The morning journal-courier., 1908-11-26
SIX STRIKERS SHOT DOWN BY SHERIFFS Seven Hundred Foreigners AL tacking Americans in Jer. sey Factory Are Re.
 pulsed. MILITIA PATROLS STREETS
 -~----------4---------- Strikers Flee as Comrades Fall. But Threaten Reyenge--Mob Armed
 With Pitchforks and
 Revolvers.
MILITIA PATROLS STREETS

Perth Amboy N J., Nov. 25,-Fol- lowing q pitched battle between 700 strikers and twelve deputy sheMffs to- day at the factory of the National Fire Proohng company at Keasby, near here, In which six of the strikers were shot down, Governor J Franklin Fort, in response to a call for troops, dis patched four companies of the state national guard at Trenton to the scene and tonight the streets are pa- troled by 25o soldiers
 Intense excitement prevails. for the strikers declare the deputies were not justified in firing upon them Two of tho wounded men are dying in the hos pital here and the four others wounded arc painfully hurt. Although Koasby was quiet tonight the citizens fear for the morrow when the strikers threaten to renew the attack on the plant of the Fire Proohng company For two days there has been rioting at Keashy and number of manufacturing towns along the Raritan river Two weeks ago the mon employed by the Raritan Clay company struck for higher wages The strikers marched up the river 10 the plant of the Perth Amhoy Fire | Brick company and induced the men there to go out Then, each succeed ing day the strikers, constantly greater in number marched to other towns 10 induce employees to leave their work
 Nearly all the strikers are foreigners and they say that they were given 10 understand before election that lf Taft was elected their pay would bc ro- stored to S15O a day Tho officials at the factories say that no such promise was made.
 There was q clash between tho dep utes and the strikers al Keasby yes terday which came near resulting in a battle
 number ot American workmon have remained on duty at the Are proofng plant and the foreigners were particularly bitter toward them
 Early to-day a mob of strikers gath cred around thc factory in Kcashy It was observed that the foreigners wero armed with heavy iron pines, pitch forks. clubs stones and some of them with reyolvers, tho police say When 1 Chief Burke sent q man to bring lunch to tho deputies he was met with a shower of stones which compelled him to retreat The man succeeded later In leaving tho factory unohservdd and getting tho food he was sent for As he was returning to the factory the strikers caught sight of him and i'm mediatoly there was a general attack
 But the man gained the factory with out being injured Then there was a i volloy of stones which smashed nearly every window in the factory ! According to the chief tho strikers swarmed to tho door and many of them ] climbed tho fence surrounding the ! building Matters had then become go serious. he declared that inc deputies
 were compelled to fire 10 protect them 1 selves
 Al least a dozen shots were fired point blank at the strikers and six men fell So far as known the strikers ! did not return the fire. tpon seeing
 their comrades fall the workmen fed. l leaving inc wounded lying on the ! --rnurd