The sun., 1919-07-29

GIRLS HURL PEPPER
IN HASTINGS RIOTS
Strikers With Clubs and Stones
Attack Conduit Plant
Employees.
SEVERAL WORKERS HURT
Police Captain, Gun in Hand,
Halts Mob-Guards From
ALI Over County Help.
SEVERAL WORKERS HURT

Hudson was quiet last
night after day Of riotinK between
strikers and employees OF the plant OF
the National Conduit and Cable Com
pany. Thirty-five special deputy sheriffs
who had been brought from White Plains
under command of Sheriff Charles E.
Rossitter Of Westchester county force
of fifteen special guards sworn In by
Village President Thomas ]. Goodwin
and force Of special policemen under
command of Capt. William Cornell pa
trolled the streets of the village and
lined the route by which 300 employees
Of the factory went to their homes after
they left the place at $50 o'clock.
Only two instances of disorder oc-
CURED during the afternoon. although
there were several clashes during the
morning. Mary Yano of Ardsley was on
her way to work shortly after noon
when she was stopped~oy a crowd Of
ten or twelve women and girls, who
struck her and threw salt and pepper
into her face Miss Yano, however. did
not run. Instead she seized the wofna n
rearest her by the hair, knocked another
down with her fist and then sailed in
against the others, biting and kicking
and striking. The attacking party soon
fed and Miss Yano continued on her
Capt. Cornell of the Hastings police was
threatened by crowd OF more than 100
strikers, but he drew his revolver,
pointed II q. them and said:
It'll kill tn, drst man that movesl''
This was translated into Polish by
Father Aloysius Ffletz of the Polish
Catholic Church of st. Stanislaus Koslxi
and as soon as the rioters saw that
Capt. Cornell meant business they dis
persed.
Yesterday morning in Hastings was
replete with riots and disturbance. sew
eral men were struck and injured by
bricks and stones thrown by the rioters,
and during the day the police arrested
four men and sent them to the county
jail at White Plains. charged with riot
ing and melting to riot.
The first trouble occurred at the New
York Central station, where the strikers
most Of them Russians and Poles who
are not citizens, started to beat work.
men when they got OF the trains to go
to the plant The police and the spe-
ciai guards soon checked this disturb
ance. and then the strikers went to the
northern entrance OF the mill and start
ed another fight.
This was also stopped before any one
was seriously hurt. and some time later
a thousand strikers and sympathizers
went TO the washington avenue En-
trance Of the plant. where the most
serious battle Of the morning occurred.
The crowd used clubs and stones and
bricks against the workmen of the plant.
but were finally driven away by the po-
lice. While this was going on another
crowd started hght at the south gate
Of the cable company's plant and guards
had to be rushed there to handle the
situation. During the fighting Of the
morning the following men were hurt:
Robert Bullock of Yonkers, ribs and
leg broken, internal injuries.
George Haynes. fractured skull.
Hugh Mclaughlin, severely beaten
about the head and body.
All of these men were elderly and had
been employed at the plant for several
years.
The strike Of the foreigners at Has
tjngs has been In progress for a month
Most of them were unsidlled laborers
and demanded an increase Of 10 cents
an hour in wages They now get n
cents an hour. Few Of the skilled labor
ers Joined them in the strike. 1t is said
the foreigners held a meeting and de-
cided to try to prevent by force other
employees from entering the plant