New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-13
.REvOLVERS AND CLUBS
USED IN STRIKE RIOT
Seven Wounded When Mob at
Perth Amboy Charges on
Smelling Works.
WOMEN FIGHT WITH MEN
Appearance of Strike Breakers
Arouses Crowd to Fury, and
Pitched Battle with the
Police Follows.
by Telegraph to The Tribune. J

Perth Amboy, n. J.. June 12.-Seven
men were injured, four of them WIN
bullets and three with clubs. in d RIOT
here tonight. following an attempt or
three thousand men, women and boys 10
wreck the American Smelling and he-
fining Company's plant.
Men crazed with liquor. who saw hNe
hundred strike breakers brought from
New York. endeavored TO get at them
by breaking down the fence. Fifty de-
tcctives from New York City statloheu
themselves on the top of the sulphurlc
acid nlant. and as strikers started TO
climb over the fence they Immediately
opened fre.
Chief Burke has turned the situation
over to Sheriff Bollschweillcr who Is
securing the county for deputies to be
used in preserving peace.
The strike situation here was further
COMPLICATED to-day when five hundred
girls, scarcely over the age of fourteen
Years. ioined the ranks of the strikers
The girls were employees Of the II. Ro-
s.nthal handkerchief works, earning
from 50 to s. a week. They made no
formal demand. but said they wanted
more money"
The police at first attempted 10 SUBJ
due the rioters with their nightsticks,
but the mob charged them and COM
relled them to draw their revolvers
The police say that they did not shoot
10 kill but only 70 intimidate. but one
uolicenan saws he thinks he shot one
of the wounded strikers. All the men
shot are Poles. One of them got
bullet through the body and is not eX-
uected 20 live. He is in the hospitai
here. The others were taken TO their
homes.
one of them is wounded in the leg
and another was shot through the cheek.
Patrolman Charles Quinn says he thinks
he shot the man who is wounded IN
the face. and witnesses of the shooting
agree with him.
Two policemen were injured, Joseph
cutowsl,i and Roundsman John Morris
Roth were struck by stones and knocked
down. GUtowski was badly cut about
the head and was taken home. Morris
,ecoived 4 serious cut on the side OF
the face and was taken to the hospital.
Aftcr his wound had been dressed ne
insisted on going back on duty ahd'
with face swathed in bandages, returned
to the scene of the trouble
During the outbreak probably httY
ebots were fred by the police.
The mob became so wild that even the
ambulance sent for the injured was
etorod nv the crowd. When taking tho
,,ounded men to the hospital the driver
~ the ambulance had to take round
atout route and make detour Of nearly
,,Uo miles in order TO escape the angry
crowd.
The uolicc. who had expected to get
some much needed rest Tonight, their
nlaces being taken by the constables' al
had to return to duty, tired out thoug"
tbev were bv the labors Of the last
twenty-four hours. Mayor Garretsoh
decided that the force at his command
was not sufficient to maintain order, ana
bo called on Sheriff Bollschweiler, who
lives in Perth Amboy, for aid in preserV-
ing the peace. The Sheriff Immediately
took command and he promises 10 nave
a big enough force of men here to-mor-
row to suppress promptly any further
outbreak