New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-20
WRONG WOMAN BEATEN
BY STRIKERS IN RIOT
Mistaken for "Scab," She Is
Knocked Down in Street
Before Her Children.
10000 WAIST MAKERS BACK
Endless Chain System Started
by Their Leader to Aid
Kimono Workers, New
est Girls Strike.

on the eve or a pdGldl settlement WIN
the striking shirtwaist makers, riotinS
broke out again last night and n mob Of
| lmost one thousand strikers and strike
breakers clashed in Blocker street near
! Lafayette. one woman was thrown 10 the
ground and beaten and kicked almost UNI
| conscious. and her small daughter who
was wheeling the child OF the family in a
/ go-cart, hurried away with II when she
! heard threats TO kidnap the baby. 1t was
/ necessary TO call out reserves to keep tse
| crowd I'm check
The woman who was injured Mrs.
Augusta Kubeka. wife Of an engineer in
the Manhattan Savings Bank. was walk
| ing with a friend. Mrs. Shea. when the
two were mistaken for friends of strike
breakers who are being housed in a loft
building at No. 60 Bleecker street The
throng hanging about the streets made
a rush for the women. Somebody yelled
| "Oh. you dirty scab.' and Congetti
Congo. an Italian striker, struck Mrs.
| kubeka blow that sent her reeling
against a railing The mob urged the
bella. then grabbed her by the hair and
threw her to the hagstones and jumped
on her PROSTATE body.
BY this time the crowd was in frenzy
II was then that Gertrude kubeka the
| little girl. says she heard men and women
yell: "Kidnap the baby! Take it quick"
She fed with the go-cart in front of her
Patrolman Fitzgerald ran up, blowing his
| whistle. when he saw the Congo woman
| kicking Mrs. kubeka. who lay on the
| ground. Other policemen came In a hurry
and Mrs Kubeka's assailant was locked
up in the Mulberry street station. while
| the reserves kept order in the crowd. Mrs.
! Kubeka's husband says he will press a
charge against Congetti Congo. His wife
will he In bed for several DAYS.
Miss Barnum turned her attention yes
terday 10 the question Of raising funds for
the support Of the striking workers in the
wrapper and kimono trades and the white
goods industry. Miss Barnum said that
| the conditions of the workers in these
trades were becoming desperate, and un-
less funds we're soon forthcoming star
walton would shortly have to be fought.
Miss Barnum said she had received
word that Mrs. Matthias Nicolls and Mrs.
| Frank Houston had announced that they
| would cooperate with the union I'm col
Letting n war chest. Cash Will be sup
| Piled further by means OF an endless
| chain scheme instituted by the women of
the Social Service League Of the Church
OF the Messiah. 3ith street and Park ave-
nue., many Of whom are socially promi-
ncnt Each member will telephone to ten
| ri TaIp g,er H.. a.
| campaign and soliciting their aid These
ten I'm turn will call up ten others: this
10 continue until sufficient funds are
! raised
| IL was announced that as result OF a
conference between Miss Barnum and the
State Child Labor Commission assurances
were given by the commission that il
| would work in harmony with the union
to do away with violations Of the child
| labor law.
Ask Brandeis, Holt and HiIqut to Aid
Efforts to form a board OF arbitration
for the waist and dress trades were made
yesterday. resulting In the sending OF lot
pacity. TO Louis Rrandeis. Hamilton Holt
| anu al'iiiS flllIiIl u'o' 'lu'' iI'N
form the permanent board OF arbitration
I'm the cloak trades.
| II was announced yesterday for the first
time that the kimono and wrapper work
ers' strike had not been authorized by
the union. Miss Barnum said the work
ers suffered so from the conditions that
they determined To strike. II had been
planned. she said. that the strike was 70
be held OF until later in tho season. Tho
international union would support the ac-
| ton of tho kimono and wrapper workers.
| despite the fact that the three branches
OF the same union being on strike made
Il more difficult
| At the headquarters OF the garment
| workers IL was announced that $1,000 had
been given in bulk TO assist those OF that
body on strike by the Cloak Makers
Union, with a pledge that 5000 would
be paid weekly until the grievances were
settled The strike is now in the fourth
week. with little hope for an early settle
ment.
Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes addressed n
meeting Of the East Side Housewives
| League at No. 10 East Broadway yester-
| day She told OF landlords dispossessins
families the heads OF which are members
OF the mems and youths garment work
ers She advocated with the continuance
OF such action, a general rent strike by
the housewives against the landlords.
| The Rev. J. Howard Meish. Of Holy
Trinity Church. OF Brooklyn. IL was said
last night was planning for meeting III
| the interest Of the strikers on Thursday
| night. at the Academy of Music, In Brook
lyn. Thomas A. Ricket. president OF the
garment workers. is expected to address
the meeting. II was also said an invita-
ton would be extended TO Eugene :.
BENJAMIN. president OF the New York
| Clothing Trades. I'm an effort to present
both sides OF the trouble.
| Chicago. Jan. 19-Chcago garment
| workers will vote on Tuesday on propo-
sition 10 call general strike In the trade.
According 10 announcements by several
delegates to-day. the men are IN favor OK
,oinine the New York garment workers
| in walkout.
| The announcement that the garment
workers probably will strike was made at
q meeting to-day OF the Chicago Fedora
tion OF Labor. Delegates from the Gar
ment Workers asked aid from the fedora
ton for Reconsideration the strike Off
ciaIIy is declared-and for the New York
garment workers. who are said now to be
feeling the first touches of want. A mo-
ton was adopted authorizing members or
the Garment Workers Union to solicit
funds among various labor organizations
TO aid the strikers In New York.