New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-20
Prompt Action in AnSOnia
Prevents Attack on Plant,
Ii Is Believed.
RESERVES QUELL RIOT
IN WILLIAMSBURG
TrentOn's Brief Car War Settled
Citizens and Employees
Elated at Result.

A large shipment OF arms and am
munition for the strikers in Ansonia,
Conn, was seized by the Ansonis police
last night. Following tho death yes
terday Of Charles Lalco, one Of the five
strikers shot on Thursday when the
plant Of the Ansonis Manufacturing
Company was attacked, it was expected
a second riot among the men on strike
would occur. Guards rushed from New
York and Boston were quickly armed
and stationed about the plant. But the
attack did not come. due, the police be-
lieve, to the failure Of the arms and
ammunition TO arrive on time.
The four men wounded with Lalco
will recover. After ascertaining their
condition yesterday, Prosecuting Attor-
ney A. R. McOrmond began rigid in
quiry to determine who ordered the
guards 10 fire on the strikers. Police
believe there are many more wounded
hiding in their homes.
The Ansonia company manufactures
munitions. Only two OF It's depart
ments are shut down owing to the
strike. A meeting between officials and
a representative OF tho strikers was
held yesterday, and 1t Is believed
settlement will be quickly reached.
Car Strike Ends.
Settlement Of the streetcar strike
that has made Trenton. y. j., walk 20
and from work for twenty-four hours
was announced at midnight. Although
the details have not yet been worked
out. it is agreed that the men will re-
ceive a new scale of wages and that
the fourteen discharged for appropriate
ing company's money will be rein
stated.
The executive committee Of the troll
ley mems union and the officials of the
trolley company were in session until
midnight, when il was finally agreed
that all the questions at issue should
be settled By joint commission, to be
made up Of representatives of en-
ployes and men.
Three hundred strikers FLASHED with
strikebreakers at the plant of the Bah
cock & Wilcox Company, in Bayonne
yesterday. resulting in two arrests and
injury to an Italian. who fed amid a
shower OF stones. A dozen strikebreak-
ers, brought to the plant Of the Leo
lastic Mills, where two hundred men
are on strike, rebelled when they
learned they were to sleep in the mills
and Joined the strikers.
When fourteen men employed in the
Singer Manufacturing Company, in
Elizabethport, were hailed into police
court, charged with trying to create a
strike in the plant, they promised
Judge Mahon to be good and return to
work. So he released them with lect-
ure.
Police Quell Williamsburg Riot.
Police reserves quelled a riot in
Williamsburg between strikers and EN-
Moves OF the s. W. Farber brass and
copper plant, in South Fifth Street,
near briggs Avenue. Three men were
arrested. Fifty men who had refused
to Join the strike were attacked as they
were leaving the plant. Several were
hurt.
Il was announced at the Office of the
settlement committee Of the lnterna-
tional Ladies' Garment Workers Union,
az the Hotel Latham, in this city, that
4O2 settlements had been made with
independent manufacturers IN the pres
ent lockout. The independents Will
meet to-day to organize an association
Sunday night at the Labor Forum, IN
Washington Irving High School, repre-,
sentatives of the manufacturers and
employees will present their sides OF the
lockout question. Samuel Gompers,
president Of the American Federation
of Labor, is expected to de liver an ad-
dress to the garment workers strike
committee at meeting IN bee.hoVeh
Hall, 210 Fifth Street, Sunday morning
BENJAMIN Schlesinger and Robert W.
Bruere presented the facts OF the lock
out to members of the Women's Con-
sumers' League at meeting yesterday.
At conference TO be held between
Morgan Line officials and representa-
tives of the striking lon9shoremen To-
day il is expected a ware settlement
will be reached and the strike endeu'
Milk Drivers Make Demands
Eight thousand milk drivers affiliated
with the international Brotherhood OF
Transfers have submitted demands for
an increase of wages and shorter hours.
Assistant Secretary Morris Felnstone
Of the United Hebrew Trades, with
which many Of the milk drivers are
connected, is authority for the state
ment that if demands are not met a
general strike will result
The committee representing the
Commercial Telegraphers' Union OF
America submitted an ultimatum yes
terday TO the Western Union Telegraph
Company TO the effect that unless the
ten operators discharged in Boston
were reinstated Immediately a general
strike would take place in Boston
which would force sympathetic
strike among operators all over The
country.
A resolution Of protest was passed
Yesterday By the National Consumers
League. OF which Secretary OF the War
Department. Baker is president, against
the arbitrary stand taken by the Cloak
Suit and Skirt Manufacturers Protec
I tive Association. IL advises individual
leagues to protest 10 the association
against the present lockout.