New-York tribune., 1921-11-27
Milk Workers
And OnloOkers
Beaten i'm Riot
Company Reports Attack
on Five Employees in
Crowded Car in Which
Passengers Are Beaten
Strikers ClaimUpperHand
say They Will Have Motion
Picture Cameras at Work
This Week to Film Police

publie interest in the milk workers.
,tr;ke was considerably enlivened yes-
terSay By The following Developments:
petails of an early morning riot in q
crowded street car. in which disinter-
ssssd Passengers were said to have
been badly beaten along with five milk
company employees, were made public
hv otseials of the Borden's Farm Prod
ucts Company.
On Behalf Of the strikers, George w.
Briggs, their leader, issued statement
denouncing claim that "the strike is
adead issue so far as the distributors
are concerned" and asserted that "the
strikers. and not the companies, con-
tinue to hold the winning hand in con-
nsction with the controversy"
Distributors Claim Victory
For the distributors, l. Elkin Nathans.
secretary of the New York Milk Con
ference Board. again warned the public
against payment of milk accounts to
former employees of the distributors.
and gave details of one arrest in this
connection; ne also reiterated his con-
tention that New York is getting all
the milk it needs" and that victory in
the strike is held by the distributors.
Announcement was made by Strike
Chairman Briggs that F. H. La
Guardia, President of the Board of
Aldermen, informed women relatives
and friends of the strikers that thew
possess right to talk to EMPLOYEES
Of the companies on the latter's
wagons, despite the injunction of SUI
preme Court Justice Charles Nj. Kelby.
which goes so far as to prohibit cali
persons acting in aid" of the strikers
from "persisting in talking to" the en-
ployees.
Union leaders claimed to have
gashered "129 instances of strike
bmaking activities" on the part of
pcllcemen guarding milk wagons. and
evidence In this regard will begin
Tuesday, with three movie cameras
mounted on three fast automobiles"
Early Morning Disorder
The street car disorder, according
70 officials of the Borden plant at 448
East 1S0th Street, occurred at o'clock
yesterday morning on crowded east
bound 180th Street car, on which five
Borden drivers were passengers.
according to stories told by the
drivers later, the car was stopped sud
denly when within about a block of
the plant, the lights were switched off
and gang of strikers or strike SYM
lattizers came in by the front entrance
and attacked the five company en-
ployees. In the melee number of the
other passengers were reported to have
been beaten.
One driver, Oliver Bonneschine, was
Knocked, unconscious.
When I came to-" he said, "I found
was the only one in the car, even the
rev having departed. I was lying on
ne floor, with overcoats, parcels and
Kher belongings of the passengers.
iropped in their haste to get away, ly-'
ing all about me-"
; Details of the riot were reported to
the tlftieth Precinct police, but no re-
port by the latter was made public.
Violence in Jersey
Two other acts of violence reported
occurred IN New Jersey. In one, in
Palisade Park borough, fifteen men
attacked three employees on an auto
truck and were chased away while they
we're attempting to overturn the truck.
The other occurred in Jersey City,
when driver was assaulted. Two
arrests were made.
with policeman on every wagon
sne companies are sending out and with
the women's police reserves called out,
It is utterly absurd on the part of the
distributors to claim that the strike is
over" said Strike Chairman Briggs. "If
they feel that way, why is it that they
are going around pleading with and
begging the union men to come back to
work? Why, the plant superintendents
are even sending their wives on such
m. ssions.
THE fact of the matter is that the
companies know they're licked and are
making last effort to break the
morale of the men. They can't do it.
! feel better to-day about the situation
than ever before
Secretary Nathans claims that on
Friday the companies had S,028 out Of
s,S42 wagons in service and that they
distributed between IS and 80 per cent
Of the normal supply of milk. L had
men out to-day checking up and they
reported that the companies had less
tnan 900 wagons on the streets and
mat the distribution was less than
% l-3 per cent.
!, THE companies are not getting out
she milk, despite everything they say,