Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-06-25
ARE QUITTING
IN SYMPATHY
ABOUT COUNTY

Approximately $500 employees in
plants of the American Tobacco
Company here, New Brunswick and
South River are out of work as the
result of a strike of the 1900 en-
ployes of the works of the company
in this city, known as the Perth
Amboy Cigar Works. 1t is declared
that workers in New Brunswick de-
manded an increase of from seventy
FIVE cents to a dollar a thousand
cigars at the close of the working
day yesterday; that the company re-
fused to accede to the demands and
1t was decided to close the three fac
tories for an indefinite period until
the strike fever subsidies. About
twenty-five packers and pastors are
working in the local plant today, but
they will not be there long, it is
stated, as that works will be closed
indefinitely. Officials of the Perth
Amboy Cigar Company stated this
Don the tobacco factories in New
Brunswick and South River were
shut down last night to avoid threat
ening sympathetic strikes because of
the one in progress here.
Girls Are Reprimanded.
Miss Martha Bradski, twenty years
old, of 238 Hall avenue, and Miss
Mary Strout, twenty years old, of
Keasbey, arrested yesterday by Pa
trolmen Tonnesen and Hartmann for
throwing stones and melting to riot
outside of the Rosenthal handker-
chief works, were discharged with a
reprimand and warning from Acting
Recorder James S. Wight this morn
ing. He heard an eloquent plea of
their counsel, Thomas Brown, and
decided to let the defendants go this
time, but he took pains to repeatedly
warn the girls to remain away from
the scene of the strike under pen
atty of arrest. The Bradski girl was
recognized by the officers as a leader
of a gang of trouble-making strikers.
Conditions were quiet and gener-
ally ~peaceable about the cigar and
handkerchief factories today. A
crowd of about 500 strikers stood
near the cigar factory this morning,
but kept at a distance and showed
no violence. No one assembled about
the Rosenthal handkerchief works
this morning and about 200 en-
picJN - "NAlt W WI N lICI uhIlOltol-
ed. They are receiving the same pay
as before the strike.
The striking cigar workers held
another meeting in Kozusko's hall at
10 o'clock this morning. Petitions
printed in Hungarian and Magyar
for collection of funds to aid the
cause, we're distributed mons the
strikers. Arthur A. Quinn. Arthur
Re1chman and Joseph Tylkoff noted
labor workers, spoke, the former in
English and the other in Hungarian
and Polish.
Employees of the National Con-
duit and Cable Company at Hast
ings-on-Hudson who went on strike
out of sympathy for workers of the
Standard Underground Cable Com
pany, participated in a fight yester-
day afternoon, in which four men
and a woman were shot. Joseph
Tylkoff, a special organizer Of tho
American Federation of Labor, ar
rived here last night from Hastings.
Feared Strike at KottIer's.
The police learned that a strike
agitator had been at work in Kot-
tiers shirtwaist and blouse factory
In Park venue this morning. Pa
trolman TonneSen was detailed to
the works hits noon when it was ex-
pected another strike would occur
there. None of the employees went
out.
Mechanics continue on strike from
the American Smelling & Refining
works, they declare. while the COM
pany considers them no longer cen
nected with the plant. Other de-
partments are again running
smoothly, officials declare. Like
wise Is the Barber Asphalt works
running normally again.