Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-05-09

ark, was fought Every precinct in the
. At South Orange avenue and Twelfth
street 1000 of them were routed by
mounted police reserves from the Fourth
precinct after they had forced a gang OF
twenty-five men TO lay down their picks
and shoves.
Another division. 700 strong marched
TO the centre of the city at noon, snr-
rounded laborers working in front Ok
Miners Theatre, aud then gave way sui
lenly along Market street to the -Four
Corners before the reserves from this
First Precinct, headed by Captain Ryan
in person.
At the strikers headquarters calm
and pretty 1s-year-old girl. Miss Jennie
Bozza, the woman who stands shoulder
to shoulder with the union leaders, kept
In touc: with the situation and directed
the recruiting of the hundreds OF labor
ers who were forced to stop wark by the
victorious army OF strikers.
|. 1--WE Want Justice Girl says.
Look for the woman" has been apr
piled to almost everything from get-rich.
quick schemes to murder, but never to
unions
In this strike, however, quiet girl
sits In the office OF the union, Issues Or
ders, confers with the heads Of the or
ganization and attends to the hundred
and one details OF carrying Oh tho labor
war.
Speaking English and Italian with equal
fiuency she untangles linguistic snarls
/ translates letters and acts as Office man
ager. She Is the daughter Of the naen
| who owns the building In which tho
union has It's headquarters.
| "All our men want is justice.S she said
today. Their mengre wages are entirely
| inadequate. A man can't support fam
lily on what they are getting. But we're
going to win this strike and that'll make
things better"
Despite the promises OF the labor lead
ers not to interfere with the paving az
Market street, 1t is feared that the men
will get beyond control and rush the la
borers at work
| Thirty laborers on the relief sewer In
| the course of construction at Orange and
| Duryee streets, near Branch Brook Park,
| were at work today when a detachment
of 800 strikers marched rapidly up to
them. The men were ordered to put
down their picks aud shovels To man
they obeyed going off with the strikers
to become members OF the union.
The appeals of II. II. Parkhurst, the
| superintendent, were unavailing. He
said that the contractor doing the work
for the city was Charles Ippolito, Of Or
ange,
Those men were well paid" he as
serted ruefully, 'and they are men we
depended upon. They were intimidated.
They knew they'd get beaten If they
didn't quit"
Marchers Gain Recruits.
The column of strikers moved rapidly
along. At Summit place and Summit
street gang of laborers employed by
the Newark Cement and Paving Com
pany were putting down q sidewalk.
These men were swept along.
Captain Brown, Of the Second precinct,
rushed the reserves to the scene, but by
the time the automobile patrol reached
there the men had disappeared.
The new union recruits, numbering near
" hundred, were escorted to the head
quarters at 43 Garside street. where they
formally Joined the organization
The next dash of the strikers was made
to Market street. A division Of 700, Ia
military formation, marched to the CEN
tire of the city and attempted to stop a
gang of men at work near the Empire
Theatre. The men laid down their picks
and shovels but did not join the ranks
of the strikers The First precinct re-.
serves kept order and the column moved
on.
Rioting is feared when the men go back
to work and the strikers learn OF it.
At each place where the hurrying de-
tachments stopped a few pickets wero
left TO guard and report.
The first clash between the police aud
the strikers took place at South Orange
avenue and Twelfth street There were
1000 strikers in the force that threatened
the gang excayating for a telephone con.
duit. Mounted policemen rode down the
strikers aud succeeded in dispensing them
temporarily.
''You quit or we'll kill your the
spokesmen of the strikers is alleged
to have said to the twenty-five laborers
The men promptly stopped work The
danger signs were put up over the
excavations.
Then the mounted reserves. summoned
hastily by telephone from the Fourth
precinct arrived. They charged the
men, riot seemed Inevitable The
leaders of the strikers shouted dis
eordant orders in Italian. The men
broke ranks and split up into parties.
which hurried away along Twelfth
street and up South Orange avenue.
The automobile patrol of the Fourth
precinct, packed with plainclothesmenI
and reserves. followed up the divisions.
The police fearing violence. were pre-
pared for rioting.
The patrolllng divisions visited every
place where work was being done bv
laborers. Hearing their threats. the men
stopped and joined the strikers
Men employed by the gas department