Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-01-09
WOMEN STRIKERS,
ACCUSING POLICE,
APPEAL TO MAYOR
Mass-meeting Follows
Charges of Officers
Brutality.
CORBITT FORBIDS PARADE,
FEARING MORE RIOTS
Judge Herr Scored by Garment
Workers for InfIlcting
Fines.

Headed by woman a committed.
of striking. garment workers appeared
before Mayor Haussling today and
charged. the police of the Fourth pre-
cinct with brutality and unfair dis
criminatlon.
Following this formal complaint,
big mass-meeting was held in Union
Hall. Broome street and Springfield
avenue. in protest against the alleged
actions Of the police.
Judge Herr. Of the Fourth Precinct
Police Court was roundly scored for
fining number Of strikers for loiter-
ing. 1t was charged that he and Cap
tain vogel were playing into the hands
of the clothing interests.
Refuse Parade Permits.
The demonstration would have in
cluded a parade. if Chief of Police
eorbitt had not refused to issue a
permit. This added new fuel to the
anger Of the union men and women.
They claim that Captain Vogel's sixty
policemen detailed for strike duty is
designed to intfmidate them and not
merely to see that order is main
tanned
The strikers are resolved to fight to
the bitter end. They are in no mood
Even the leaders are fearful of further
violence.
Miss Mary Lunga was the spokes-
man of the committee that appeared
before the mayor.
She sgave a vivid story, charg-
ing a policeman with having APP
preached her. while she was doing
picket duty and ordering her to move
on with coarse. offensive. insulting
Language.
n appeal to you. Mr.. Mayor she
said. .'on behalf of the Ladies' Car
ment Workers. Union. to- use your
authority to stop these outrages
against working women who are
fghting for living wage
Object to wholesale Arrests.
The two other members of the COM
mittee, Louis M. Ungar and Abram
Stigiitz, called the mayors attention
to the wholesale arrests that had
been made by the police. They
pointed out, too. that they believed
Judge Herr had overstepped his an
thority when he had levied so many
fines for lettering.
Mayor Haussling promised to look
into their complaints. The commit
tee then visited Chief of Police Cor
bitt and asked for a permit to pa
rade. This was refused on the ground
that similar permits had led to vio-
lence in former strikes.
One Arrest Today.
Although police reserves, armed
with nightsticlxs, and union pickets
patroled the. 'HilP' section. there was
only one arrest today.
Antonio KapelIo, 80 years old. of 2S2
Fairmount avenue, was ordered to
move on when he was standing in
Fairmount avenue near his home.
After the orders had been repeated
several times it is alleged that he
walked into the hallway of 279 Fair
mount avenue, but admitted he had
no business there. He was arrested
and paroled in the custody of his
counsel, Mortimer Lowy, for exam
ination on January 16.
sIsaae Ferlmutter. 27 years old, of
235 Park avenue, Lyndhurst, who was
arrested last Monday morning and
held in $500 bail for examination, to-
day appeared in court with Mortimer
Lowy, who asked for an adjournment
until next Thursday. This was grant
ed by Judge Herr
According to Harry Gellfund, the
complainant, Perlmutter saw him
come from the shop of Lefkowitz
Bros, Sc Rutgers street, where Cell
fund is employed. and set upon and
beat him. Perlmutter was arrested
by Patrolman Schwerer at the time
of the assault.
Another adjournment was granted
Mr.. Lowy by Judge Herr today. This
being in the case of Rose Disca, 29
years old, of % Fourteenth avenue
and Jennie Karasena. 27 years old, Of
179 Livingston street. who threw
themselves upon an old woman on her
way to work on Camden street, Mon
day morning. Mrs. Sylves James, the
complainant. alleges that the two
women threw her down and did not
let go of her until she was rescued by
Patrolman Flynn, who arrested them.
The case against the two women was
put over until next Thursday.
Six hundred of the strikers gath
cred in mass-meeting in Union Hall
this afternoon to protest against the
action of the police in refusing per-
mission for a parade Abraham Stig-
iitz. who has been in charge OF the
strike, presided and introduced
speakers who addressed the strikers
in Hebrew, Italian and Polish. They
were particularly bitter against Judge
Herr and Captain Vogel. of the
Fourth precinct. who they claimed,
are controlled by the bosses.
ARCHDIICHESS GIVES Up !.