The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-02-26
BOY TIRE W STONE
But as It Was Near the
Barnes's Plant He Was
Arrested.
STRIKERS CONTINUE ORDERLY
Twenty Men Are Now at
Work Police Guard
the "scabs.

The situation at the mill of the Barnes
Manufacturing Company, on West Side
avenue, Jersey City, where over one thou
sand employees are on a strike because
of the firm adding an extra hour to their
work day, remains practically unchanged
up to noon today.
A few more outsiders-residents of
Newark and New Yorl1-applied at the
mill this morning and were given jobs.
There are now about twenty men work
ing in the places of the strikers, but it
is generally believed that should the old
men decide to return, all these would be
discharged The strikers, however, re-
fuse to recede from their position and
declare that they will not return unless
the old hour schedule is adhered to. The
owners of the mill are equally firm, SO
the prospects of settlement of the diff
hculty seem as remote as ever.
Only twenty-eight policemen were
deemed necessary to protect the "scabs'
this morning. That number was made up
from the reserves of the different pre-
cincts and under command of Captain
Archie McKaig and Sergeant William
Duffy, marched from the Oakland ave-
nue. station to the scene of the strike
at six o'clock this morning. A number
of detectives and patrolmen in citizen s
clothes, were on hand and mixed with
the handful of strikers gathered in the
vicinity of the mill.
The police were stationed along Hobart
avenue, so that there would be no inter-
ference with men applying for work.
Only few of the strikers pickets were
on hand and they did not even approach
the new men AT eight O'Clock all but
fifteen of the policemen returned with
Captain Mckaig and the others remained
on duty for the day, under Sergeant
Duffy. About O'Clock this afternoon
the entire force will again be on hand
to protect the scabs returning to their
homes.
"A detective, holding by the collar of his
coat a beardless youth OF seventeen, head
ed platoon of forty policemen, followed
by a jeerlng mob of TWO hundred men ana
boys up West Newark avenue, Jersey
City Heights, shortly before six O'Clock
last night. The neighborhood was in
turmoil and everyone viewed askance
the youthful prisoner, speculating as 10
what hideous crime he must have COM
United to be entitled to the escort of SO
large a body of the 'preservers Of the
peace The inquiry on every lip was,
What has he done?' as the big body OF
blue coats followed the detective and his
prisoner in the direction of the Oakland
avenue police station. Here the youth
a laborer, of No. 12S st. Pauls avenue.
Detective Robert Pearson, who had him
in custody, preferred charge of disor-
la;e aud
the crowd that had followed the police
then realized for the first time that young
Daly's offense was something short OF
murder.
The "dsorderly conduct consisted of
throwing a stone. No one was hurt; and
the chances are that no arrest would
have been made had it not been that the
offence was committed within d few
blocks of where strike was in progress.
Daly's bad selection of a place to exercise
in the sport of stone throwing had been
his undoing.
Aside from the excitement of this Incl
dent, absolutely nothing occurred to mar
the quiet of the strike in progress at the
Barnes mills. But few of the locked-out
employees put in an appearance, and they
were aggravatingly orderly.
AS told in last nights News dozen
or more "scabs,' who applied for work
in response to advertisements published in
Sundays papers, were given jobs. A ma
jority of these came from Newark and
New York. They did not leave the mill at
noon-time, but closely guarded by the po-
lice they walked from the mill to West
Newark aveniie shortly after five o'clock
in the evening, where they boarded cars
for their homes.
A number of boys followed at safe
distance, hooting and jeering the
sscabs. = Among them was young DAILY.
Detective Pearson spied him and placed
him under arrest after a tussle, in which
the younger man was slightly worsted.
Overtures looking towards a settlement
of the difficulty were made. yesterday by
Business Agents r. F. Conroy of the
Building Trades Council, r. E. Edwards
Of the Carpenters District Council and
the representative of Mill Wood Workers
Union No. 11S, to which the locked out
men belong. 1t is reported that the
Barnes people refused to consider any
proposition except unconditional sur
render" to their terms of an additional
work hour each day. This ended the ne
gotiations.
Everything was quiet and orderly in the
vicinity of the mill all day yesterday,
and but for the presence of so many
policemen no one would have thought a
strike was in progress But few of the
strikers, except those assigned to picket
duty, to watch where the stuff from the
mill was delivered, put in an appearance.
None of the men who applied for the
job of the locked-out employees were in
anyway interferred with, and there was
no disturbance of any kind except the
incident recorded above.
The executive board of the United
Building Trades Council Of Hudson Coun-
ty will meet tonight at Council Hall, IL
Hoboken avenue, Jersey City Heights,
when matters in connection with the diff
ficulty will be considered.
This morning before Judge Murphy, in
the Second Criminal Court, the youth
who was arrested by Detective Pearson
yesterday afternoon was discharged A
number of witnesses testified that he had
not thrown stones at the strikers. 1t was
said that DAILY will prefer a charge of as
sault against the detective
Now y = god time 70 begin taking Hoods
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