Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-04-06
.A LABOR RIOT FEARED
Governor WertS Asked to Send
 Troops to Spa Springs.
SIX HUNDRED UGLY STRIKERS.
The Employees of the Staten Island Terra Gotta Works Have Not Been Paid For Months. and the Company Is In the Hands of n Receiver.

JERSEY CITY, April 6-Govornor Werts of New Jorsoy. who Is in this city. says that ho has received request for troops to suppress tho labor troubles at the Stat on Island terra Cotta factory at Spa Springs. Hc says that he will take no action until hc can investigate This he is doing today.
 Tho staten Island Terra Gotta comDany at Spa Springs, near Perth A"b boy. N J.. of which ]. Edward Addirks, the Del aware candidate for United States sena- tor, is president, went into the hands of receivers n wcok ago. Lawyer George V. Bacon of Jersey City and MT. Addicks were appointed temporary receivers by tho chancellor
 The employees of the company have been paid only two weeks wages this year. Monday tho mon, numbering 600. went on n strike As a rulc, payments were mado by checks. and thcSc the men woro compelled to cash with tho stOrckccp CTS in Perth Amboy. Woodbridge and uIh CT adjacent places. The wages due th strikers amounts to nearly S2~ OO0. ] was rumOred among tho G0h StrihCrS tn !, they were to receive their wages Friday.
 They wcrc very much Surprl~rl tn fiui the terra cnttA works in I"~>, >. lon of the deputy shcriffS undcr c"lru ..ul of Dcp utieS William \. HuSsrl. WI iS >tatc detective. and James FlahCIty. city mar shal of Perth Amhuy When the COlupany first learned that the strikers meant to fight for their money. SCCrCtary Lyle mo- tiflcd sheriff Scrviss of Middlcscx county Ono hundred special deputies Were then sworn in.
 Armed Deputies Guard the Works.
 Shcriff Scrviss himself appeared on the scene later When he saw tho largo mum Der of strikers and learned that they had thrown out pickrts and that mon wcre in hiding in trenches near by, waiting for the signal to attack tho works, ho became alarmed He said his men wCrr not pro parCd To face so largo n body of strikers unless they had firearms. He tclrgraphcd at onCo to tho authorities at Trenton for 5d winchCStCrs and tO New York for j0 pistols and ammunition.
 shortly aftcrward Robert w. Lyle. st'C rctary and manager of tho company. dtovo up Ia the works. Tho mon grow greatly excited.
 Deputies HnssCll and Flahcrty marched out the reserves they had hold within tho works. For hours the strikers and tho deputies faced each other thus on either side of the Pennsylvania railroad tracks. Ten minutes after he arrived MT. Lyle received q committee of tho strikers. The committee told NIT. Lyle they had Just re turned from Trenton, where they had learned that tho company was in the hands of q receiver. MT, I.ylc told tho men that tho money due them was in tho bank. hut could not lo paid until certain ! legal matters were adjusted
 If you go tn work today, said Mir. Lyle, "you'll bo paid for one day ! work tonight. If you don't go tu work. you must not prevent others from working. i The law must hr ohyyed and order must prvNail Mrmu>t open the works at Oncc. - ! An attempt will ho madc tn opcn the works The deputies expect trouble It Was learned that Sl5. 000 had hcrn placed ] in the Middl,>'N County hank at Perth ] Amhny tu the credit ut the receivers. The ] strikers withdrew brlurr dark from the wurk~
 Governor WrrtS last night trlrsraphctl l Major General .jnSvph Plumr nf the na i tiunal guard tn meet him today at Fay i lors hotel in this city. The governor ap- l rrrhcndS trouble. and he desires to con suit with Major General Plume as to the adviSability of calling out the militia