Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-06-12
Believed That Strikers
Will Attack Boatload OF
Breakers When Vessel,
with Detectives, Docks.
PERTH AMBOY POLICE
SEEM TO BE HELPLESS
Four Hurt in Rioting While Men
Engage in Fierce Fight
Among Themselves = May
Get Laborers from Newark.
trrom "a stan correspondent

PERTH AMBoY, June l2.-A
pitched battle between the police
armed special detectives and the
strikers seems imminent, Ihe slrih-
ers have been told that the pianls
have made arrangements for importing
a number of strike breakers from
New York by boat. The strikers eX-
meet theua= to land at almost any
minute and have prepared to make an
attack.
IT is also said that laborers from
Newark will be imported 10 take the
place of the strikers, but TINS coulo
not be verified here today.
The threatened trouble at the plants
Of four of the largest concerns affect
ed by the strike has not yet material
ized. After the night of rioting. IN
which three of the strikers were IN
jured, and one arrest was made IL
was feared that serious trouble would
come when the gates were opened
this morning.
The police are powerless. They are
unable to control the situation, but
as yet have made no formal appeal
for help. The quletness of the men
is considered ominous The police
and private detectives are patrolllng
the vicinity of the plants. expecting
an outbreak at any moment.
Between 400 and 500 girls employed
bv II. Rosenthal & Co., handkerchief
manufacturers, walked out at nooa
, today.
There are 200 on strike, Including
L. nd girls
The standard Underground Gable
Company, the Barber Asphalt Pav-
ing Company, the American smelling
and Refining Company and the At
lantic Terra Gotta Company are al
most completely tied ups-
The first boat, with 200 strlke-
breakers, is expected to dock at any
fn1uutes This -milt-he- the signal for
a pitched battle The men are beyond
control. All the factories are being
guarded by armed detectives. Work
is being done only under police pro-
lection.
Two years ago, in a similar strike,
the militia had to be called out TO
ouell the riots. The strikers are now
even more desperate than then. and
1t is possible that the city will be
turned into an armed camp within a
few days.
The fact that q representative OF
the big manufacturers paid a visit to
O'Brien's Detective Agency, Newark.
yesterday gave rise to the rumor
among the men that strikers from
Newark were to be engaged and used
as strikebreakers here.
The Raritan Copper Works man.
aged to stave off a strike of its
fifty firemen today by paying them
twenty-five cents a day more. The
Standard Underground Gable Com
pany has 1000 men and womcp out.
, 1t Is shut down.
Paul Barlinson, of Hall avenue, who
was arrested during the rioting last
night, was held for examination to-
night. He Is charged with assaults
Ing Mike Kutlan.
A mob of 1000 men besieged the Of
fees Of the American Smelling and
Refining Company last night. =. NJ.
r Fairchild. head bookkeeper. was
surrounded and stoned as ne eft the
plant. He fought desperatelf to es-
cape from the mob.
He was knocked down ,lnl 'iisar-
peared under the onrush )f the In
furiated strikers when someone
recognized him and cried:
"He's a friend of the strikers!
This saved his life.
A short time later. in a drunken
revel, three strikers were assaulted by
their friends and severely beaten.
A riot call was sent in and the po-
lice reserves, clubs in hand, charged
upon the mobs. For an hour strikers
and police battled. The three injured
men were rescued and sent Ito the
hospital. The police were unable to
restore any semblance of order in the
streets during the night.