Perth Amboy evening news., 1908-12-02
National Laborers
Go Back for
$l.4O a Day.
FIRING IN NIGHT
But No Trouble Resulted and
the Foreigners Hung About
Gates of All Three Plants
This Morning. Factor
les Now Busy.

After being on strike for over a
week the employees of the Perth
Amboy, Standard and Raritan plants
of the National Eireproofing COM
pany returned to work this morning.
Yesterday $50 strike-breakers from
New York were brought here on
scows and put to %crk IL the after
noon after few OF the strikers, who
had returned to work in the morn
ing, quit. These outside laborers
were shippei back to New York this
afternoon.
The sight OF new men working in
their places was too much for the
strikers and last night they assem-
bled at Keasbey, talked over the
matter and decided to come back to
work this morning. When the
whistles blew at o'clock this morn
ing, at the gates of plants 1, and
3. there were many of the former
employees on hand. John Fritzsing-
er, Guy Weaver and Victor w. Main,
superintendent of ! the respective
plants, asked them what they want
ed. They said that they wanted to
come back to work. The superin-
tendents told them that they had
come back yesterday and quit later
because they were afraid The strik-
ers shrugged their shoulders and
said "Meestair Boss. we no 'fraid
now, we want work"
Superintendent Fritzsinger told
the men at the Perth Am boy plant
to come back again at 9 o'clock and
superintendent Weaver told his men
to wait outside for a little while. At
z O'Clock the strike-breakers were
put to work again at the Perth Am
boy and Standard plants, but they
had been on duty only short time
when they were ordered back to
their quarters on the scows-
At the Clay banks.
The thirty employees of the Brink
man clay banks returned to work
yesterday morning at $3.50 day, an
increase OF twenty cents. Until two
months ago tine, men received $3.50
and they claim thatsthey struck last
week because they wanted the for
mer rate. Mr. Brinkman Is building
a factory near his clay banks at Sand
Hills.
The 100 employees of the Ostrand-
er Works are expected to return to-
morrow, as are the fifty men of the
Raritan River Clay Company, better
known as Isaacs.
At the Perth Amboy Firebrick
Works the men have not returned,
but they are likely, 1t was stated, to
come In tomorrow morning. A con-
ference Of the officials of the COM
pany was held in New York today.
This place employs 125 laborers.
Joseph Dudich, of Keasbey, who
was arrested as one of the ringlead-
ers of the strikers, was held under
$1,000 bail.
Officials at Plant.
President and General Manager
w. ID. Henry, Eastern Manager H. M.
Keasbey. Assistant Manager Roland
P. Keasbey and several other off,
tcials of the National Fireprooffng
Company were at the plants when
the whistles blew and on seeing that
the former employees were disposed
to return, called off the strike-break..
ers and notified the superintefidents
to let the men In.
In the meantime Superintendent
Main, of the Raritan plant, had a
crowd Of 200 at the gate desirous of
returning to work. Mr.. Main let
them in shortly after Z o'clock and,
with the exception of five or six, the
entire 200 employees of the plant are
now working. About $50 Of the
strikers returned at the Raritan
plant yesterday morning but at noon
100 of them quit for fear of violence
from their compatriots. The other
fifty stayed at work yesterday after
noon and, in order that they would
be sure Of being on hand this morn
ing, most Of them spent the night In
the factory.
New Men Seek Work.
At the Standard plant 130 men
returned to work. Although the full
complement of the plant is over 500,
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