Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-06-26
1900 Angry Men Ready
to Storm Big Fertilizer
Plant at Roosevelt, on
Perth Amboy Outskirts.
LIQUOR IS SMUGGLED
IN TO THE WORKMEN
Police Are Sent to Scene, But
! Recurrence Of Carnage Is
Feared, With Explosives as
the instrument.
rspecial 10 the Newark star.l

- Especial to the Newark ctar'J
PERTH AMBOY, June 26.-TwelVe
hundred strikers are in front OF the
FERTILIZER plant Of the Williams q
Clark Company. in Roosevelt aoou'
four miles from here. Inside the
building are several hundred heavily
armed guards, and, from the temper
of the two factions. 1t will only take
a. spark to ignite the flames Wh'ch
will lead to a repetition of the car
mage of last night ,..o
Whiskey has been smuggleu nv
the town, and the mob contains -
eral hundred men who are iniaiiiee
as a result. They are parading aioui.u
the town. hurting threats and epltne.s
ogainst the guards inside the Wai's.
~ ore waiting for the first signs OIL
o,,threak before beginning frins'
The local police have oeen seh. -
5,snerse the strikers, but II Is ieaae S
that they are unable to cope WIN
the situation, andthat there WIZ oe q
sac,rrance of the last nights oateie'
- u,b,ch one man was killed ana t"o
.ar,ous,v wounded. Dynamite mas
hean in large quantities py
the strikers, it is said, and ,he nien
inside the building are on the a.e..,
mo- knowing at what momen' 'n
will be an explosion. A..
since 6 O'Clock last night the
noh had been clamoring at the gates
of the plant ana susiilaoes pe'"s
thar and the handful of deputies hao
been intermittent ~
II apparently was the plan Oh lho
mol to take the factory garrison ny
surprise. AS the whistles were dow
ing and the egates were opened 10
allow a frightened crowd of strike
hreakers to creep out there was a
concerted rush for the entrance
Had not a few of the deputies nao
nramonition of trouble and hastily
slammed the gates the advan oooy
of strikers would have gained en-
trance and the fight ended before its
start.
Baffied, the strikers started hurting
missiles. Behind the gates the oepu.
ties grabbed their weapons ana sent
forth a hail of bullets thai sent the
mob scurrying for cover. News Oh
the outbreak was communicated W
to j. E. Waring, the com-
pany's superintendent. He started at
once for the factory in a high-poW-
cred automobile.
The mob of strikers had been aug
mented considerably before ne came
sight of the b~eleasuered plant.
Nearly a thousand of then were
crouched behind outbuildings and
other cover, taking pot shots at the
defenders.
Waring did not perceive the danger
Of the situation until 1t was TOO late
10 turn back. To turn without put
ting on the brakes would have meant
q serious smashup at the speed at
which he was driving; to slow up
certain capture by the frenzleo
crowd. He leaned forward ana gave
on order to his chauffeur, the only
otber occupant of the big car.
with the last ounce of power ap-
n,ied. the automobile jumped forward
toward the barred gates at a sixty
mia gait. After 1t sped a storm or
bullets. Some of them tore rough
the protecting tonneau back. others
sans through the air a few inches
above Warnings head.
when it seemed as If the racing a
wo,ld flatten it's hood against the
wall. the gates were swung open and
the machine whizzed through with
a grinding of brakes.
Many of the deputies ook Nrefuge
In the plant. some of them injured
from stones or clubs. Then to save
themselves and the property they
guarded the deputies began to shoot.
Another riot preceded the one that
resulted fatally when the 500 men
and boys attacked sixty guards at
the same plant.