New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-02
GIRLS ATTACK POLICE
IN BRONX STRIKE RIOT
Three Amazons Arrested in
Battle Taken to Night
Court as DiSorderly.
MANY STRIKERS STILL OUT
Crowd Wrecks Business Office
of East Side Newspaper
Accused of Selling Out
Garment Workers.

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Accused Of Selling Out
Garment Workers.
Not all the striking garment workers
agreed TO the peace terms settled on by
Thomas A. Rckert. president OF the
United Garment Workers Of America. and
Eugene $. BENJAMIN. Of the Allied Cloth
ms Trades Association. night before last
and an element composed of Instruction
lists broke out in wild demonstrations yes
terday.
This radical group. repud'atins the set
tlement because it did not include closed
shop. attacked the Office Of THE Jewish
Daily Forward" in East Broadway. and
police interference was necessary. An
other fight occurred in The Bronx yester-
day afternoon. 1t was said the Industrial
Workers Of the World has its hand In the
opposition against declaring the strike Off.
Girls figured i'm q battle outside the
shrtwaist factory OF l.. Lowey & Sons,
Park avenue and Ittner Place. The Bronx,
in the afternoon. when a large number OF
girls arrived from Brooklyn and at
tempted To persuade the three hundred
workers IN the factory TO go on strike.
Patrolman Fuller. OF the Bathgate avenue
station. telephoned his station for help.
Patrolmen Strubel and Gilbert arrived with
the wagon" and the three policemen
wadcd into the crowd.
one girl hit Fuller over the head with
an umbrella. She was arrested on a
charge of simple assault. and 10 this was
added charge of dsordcrly conduct.
Along with two other girls, also charged
with disorderly conduct. she was taken 70
the station house and then to night court
The names of the three girls who. by the
way. were not strikers. but were employees
II the factory. were Rose Cereida, OF No
~ East i5sth street: Angelina Bruno. OF
40. li97 Southern Boulevard. and Mar
garctta Coloeito. OF No. 1868 Tiffany ave-
nue..
Attack Newspaper Office.
\ story printed In "The Forward" yes
terday morning that the strike had been
settled led another East Side publication
out and that 1.-The Forward" had thrown
down" their cause. A crowd OF 2.00C
strikers gathered before THE Forward
office. and. after listening TO innammatory
speeches, two men led a rush for the
doors Of the building. Every bit OF glass
I'm the lobby was kicked I'm. Furniture In
the business office was wrecked.
message TO the eth Precinct police
station brought Captain Ormsby with
twenty reserves on the run, and the strik-
ers were pushed back into Seward Park
across the street. No arrests were made
The ma jority OF the disconnected marched
TO Cooper Square. ard from there TO Sec
ond avenue. where they gathered in front
OF the Stuyvcsant Casino and listened "a
dozen orators. who proclaimed they had
been sold out by their leaders and urged
them 10 hold out for closed union shor
and Is per cent Increase in wages
scattered the crowd.
Strikers Jeer at Bank.
When the police reserves went away the
crowd again collected and went into THE
Forward" Office TO demand that an extra
declaring the strike was still OH be ISSUED
at once. At p. IN. the extra demanded
was issued after the police had again dis
persed the gathering.
Another crowd gathered i'm front Of the
Peoples Bank. Delaney and Ludlow
streets, and began hooting and jeering. A
newspaper had printed by mistake a
brought about by Joseph $. Marcus. presi'
dent Of the Peoples Bank, instead OF
Marcus NJ Marks. of the cancellation
committee of the civic Federation. The
crowd remained until the mistake was eX-
planned. then melted away.
The Brotherhood of Tailors issued cir
culars calling on the strikers 10 keep up
the hsht until the union was recognized.
Blame Strikers for Bomb.
Another bomb explosion. believed by
the police TO have been the work Of gar
ment strikers. occurred last night at the
main entrance of the eleven story loft
building AT Nos. los and 10 Crosby
street. The third floor Of the building Is
occupied by Schwartz & Jaffe and the
tenth and eleventh floors 10y Rosenthal &
CO., both firms cloak and suit makers
whose employees are out on strike.
The greatest damage was done to the
factory of NJ. q e. Meyer manufacturers
of gloves and hosiery, who occupy the
first floor, and have had no strike among
their employees
FRY strike breakers were asleep in the
factory Of Rosenthal & Co, and there was
excitement among them until Detective
Slevin. Of the Central Office Squad, and
Captain Kinsler. of the Mulberry street
station. assured them that there was no
danger.