The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-05-15
Dozens Of Night Attacks After
I. W. W. Takes Dircc-
tiOn Of the War.
ETTOR Is HERE AS LEADER
state McdiatOrs Turned Down
and Gangs Sent Ont to Co.
cree the Workers.

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two or three riots in the crowded parts
Of town and put back completely efforts
of the State authorities and the American
! Federation os Labor ~ O7mr"~, r"ac.
Window smashing and attacks on
: workers. common all day. eliminated
! last night III dozens of small riots all over
t'1' Cfrv, ~ many ,fTo3 ~ ra7i7 'hat H1f'~o
/ Headquarters heard of them in punches.
Twenty men attacked the shop Of
Mianie Gedick at 3l5 West 10th street,
where thre. or four BARRIERS were work,
ing. and smashed a sijo window. The
BARRIERS refused to join the ST rikers
Police reserves arrested four men.
Another group tried to get Henry
I Tankenhaum ot 1907 Park avenue to slut
down his shop Tankenbaum sent for
the police and two of the /. l. W. com
mite" were locked up.
| Still another crowd broke the windows
of Gmlio Ippolites Tompkins Square
barber shop on Avenue 4 near Eighth
street and persuaded lppolite's two en-
ployccs To join the strike. 1ppolite had
| Thomas Iegrande Of 3ls Fast Twelfth
street arrested by IA policeman whose
head was cut by stone on his way to
the station house with his prisoner.
! \ fe. minutes later the Police Head
quarters barber shop. on Broome street
across from the northern end Of Police
/ Headquarters. fell into the hands of Il
small mob which the police had chased
away from shop on Kenmare street.
Capt. kinsler and squad of reserves
chased the rioters up the street "a second
| time, but the windows Of the shop were
smashed before the police got intoaction.
Three BARRIERS were smoothing the
chins of a. many patrons in Frank Brehns
shop, 623 Columbus avenue. near Nln-:y-
! first street. at o'clock when Il mob
| appeared on the street outside. The
BARRIERS were noisily summoned to come
out They scraped away. Then IA brick
crashed through the window, but the
BARRIERS kept on. disregarding the ner-
vousness Of the patrons More bricks
/ followed. and Policemen Schum and
knopfel appeared and arrested five.
short time later the same crowd Of
about iJo or so tried 10 induce the BARRIERS
in shop at Columbus avenu" and l0ith
street 70 Join them The BARRIERS re-
fused an d bricks were sent through the
window. Policemen grabbed three Of the
crowd One of the men had brick in
p. h.s~ > a's.'.In i'..l.s:S'-r.:.i.! !'ed k.c'.
{ Edward Scheppe, who calls himself
/ the secretary of the BARRIERS Union. and
/ Angelo Rocco of AS West Thrive ghth
street were arrested in "A Sixth avenue
department store for making trouble in
/ the store barber shop.
: A. the head Of 800 strikers they came
/ down Sixth avenue. pulling BARRIERS out
of their places On the way Scheppe
made speech In the street that helped
the police reserves capture some of his
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i I.iic..pa., Wi,Ill,sa:.n, .,wwop.wa si,.ipv
in a chair in the barber shop Of Frank
Elan2 at 853 Nirth avenue. lie had been
on sick leave The lather was on his face
when rock came through the window
and hit his head
/ The several hundred men outside
threw more rocks. hitting the policeman
in the neck and over an eve Samtnon's
sick leave came after he captured holdup
men in Central Park, Before the fourth
rock landed he was out Of the shop and
had by the nape Of the neck Charles Bon
Curano Of 1913 First avenue Sammon
-aid BonRurano threw the rocks Though
! the Reserves came they weren't able to
add much to the sick policeman's CON
quest. merely arres'ing "A butcher and a
man ont of work
Some Of the same crowd that smashed
Adam Balz's shop az ~ East Fourteenth
street on Tuesday came around again to
expei four BARRIERS who had kept at work
/ A bug CObble-tone crashed through the
window and par - the head of a mani
curist and for "xt ten minutes she
! hugg"d corn. Ae room.
| he four wora-r- and the boss shed
white duck coats and threw out part
| Of tho hundred men who had entered
| The police got there in time TO eject
| the second wave Of strikers but not to
save the furniture They did lead out the
mdnicurist.
Joseph j. Ettor, one Of the !. W. W
leaders at lawrence, hit town and eH-
horted a roaring mass meeting in Ma jest ic
Hall 100 Forsyth street. From that
meeting went forth 600 strikers to drag
out OF the shops of Harlem and The Bronx
az mary BARRIERS as they could. In Brook
lyn, gangs hunted Flatbush. Bay Ridge
ont Of the little isolated establishments
always under the threat to smash things
II III. men didn't quit Usually the boss
barber told the men to 60 rather than
see his place wrecked.
- twenty harbera invaded the shop Of
Charles Schlich AT ?98 Broadway Williams
! burg. and failing to persuade Valentine
i,rescher Of $50 Central avenue. one of
'h': employees. 20 jpin them ,trucS him
.nyer ~ bes.@ w'i.E.I.. t.ls cks22s- =. lasS"
Plate window was sm shed and half Il
! dozen perosn were iI.Jur.d 10y the glass
| The reserves from the Clymcr street
station were Obliged Ia ,lse their clubs
: 10 "ght their WAY 10 the front Threa
we're arrested after a severe iRht. Dres-
cher Wa taken 10 the Williamsburg
Hospital
;, Mag2 ,tksG oco~ .aybe-s wons out !.
Jersey tltv demanding shorter hours
and nail holidays on sundays and holi
days There is no violence as yet
ANTONIO N.rconi, VINO xeeps a shop
Oh trov" street, Jersey City, DESTROYED
| every eVidcr =" Of a barber shop and nut
NJ u new SIN which read Antonio Mar
conf ""H!"r ~ safety raso-S"
! The barhGrs' strike has srread Ia Ray.
| onne and viii b"come operative there on
SSais'.rt nIficss yhc hossos OF rirs ~, si,o,,s
agree to the demands for Sl2 week and
/ twelve hours a day
Col Michael j Reagan and John j
Beaiin Of the New York state Board of
| Mediation and Arbitration. after a con-
: ievepGs 91 ernccllo Sers aad sty!kssS !n .ha
forenoon called conference later in the
/ afternoon with representatives of the
W. W, and American Federation of
Labor The object OF the conference
was TO see II tho two unions and the en-
ployers could come to an under
standing which would make q. settlement.