New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-04
Shirtwaist AmazonS, Re-
senting Interference, Bite
Hands of Two.
CONFLICTS MARK
INCREASE OF TROUBLE
10000 Tailors, Out, to Parade
Roosevelt, N. j., Fertilizers
Quit Work.


ers. led in most cases by girls, strug'
gled with the police in their attempts
to attack employees who continued to
work. Once in Brooklyn, and once IN
The Bronx. the shirtwaist Jeanne
d'Arcs buried their teeth in the hands
of officers.
For three weeks police guard had
been conducting workers in the Ma
tional Lace and Embroidery Company
from the factory, at River Avenue and
l5lst Street. to the 16lst Street trolley
line. As the o'clock whistle Bile"
last night a crowd Of strikers, men,
women and girls, jeered the police as
they followed them up the avenue a
boy. Louis Shapiro, 1926 Brook Ave-
nue.. was charged with starting the
fight By throwing a rock through inc
window Of a car loaded with factory
hands. lie got the worst OF 1t, ana
was taken 70 Lebanon Hospital TO be
patched up.
Police Sergeant Has Hand Bitten.
Sergeant Joseph Reynolds and three
that followed. but Reynolds received
such bruises and so serious an injury
10 his thumb. which was bitten by
girl, that he also had to be removed -
the Lebanon Hospital.
The arrests were: Jacob Gneimer, OF
Van Nest Avenue, who IS held at Leu
anon Hospital, charged with Assault
" illiam Sandwich. 10 Seventh Avenue
locked up for striking L. Martin TOBIAS
superiptendent Of the factory; Con
getta Ragni, nineteen. of 1921 Hughes
Avenue. charged with dragging Anna
Strong by the throat through tne
street: Mary Labor, eighteen, OF 1879
Fulton Avenue. held for attacking ar
other girl. and Sylvia de Aeulrlio'
eighteen, of 1925 Arthur Avenue for
interfering with an officer.
Rabbi Fined So for interfering.
At the same time two other girl.
were arrested at FRS. Avenue ana
Ninety-third Street for disorderiy CON
duct in rushing the workers IN SHIRT
waist factory. They were Anna told
berg. twenty-one. Of 81 East lOth
Street. and Bessie Levine, nineteen, oil
2l5 East 1O3d Street.
A. they were being taken to the
station. Rabbi Harris b. saife, oil l'oS
Rathgate Avenue. The Bronx, inter
fered received a cut on the head
which he said was dealt with night
stick. and was taken to the night court.
lie admitted 10 the magistrate mat
he had interfered. but said 1t was IN
behalf Of humanity. When asked to
exnlain. he said that the girls were
bcing dragged TO the station by their
RAJ He and each Of the girls were
fined 50.
EMPLOYEES in Autos Attacked.
Armed with hatpins. sticks and
stones. women shirtwaist strikers OF
the Baskin & Bobbs factory. at Wine
Avenue and North Ninth Street VIII
iamsburg, FLASHED with the police yes
terday in an attempt to attack EN-
ployes being taken TO the factory IN
automobiles.
The police in arresting four supposed
leaders in the disorder were scratcheu'
bitten and iabbed. The prisoners were
held IN $500 bail each IN 'he peuIoiu
Avenue court. o.,
There was similar trouble from stink
ers in front of shirtwaist factory at
Meserole and Lorimer streets, where
attacks on employees In automobiles
u ere suppressed by the arrest OF seven
women.
The shirtwaist pickets in front OF
SOP Broadway. Manhattan, were kept
in order Yesterday afternoon by Mrs.
!. Sergeant Cram and two companions.
While two hundred girls paraded past
the building the strikebreakers left
hy the rear entrance.
Twelve Thousand Tailors 10 Parade.
Tho strikers from the Fifth Avenue
tailor shops will apply for permission
10 parade past their employers shops.
/ They now number 10000, SIX more
shops having been deserted by 2,VoV
workers yesterday. The strike Will be
extended to Brooklyn to-day. when
/ 900 pickets will be assigned posts.
The executive committee OF the In
| ternational Merchant Tailors yesterday
/ decided to oppose the strikers de-
mands, and stated that they did not
object TO the unions, but to the union
officials.
Roosevelt, n. j., Fertilizers Quit Work.
Unsatisfed with the settlement of
/ last wears strike, when twenty-one OF
their number were shot by Hudson
duster" deputy sherifs. fertilizer work
ers Of the American Agricultural Chem
ical Company. Of Roosevelt. y. D., yes
terday walked out when they failed 10
4 secure an increase in wages. The en-
ployes are mostly Hungarians. and they
are demanding S2.25 for nine-hour
I day.
In Passaic. although the Forstmann
| e. HUFFMAN Woollen Company offered
I a Is per cent increase yesterday. the
900 strikers refused to accept anything
less than % per cent.
Girl strikers Of the K. y. Bassett
/ Corset Supply Company clashed with
/ the police in Shelton. Conn. yesterday
/ and one was injured. Two arrests were
made. Joseph Grohol. asked by the
| corset girls to settle their troubles.
/ said Yesterday that ne had no idea wha,
/ the strikers wanted.
BO0'FUL BABY'S TEARS