The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-03-06
LABOR ORGANIZER
AND GUNNER HELD
: FOR STRIKE BATTLE
Disbanding Of the Industrial
Squad Signal for Gangs to
Renew Activities.
ATTACK on GUARDS
IN HARLEM A SIGN

held yesterday morning in $4,000 bail
tenn police court as the result Of the
shooting of strike guards In "A Harlem
shirtwaist factory Friday night.
Thereby hangs "A tale OF awakened
activity on the part OF ganestcrs and
runner believed to have been suppressed
by the industrial squad from Head
quarters. The Industrial squad went
out OF commission about two weeks ago.
Three GUNNER who were arrested after
Fridays fight confessed to Police In
spector cray. he says. that they had
been hired to shoot the guards. They
MISC were held In $4,000 bail each on
Saturday by Magistrate S.nms.
Sam Martin Is "a labor organizer in
the garment unions whose work IN
known In half a dozen cities in tho
middle West as well as In the Eas..
Joe Bonjino Is an East eide gargster.
They are accused Of fceon!ous assault.
the charge against the runmer, one OF
whom. Bill Sherwood. according 20 Sp,-
cial Assistant District At.orne" Brevs-
inrfdge. named Martin as the man who
had hired him to do Fridays shooting.
All five Will be examined this afternoon
m the Harlem court.
NV va ilifl anu fp'tlJltlp IOl-
lowed an all night search by the police
working In cooperation with Mr.. Rreck-
tnridge. who u year ago obtained the
confessions from Dopey Bonnie Fem
which led to wholesale indictments and
arrests In connection with violence In
the strike troubles in the garment in
dustry.
The police and the District Attorneys
Office are not Yet satisfied that the shoot
tnR Friday Nrll u1tn..ntf,as "a h,r-..- a..
alleged by the gurmen, but Il is tho
belief OF the authorities that the aban-
comment of the industrial squad is hav-
ing It's effect IN rcncwcd o~utcroppings Of
gang violence.
An interesting popularity Of gang
psychology is responsible for the belief
or Mr.. Breckenridge tina, perhaps Sher.
wood was grinding an axe of his own
when he took five or six meu up to
Harlem Friday To- do. as ne says. n Job
Tor the union by in~timida'ing the guards
employed hy !. kaplau X Sons. shirt
waist manufacturers to protect 1875 girls
who did not quit work with nifty strik-
crs. and thus permit tho strike leaders
TO the nOn-stiikorS into strik-
inE TOO. Sherwood told Mr.. Brcckinridgc
that he was offered 500 for Fridays
affair.
Sherwood Is well known to the police
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arrested with him. Bad BIZ Fisher and
"Riek!e" Harrison. Fisher and Harri-
BON, according to the police. got only
70 Tor their part IN tho fracas. All
three live In the lower Nest side. Sher-
wood told the police when he was ar
rested that some one was sent by the
union man who hired him and his gang
10 point out the guards who were to be
shot.
On the other hand. ,,ost Of the guards
who are employed by the kaplan con-
Germ are Last S!dcrs. \ man known
to the District Attorney as Johnny Con-
nesta is said 10 nave charge Of them.
Connesta and Bin Sherwood are enc
mics. 4 few days before Sherwood.
Fisher and Harrison wen. up To- Har-
lem to get Barney Wninstein. one II
the strike guards. Sherwood and Con-
nesta had a fight IN a movie theatre a.
to which one would occupy a particular
seat.
Sam Martin was formerly business
manascr Of local No. 10 of the Cutters
Union. Uc was also a delegate to the
joint board. winch is the union body
that directs every move in a strike.
Martin IL an active union organizer TOO.
lie WAS organizer FOR the Joint board
n has spread his strike activities over
Cleveland. Toledo, Cincinnati. Pittsburg
80 49, h1A f. AAA' 80 wv
tiers of the joint board.
The fact that the police were able
10 lay hands on Sherwood. Fisher and
Harrison and later Martin is attributed
almost as much 10 good fortune as 10
the police work OF acting Captain Jones
Of the Third branch detective bureau.
who had plain clothes men on the Job
on Friday in time to catch the gunmen.
According TO the District Attorneys men
a.hA Ia a.. x..p'r.l IN sb.-. In hon
cases for man" months. IL Is not pos
siblc to keep order in an Industrial war
spread al! over the city without an or
ganized squad such as was in existence
I'D to two weeks ago.
1t was learned yesterday that not only
outbreaks of violence in the labor field
but gang activity IN other fields In va
rious parts of tho city has enjoyed re-
ncwed life since word spread through
the news ,harnels 81 the gangs that
vigilance had been relaxed. The indus
trial squad. which was organized under
Detective Clinton Woods to cooperate
with the District Attorneys office to pre-
vent violence in industrial strikes In the
various branchos of the garment trade,
was able to ferret out trouble before II
broke. As The number OF strikers varied
from 10000 TO 100, 900 throughout the
city the industrial squad expanded In
nifty or ElNty men, VINO did nothing else
but look for labor troubles. threatened
beatings and maiminrs which are used
hy both sides IN garment strikes to in
timidate the other.
1t Is the custom OF manufacturers as
we'll as unions to employ toughs 10 help
their cause along. Tho manufacturers
do II under the eu!se Of guards supplied
often by private detective agencies. The
of the industrial squad. scat.
tered or concentrated as the need may
have been. from Brooklyn to Harlem and
The Bronx. have prevented beatings of
workers at their homes. ~sluggiigs, shoot
1nRs and other affairs in the streets and
tho result has been that while labor
troubles increased since the first OF the
year, violence has been kept at q mini
mum.
About February %, however, Com
missioner Woods issued AN order which
reduced the industrial squad to = mere
handful! of investigators only and rele-
gated to the various inspectors tho duty
OF preserving order among tho strikers
Throughout the city. II Is the oDin!on
Of the District Attorneys working on
these Labor cases tina police handling
Of strik" violence in this way will on
courage rather h prevent It's occur
renee and the Harlem shooting Friday
II cited AZ positive proof.
CHILD DRINKS PINT OF WINE.