house the strike breakers on the ships
and on their piers until the riotous ~"
clinations Of the strikers had cooled.
Though the day for signing up ths
crew for the st. Louis, Of the American
Line, whose firemen and coal passers
struck early this week. followed by the
seamen, was postponed from THURSDAY
TO Yesterday, to give the old crew y
chance to come back. none OF the cio
crew, except the oilers, signed for the
trip to Southampton and back. Inv
ship is due to sail at $50 a. m. to-day
In a parade a number Of banners were
carried. one Of which bore the inscrip-
tion:
Passengers. S. S. st. Louis is manneo
with an incompetent crew. Rememoe'
the Titanic.-Sailors and Firemen.
The strike committee reported las.
evening that 1900 longshoremen nao
struck against the New York Centr"
Railroad at Pier SO. Other strikes were
also reported.