New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-11
STRIKE FEVER SEXES
MANHATTAN BARRIERS
Discounted Ones Organize on
East Side and Make Things
Lively for Police.
DEMAND FEWER HOURS
Return of Group of Faithful
Causes Saturday Night Siam
pede of Unshaven About
Brooklyn Borough Hall.

The strike fever among the BARRIERS
which began in Brooklyn and its suburbs
about a week ago. extended TO Manhat-
tan Yesterday with Frank Cancillieri as
strike leader. Cancillieri IS a boss bar
her. whose shop IL No. 2s2 Avenue y. but
he is a member Of the Industrial Work
ers of the World. and therefore, he says
his svmpathies are with the wage earn
ers-especially the BARRIERS.
lie began by calling strikes Of the bar
bers i'm 18th street and its vicinity
As soon as the men LETT their WORK III
several shops they were sent out as com
rittees 10 call strikes in more shops
and the new strikers. az they reported
were IN turn sent on a similar mission.
Strike headquarters have been estao-
Ished in the mean time at the Stuyvesant
Casino, No. 40 Second avenue. where d'-
mands were agreed on. These demands
are: working day from a. m. To y
u. m. five days in the week. a working
day from a. m. to midnight on Satur-
DAYS: no work on Sundays, and halt
day of In the middle OF every week. No
wage demands are to be made.
The principal trouble arose during the
afternoon in the vicinity OF the White
Rats shop, No. 153 East 18th street, where
three BARRIERS had been induced to quit
during the parade Of the Brooklyn
strikers on Friday. There We're twelve
BARRIERS at work in this shop. and Patrol
men Dempsey and Scheib. Of the East
22d street station. had a lively time hold
ing off mobs Of strikers who gathered
there and in front Of shops block or
two away.
DEMPSEY and Schrieb had just dispersed
a crowd which had tried to enter the
White Rats shop. when they were sum
moned to put down strike disturbance
AT Palomba's shop, in Third avenue near
| 18th street On their return another
crowd surrounded the White Rats shop
and was dispersed by the patrolmen, who
were called later TO shop at 18th street
and Third avenue, to which n committee
of strikers was trying TO force an en-
trance in spite Of the proprietor. When
| they disposed Of these strikers Dempsey
and Schrieb once more returned To the
White Rats shop to find a mob OF about
| 400 strikers trying TO force their way In
! TO get the twelve besieged BARRIERS. The
two bluecoats drew their sticks and at
| tackled the mob so vigorously that the
strikers retreated and soon disappeared.
After hearing a number of reports last
evening, Cancillieri. TIE strike leader, said
that five thousand BARRIERS were out In
Manhattan, although !. w. w. ofhcers
put the number at two thousand ana
others at a stll lower figure.
: Brooklyn was still unshaven and UNI
shorn Yesterday. All about town the boss
BARRIERS were at work doing the best they
could TO meet the demands made upon
them by their frantic customers but tho
dealers in safety razors continued to reap
a harvest BY a special agreement the
boss BARRIERS In the vicinity of the Bor-
ough Hall got their men back to work IN
the evening and did rushing business.
/ The Manhattan strikers will have a
meeting this afternoon at Arlington Hall
I I'm ST Marks Place. and I'm Brooklyn
/ there will be another meeting at the
Labor Lyceum. Last night II was stated
that the Italian BARRIERS In Jamaica were
still on strike and may not return to
i work Tomorrow. They were trying to
get the German BARRIERS to quit and the
police had to drive them from the Ger
! man shops.