Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-06-13

Continued from
Mr., Bollschweiler is endea,
he can and to aid, he requests
persons, particularly women AM
strikes.
There is no indication of s
tories as yet. Today the Barrie
fatty refused to grant demands
ers for twenty cents an hour, |
half for over time, a nine-hour
O'Clock Saturdays. Assistant S
Standard Underground Cable
as he told a committee Of his str
company cannot grant a genera
1t is willing to make some adjr
Acting Mayor Garretson, F
church Of Our Lady Of Hungary
the sheriff were about the Barrie
morning and addressed the stri
peace above all.
About fifty laborers went {
sey Terra Gotta Company's pla
morning, but returned to work
promise Of an increase in wage
About fifty saloons located
the city were closed last night
er orders, at the instigation of
of the Board Of Excise.
A rumOr that state troops
ness to come here at a minutes
Bollschweiler this afternoon. ]
militia was Of vital importance
fore doing so he would consult
zens and merchants, and that |
yet. While comforting with Del
detailing the deputies, at l o'cl
if received appeals for police |
boy Cigar works and plant 2 OF
Company. He made such disp'
police declared he could do lit
able men, when more or their I
the riot of strikers when they !
Seven Shot at A. S. & r. a
Scenes unparalleled in the history of Q
Perth Amboy followed a futile attempt a
of more than 1000 strikers to charge J.
the gate-house entrance to the Ameri- a
can Smelling & Refining works at dusk
last night. They were after alleged s
strik and met the points of t
! Eft,- rin+ 1Itnu aud rnVplyarG lrg yyn nv !
fearless men from the big car strike of t
Boston, who proclaimed their hobby a
was shooting. Seven men are known to d
have became their victims, one of whom I
was taken to the city hospital. Mob u
rule prevailed. The police were utterly e
helpless in coping with the situation. a
Three regular policemen were hurt and Il
scores of others were injured with f
stones. The fronts of two stores at s
State and Chauncey streets were S
wrecked with bricks and stones, win
dows in a Public Service trolley car
and an automobile buss, which plies be- $
tween this city and Roosevelt, were t
smashed. About 8 O'Clock the chief re-
ceived numerous reports that his Off s
GERS were being killed, that one of \
them was being held a prisoner in a
house in Chauncey street and that prop i
JtiIN was DtlhS lVNhN Ho Jun y
himself utterly unable to handle the riot.
He conferred with Acting Mayor Gar i
retson with the result that the situation
was explained to Sheriff Bollschweiler i
and he agreed to aid in every way pos |
sible, by furnishing deputies. Hef
warned the strikers to be peaceable, ad- $
vised that the assemble, organize, ap- t
point committees and formulate some /
stated demands. If rioting. continued,
he warned them, he would be forced to +
turn the situation over to the state and 7
ask the governor for services of the 6
militia. President Fritzinger of the |
Excise Board at the request of the act t
ing mayor closed two score of saloons
along State street and intersecting
streets from Hall avenue to Maurer last
night and ordered others in that sec
ton to close this morning.
Mob rule made life extremely dan
gerous in the northern part of the city
and the widest kind Of rioting pre-
vailed for two and a half hours. While
900 drink-crazed and wild-eyed strik-
ers attempted to force an entrance to
the A. s. & R. plant to get at strike
breakers at work there and were hav-
ing a pitched battle with armed guards,
four policemen battled with half as
many strike-crazed men at State and
Chauncey streets. The officers were
forced to flee for their lives. Three of
them were hit on the head and should
ers with stones. Women wrung their
hands in despair and children cried as
the wildly excited men ran about State
street hitting right and left and doing
damage to property as they saw fit.
Not in the history of the city were such
scenes paralleled.
Policemen Have Scalp Wounds.
Roundsman John Morris, Patrolman
Joseph Gutowski and Patrolman An
drew Jensen are suffering from scalp
wounds. Together with Patrolman
Charles Quinn they were chased by an
angry mob of strikers after arresting
one for hitting John Skrocki, a saloon
keeper, with a stone. The prisoner WAS
let go and the officers fled to houses
and back yards to save their lives
From the time the rioting began until
the arrival of Sheriff Bollsehweiler
about 10 o'clock the police force, COM
posed of t~wenty-nine regular men and
about a score of special policemen, was
powerless to offer resistance to the mob
rule and the strikers committed crimes,