Evening journal., 1895-04-06
A LABOR RIOT FEARED.
Governor Werts Asked to Send
Troops to Spa Springs.
SIX HUNDRED UGLY STRIKERS

SIX HUNDRED UGLY STRIKERS
Tile Employees Of tIis Staten Island fArte
Gotta Works Have Not Been Paid ros
Months. ana the Company Is In the
Hands of q Receiver.
JERSEY CRY. April @. 6.--Governor WertsI
Of New Jersey, who Is in this city. says
that he has received a request for troops
to suppress the labor troubles at the Stat
Oh Island terra Gotta factory at Spa
Springs lIe says that he will take mo-
action until ho cnn investigate This he
is doing today.
The Staten Island Terra Gotta company
at Spa Springs near Perth Amboy, N.
j., Of which j. Edward Addioks, the Del
aware candidate for United States sena-
tor. IS president, went into the hands Of
receivers O week ago. Lawyer George V.
Bacon Of Jersey City and Mr. AddicIs
were appointed temporary receivers by the
chancellor,
The employees of the company have
been paid only two weeks wages this
year Monday the men, numbering 600,
went on a strike As q rule. payments
were made by checks, and those the men
wero compelled TO cash with tho storekeep-
ars in Perth Amboy, Woodbridge and 9th
sr adjacent places. The wages due the
strikers amounts to nearly $2s, 600. 1T
was rumored among tho GOO strikers that
they were to receive their wages Friday.
Thoy were very much surprised to find
the terra Gotta works in possession OF tho
deputy shoriifs under command Of Dep
utios william a. Hossell who is state
detective, and james Flahorty city mar
| shal of Perth Amhoy. When the company
/ first learned that the strikers meant TO
/ fight for their money, Secretary Lyle no
| titled sheriff Serviss Of Middlesex county.
one hundred special deputies were then
sworn In
Armed Deputies Guard the Works.
Shoriff Serylss himself appeared on the
seeno later When he saw the large num-
bor Of strikers and learned that they had
| thrown out piokets and that mon were in
hiding in trenches near by, waiting for the
| signal to attack the works, he became
alarmed He said his men were not pre-
| pared to face so largo a body of strikers
unless they had firearms He telegraphed
at once to the authorities at Trenton for
| so winehestors and to New York for so
| pistols and ammunition
Shortly afterward Robert w. Lyle, sec
rotary and manager Of the company, drove
up to the works. The mon grow greatly
excited.
Deputies H0ssell and Flahorty marched
out the reserves they had held within the
works For hours tho strikers and the
deputies faced each other thus on either
side of the Pennsylvania railroad tracks.
Ten minutes after he arrived Mr.. Lyle
received a committees OF the strikers. The
committee told Mr. Lyle they had just re-
turned from Trenton, where they had
learned that the company was in the
hands ol a receiver. Mr.. Lyle told the
mon that the money due them was in the
bank, but could not be paid untl certain
legal matters were adjusted
"If you 80 to work today, said Mr.
lyle, you'll be paid for one days WORK
tonight II you don't. 90 70 work, yot
must not prevent others from working
Tho law must be obeyed, and order mus
prevail. Womust open the works at once.
An attempt Will he made to open th
works Tho deputies expect trouble.
was learned thar $4,000 had hccn plaeeI
in tho Middlosox County bank at Pertl
Amboy "a the credit Of the receivers, III
strikers Withdrew before dark from tn
works
Governor Werts last night telegraphe'
Major General Joseph Plume Of the ma
tional guard TO meet him today at Tay
lor's hotol in this city The governor ap
prehends trouble and he desires TO con
suit with Major General Plume as to tn
adyisahility Of calling out tho militia.