Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-10-31
GOVERNOR FORT
IN JERSEY CITY
VIEWING STRIKE
Chief Executive Hurries to Scene
of Disorder Following Talk
with General Sadler.
PERISHABLE FREIGHT
CONTINUES TO SPOIL
Seven Hundred Strike=breakers
at Work, but No Vio-
lence Develops. ~, i

JERSEY CITY, Oct. Following
Acknowledgement sadIer's visit to this
city Saturday for the purpose of fn-
vestigating the strike situation and his
report TO Governor Fort, the latter il
now In this city to investigate matters
for himself. 1T is expected that after
talking with city officials, representa-
tives of the strikers and the express
companies he Will reach his decision ns
to the necessity of calling out troops
to protect express company property.
The striking drivers and helpers are
holding a meeting this afternoon, at
which 1t ia expected important action
will be taken.
Although Sunday calm con-
tinued today in the express driy-
ers' strike here, the companies
find the situation increasingly seri-
Gus through the financial loss en-
tailed by the spelling OF the perishable
goods they, are still unable to move.
At the depots of all the express COM
panies there are thousands of dollars
worth of perishable express matter that
they are utterly unable to transport
in spite of the hundreds of strikc-
breakers that have been brought here.
The men believe this fact alone viii
bring about a victory over the COM
panies, which have so far refused all
of the demands of the strikers.
There has been no revival of the
bloody riots that marked every day of
the strike last week, and the strike
leaders declare that by abandoning
violence they will force the companies
to terms through the sympathy of men
employed in either branches Of the ex-
press business
Ferrymen Cult Work.
| An evidence of this occurred today,
when nearly hundred clerks, plat
form men and porters quit at the ferry
depot of the Adams Express Compan,S
Before daylight the company succeeded
in moving ITO wagons, manned by
Pittsburg strike- breakers anu guarded
by 25o mounted anG foot police, from
its Henderson street stables. Thera
was no disorder as the cavalcade made
its way to the ferry, but 40 sooner had
1t appeared than the hundred express
handlers there announced they would
not work with the strike breakers, and
walked out In a body.
Later in the morning 1870 policemen
escorted nine Wells-Fargo wagons from
Pavonia avenue and Monmouth streets
to the Erie depot The strikers made
no effort to modest this procession,
either.
Dominick Jennings. Hudson county
organizer for the American Fedora
tion OF Labor. who is in charge of the
strike here, has counselled the men to
participate in no further disorder. He
also made a statement today in which
he declared that the men are anxious
to arbitrate. He said that John
Mitchell will today confer with Presi-
dent Platt, of the United States Ex-
press Company, in reference to set
tlement of the dispute. Should this eff
fort at conciliation fail, declare the
leaders, the strikers have enough
moral and financial support promises
to make possible an indefinite prolon-
cation of the strike.
A member of the firm of Berghoff
Bros. New York. who are supplying
strike-breakers for the express COM
panies, said today that the strike has
already been won by the companies.
He declared that with 7C0 strike break
ers already at work more than thou
said will be on the Job before night.
An evidence that the strikers have
enlisted the aid of other teamsters was
the refusal of drivers for Burns Bros.
to deliver coal at the express COM
panies stables. Two drivers quit on
the spot, and a meeting will be held
by the other drivers, $50 in number. to
determine what stand they shall take.