Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1916-01-21
GIRL STRIKERS
ARE ARRESTED
FOR ASSAULT
Charged With Attacking Other
Girls Going to Work at Union
American actory.
GIRLS MAY RETURN TO
WORK IN SOME PLACES
Plan to Organize Unions, Sub
NIT Demands and Go
Back to the Shops.

The third day of the strike of the
women and girls employed in the
non union cigar factories of Seiden-
berg & Co, in Central avenue. and
the Union Cigar Manufacturing Com
pany, at Market and Union streets,
found the situation practically un-
changed, with about 200 still on strike.
The first trouble of the strike oc-
Cured this morning, when girl pickots
surrounded two girls returning to
work ut the Union American factory
Down Neck" There were some ar
rests.
Steps are being taken 10 organize
the rollers and buncher girls in
union by themselves, and IL this be
!, le within a few days it may be that
he strike will soon be over. Henry
F. Hilfers, secretary of the Essex
Trades COUNCIL, said today that If the
organization now in process OF forma-
ton is completed, the girls will be ad-
vised to return to work pending
negotiations with the firms.
Tha 100 girls who are ont from the
Union American factory. "DoWn
Neck" have lost their temporary
headquarters and today werc stand
ing about the streets and i'll door
wayS Yesterday they were given
refuge in vacant store adjoining the
saloon of NJ. Commins, at Ferry ana
Market streets, but the owner found
other use for the place today, and the
girls were obliged to vacate. Up TO
noon they had found no other place.
Lose Headquarters.
The closing of the headquarters had
the effect of putting practically the
entire number on strike on the picket
line. Yesterday the girls said that
either ten or eleven went to work, and
this morning they said that only eight
had gone in. Max Goldiinger, superin-
tendent of the factory. said that about
fifty were at work, but the crowd on
tho street seemed about as large as
Yesterdays gathering,
Some trouble was precipitated
about 1880 this morning when
picket approached two girls VINO
worked yesterday and were return"
ing to work this morning under es-
cert of Adolph Miller foreman of the
department which is on strike. The
too Girls under escort of Miller we're
Mary Gravel. twenty-five. l44 Adams
street, and Helen Sonistretsky, seven
teen, III Lafayette street;
They were approached by susan
shebrowitz, fort y-three years old, OF
80 Van Buren, street, cne of the pick
cts, and soon there WAS a group OF
strikers excitedly demanding that Inc
two girls under escort qmt thelr
obs Policeman Frank Liebhause".
mo of the three policemen from the
Third precinct, on strike duty about
Lhe factory, rushed up to scatteS the
roWd.
Tho pickets persisted in their argu-
,7ents and the policeman grabbed at
Susan, but managed to get only
h1Itton off her coat. He fell to the
sidewalk tearing his trousers and
called for help from the other Two
policeman, Daniel Shart and Joflh
Badgely
The three then arrested the woman
who lost the button from her coat
and four others. Some time after
thev were booked at the Third pre-
cinct two younger girl strikers
anne into the station house to pro-
fest against the arrest of some Of
those taken i'm earlier, and these TWO
q1so were arrested, charged by 70
licen1an Liebhauser with participating
in the disturbance. Other girls walt
ing outside the station house With
drew to a safer point after Witness
ing the fate Of the two who ventured
il tc protest.
Girls Taken Into Custody.
The FIVE originally arrested were;
Susan Shebrowitz, who lost the but
ION from her coat; Mary Battate,
thirtv-one. 80 River street; Mary
Zemco, thirty, 121 Adams street; Liz
2ie Horey, twenty-four, 1O7 Union
street, and Lizzie Dubusch, nineteen,
III Adams street.
The two who were arrested in the
station house were Rose Berris, tWen-
>ty-two, 96 Van Buren, street, and
Lillian Wroeluiski, eighteen, 236
Eighteenth avenue. The last-named
and youngest of those involved pro-
tested that she was not in the crowd,
and had no part in the assault, but
Policeman Liebhauser said that ne
knew her by the white hat she wore.
Later when it was pretty certain that
Lillian had been across the street at
lne time of the scrimmage. some one
said she threw a brick and hit Mary
Gravel with it on the leg. The Gravel
girl had no scar, and her skirt was
not torn.
All seven girls were arraigned be-
fore Judge Mancusi-Ungaro in the
Third Precinct Court charged with
assault, and were held until next
Monday in $25 bonds each. All but
Lillian, who is charged with throw
ing the brick, were released in about
an hour on bail, but she, the only one
who did not live in the neighborhood,
was not able to get bail until noon
time when a relative furnished surety
and she was released.
Superintendent Max Goldfinger was
Indignant today at the stories told by
some Of the girls yesterday about the
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