Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-05-22

me situation Is growing hourly moro
alarming. The strikers invaded the centre
of the city and forced tho laborers who
We're tearing down the Kinney building
at Broad and Market streets to stop
work
Garbage collections throughout Newark
may be tied up by the rapid growth OF
the STRIKE. Already n number of men
employed by l.. ]. Buckley & Company
Oh the garbage wagons are said to have
been intimidaied into stopping work.
strike Spreading Rapidly.
The strike has spi cad to many cities
and towns In northern New Jersey. Riot
Ing has been suppressed by the police In
a number OF places. aud deputies have
been sworn In for duty in others.
A woman's frantic voice over the teic-
phone was the first lntimation OF tho
outbreak of violence in the Fourth pre-
lcinct today
THE strikers arc numbering men IN
Fourteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth
avenues" she shrleked Come and
save thent"
In rnpd succession Lieutenant McGov-
ern received calls for the reserves
Thirty policemen. commanded by Caps
tain vogel rushed TO the scene III the
automobile patrol wagon. The entire re-
serve force of the second aud Firth pre-
cincts. together With lieutenanfs frem
Headquarters IN private automobile.
we're hurried toward the scene,
Showered with stones.
The strikers. 300 strong, had iust rushed
upon five men repairing a erosswalk at
Seventeenth avenue aud Twentieth street.
After brief struggle the laborcrs had
been swept along on the tumultuous tide.
Captain vogel and the reserves threw
themselves before the advancing body OF
strikers.
The police were met with a shower of
stones. Captain Vogel was struck on the
head. Patrolmen Kinney. Herrenburg and
Salter were hit.
| The mob surged forward The police,
welding their clubs and firing over tho
heads of the strikers, formed an unbroken
front before the auto patrol
| Dashine IN among the men. the po-
lice singled out three of the leaders and
arrested them The prisoners struggled
desperately but they were dragged to
the patrol wagon and bundled in.
The strikers rushed forward nngrily.
| Captain Vogel directing the fight In
the midst of the flying stones. feared
that the automobile would be wrecked.
Back 1t OUT he ordered. 'and rush
them In it,
! The big automobile plunged back and
then forward, swaying perilously
through the swarm of laborers.
Three Arrests Made.
BY that time the reserves from the
Second and Fifth precincts together
with lieutenants from headquarters. had
reached the scene in automobiles.
| They charged the crowd. and, In
running fight that covered the entire for
eign colony OF the Fifteenth ward. drova
the strikers TO cover.
The three prisoners. Thomas Monoch.
OF 296 Norris avenue: westbee Roliba. q,
West Kinney street. aud James conclaro
OF 295 Fifteenth avenue, were taken TO
the Fourth precinct police station under
heavy guard.
After the rloting was over. Captai.
Vogel, still dizzy from the effects of the
blow on the head, said that if the strlk.
ers had rushed the automobile patrol
wagon. as they apparently intended.
someone would have been killed.
The spread OF the strike to the garbage
men Is considered an ominous indication
of the probable extent of the labor war.
! Shocking conditions existed In New York
! city recently after the garbage collection
had been prevented for few days by
strike violence.
An official of the Board of Works ad.
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