New-York tribune., 1919-08-22
Gang of Fifty Negroes Is
Attacked With Clubs and
Stones When They Try to
Take Places of Strikers
Stone Masons Still Out
Longshoremen to Vote Next
Week ON New Demands:
10000 Workers Involved

fight between 200 strikers and
nifty negroes hired to take their places
was the first violence in the strike of
10000 building trades workers in this
city yesterday. The clash occurred
when the negroes left the Eleventh
Street elevated station in Long Island
City in an effort to break the strike
at the buildings now being constructed
at Harris and Van Alst avenues by the
turner Construction Company. The
negroes were set upon by the strikers,
and stones, sticks and other missiles
were exchanged in the fight.
Two policemen, unable to handle the
situation, sent for reinforcements
from the Hunters Point police station.
Several of the negroes and strikers
were injured The police succeeded in
restoring order and finally escorted
the negroes back to the elevated sta
ton, whence they departed for Man
haitian.
Four strikers were arrested, accused
OF intimidating men wanting to work
The four were Agostino Caruso, of 1856
East Thirty fourth Street; Tony Ac-
cotto, of 1856 Elm Street; Joseph Pegra,
of 3l9 East Sixtieth Street, and John
Colundo, of "A Monroe Street, all of
Manhattan.
5000 Painters Back at Work
Six thousand of the $500 striking
painters in New York and Brooklyn al
ready have returned to work following
Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators
and Paperhangers of America by $50
employers, it was announced at the
Office of the brotherhood, 166 East
Fifty-sixth Street, yesterday. There
are still about 200 employers who have
not settled with the union, and these
are expected to do so by the end of
this week, it was declared. The de-
mands Of the painters are for a five
day week and for 81 an hour in wages.
Philip Zoussner, secretary of the
painters organization, said yesterday
that many of the painters still on
strike are working on jobs outside the
city and will continue to do so until
all employers who are memers of the
Master Painters Association agree to
meet the unions demands.
eve are not overconfident," said
Mr.. Zoussner, "but things do seem to
be coming our way. However, some of
the employers are stubborn and only
time can solve the problem they
cause"
Masons' Strike Unsettled
No settlement was reached at the
conference of representatives. of the
Stone Contractors Association and the
Stone Masons' Union last night at
149th Street and Mott Avenue. The
contractors refused to accede to an
increase in wages of ST a day. The
stone masons now receive ST a day. A
number of individual contractors, how
ever, have accepted the unions de-
mand according to Louis Mazzola,
president of the stone masons' organ
ization. Two hundred Of the 1900
striking stone masons in New York and
Brooklyn have returned to work as a
result of acceptance of their demand
by individual contractors.
The 5000 cement and concrete work
ers are still striking for their 81 day
wage increase. They demand S5 a day.
According to Mr.. Mazzola, the Stone
masons Helpers Union in preparing
demands for an increase in wages from
$500 to $500 a day The same is true
of the Bricklayers' Helpers and Build
ing Laborers' Union of America. A
meeting of the union members will be
Helu OunQdy morning dL ~ o CLOCK at
&c East Fourth Street. The meeting
will be addressed by John Postigliono
and G. B. Bioguard, president of the
organization.
Window Cleaners Enjoined
Supreme Court Justice Richard P.
Lydon granted an application for an
injunction by the Window Cleaners
Protective Association, yesterday, re-
straining striking window cleaners
from picketing establishments con-
troled by the association. A. Schwarz
president of the association, which
maintains offices at the Bible House,
said that in support of the application
the association contended the strike
was in violation of contract, as the
agreement under which the union men
have been working will not expire un-
til November 21 of this year.
The window cleaners went on strike
Monday morning, after the association
refused to grant their demands for III