Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-05-25
New Jersey Terra Gotta Officials
Resent Alleged Interference Of
PreSserS in Strike.
HAVE JOINT COMMITTEE
The Company Refuses to ReCOg-
nize Pfessers, Claiming that
They Have No Grievance.

The first definite statements in the
strike now in progress at the New
Jersey terra Gotta plant in Catharine
street were obtained by the NEWS
today, and they indicate plainly the
attitude taken by the company and
the men who are out, as well as the
status of the pressers, in the eyes of
the company, in regard to the diff
Guilty which has been in effect now
for more than week.
I The officials say that they are will
| ling to treat with the laborers anent
settlement of the trouble, but that
they will not countenance the Gas
they term it) interference of the
pressers who, the officials say, have
no grievance.
The pressers, on the other hand
assert that they have grievance,
maintaining that they could not han
die clay mixed by non-union men.
The Company's Side OF 1t.
! The statement made by Superin-
Is as follows:
"On Thursday morning of last
week the laboring men quit work.
They made no demand. but simply
stopped work. We tried to find the
trouble, and that took several days
Meanwhile committee of five
had been named, composed of three
pressers and two of the laborers, but
we would not recognize them, as the
pressers had no grievance, and some
were still at work. They had no in
terest in the trouble, as far as we
could see. The pressers were laid of
temporarily simply because there was
no clay to work with and no labor
ers to take the moulds from them. II
there was claKato work with, the
pressers would be at work now, al
! far as we are concerned. They are
on our payrolls and are not on strike
I'VE Informed the laborers tina
we would receive their committee il
our office last Monday morning a
| 1890 o'clock, and promised to give
them an answer. l had been givel
authority by the officers of the com
pany to make settlement with them
But the pressers insisted on attend
ing the conference and we wouldn'
agree to that.
Had the laborers sent commit
tee of their own to us we would have
made concessions and the matter
might have been settled. The onl,
thing is that the company can't stan(
for outside interference We ar'
ready to treat with the laborers, bu
not with the pressers."
The Stand of the Pressers.
A committee of pressers came t
the NEWS with tne following state
menti
"There being rumor to the effec
that the New Jersey Terra Gotta Com
pany has been willing to settle th
difficulty between the men on strik
at their plant is not the case, ther
being a committee appointed by th
terra Gotta union of five men whicl
the company has refused to confe
with. Any time they are satisfied t
meet this committee the member
are willing to give them a confer
ence. Committee"
The pressers' members of the join
committee of five are Henry Sand
beck, Nels Christensen and Joh
Walluff. Two laborers were also o
it.
There have been no new develor
ments in the actual negotiations be
tween the company and tn men.
The officials at the Perth Ambo
Cigar Factory said this morning tina
there are still few of the striker
who have not yet returned to worl
but in all probability the entire fore
would be attending to their duties o
Monday. "As we only work a haI
day on Saturday, many of the en-
ployes lay off, and that probably ha
something to do with the others nc
, returning today" said the official
Now n & Echn Staff