New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-04
WOMEN LEAD STRIKERS
IN ATTACK ON POLICE
Garment Workers Riot When
Told "Breakers" Have
Been Put to Work.
BATTLE IN BROADWAY
Manufacturers Defy Union and
Plan Alliance of Employers
to Fight Demands for
Higher Wages.

Enraged by the report that the gar
ment manufacturers were using the ses-
sions of the arbitration committee or the
Chamber OF Commerce to obtain delay
while they were filing their shops with
strIkebreakers. the striking garment
workers yesterday resorted to violence
Three Of the outbreaks resulted In the
arrest OF FIVE strikers.
The first and liveliest fight occurred al
the factory Of the Washington Company
No. No Aston Place. A thousand strlKers,
half OF whom were women, gathereu
,ahout the doors and demanded admit
lance. shouting that they wanted TO oras
out the strikebreakers they declared were
rworking'in the shop.
Despite the assurances OF Charles ~
adler, president OF the company, that NO
strikebreakers were in the BUILDING the
mob rushed the doors. forcing the eie-
ivstor man TO take them up. or Wen'
tstreaunng I'D the seven fights OF stairs
80 the workrooms.
| Meartime a call had been sent In for
l%hs polsce reserves. and they came to the
lsoc+orv on run. They found Mr.. Adler
and one or two Of his employees barricaded
behind doors and the mob In possessioh
~ the shop. The women attacked the
Ibluecoats, knocking one bluecoats ha'
,ofY and ripping the poncho from an
other one Of the employees or the COM
bosnv came in for beating when he at
ysnnted TO eject one OF the women from
sxhs place.
Innocent Bystanders Suffer.
TIL. other two nights occurred about the
doors OF the Marks Arnhein Company, al
9th street and Broadway. When the
strikers heard that a number or husky
Isooletng persons standing about the place
i.yere "strong-arm" men hired TO protect
,,hs employees OF the company who re-
manned at work an attack was made
iupon the guards A lively scuffie followed
during which several passersoy were
drawn into the melee, some or them re-
oefving rough treatment and suffering the
loss OF their hats.
THE first attack was repulsed, but in q
few hours a larger crowd, recruited from
,he meeting halls, returned and attacked
thu '.strong- arm" men. The guards were
getting much the worst OF II this time
when the police came 10 their AID. arrest
ing FIVE OF the fighters.
They were all taken to JEFFERSON Mar
ket court and arraigned on charges OF
disorderlv conduct Three OF them-Sam-
mel Goldberg. Joseph wilmer and Thomas
Msck-said they were strikers, while the
other two-Joseph Lepanto and Samuel
stein-said they were detectives in the
emplov of Arnheim. They were all hned
he
the strikers were paid by the union, ou'
the other two were locked up in default
Of payment.
.Tf YOU believe you can achieve your
ends i'm this strike by violence you are
very much mistaken" said the magls
trate YOU have got TO stop this sort OF
thing. II any of you ever come up oetor'
ma or such charge as this again YOU
wi,l suffer the full penalty of the law
rhis time will fine you all so. Mex
a,rne viii send you to prison
Manufacturers Defy Strikers.
new call for a movement to fight tn
s.,4ke was issued last night to inde
nsndent manufacturers by w. Elias
nresioent of the United Manufacturer
ana Merchants Association. The cal
Svas as follows;
grave crisis confronts the clothing
manufacturers OF this city, one demand
sne united and immediate action. Unu
now no effort has been made 10 meet Uni
attempt to force upon the trade the au
thority of the union and conditions whicf
would mean ruin 10 the greater part o
the trade. The United Manufacturers ant
Merchants Association OF New YORK
tomprising many representative clothing
FIRMS. mindful OF this situation and witt
The view of bringing together the whole
6ody of manufacturers. feels called upof
60 take the initiative in the movement Il
protect the individual firms concerned.
The statement Is the first real defianc'
knat has been thrown down 10 tho strik
era and promises TO bring about pro
aonsed struggle. Strike leaders last nigh
aaid they were willing 10 join battle fo'
any length of time on the Issue put up 4
them in the call. After setting forth TIT
zeal nature OF tho demands. which hav'
been carefully kept from the public. ant
pointing out that II complied with the,