St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-06
CALLS MADE FOR TROOPS.
Governor viii Investigate the
Situation Before Calling
Out Guards.
STRIKERS WANT THEIR CASH
Financial Troubles Of the
Company the Cause Of the
Outbreak.

NEW YORK, April 5.-The Staten
Island Terra Gotta company, at Spa
Springs, near Perth Amboy, N. j.,
of which ]. Edward Addicks is pres
ident. went into the hands of re-
ceivers a week ago. Lawyer George
V. Bacon, of Jersey City, and Mr..
Addicks were appointed temporary
receivers by the chancellor. The
employees of the company Monday
to the number of 600 went on a
strike. The wages due tie strikers
amount to nearly $4,000. 1t was
fumored among the 600 strikers that
they were to receive their wages to-
day They were much surprised to
find the Terra Gotta works in the
possession of deputy sheriffs. When
the company first learned that the
strikers meant to fight for their
money, Secretary Lyle notified
Sheriff Serviss, of MiddleseX county.
One hundred special deputies were
then sworn in.
Sheriff Serviss himself appeared
on the scene later. When he saw
the large number of strikers and
learned that they had thrown out
pickets and that the men were in
hiding in trenches near by, waiting
for the signal to attack the works,
he became alarmed.
He said his men were not prepared
to face so large a body of strikers
unless they had firearms. He tele-
graphed at once to the authorities
at Trenton for
FIFTY WINCHESTERS,
and to New York for fifty pistols and
ammunition. Shortly after 4 o'clock
Robert w. Lyle, secretary and man
ager of the company, drove up to the
works. The men grew greatly ex-
cited, Deputies HouseH and F'Iah-
erty marched out the. reserves
they had held within the works.
For four hours the strikers and
deputies faced each other upon
either side of the Pennsylvania rail-
road tracks. Ten minutes after he
arrived, Mr.. Lyle received a commit
tee of the strikers. The committee
told Mr.. Lyle they had just returned
from Trenton, where they had
learned the company was in the
hands OF a receiver. Mr.. Lyle told
them that the money due them was
in the bank, but it could not be
paid until certain legal matters were
adjusted.
IF you go to work tomorrow.
said Mr.. Lyle, you'll be paid for
one days work tomorrow night. If
you don't go to work you must not
prevent others from working. The
law must be obeyed and order must
prevail We must open the works
at once.''
An attempt will be made in the
morning to open the works. The
deputies expect ,trouble. 1t was
learned tonight that SIS, GOO had been
placed in the Middlesex bank, at
Perth Amboy to the credit of the re-
ceivers. The deputies will be re-
tanned until Saturday night of this
week. The strikers withdrew be-
fore dark from the works.
CALL FOR TROOPS
JERSEY CITY, N. j., April s.
Governor Worts, of New Jersey, who is
IN this city tonight, says that he has
received request for troops to sup
press the labor troubles at the Staten
Island Terra Gotta factory at. Spa
Springs. He says that he will not
take action until he can investigate.
This he will do tomorrow.
TRENTON, N. j., April 5.-A call
for troops at Spa Springs, a hamlet
near Doodbridge, MillIesex county.
has been received at the executive de-
partment. Gov. Werts is in Jersey
City and no further details are at
present obtainable here.