Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1912-06-10
Call Meeting of
Workers This
Afternoon.
MAY ARBITRATE


a general strike was caused today
at the Standard Underground Cable
cor pany's plant at High and Wash
ington streets, involving about 700
unsNlled employees. Workers In all
departments with the exception of
those employed at skilled labor.
mostly girls and boys, are out and
this afternoon an official said the
plant would be closed down. Some
went out Saturday afternoon.
Approximately 400 Out.
The strike was decided upon Friday
night and at 10 clock Saturday morn
ing, Willism A. Conner, vice-president
of the company, which has plants here
and in Pittsburgh, received letter
stating that a majority of the en-
ployes, mostly the young men, boys and
girls wanted an increase in pay of If
teen per cent by Monday morning or
there would be a strike. No committee
was sent to see him regarding the de-
mand, he stated today, but few of the
workers went on strike Saturday after
noon. They lay in wait about one cor
ner Of the plant at High and Wash
ingtOn streets and persuaded others to
u
after the usual hour of starting work
the striking forc0 had increased to ap-
proXimately' 400.
Strikers to Hold Meeting.
| The strikers gathered in groups about
State and Washington streets and a
| hundred or more paraded on State
street between Smith and Washington
streets. There they congregated on all
four corners. Many conferences occur
red, but no concerted efforts were made
to arrive at definite arrangements. This
will probably be done this afternoon at
a meeting the strikers propose to hold
in at clock in Colun bia hall at State
and Commerce streets. 1t is likely they
will then appoint a committee to meet
/ Vice President Conner. He declared to-
day the company was slways glad to
meet any of its employees, individually
or in committee form. His statement
concerning the strike was, that on Sat-
urday at 10 o'clock he received a COM
munication through the post office, stat
ing that unless he agreed to a fifteen
per cent. increase in wages by Monday
morning, there would be strike. This
is the only notice he has had showing
any dissatisfaction among tho employees,
he declared He stated probably about
half of the workers were on strike and
that those remaining were employees in
the wire and rod mill and machine
shops. He estimated that between three
and four hundred workers, principally
boys and girls, with few men were on
, strike.
Strike leaders declared all employees
in the tapping. telephone, magnet, paper,
shipping, braiding, vanishing cloth,
rubber and finishing departments were
on strike. At II o'clock this morning
they felt confident of persuading those
remaining in the wire and rod mills to
60 out at noon, but they we're doubtful
about pulling out any Of the machinists.
Scenes About Plant.
The young men, boys and girls on
strike created scenes on State street
near Washington street and about the
plant at intervals this morning. Short
ly after 8 O'Clock they seized a junk
dealers rig and drove the horse round
and round in a circle on Washington
street, stripped the wagon Of the bells
and a number of them grabbed the
string and lead procession shaking
and sounding the bells.
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