The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-06-15
They Hold at Bay Two
Thousand Men Bent
on Destruction.
THREE LIVES LOST
IN DAYS RIOTING
Five Thousand Men and Women
Are Out in Perth Arnboy, and
They Threaten to BLOW the
Whole Works Up" if Their
Demands Are Not
Granted.

Perth Amboy. y. J.. June 1.-Two
thin lines of deputy-shcrlns. heavily
armed held at bay Tonight 2.9cc
strikers who tried tn storm the So
100000 plants q! the American ,,ne!t-
ing and Refining Company anu The
Barber Asphalt Works adjoininr
while searchlights atop h.gn towers
played upon the rioters. Two nun
dred shots or more wc:e fred by the
deputies At the mob. winch gathered
behind the ten-foot embankinent of
The New York and Long Bruncn Rail-
road. When the rir!ng ended. one
man. a strike sympathIzer, lay dead
and several Of the mob We're injured.
The net result OF the ta:"s riotinE
stands tonight a, three dead and
seven injured OF the dead. one was
a striker. one was man at work
and the third was tie night watch
man at the Perth Ambvy Tobacco
Company plant. The injured are all
strikers except Sherrn Bollschweller.
WHO was stoned as ne was patro!ling
the district In MS automobile. Six
men are under arrest charged with
carrying conc.alc. weapons ana In
citing to riot.
The trouble started with the ar
rival tonight OF squad OF nifty
deputies on the roadway opposite the
refinery.
Armed Men ON Gunrd.
Three hundred and nifty armed men
were sworn In this afternoon and to-
I night as deputy shertns 10 queii the
mob or strikers VINO earlier in the day
mad attacked the big plant OF the
American Smelling and Refining Com
pany.
Under direction OF Sheriff BOIL
schweilIcr the defensive force took
. command OF the roadway leading pa I
the plant. Their orders We're 10 snoot
! the strikers If necessary. Within the
high pal!ns surrounding the works
s!Nty guards with 1870 repeating ri
Hes were stationed at VANTAGE points
TO prevent repetition of the early
rloting, when one man was killed and
| tnrec wounded in an attempt TO burn
the fence and storm the plant. Atop
high steel tank just inside me
paiing there was stationed this after
noon a eating gun. which comma nd
the roadway. and its men have orders
TO use II II the rioters gained access
to the works. a temporary iuIl fol-
lowed the r!oting OF this afternoon.
There are now approximately 5000
plants mere The strikers demand an
increase III wages. No call Will he
MADE by Sherit Bonscnwci.ler for
troops until ne i sausned tnat mis-
situation.
Governor Woodrow Wilson is keep.
Threaten 10 Destroy Plants.
Five hundred strikers held a mass
meeting late to-day and appointed Il
committee OF Two 10 wait upon Jesse
Seaman. general manager OF the Amer
lean smelling and Renning Company )
plant Tor a reply 10 their demands.
Mr.. Seaman informed the committee
that the demand would not oe con
sidered until the riotlng ceased. one
OF the leaders. when informed of Mr..
scaman's reply. said:
They have got TO grant our de-
mands, II they do not we will blow
the whole works up"
The body Of Joseph Aligiar. night
Waterman at the Perth AmDoy Hand
kerchief Works. where Loco girls are
on a strike. was found Ia a clump OF
bushes in the hungarian section OF
The city this afternoon. There was
Il bullet wound through his head and
a pistol In his hand. indicating that
IL was a case of suicide. The coroner,
however. is working upon the th-~ry
that he was murdered and the weap-
appearance OF self destruction.