Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-07-26
LOCAL STRIKERS
START VIOLENCE
IN HILL SECTION
Three Men Arrested for Smash
ing Window at Essex Iron
Works Shop.
NATIONAL ORGANIZER
HERE TO TAKE CHARGE
One Shop Signs Up-Lathers
Are Meeting With
Success.

The first disorder among the strik-
ing inside iron workers of this city
broke out this morning, when a party
of strikers went to the Essex Iron
Works, 81 Thirteenth avenue. in an
endeavor TO induce some men at work
in the shop to quit. When the men
refused to do so the strikers went
outside and smashed a window with
a stone.
The missile crashed through the
glass In the office and struck boy
named Charles Phalon, who works at
the place, on the ear, bruising it
slightly. Sidney Sachs, one of the
workmen I'm the shop, thereupon
pointed a glass gun through the win
dow at the strikers and the latter.
becoming frightened, ran away. A
call was sent to the Fourth precinct
police station and officers from there
and reserves from headquarters
picked up three men in the neighbor-
hood of the shop whom they brought
to the Fourth Precinct Court.
When the police charged the crowd
they arrested Isidor Zolofsky. eigh-
teen, Sixteenth avenue; Paul Namo-
witch, twenty four, 334 West Kinney
street, and Morris Laskowitz, nine
teen, Is Hillside place. Policemen
Kaas, Miller, Wolf, Hoffman and
Harenberg of the Fourth Precinct
made the arrests.
Locked Up Until Tomorrow.
When the men were brought to the
station house shortly before IL o'clock
judge Wolf had adjourned court for
the day and they were consequently
locked up for arraignment tomorrow.
Captain Vogel said that in view of
the possible seriousness of the strike
the men would be locked up for O
day.
One of the men, who is said to have
thrown a stone. will be charged with
malicious mischief and the others
with dsorderly conduct, the police
say, but they declined to indicate
which of the three will be charged
with throwing the stone
The party OF strikers who made the
demonstration marched to the factory
directly from headquarters in Lehr-
hoff Hall. at Spruce and Broome
streets. where Joseph NJ. Ginsberg, a
national organizer of the information
al Association of Bridge and Struc-
tural Iron Workers, was in charge.
Planned Demonstrations.
Ginsberg. who came directly here
from Bridgeport, Conn.,, where he was
one of the leaders In the threatened
strike of the men in the munitions
plants, SAID that Newark would be
walked up this week by series of
at all the structural
iron plants. He predicted that 800
men would be out before next Sat
urday and said that until now the
strike had been an impromptu demon
stration without a head.
I'VE are not looking for trouble,
but we are ready for it and are all
set to do whatever may be neces-
sary," he told the reporters.
Hope there won't be any shoot
ing" one of the reporters remarked.
THE strikers are not armed now"
Ginsberg replied, but they may be
later. 1t is not a difficult matter to
get whatever sort of protection. may
be needed and, believe me, we are
ready for anything
The signing of the union schedule
by Katchen e. Rabinowitz, of POI
Norfolk street, was one of the new
developments in the inside iron work.
ers strike here today.
AS yet there has been no decision
among local men working on war
supplies to strike, in sympathy with
the movement which 1t is said may
be country wide. War munitions are
being manufactured by many local
concerns.
Ginsberg arrived In town shortly
- Nr hfa -
from bridgeport, where he has been
assisting ]. G. Johnson in the iron
workers strike at that place. He i'm
mediately took charge Of the local
situation and issued n statement that
all local iron workers should be callet
out II the strike was not settled IN
a reasonable leigth of time.
Katchen e. Rabinowitz signed the
schedule without any alterations, but
with the proviso that If the majority
of the local shops do not sign the
schedule in two weeks time II Will
become null and void.
With the signing of the schedule by
Katchen &. RabinowitZ, which is one
of the largest shops on the "hill' sec
ton, the union officials look for
speedy settlement of the local trouble.
Lathers Meeting with Success, Too.
f1e0 vein, DuSlneSS agent VI ioh'ti
102, international Lathers' Union,
stated this morning that all of the
bosses were signing up as they Sc
cured jobs and that only few of the
contractors employing lathers had not
yet signed the agreement. None or
the contractors who had not yet
signed have made any attempt TO put
non-union men to work, and there has
been no trouble of any kind.
The strike of the electrical workers
at the Point -No-Point plant of the
Public Service Corporation will In all
probability be settled next Friday
night when the arbitration committee
of the Essex Trades Council makes a
report to that body. There is no dis
pute over wages or hours, the point
at issue being whether or not the
switchboards at the plant are to be
installed by the union men or by the
employees of the corporation who
specialize In that work.