The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-25
MILITIA
TO QUELL
RIOTERS
Fort Orders State Troops
to Proceed to
KeaSbey.
FOUR STRIKERS ARE
SHOT BY DEPUTIES
Fifty Law Officers Fire When
Men Throw Stones at
Them.
FlREPROOFING PLANT
STORMED BY MOB
Two of Wounded May Die.
Riot-Riven Townin Wild
Excitement.
BLOODSHED EXPECTED
TO START TONIGHT
Clay Workers Along Raritan in
Frenzy and Pitched Battle
Seems Imminent.
Two of Wounded May Die.
Riot-Riven Townin Wild
Excitement.
BLOODSHED EXPECTED
TO START TONIGHT
Clay Workers Along Raritan in
Frenzy and Pitched Battle
Seems Imminent.
Especial to the Evening star.l

Especial to the Evening star.1
PERTH AMBOY, Nov. 25.--FollSwfng
the firing upon and serious wounding
of four in a party of raiding strikers
today by nifty deputy sheriffs at the
plant of the National Fireprocnng COM
pany, st Keasby, Just west OF here.
Governor Fort, mt Trenton. ordered ont
the militiB.
Serious trouble Is expected tonight.
The strikers, numbering more than
1000 men, are ighIy innamed over the
shooting down OF their comrades. and
it IL 0,ured that they may be goaded
to desperation by the sight of the
militia, which win arrive here before
dark.
The special call for the militia orders
four companies, comprising the Tren-
ton battalion and the Red Bank Troupe.
to proceed at once to Keasbey. The
Trenton troops were under way on a
special train within two hours, and
the Red Bank troop was equally quick.
Colonel Duncan was given command
of the militia by the governor, and he
dispatched Assistant Quartermaster-
General Jenkinson to Keasbey in a
swift automobile in advance of the
| troops
Trouble at the clay working pits
along the Raritan, which have been in
revolt for week, the strikers demand
ling more pay, broke out in violent edup-
| tion today when party of the strikers
defied the armed deputies at the Ma.
| tional plant and tried to break through
their ranks and get into the works.
The firing of hundreds of shots
alarmed the vicinity before the exact
details were known and Sheriff Quack-
enbos and Prosecutor Berdine, at New
Brunswick, got into telephone COM
muncation with Governor Fort, at
| Trenton. They asked for the militia.
| The Governor demanded more infor-
nation. 1t came quickly with the de-
tails that four or the strikers had been
shot down, two seriously wounded and
that after storming the offices of the
National Fireprooflng Company the
strikers, aided by more than thou
sand others, threatened to return and
take a sanguinary revenge. Then the
troops were ordered out.
| 1000 Involved.
| All of the men employed in the plant
of the National Fireproofng Company.
nearly 1000 of them. went on strike
last week because the company did not
increase wages Immediately after the
| election of Taft Trouble was feared
and the company swore in the deputies,
armed them and gave them instruc-
tions not to admit any of the strikers
| into the plant.
| score or more of the strikers today
marched on the plant The deputies
| refused to permit them to enter by the
main gateway. The strikers are then
said to have attempted to scale fence.
from which they were beaten back by
the deputies.
Then number of men among the
strikers are said to have hurled stones
and bricks at the deputies. 1t was then
i that the deputies opened fire on the
strikers, each of the deputies firing
several shots.
Four Fall Wounded.
Four of the strikers fell. wounded.
The others retreated hurriedly, ran
around to the front of the factory
building and stoned the offices. break
ing every window and putting the cler-
ical force to flight. Several of the
stones went through windows and
struck young men and women who did
not have time to flee from their desks.
The deputies marched on these men
then, coming out of the office doors and
threatening to fire again. The strikers
retreated into the business part Of the
town and to their homes.
The deputies picked up the four fallen
strikers and hurried them to the hos
pital in Perth Amboy. BY that time
the town was wildly excited and crowds
gathered on the corners and there was
much talk of marching on the plant Of
the National Fireprooing Company and
wrecking it.
Sheriff Quackenbos ordered all the
saloons in Keasbey closed and prom
ised quick action.
The thousands of workers in the fire-
clay manufacturing plants along the
Raritan had been led to believe during