Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-01-06
WOMEN STRIKERS |.
FIGHT POLICE IN |.
RIOTS ARRESTED
Bluecoats Club Def
ant Garment Workers
Into Submission.
FIVE HUNDRED IN PARADE;
ROCKS HURLED AT POLICE
Aged Woman Refuses to Strike
and Is Attacked and
Beaten.

In an army soc strong striking gar
ment- workers swept through the
"Hnl section today, defying poles
reserves and iutimidating factory
hands. This crusade was marked BY
the first violence of the big strike.
Headed by Captain Vogel in per-
son the police, armed with clubs and
aided by mounted reserves and aetee-
tives from headquarters. struggled to
maintain order.
Three women and two men were
arrested on charges Of assault and
battery and lettering.
The entire army Of strikers LAID
siege to the plant OF Joseph Heislef,
one of the biggest manufacturers in
the city, at Fourteenth avenue and
Bergen street, at noon.
Opposed to them we're sixty poliee-
men. armed with Clubs under the
command Of Captain Vogel.
Heisler kept his employees IN the
shop during the lunch hour. Other
manufactures did the same. Tns
clothing section OF the aHIll'' was n
a virtual state ofNsiege.
The employers are said to be plan
ming to keep the garment workers
who have not already gone on strike
in their shops during the night AZ
safeguard If such a move is made
Mortimer Lowy. counsel for the union
promises to have the Board OF Health
inspectors raid the clothing factories
The trouble started and ended At
Heisler's. In their rapid fire campaign
the strikers claim to have gained hftv
recruits from Lefkowifz Bros. s.
Quint. Sc Wallace street. and tifly
from NJ. Karl & Sons, 1s5 Belmont
avenue.
Beat Aged Woman.
The hand OF strikers collected early
at Fourteenth avenue and Camden
street to do picket duty Men ard
women going to work at Heisiers
were surrounded and warned.
One feeble old woman, SyIves
James. of Fourteenth avenue. tried
TO argue
1--WE got to live. don't To- shs
pleaded. You let me CO..
Three women strikers are said 20
have hurled themselves upon her She
put up game fight, but was thrown
to the ground.
When Patrolman Flynn clubbed his
way through the mob he says be
found the trio of union alnazons pull
ing the old wenan's hair and beating
her.
Hurl Rocks at Police.
Flynn dragged them off. fought his
way to the nearest box and called
for the, reserve Twenty patrolmen
were packed into the auto patrol and
rushed to the scene.
The strikers changed their tactics
and slipped quickly away. only to re-
assemble a few minutes later at Fif-
teenth avenue and Twelfth street.
This is where Haber & Beck, coat
makers. have their shop.
Again the reserves, under Sergeant
Huebner, dashed 10 the rescue Of the
besieged factory. The squad OF twelve
mounted men. clubs in hand, charged
the mob
Rocks began to fly and number
of windows were smashed. Before the
gave sullenly away.
The situation was so serious that
Chief of Police Corbitt went to the
Fourth precinct and made a tour Of
inspection with Captain Nogel who
afterward remained with his reserves.
All the men in the precinct are carry
ing clubs With the remembrance Of
the fatalities of the recent 1aborers
strike ranking in their mepnory, the
police are ready for the worst sort o<
strike violence.
From Haber's the crowd Of strikers
rushed to the factory of Benedict 2.
wendin, se6 South Seventh street.
The reserves followed and again dis-
persed them.
Then the strikers halted in a body
before a shop at Bruce street and
Fourteenth avenue. They hardly had
time to shout their defiance for the
workers inside 10 hear before the
police swept upon them and drove
them on.
For a time they seemed to be haT-
ing a council of war. They soon ap-
peared, however at the plant of
Novak C WeigeI. Bruce street and
South Orange avenue.
A hasty call for the reserves broke
up the formation of the strikers
army.
Malta Karl & Son. 1875 Belmont
avenue. were the next to hastily tele-
phone a frightened appeal to the po-
lice All their employees, fifty in
number. had been frightened by the
strikers and had quit work. they
said.
Elated by their success. the strikers
yelled defiance as the auto patrol Of
the Fourth precinct came in sight
chauffeur Hurst. knowing the angry
mood of the crowd. drove full speed
through them. He plowed a way
from one end OF the strikers to the
other. and turned back again Taken
unaware by this new manenyef. the
strikers fled to the sidewalk and huf<
ried on to Heisiers shop, where they
had started from.
Here they camped. waiting for noon
fCoaf7nned en- seeana NaEe