Perth Amboy evening news., 1908-11-23
MOB ORDERS
HUNDREDS TO
LEAVE WORK
Laborers in Clay Plants Quit
Their Posts as Armed
Horde Approaches.
SHERIFF ORDERS OUT
A POSSE OF DEPUTIES
No Formal Demands Made
BY Strikers--Take Shotgun
From An Office Man.

Over 1000 men, the laborers enn-
ployed at the various clay plants on
this side of the Raritan river be-
tween this city and Valentines, quit
work this morning. They have made
no demands on their employers, but
it is understood that they want more
pay.
AS far as can be learned, the
strike movement started shortly af-
ter O'Clock this morning at the
Perth Amboy plant of the National
Fireproofing Com pany, when all OF
the men quit work and started to
make the employees of the other
plants do likewise. The bowling
mob armed themselves with pieces
of pipe, sticks, stones and other
weapons and visited every clay plant
where they ordered the men to stop
work.
The foreigners arrived at the
plant of the Perth Amboy friedrich
Company shortly after 10 o'clock
and made every laborer quit. Joseph
Hornsby went outside and tried to
scare the men with shotgun, but
they took it away from him. He
says he never saw such a gang of
men in that vicinity before and esti-
mated that there were over 500 In
it.
At the Ostrander plant the mob
appeared at 1890 o'clock and or
dered out the $50 employees there.
AT the other two plants of the Ma
tional Fireproofng Company, the
plant of the Raritan Clay Company,
the Didier-March plant. Valentines
factory, several other plants and all
the clay banks the mob, which
steadily increased in size, appeared
and made the men employed stop
work.
Chief Burke. of the local police,
and Sheriff Quackenboss were ap-
pealed to for help, but as all of the
plants except the Perth Amboy plant
of the National Fireproofing Com
pany were outside of the city limits,
Chief Burke said he could not aid
them. The latter plant the chief
said he would protect. Sheriff
Quackenboss, when he learned OF
the trouble, sent word here for City
Marshal Walters TO get Constable
James F. O'Brien and a posse of meE
and go to the assistance of the
plants The sheriff himself will be
here this afternoon.
Superintendent j. c. Rossi said this
afternoon that the trouble started at
the National Fire Proofng Company q
plant in this city shortly after : clock
this morning when all the men quit. He
said, however, that there was no doubt
that the strike had been pre-srranged.
Mr.. Rossi says his company pays the
men $l.35 cents day and no demand
has been made for an increase.
Mr.. Rossi says that some of the other
plants pay only $1.10 day and that
he could not understand why the men
had struck at this time. AS National
plants have orders for number of big
New York buildings, to deliver at once,
the works cannot be shut down. Al
though there has as yet been no vio-
lenee trouble is expected tomorrow
morning, as Mr.. Rossi thinks about
eighty per cent. of his men will return
and that the other twenty per cent. win
try to stop them.
City Marshal Walters has six depu-
ties at one of the factories and Sheriff
Quaekenboss arrived here at o'clock
this afternoon to make arrangements
for placing deputies at the other fac
tories. The sheriff, Chief Burke and
Mr.. Rossi had a conference at the po-
lice station here this afternoon.