The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-30
WATERS RIOT
|. IN !. GREAT ! Il: STRIKE
|. w. w. Delegate Leads With
Cry of xiii the Cops"
TENDERL0lN's WILD MIGHT
Recruits Increase Enthusiasm of the
Workers, Who Parade Streets in
DisorderIy Demonstrations
Police Put to the Test.

= New York.-Violence played a great
part in the walters strike, and even
the disorder of New Years Eve was
far exceeded by the strikers, Who
seemed drunken with fancied power,
Scenes comparable in way to the
Commune took part in the hotel and
cafe, zone all day. Windows were
smashed in, policemen assaulted and
the streets were filed with the sounds
of yells and curses.
The rioting was the worst the police
have had to handle in years.
The general strike declared by the
international Hotel Workers Union
brought rapid and stirring results.
Two riots, in which the police were
savagely attacked with stones and
iron clubs, occurred. One outbreak
was at the Hotel Workers Union.
Two riots, in which the police were
savagely attacked with stones and
iron clubs, occurred. One outbreak
was at the Hotel Astor, the other near
Bryant Hail., the strikers meeting
place, Sixth avenue and Forty-frst
street.
These were followed by a sort of
guerrilla warfare, in which bricks
were hurled through the windows Of
several hotels and restaurants, caus-
ing terror among the guests. Among
the places attacked were Delmonico's,
the Carlton front of which
prolonged disturbance occurred-the
Manhattan Hotel and the Hotel Pat.
terson.
Service in more than twenty hotels
and restaurants was affected by the
strike, and, in a few instances, almost
crippled Among the places from
which the union leaders declared their
members had walked out were the
Hotel McAlpin, Plaza, Netherlands,
Imperial, Gotham, Hoffman House, Sc
vile, Cadillac, Brevoort, Lafayette,
Marseille, Wellington, Martinique,
Somerset, Algonquin, Webster, Elk's
Club, Rector's Maxim's, Folies Ber
gere, Murray's, Martins, Churchilps
Shanley's (Forty-second street), Ma
rests and Michaud's.
The assault on the Ritz-Carlton was
made by combined force of about
500 strikers. The big fight of the day
came at Sixth avenue and Forty
second street, where dozen detect
ives fought with their backs to the
wall against 200 frenzied men led by
Carlo Tresca, an associate in the In
dependent Workers of the World OF
Big Bill Haywood and Ettor.
With a volume of Elizabeth Barrett
Browning's love sonnets in his pocket
a book presented to him by Elizabeth
Gurley Flynn, the young woman who
helped him to organize the strike, and
in which was this inscription, 81 love
you, Carlo. Thine, Elizabeth" Tresca
fought like hyena, and urged on the
mob with his shrieks of "Kill the
cops!"
When the fight of half an hour was
fifteen of the strikers had been
bruised or knocked senseless, and
Tresca and eight others were under
arrest. 1t was the most desperate en-
counter with rioting strikers that the
police have had for several years in
the Tenderloin.
The strike assumed such proper
tons and the ystrikers seemed so de-
termined to continue their attacks on
hotels, that several hotel proprietors
asked Sheriff Hamburger to call out
his 1000 deputies to aid the police.