Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-06-15
NO NEED OF TROOPS
OPINION OF SHERIFF
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Pardee Plant o. X.
Up until noon today no trouble
was experienced at the tile depart
ment of the C.. Pardee Works In
| spite of the facts that several of
the leders from the Cigar Factory
| claim the tile workers last night
promised to walk out in sympathy
today. Officials OF the concern de-
MED that trouble was expected.
Pastor Offers Services.
Rev. James II. Northrup, pastor
of the First Presbyterian church and
| Acting Mayor Ferd Garretson have
volunteered their services to act as
arbitrators in the strife between the
workers and employees of the Stand
ard Underground Gable Company.
The time for the conference has not
been set as yet. Officials of the
above concern and those employed in
the office arrived at thep liant at
| 6 80 o'clock this morning to avoid
meeting the crowds c~ongregating
about the place.
Prepare Their Deamnds.
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the Rosenthal Handkerchief factory
met in Union hall this morning and
prepared sets of demands to be
them. A conference of the girls
from the Rosenthal plant and the
Perth Amboy Cigar Factory will be
held this afternoon to decide what
definite action to pursue.
Meeting This Afternoon.
Following are the meetings
scheduled for this afternoon:
1 o'clock, Guggenheim strikers,
Pulaski hall.
2 O'Clock, Cigar Workers, Kozusko
hall.
8 o'clock, Gable Works, Columbia
hall.
8 o'clock, Handkerchief factory,
Union hall.
Labor leaders in this city are In
clined to believe that men have been
paid by some n to incite the strik-
ers at the American Smelling and
Refining Company's plant as the
riots occur about similar times each
evening. Just who Is paying for
this work is the problem confronting
them and no pains, money or trouble
will be spared to apprehend the
guilty party or parties. Pasqueke
De Neri, general organizer today,
stated that no trouble would be
forthcoming al the handkerchief fac
tory as he had the situation well in
hand and that order will be main
tanned.
800 Deputies On Duty.
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Newark, Paterson and New York,
many of whom recently arrived
from the great Boston a strike,
are keeping order about the Ameri-
can Smelling & Refining COmpany's
plant. Some of them have been ac-
cused of robbing individuals In
searching them, five were accused
of attacking a Woma In an out
| house in State street near Pulaski
avenue this morning and there
seems to be general dissatisfaction
because deputies were placed here
instead of troops.
Sheriff Instructs Deputies.
Sheriff Bollschweiler says he has
instructed his deputies to shoot
only in case of necessity, to shoot
in the air first and then II neces-
SdIy, W MIL. ne gave llSII uCllOD5
last night that a warning should be
given men, who It was reported
would dig up the water main to
stop the supply of city water to the
A. s. & r. plant and if necessary,
drive the intruders back by shoot
ing at them.
Persons, strikers and others chief
ly sy~mpathizers, threatened destruc-
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poles and wires last night. The dep
uties kept a close watch by means
of two powerful searchlights.
Send Home Drunken Deputies.
Jerry O'Brien, of Newark, sup
piled $50 deputies; Wardell &
Mahon, of New York, supplied 100,
and fifty men came from Paterson.
About ninety men from the Gre
CORY detective agency in Newark
and Chief Gregory, were reported
by the police to be drunk when
they arrived in front of city hall
last night. The sheriff refused to
engage them and Patrolman Hart
mann warned Gregory to be quiet
or he would be arrested.
John c. Plat, former guard at
the New Jersey Reformatory,
claimed many of the deputies from
Newark and Paterson were inmates
under him in the institution when
he was guard there.
Man Killed Barber Employe.
Prehudy, the man killed last night,
was a checker at the Barber Asphalt
works. He was twenty years old. His
mother and father left this city two
months ago for Europe.
The fusilade that probably caused
his death started about dusk when sew
eral boys ranging in age from ten to
eighteen years began abusing deputies
about the main entrance to the A. s. &
R. plant. About a hundred deputies
armed with rifles, revolvers and clubs,
and with pockets filed with forty-one
cahbre Swiss smokeless cartridges, pa
trolled in front of the A. s. & R. fence
and about the outside of the plant. A
special car containing eighty-four de-
puties under command of Captains Wal
ter Griffin, Fred Smith and John AID
dicks, arrived about s o'clock. As they
fled off the car a crowd of curiosity
seekers came close.
Boys continued insulting remarks and
rivals. One of the captains resented
and ordered the crowd back. There
came no response but abuse. The en-
ragged captain shouted "into them
boys Clubs were welded with man.
ly force and the crowd started in var
ious directions. Someone started shoot
ing and in an instant practically a hun
| dred deputies were shooting wild, in