New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-21
pattles Scores of Police
as Big Liner Arrives
Manned by Strike Break
ers of Upper Classes
% Shots Fired, One
Hurt, 3 Arrested
Down With Dukes!' Cry
Of Hundreds; Banners
Ieer British Aristocracy

& mob of several hundred men
.n.bed the Cunard Steamship Com
,sny's docks at the foot of West Four
..snth Street last night when the liner
{ .oaitania warped into her pier shortly
sfter z o'clock, following a record
Areaking trip across the Atlantic with
makeshift crew, composed largely Of
members of the English upper classes.
These had manned the ship when a
.trike had threatened TO tie her up. 1t
rss against them and their action that
,he rioters last night staged their
demcnsration.
The police guard of forty men that
had been thrown about the piers in
.,pectstion of trouble was compelled
"a charge and use clubs freely before
;he attackers could be dispersed.
Soon after 6 o'clock Captain Miller,
shore officer at the Cunard docks,
Piers Sd and 55. notified Police Head
quarters by telephone that mob was
gathering near the piers and asked
sbat reserves be dispatched there.
Sergeant Thomas Hughes of the
Charles Street police station and Ser
geant Michael Kelly of the West Twen-
fieth Street station, with fifteen men
from each precinct, were rushed to the
docks, where pickets with banners de-
nouncing "aristocratic strike breakers
we're parading.
Strike Breaker Is Beaten
The mob was in an ugly mood. This
was demonstrated at once when negro
strike breaker named Philip Brown,
Giving at 148 West Fortythird Street,
dashed toward the police, streaming
Sith blood pursued by a band of str1k-
ers, who, he said, had kicked and
cubbed him.
A detachment of patrolmen, led by
patrolman John Dig, of the Twentieth
Street station, charged men VINO were
pursuing Brown. The mob scattered
as the police advanced. Twenty shots
we're fred by the police, who captured
three Of Browns assailants.
When the Aquitania reached her pier
there were shouts of Down with the
Dukes!" and several hundred men
surged toward the dock. Captain Will
liam ]. Clark, of the Charles Street po-
lice station, directed a charge, and a
determined advance was made with
clubs and weapons. The mob fell back,
but again formed and, with execrations,
returned to the attack. Several police
rushes were made before additional re-
series arrived, and the crowd was
glshed back to the far side Of the
street.
The Aquitania was not made fast un-
III 8:l8 p. M, and by that time the po-
lice had the disorderly element fairly
we'll under control. Captain Sir James
Charles and Staff Captain F. E. Storey
Of the Aquitania viewed the crowd be-
Iof sassengers were permitted to land.
Parade With Banners
After the police charged the banner
Tavers continued to parade until they
also ware forced away from the docks.
their banners displayed, among other
legends:
Dukes and counts are strike break
ers eA the Aquitania. What about it?
English nobility goes TO work as
strike breakers"
!, atrlke-breaking aristocrats stand by
snelr class. Strike breakers stand by
JuuIS.
Although there was disorder for
nearly two hours in the vicinity of the
docks the only serious injury was that
suffered by Brown, the negro strike
ofeaker: he was attended by DIR. Rem
rev, Of the New York Hospital. The
negro was employed by the Atlantic
transport Company. The men arrested
were W. Rooney, thirty-two years old,
nreman, of 207 Tenth Avenue; Ernest
bradford, twenty-three, fireman, living
az az the Terminal Hotel and Henry
aScNaily. twenty-five fremen, Of 25
ooutn Street. The prisoners were
'narged with felonious assault.
Passengers Are Protected
All hrst class passengers of the Aqui-
Iania and part of the second class list
were landed under police protect on
"isnin an hour after the ship docked.
4 Stflkebreakers who participated in
81 sae disorder, are said to have been on
ts snsir way to meeting to nave been
aeld in Firemen's Hall on Twenty
second Street. The disorder is said
" me police to have been precipitated
~ y inliamatory banners carried by Sim
4elners, among whom were FIVE women.