The evening world., 1908-12-01
WIVES REVIVE
STRIKE AFTER
TROOPS LEAVE
Driven by Threats They Force
Husbands Who Returned
to Quit Again.

The strike Of the Polish and Slovenian
brick and pottery workers at Perth Aaa-
boy. y. j.. was broken for few hours
this morning. when about three hundred
men went back to work In the Perth
Ambov. Rariian and Keasbey plants OF
the National Fireproofing Company.
Then the strikers who had remained
firm forced the wives and children OF
the weakkneed deserters into the
game.
All the women and children of the
men who had gone back 10 work were
herded from their homes by the strik-
ers and informed that unless they got
their husbands and fathers 10 quit work
their houses would be destroyed and
they would be killed.
Weeping and screaming the women
and their broods flocked TO the Perth
Amboy plant, stormed the gates and
rushed inside, imploring the men folk
10 forseke their jobs.
At the same time tho irreConcilabie
strikers gathered on a hillside near by,
TO the number of about one hundred.
fired revolvers. Deputy Sheriffs and
armed guards made rush for them
and forced them to dispense, but In the
mean time the tears and pleadIngs OF
the women and children had awaited and
every man in the big plant had thrown
away his tools and again gone on strike.
The workmen In the Raritan and keas-
hey plants quit an hour later.
Strikebreakers In, Troops Out.
This piece of strategy on the part Of
the strike leaders aroused the pottery
and brick yard owners to instant action.
Barges carrying 200 strikebreakers.
which We're towed down from this city
yesterday and had been anchored near
South Amboy, were moved UP the
Raritan River to the Perth Amboy plant
and there the strikebreakers debarked
and went To work.
Col. DUNCAN, Of the New Jersey Ma
tional Guard, and the two companies
of militia remaining on duty in the
strike district left at noon. special
train took the militiamen TO their homes
in New Brunswick and Princeton.
Sheriff Quackenboss with one hundred
deputies and a couple of hundred pri-
vate guards armed with rifles are now
doing picket duty and guarding the
plants of the companies involved in the
strike.
Bioodshed Almost Certain.
The private guards were recruited by
detective agency Of this city. They
are armed with powerful rifles ami have
been instructed TO use them There is
certain to be blsodshsd and rlotng if
the strikers move against this crowd of
reckless dsredevils recruited from the
slums OF New York.
To-day's demonstration by the strik
ers showed that they are armed with
revolvers. Having no union, they are
without strike benefits. Nearly all have
sources. Those who would go back to
work are cowed by the more dominant
spirits who have not hesitated 10 conB
sci violence.
For time this morning 1t appea7td
that the strike was about over. u his
was pay day at the various plants atoms
the Raritan River and the bosses seiHec
upon the portunity TO do some fine
work
1T Is the custom in the brick yard
and pottery works to hold back i've
weeks wages from the 81 a day an'
q "a a day employees. All the men ha'
coming TO them this two weeks hold
out and a few days pay for work don
/ before tie strike was declared
Many Faced Starvation.
They were on hand IN droves whe
the whistles blew at seven O'Clock thi
morning. Through Interpreters notiv
vas given that all t,ose who demande
their two weeks back pay would be in
stanliy DISCHARGED, while those who a.
cepted wha, was due, outside Of thai
would be given their old Jobs. Som
three hundred men, being penniless an
having wives and children facing stal
walton, accepted the terms Of the CON
pany and went back TO work
The understanding was that the
were to get a slight increase in wages
but not $50 day, The figure fixed b
the strikrs But the strike leaders ha
the women and children in reserve
They marched TO TIA" homes Of the
deserving brethren, displayed revolver
and knives ana forced the hank move
msnt which resulted In tht revival
the strike and the Introduction, Tor Ill
first time. Of strikebr-akers,
After the departure of the tTOoI
from Perth Amboy Sherif Quackenbo'
announced that he would not allow j.
deputies 10 protect strike breakers d
said also that the troops We're Will
tlat strike-breakers had been impUrte