The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-30
800 Armed Men Guard
SCoW Load Of
Breakers.
WADDELL AND MAHON
PROVIDE BIG FORCE
fOnly Thirty Men Go Back to
Work, and Officials Fear
Trouble.
MILITIA GUARD FOR
THOSE in FACTORY
Arrival of New Workers May
Precipitate a Pitched Battle
Any Moment.
Especial to tn. pven,ng star. !


NEW YORK, Nov. 30.-0ne thousand
strfke-breakers, guarded by 800 special
deputies, who were heavily armed, left
the foot of CortIandt street mt o'clock
this afternoon in a huge scow belong
dng to the National FireproodAg Co4-
pany.
The captain of the tug which had the
scow In tow said his orders were to
deliver the strike-breaI<ers to the plant
of the National Fireproofng Company
ON the Rnritan river at Keasbey, near
Perth AmbOy.
The strike breakers were recruited by
the strike breaking firm of Waddell &
Mahon, with offices at 1888 Broadway.
As they were employed they were
sent quietly aboard the big scow, start
ing last Saturday, and since then Wad-
dell & &Mahon have been picking up all
of the professional strile-breakers on
their lists, bringing many of them from
other cities.
The strike breakers on the scow and
at Perth Amboy will be in charge of
James Waddell and Archibald Mahon.
of the firm, and several of their picked
rcutenants.
They have started for Perth Amboy
IN the belief that there is to be serious
trouble, and that the militia on guard
there cannot prevent the riots they ex-
rect They hope to make a landing
direct from the river to the plants.
[Froin Staff Correspondent
PERTH AMBOY, Nov. 30.-Riots are
expected late this afternoon and to-
night among the clay-pit strikers, and
tho militia is preparing for trouble.
Thirty men went back to work today
ut the small Raritan River Fireproofing
Companys plant, across the river from
the big plants where the principal
trouble exists, and these men are likely
to be attacked when they leave the
works.
Arrangements arc being made by
Colonel DUNCAN, in command of the
troops. to give these men military
Escort to their homes. But the fury of
the strikers is so great now that 1t is
feared that they will not wait to attack
these strkebreakers in their homes, but
will attack the militia escorting them.
Liquor in large quantities is being
en1uggled into the martial-law district
where the saloons have been closed,
and its effect was apparent as early
as noon today, when there were a num-
ber of drunken street brawls In Keas-
hey
y When the whistle blew at o'clock
this morning not one of the 1000 men
on strike at the Keasbey works went
back to work The companies an
nounced that the men would be given
until noon to claim their old jobs, and
that II they did not report then their
places would be declared vacant and
that they would be paid off tomorrow
and evicted from the companies
houses
Thirty Back mt work
AS soon as it was known in Keas-
hey that thirty of the 275 men en-
ployed in the Raritan river plant had
gone back to work several hundred
striking Hungarians gathered on the
brow of a hill overlooking the works
and hooted and howled at the men,
loudly threatening to kill them when
they came out. AS result the thirty
were so terrified that, although they
were inside of the plant, they refused
to go to work and sought shelter from
the jeers of the strikers in the interior
Of the plant.
Plans were then made(by the strikers
to attend to the men asN soon as they
would leave the plant. Colonel Dun
gan assigned captain to protect the
thirty with a company of militia.
.Adjutant- General Gilkyson has been
communicated with, and it is under
stood that he has issued orders for the
two companies at Elizabeth, one at
Plaineld and one at Somerville to hold
themselves in readiness to proceed to
Keasbey on an hours notice.
Henry NJ Keasbey, general manager
of the National Fireproofing Company
and director of the strike for all OF the
plants. has clearly intimated the course
he has already started to pursue. He
rs called on a large agency In New
terk city for 1000 strike-breakers.