Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-06-13
SHERIFF MAY CALL STATE TROOPS HERE AS
RESULT OF MORE RI0TING THIS AFTERNOON
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Mr.. BolIschweiler is endeav,
he can and to aid, he requests
persons, particularly women and
strikes.
There is no indication OF sc
tories as yet. Today the Barber
fatty refused to grant demands
ers for twenty cents an hour, p
half for over time, a nine-hour {
o'clock Saturdays. Assistant ST.
Standard Underground Gable W
as he told a committee of his stri
company cannot grant a general
1t is willing to make some adjus
Acting Mayor Garretson, Re
church Of Our Lady Of Hungary,
the sheriff were about the Barber
morning and addressed the strik
peace above all.
About fifty laborers went OF
sey Terra Gotta Company's plan
morning, but returned to work 8
promise of an increase in wages
About fifty saloons located j
the city were closed last night t.
cr orders, at the instigation of P
Of the Board Of Excise.
A rumor that state troops
ness to come here at a minutes II
Bollschweiler this afternoon. H
militia was of vital Importance
fore doing so he would consult s.
zens and merchants, and that he
yet. While comforting with Dcpl
detailing the deputies, at l o'clo
if received appeals for police p1
boy Cigar works and plant 2 of
Company. He made such dispos
police declared he could do little
able men, when more or their nj
the riot Of strikers when they be
Seven hot at A. S. & II. an,
Scenes unparalleled in the history Of ers
Perth Amboy followed a futile attempt aci
of more than l,0G0 strikers to charge ly
the gate-house entrance to the Ameri- an,
can Smelling & Refining works at dusk !
last night. They were after alleged she
strike-breakcrs and met the points Of tina
fifty riot guns and revolvers drawn by the
fearless men from the big car strike of the
Boston, who proclaimed their hobby air
was shooting. Seven men are known to den
have became their victims, one of whom Th
was taken to the city hospital. Mob upC
rule prevailed. The police were utterly ed
helpless in coping with the situation. a |
Three regular policemen were hurt and lai
scores of Others were injured with for
stones. The fronts of two stores at ser
State and Chauncey streets were son
wrecked with bricks and stones, win
dows in a Public Service trolley car ]
and an automobile buss, which plies be- str
this city and Roosevelt, were the
smashed. About 8 O'Clock the chief re- :
ceived numerous reports that his Off she
GERS were being killed, that one Of Me
them was being held a prisoner in a !
in Chauncey street and that prop in
erty was being wrecked. He found Me
himself utterly unable to handle the riot. {
lie conferred Mllu AtblhB NLaNNi val In
retsOn with the result that the situation {
was explained to Sheriff Bollschweiler in
and he agreed to aid in every way pos DR.
sible, by furnishing deputies. Hei
warned the strikers to be peacPable, adj she
vised that the assemble, organize, APP TIN
point committees and formulate some his
stated demands. If rioting continued, .
he warned them, he would be forced to fro
turn the situation over to the state and VIII
ask the governor for services of the alb
militia. President Fritzinger Of the "
Excise Board at the request of the act I'll,
ing mayor closed two score of saloons
along State street and intersecting
streets from Hall avenue to Maurer last lk
night and ordered others in that sec In,
ton to close this morning. Ba
Mob rule made life extremely dan m,
gerous in the northern part of the city ia.
and the widest kind of rioting pre- VII
vailed for two and a half hours. While af
| 900 drink-crazed and wild-eyed strik- tn
ers attempted to force an entrance to III
the A. s. & r. plant to get at strike ia
breakers at work there and We're hay Nj
ing a pitched battle with armed guards,
four policemen battled with half as pa
many strike-crazed men at State and ac
Chauncey streets. The officers We're w
forced to flee for their lives. Three of vo
lht" htit MT VI Nv "a "h' nhi0"A' dll
ers with stones. Women wrung their ca
hands in despair and children cried as ia
the wildly excited men ran about State OF
street hitting right and left and doing
damage to property as they saw fit. mt
Not in the history of the city We're such Fl,
scenes paralleled. pc
Policemen Have Scalp Wounds. tn
Rouudsman John Morris, PatrOlman r.
Joseph Gutowski and Patrolmau An AT
drew Jensen are suffering from scalp lyi
wounds. Together with Patrolman ba
Charles Quinn they were chased by an Of
angry mob of strikers after arresting m;
one for hitting John Skrocki, a saloon fr,
keeper, with a stone, The prisoner was tri
let go and the officers fed to houses frc
and back yards to save their lives, ri:
From the time the rioting began until Pa
the arrival of Sheriff Bollschweiler til
about 10 o'clock the police force, COM
posed of twenty-nine regular men and
about a score of special policemen, was tn
powerless to offer resistance to the mob a
rule and the strikers committed crimes, tn
destroyed property and assailed persons ar
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