New-York tribune., 1919-08-30
Woman Clubbed bv
Brooklyn Police,
Says Union Leader
Shirtwaist Factory Workers
StonedDuring Strike; One
W I'm an Is Injured:
Gas Walkout Continues

Accusing the police of employing
violence against strikers and beating
pickets, Henry jaeger, leader of the
o;ooo striking paper box workers in
this city and Brooklyn, yesterday
threatened to take the matter before
Commissioner Enright, with a demand
tor an investigation. One of the po-
llcemen clubbed woman, JAEGER says.
According to jaeger, more than twen-
ty-tive employers of the $50 affected
by the strike already have settled with
the union, accepting its demands. The
demands are for a forty-four hour
week and general 35 per cent in
crease in wages. The employees now
work ffty-five hours a week. and their
wages range from $40 to s25 a week.
holidays and double pay for all over
time work.
A volley Of vegetables fired by thirty
striking employees of the firm of Bob
E. Baskind 9 Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn,
shirtwaist manufacturers, greeted loyal
employees of the plant when they tried
to enter it yesterday. When the supply
of vegetable ammunition gave out the
strikers resorted to sticks and stones.
Two policemen on duty found the job
too much for them and sent in call
for reserves to the Bedford Avenue
station.
Woman Striker Fined
Fannie Shapiro, of 40 North Seventh
Street, was cut about the head and
face Katherine Kareluk, twenty five
years old, of 1O5 North Seventh Street,
& striker. was arrested. She was taken
before Magistrate Dale and fined $40.
The beginning of the third week Of
the strike of 1900 employees of the
Brooklyn Union Gas Company, yester-
day, found the situation unchanged,
after efforts had been made the day
previous to settle the strike. A con-
ference between representatives of the
men and the company ended in failure
wnen, according TO strike leaders, the
company refused to deal with the men
as a body affiliated with the American
Federation OF Labor. The conference
company, 176 Remsen Street, and was
attended by committee Of thirty
strikers, headed by Frank Killorin,
president OF the union. Organizer
Roach, for the American Federation Of
Labor in this district, was also present.
The company was represented by its
main and shop superintendents and f.
J. Byrne, John White and +. 4. Lewis.
Roach's Presence Objected To
According to Mr.. Killorin, Mr.. White,
at the beginning of the meeting, OBJ
jected to Mr.. Roach's presence, saying
the company would not deal with out
sidcrs, and then announced that the
company was ready to compromise with
the strikers provided they did not in
sist upon union recognition, whereupon
the strike committee withdrew from the
conference.
The Actors Equity Association, it
was announced yesterday, will send a
number of players to participate in a
show for the benefit of the strikers at
the Brooklyn Labor Lyceum next week.
Two hundred machinists and twenty
pattern makers went on strike yester-
day at the A. B. See Elevator Com
pany' plant in Jersey City. They de-
mand an eight-hour day, 80 cent an
hour and q closed shop. Early in the
summer the pay at the plant was ad-
vanced to SO cents an hour for nine
and a half hour day, with the condi-
ton that an eight-hour day would be
granted October l.