Police Scared Pickets

Philadelphia Inquirer, December 29, 1903 — Police Scared Pickets, Isaac Burnstine of 225 Byron Street
Philadelphia Inquirer, December 29, 1903
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Camden Man Said He Had Been Threatened With Violence. Acting on the advice of Prosecutor Lloyd, of Camden, yesterday, the police sent a patrol wagon and several policemen to the home of Isaac Burnstine, a tailor, of 225 Byron street, who claimed that strike pickets were loitering about his home and threatened him with violence if he went to work in a Philadelphia store in which a strike had been declared by the United Garment Workers' Union. Burnstine claims that a number of tailors employed in the store were laid off and the union ordered a strike. He continued to work. When his wife went to purchase food yesterday morning, she saw the men and telephoned her husband's employers. The latter notified Prosecutor Lloyd. When the police appeared on the scene the pickets left hurriedly. Burnstine did not go to work.

Camden Man Said He Had Been Threatened With Violence

Acting on the advice of Prosecutor Lloyd, of Camden, yesterday, the police sent a patrol wagon and several policemen to the home of Isaac Burnstine, a tailor, of 225 Byron street, who claimed that strike pickets were loitering about his home and threatened him with violence if he went to work in a Philadelphia store in which a strike had been declared by the United Garment Workers' Union.

Burnstine claims that a number of tailors employed in the store were laid off and the union ordered a strike. He continued to work. When his wife went to purchase food yesterday morning, she saw the men and telephoned her husband's employers. The latter notified Prosecutor Lloyd. When the police appeared on the scene the pickets left hurriedly. Burnstine did not go to work.

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