New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-14
PEPPER STRIKE BREAKERS
Hotel Strikers Attack StreetCar
Men in Grand Central.
RIOT LASTS 20 MINUTES
Patrolmen's Clubs in the End
Prove More Effective than
Cayenne-Four Arrests.

Cayenne-Four Arrests.
free fight between striking hotel work-
ers and a party of strcetcar strike breakers
bound for Boston created riot in the
Grand Central Station yesterday afternoon.
and squad of reserves from the East 5lst
street police station hattled for more than
twenty minutes with drawn clubs before
the disturbers could be put to rout. Four
cooks and butcher were arrested and ar
raigned before Magistrate Corrigan I'm the
Yorkvile court, two of them charged with
melting a riot and the others with throw
Ing red pepper.
1t was the pepper-thro which enabled
the knights of the kitchen to make the
stand they did against the onslaughts or
the police and detectives Utilizing their
culinary knowledge, the valiant COOKS ana
walters had followed the Boston strike
breakers to the station. and when they saw
there were no patrolmen around. drew from
their pockets their cans of red pepper and
began throwing il in the eyes of the street
car men.
In an instant the battle was on. a COM
muter. who had been waiting for train,
was in progress and turned in a riot call,
Before the fray had got well under way
several detectives and reserves appeared
and charged into the centre OF the mop'
their clubs swinging right and left as they
labored to reach the men who were throw
ing the pepper The singing cloud now
ever, drove them back and they Withdrew
to the edge of the mob for moment 10
collect their men and reorganize. Then they
went I'm again.
Pepper VS.. Nightsticks.
There were only fifteen walters and COOKS
in the crowd, but the deXterity with
which they shot Jets of pepper at their op-
ponents doubled their strength. AS the po-
lice stood making ready for their seconu
charge the special policemen about the sta-
ton closed I'm around the fighters and TINS
time the cops went after their men IN
manner that left little doubt OF their de-
termination.
patrolman Matthews, OF Traffic {. LED
the fighting, and the others. swinging theu
clubs the full length Of their arms
plouehed into the mob. Every time clup
came down a rioter dropped ana III MN
ute's time the four cooks and the butcher
who were most active in making trouble
had been colared and were being dragged
IN through the station toward the street.
As the police started To leave the station
thev were attacked again by the combined
forces of the walters and car mon. The
strike breakers believed that some OF their
number had been arrested. and they Joined
with the table dhote artists I'm attempting
callahan
knocked down and several kicks were
aimed at his head. Detectives McDonough
and Hennessey. with several policemen
formed flying wedge and fought their
way through 10 where Callahan lay on the
floor.
While the walters robbed Of their prey.
turned to smashing signs about the sta
ton and terrifying travellers. the police
formed a hollow square with the prisoners
in the centre and got TO the street. In tn"
Yorkvile court the prisoners said they
were Maggiore Ravera, Groci Massmino.
John Siri Jean Yugni and Peter Clerico.
The last named said he was n butcher. and
the others were cooks
Ravera told Magistrate Corfisan that he
was peacefully selling socialist paper In
the street when he was arrested. His story
didn't get by and he received sixty days
I'm the workhouse The other four asked
for adiournments until to-day and were
held In 500 each for trial
At night the strikers and their Socialist
sympathizers held another Of their mon
ster mass meetings ia the Amsterdam
Opera House to tell each o.her what they
thought about the conduct OF the police
I'm taking into custody a hundred Of their
members at the Waldorf Monday night on
the occasion of the Mayors dinner 10 the
officers Of the American and German fleets.
Make Target OF Gsynor.
Miss Jessie Ashley presided. and speeches
were made by 10 Ester. organizer Of the
international Hotel Workers Union: Jacob
Pankin and Ludwig Lore. Of the Socialist
party; Professor Algernon Lee. Of the Rand
School. Or. Allienkoff and whoever else
got worked up sufficiently TO make a radl-
cal enough speech Mayor Gaynor came in
for the bulk of the epIthets and rldicule.
both for his effort TO give a dinner TO the
German Kaiser's officers and because the
police broke mp the. plan to break up his
dinner His letter 10 Edward Blochlinger
Of the union. calling him a misleader of the
walters, was also the object of bitter at
tacks
The stage massed with the men who
had felt the clubs of the police or had
been arrested during riots. and many OF
them were led forth amid cries Of Shame"
to exhibit their black eyes. There were
more than a hundred Of these men banked
lehind the speakers where they could be
conveniently pointed at.
During the progress Of the speaking.
pause was taken to announce that the help
at the New York Athletic Club and the
Hotel Bristol had gone out At the ath-
lctic club It was said that at s O'Clock,
after dinner was served, fifteen of the eigh
teen cooks had departed. without causing
any trouble; but at the Hotel Bristol 1t was
declared that not one of it's men had
budged although the union said seventeen
quit this place.
President Reed Of the Hotel Association
said yesterday that at a meeting of the
organization held I'm the afternoon II was
decided to declare n lockout against all
walters and cooks and other help now on
strike He also said the report that there
was a faction in the association Of mem
bers who wanted to recognize the union
was all bosh
Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes said last night
that Louis Melos. union picket, had been
shot in the arm by the police while picket
ing a hotel somewhere near 9lst. street and
broadway. The police denied this.
strike agitators were busy again yester-
d.v distributing copies OF a socialist paper
which declared in glazing headlines that
a. Now York hotels were serving food
unfit for human consumption ana contain
ing detailed descriptions In aihdavit iorm'
unsigned, of the "hlthy ana unsah,hry