The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-01-25
WATERS IN FURIOUS
FIGHTS WITH POLICE


Miss FLYNN, seated in a back room OF
the strike strategy headquarters. at 72
West Thirty-sixth street. directed the
campaign 10y telephone and by mes
senger boys, using for the latter SER
vice agile Greek boys who had been
working as walters buses. Tresca was
the field marshal of the nights manpu-
vres-that is he was until Lahey
slapped him into a cell in the West
Thirtieth street station house. Sgnor
Trcsca went to war equipped with a
Van Dyke beard very fancy waist
coat, a very ornamental suit of clothes
ana a violent vocabulary.
AT about 6 =. NJ. he led fve hundred
striking walters. buses. sculions and
other varieties of hotel workers from
Bryant Hall westward through Forty
second stree. Thcre were few women
among tn" paraders and their sopranos
sounded clearly in the "Marseillaisc" and
rose high above the roar Of evening
traffic and the shouts of the men
marchcrs. The irregular column halted
briefly in front of the Hotel kniCker-
bOckcr while Tresca and his aids booed
and Kissed Proprietor James H. Rcgan
anl yelled for Mr., Regan's employees TO
qui. ana get into the strike.
But Mr.. Rcgan was prepared 10 deal
positively and suddenly with the persons
wiu tried 10 separate him from his help.
He had obtained from eX-t'ire thief
Edward trokcr's fire prevention bu-
rcIu twentY-fiNc rough and ready young
men who were armed with clubs and
'ho'r own massive fists and h. had H.
Wei u number OF Crokcrs uniformed
men, Tacsc private guards wcr" posted
all along tn" broadway side and Forty
second street front of the hotel, ana not
on" striker was able To- win past them.
So that they wouldn't punch each other
~ a scramble the Rcgan guards wore
IN the lap.'S of their coats tiny white
ribbons hut tacro was no suggestion of
white rihhunS ABOUT them when they
ru' To- hitting ont.
Fp~ ten minutes tho guards whaCk.d
and pushed. and aided 10y the police
showed TrCscl's band into the roadway.
The police shuntcd them on westward
after hats had been smashed and few
u,Sns icddrncd The next point NJ at
tack WAS Shanicy's. at seventh avenue
ard FortN-third street There the stri-
kers did their best to call out Shanley's
waters. but the attempt failed. The
police hustled the column southwark
into seventh avenue. hut couldn't pre-
won't Il dcmnnstratiun at the rear en-
trance # Louis Martins.
lust at that time TIA" excitement was In
CREASED hy the Changing of fire engines
that raced - LOUIS Martins front door.
F.romcn demanded to hnuw where the
Ere was Tl"rc wasn't any. \ false
alarm had been turned In from the pr
Na:c hoN on the third floor of the res
t.Grdnt. and the police as we'll as Mr..
Martin wcr" pretty sure that dis
-rlatlri waite: had caused the trouble.
After hpo.ng Martin, the Trcsca COL
umn rounded into Forty-frst stree, and
turned eastward Failing to batter
through the Wlite Ribbons on guard
there tho Trrscars sauntered on east
ward singing the "Marse!llaisc" and
yelling their opinion Of "sCahs" BY the
time the column got to Bryant Hall and
under the gloom OF the elevated the
police w'rc pretty tired Of such demon
strations. I.ahcv had sent a squad which
included Sergt Keegan. Capt. Al Thor
and Detectives Kuhno, Cieary. McClunne
and Kearney When this little hanu
saw tha, the strikers were holding up
Sixth Avenue traffic and crowding
N'fll'''l bl' llIt sliit'N ulhS l'''N Sd.I'u Ill
to d'sp"rsr ~. gathering. Many of the
strikes drifted away. hut about forty,
led hv Tresca. dcfantlv refused to move
and dared the police To touch them
Kergnn and his men rushed for Tresca
and the uois.st Of the crowd, but be-
fore they cutllC IIao anybody the
strikers We're reinforced 10y at least
nifty more men. angry Greeks and
II tod i..,. h.,tt
stones and clubs. The detectives struck
ont hard and knocked down Two men.
Then Trcsca ragged like a wild animal,
urging his men to XIII the cops" to
"knoch their heads or and to defend
their rights" There was rough and
tumble fight of several minutes in which
kcrgan and his mon arrested six
strikers, Trcsoa called or the crowd 10
rescue the six and then the detectives
had to fight with their backs to the
wall In this fgh, Cleary was hit in
the back with heavy iron holt and
seriously hurt. kccgan and Cooney
were knocked down and trampled upon.
For "A time the fight went against the
police. hut citizens had run from the
crowd and had trlcphoned Ia Police
Headquarters to send all the cops in
New York to bryant Hall The response
was quick, and pretty soon, just as
liccgan and his men were ready to
shoot, twenty uniformed men were
battcring way through the Tresca
mob, The reenforcements not only
held the six arrested originally but took
three more, including Tresca himself.
The nine arrested in the Bryant Hall
riot were Tresca, whose bail Of $500 was
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