New-York tribune., 1920-09-07
Fighting Lasts 20 Minutes
at Prospect Park Plaza; ;
Many of Assailants i'm U.
S. Uniform; l6 Held
Sporadic Attacks .
I'm Othef. Sections
Vigilance Redoubled as
Passengers Are Victims
i'm Stoning of Cars


ousted Assemblyman of the 23d AS
sembly District, Brooklyn, is re-
ported to have said at meeting Of
strikers at Palm Garden:
"The Brooklyn Rapid Transit win
not dare to run any cars tomorrow,
Labor Day, while 100000 deter
mined workers are in the line OF
march,"
Yesterday unprecedented violencc
occurred in with one striker was
shot, others injured and several. po.
licemen beaten badly.
The worst outbreak followed the
breaking up Of the parade. The
mob was composed in Part of strik-
ers who had marched.
Mr.. Solomon, who is a candidate
for reelection, was made an hon.
orary member of the Amalgamated
on Sunday night.
2. j. Shea, president of the
Amalgamated, said to strikers who
gathered last night at a meeting In
Palm Garden:
81 am a conservative, but when
policemen shoot down our men like
dogs | think it is time for your
leaders to stop counselling you to be
orderly and avoid violent tactics.'
Police Quell Riot
Negotiations toward a settlement
Of the strike yesterday were marked
by statement from Receiver Lind.
ley M. Garrison, answering one fron,
William D. Mahon, president of the
Amalgamated, and firmly reiterat-
ing the stand of Federal Judge
Julius NJ. Mayer that no proposals
originating with the association or
any of its officers would receive CON-
sidcration
Shots were fired and stones and
other missiles endangered the safety
of bystanders shortly before o'clock
yesterday afternoon when the Brook
lyn police quelled a riot j. which
1000 strikers and their sympathizers
attacked trolley at the Soldiers and
Sailors Arch, near the entrance to
Prospect Park. One striker was shot
and sixteen were arrested
The riot occurred as the strikers
were leaving the park after the Labor
Day parade had broken up Many of
the men and four of those arrested
in
Detectives Francg Carberry, Alfred
Wing and Edward Tracy, the first to
give succor to the beleaguered car,
were felled and beaten by the strikers.
AS the fight progressed shots were
fired at them and they returned tho
Are.
Car Is Attacked
The trouble started when a Flatbush
Avenue car. manned by Charles Gore
don, motorr1an w. Favery, conductor.
and Patrolman William Helms. passed
the park entrance bound downtown.
The crowd was just emerging from
the park at q point near the monu-
ment where an excavation for new
subway offered fund of missiles. Seiz-
ing rocks the strikers hurled a vol!ev
at the car. Two women were hit. but
neither was seriously hurt.
AS the motorman increased the speed
O1 MS car Ine leSQeTS "a tHe iHoo SouEHS
the trolley rope and threw off the cur
rent. Patrolman Helms leaped to the
ground and was felled by the attackers.
At this point Detectives Tracy, Car
berry and Wing, who were Near by IN
an automobile Of Chief Inspector Win'
lam j. Lahcy, took hand. ;.
Here come the cops" shouted 'S
STRIKER. ..
1. st
mob, VINO, the police say, is known to
them, bur who has not yet been ars
rested.
Detectives Are Beaten
Detective Carberry was sei~d by the
throat by one of the strikers, who held
him while another pumme.ed his face
and head with stone. Detectives Wing
and Tracy Jared the same fate.
As to- tide Of the battle was turning
against the police Tracy made his way
to the waiting automobile and sped 70
TO the Lafayette monument. q mile
away, where reserves were at hand I'd
keep order during an address by Franks
lin D. Roosevelt.
AS soon as word CT the trouble
reached them the reserves. mounted
on horses and motorcycles, raced to
the scene in a spectacular charge. They
arrived in time to beat back the threat.
enlnS crowd mat SurSPQ TouHo inc Oe%
tectives. who were holding their ground
with drawn reviewers. The crowd dis
pcrsed, and the meters of the riot, as
well as the other participants, escaped.
A few minutes later the police heasa
that a man shot through the thigh, nc.
companied by twelve companions, was
at the Methodist Episcopal Hospital
for treatment. -
When detectives reached the hospi-
tai they found Joseph CORONA, 460 Pu-
laski Street, shot, but not seriously
w~unied. He was arrested after being
ID, tifed as q participant, and is being
detained at the hospital. His twelve
companions were taken in custody and
locked up in the Bergen Street station,
The Men Arrested
They gave their names as Isaac
straus. 1928. Halsey Street; Samuel ca
taldo, 646 President Street; Harris
Schwitzer, 12s East Second Street.
Manhattan; Maurice Goldstein, 3fI
East Tenth Street. Manhattan; Paua
Laehireo, a. Manhattan Avenue; Archi-
bald Mcbride. 2Ss Kingsland Avenue,