New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-24
Companions Do Not Finch Be.
fore Shower of Lead, and
Withdraw Only After Ar
rival of Two Squads
of Police.
TWO LEFT IN CAR ARRESTED
Day of Rioting Marks Trouble In
Garment Trades, Minister Being
Among the Many Who
Are Taken Into
Custody.

one man was shot and fatally
wounded and a dozen other persons
were injured in the war between the
striking garment workers and the em-
ployers in Williamsburg last night.
An automobile load of detectives
sent to guard strikers opened fire on
a crowd of men, women and children
and held the enraged mob at bay with
their guns until the arrival of two de-
tachments of police
Two persons alleged 10 have taken
part i'm the gun play were locked up
OH a charge Of 'felonious assault and
the police are hot on the trail of the
others
The dying man is Joseph Milstein,
clerk, of No. 1S5 Varet street, Will
iamsburg. A bullet entered his jaw.
punging downward into his neck. He
is at st. GATHERINGS Hospital. The pris-
oners are Frank Sampson. chauffeur of
the detectives automobile, Of No. 100
West G2d street, Manhattan. and Ben
jamin Wilson, of No. 16O Bleecker
street, Manhattan. Both men are held
for felonious assault, and there is an
additional charge against Sampson of
operating an automobile without
license.
The strike breakers, who were the
passive cause of the trouble, are en-
ployed by Samuel Peck & Son, at Nos.
: "A lio l,t,ro
At the time the strikers made their
declaration of war this firm employed
about 30 persons, seventy-hve OF
whom remained at work when the
employees the company engaged the SER
vices of a Manhattan detective agency.
who have sent over an automobile load
of men every evening to escort squads
of strike breakers from the factory to
their cars.
Threats Met with Bullets.
Last night the automobile was fol-
lowing group of strike breakers
through the mob of union laborers who
filled the streets near the factory. As
the littlg>company of employees, closely
followed 10y the automobile load OF de-
tectives. arrived at Moore and Morrell
streets, the strikers, howling and
brandishiug clubs. bore down upon
them. Bystanders told the police that
the detectives in the car leaped up from
their seats, drew their revolvers and
began firing into the crowd, which.
dressed forward by the numbers on its
outskirts, fell about the automobile.
The strikers, cnraged by the trs
from the automobile, charged the ma
chine repeatedly. and each time were
driven back. Women and children.
vainly trying to fight their way out OF
the maelstrom of strikers and strike
brcakers. fell and were trampled by the
mob. Frank Ledwig, of No. 362 Bush
wick avenue, Brooklyn, got bullet
through his hat as he scrambled for
safety. and others were wounded by
stray bullets.
captain Daniel O'Connor, OF the
Brooklyn Detective Bureau, who was
doing some work in the neighborhood
with Detectives Shea, Carroll, kaui-
man and Fiachetti, heard the shooting
and brought his men TO the scent
About the same time telephone mes
sage TO the Stage street station called
Captain Burfeind with "A squad of re-
serves and the two police detachments
charged the mob and put strikers and
strike breakers alike to flight.
All but Two Flee Car.
When the crowd had been dispersed.
the police say. only two men remained
i'm the car. These, Wilson and Samp-
sen. they pulled out of the automobile
and took to the Stagg street station.
They found Milstein lying in the gut
fer. unconscious, bleeding from The
ears and mouth. Captain Burfeind
called an ambulance and sent the dy-
ing man to the hospital.
There was early rioting in Williams-
burg yesterday. y number Of strikers
gathered in front of the factory Of
Abraham zimmerman, Kent avenue
and South 1lth street, and endeavored
to persuade the employees to join them.
When the request was refused there
WAS great disorder The police reserves
were roughly handled in making ten
arrests.
A second riot occurred in front Of a
factory at Myrtle avenue and Suydam
street Mary Grattira, twenty-five
years old, of No. 231 Stockholm street,
accused of being the ringleader, Iya3
blaced under arrest. All the prisoners
were placed under bonds.
The first riot Of the day in the greater
city occurred early in the morning In
front of the East 35th street station.