Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1912-07-11
GET PROOF Of
SMALL WAGES
Union Organizers Secure En-
velopes of Cigar Plant Girls
Paid Off Yesterday.
LESS THAN 81 PER DAY
Appeal for Aid of Strikers
John Doe Warrant for Al
legged Agitator Issued.

Union organizers declare that they
now have positive proof of the al
legged low wage scale in force at the
plant of the Perth fAmboy Cigar
Company before the present strike
threw 900 girls out of employment.
About 400 girls were paid off yes
terday morning by the company, and
the envelopes, marked with the num-
Der of days worked and the amount
earned, were secured as evidence by
the organizers. The envelopes
showed an average of three and one
half days of work, for which the
girls received between $50 and
IS. The girls receiving So for three
and one-half days work are expe-
rienced and have worked for the
cigar company for yearsrsSAhe union
| leaders assert.
Envelopes as Evidence.
The envelopes held by the union
men give the number of days worked
and the amount due. Below this
information Is the motto: Teach
Them to Save" Also, Guide your
children to a contented old age and
comfortable life through middle
age by giving them each bank
book, ETC." When the union lead
ers saw this motto and instructions
on the little envelopes, they sarcas-
tically exclaimed: Even a hermit
could not save on a dollar and a
half a day" The leaders assert
tht the envelopes will be distrib-
uted throughout unionized world
and the name of the cigar company
blackened forever in labor circles,
unless a speedy adjustment is made
of the present difficulties.
Appeals have been sent out by the
striking cigarmakers, bearing the
seal of endorsement of the Building
Trades Council of MiddleseW coun-
ty, to organized labor In New York,
New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Will
liam J. Murtagh, business agent of
the Carpenters Union, Local No. 65,
Of this city has been commissioned
to receive subscriptions. He reports
that 5000 has been received to date.
This amount is used to assist any
striker who lack funds; the method
employed is to give the one in need
an order for S 3 on grocery store.
Only a few orders have been given
ont, MIR. Murtaeh states, and the
strikers appear to be entrenched
with sufficient funds for fag fag
seige.
Issue "John Doe" Warrant.
Conditions at the cigar company's
plant yesterday afternoon and this
morning were normal. About ten
girls returned to work today, which
Las been the daily average for the
Dast two weeks No trouble was ex-
perienced at the plant this morn
ing, although violence of a minor
nature was reported to the police
yesterday afternoon. In an effort
to check the strike, the company's
officials swore out a John Doe
warrant this morning before Recor-
der Henry w. Kehoe, charging an
organizer with melting riots. City
Marshall Walters has the warrant
and will serve same upon the man
designated by Manager Kaufman, of
the cigar company. 1t is believed
that the warrant is for A. A. Quinn,
vice president Of the international
Carpenters Union, or Mr.. Murtagh.
who are interested in the present la
Dor difficulties.
Both Mr.. Quinn and Mr.. Muir
tagh declare they are ready to re-
ceiye service, If the warrant Is. In
tended for them, although, they as
sert. they can not see wherein they
have been guilty Of melting riots
in this or any other strike. Joseph
Patranick and Isidore Baumfriend,
of the cigar company, entered
counter claim this morning in Judge
Pickersgill's court against Mary
Fekete, for assault and battery.
She was held in 5000 bail to await
the action of the grand jury, which
was the sentence handed down yes
terday in the case of Fekete vs.
Patranick and Baumfriend, also an
assault and battery charge.
Lester Hufheimer, district super
intendent of the cigar company, ap-
peared before Mr.. Pickersgill this
morning in answer to a reported
charge that he would be arrested for
hitting a woman yesterday after
noon. Mr.. Hufheimer found that
no warrant has been issued in this
case.
Patrolmen Rymarczyk and Steed
were called to Amboy avenue at
O'Clock this morning to quell an ex-
citement started by 200 girls. The
girls, the policemen reported, had
chased five alleged strike-breakers,
employed by the Perth Amboy Cigar
Company, into a bake-shop, owned
by Louis and Sander Stern. The
five girls were given the option, by
the officers, of returning to work OF
going home. They selected the lat
ter, and were accompanied by the
nD1ipemen