Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-05-10

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lowed by Captain Brown and the Second
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TIere were several clashes between the
police and the men. At the new Normal
school building the reserves hurried the
strikers past without giving them a
chance to rush the laborers at work.
Lieutenant Purcell. at the desk OF the
Second precinct. was warned by tele-
phone that the strikers were sweeping
through the precinct. Captain Brown
and twenty patrolmen with night-sticks
went out with the patrol.
AT 219 Verona avenue they came upon
several hundred laborers trying to pull
Michael Barasso, of 25 Drift street. from
an excavation. He was resisting and
shouting out that he was being paid S2.25
a day and did not wan. to stop work.
The police forced the strikers to move on.
Mounted Policeman Gallagher was or
dered to remain as a guard for the two
laborers who were at work in the ex-
cavation.
The strikers marched on to Sylvan ave.
nue.. The police. following them up, left
a guard at an excavation in front of 201
Sylvan avenue. The next stop the labor
ers made was at l48-166 Sylvan avenue,
where the addition to a chemical factory
is being erected by II. D. Best & Co
Five patrolmen we're left to guard the
laborers employed there.
The column then headed in the direc-
ton of the new Normal School at Belle,
vile and Fourth emu Anticipating
trouble. Captain Brown ordered the pa
troll to run directly there. The, reserves.
nightsticks In hand, lined the streets
when the strikers appeared and hustled
them past the building.
Two shifts were kept on duty and all
the reserves in the precinct were ready
for instant action in case of rioting.
simultaneously with the appearance of
the strikers in the other precincts of the
city a crowd of them merached down
Erelinghuysen avenue followed by Cap
tain Brown of the Sixth and his re-
serves. They used the same tactics.
Mounted Policemen Farley and Wynne
of the Third precinct dispersed a crowd
of the strikers at the Plank road bridge
early today. The men gave way slowly
and then marched in a body up Market
street.
EOuT CONTRACTORS, htEOEuiuB 10 lnc
strike leaders. came to terms today and
signed an agreement to pay their labor
ers 20 tents an o for a NH day,
with double a for overtime n holi-
days and full recognition OF the union.
They are; Anthony A. Marienno, 59b
North sixth street, who employs twelve
men; the New Jersey Cement Company.
of 159 Park avenue, fifteen mon: John
f. Reilly. ten men, and COMA Danthein,
of Silver Lake, six men.
During the day there were between 200
and 300 men at the strikers headquar-
ters, at AZ Garside street. The oficials
strike, and that 2l0 new recruits had
been obtained today.
A division OF 200 strikers marched into
Bloomfield and clashed with the local po-
lice and n detachment Of park police,
headed by Chief Gilhooly, who rushed
to the scene in an automobile.
At Arlington avenue a gang of twelve
men, employed by Frederick B, Stimis,
superintendent of public works, were
grading. The foremen and twelve labor
ers were ordered to stop work, The
strikers were so threatening that they
did SO, without question: Il
The reserves and policemen who had
beon working ON the night shift were
rushed to the scene by Chief of Police
Louis Collins. They herded the strikers
away.
The column started to march along the
Lackawanna railroad tracks. They were
driven off by the Bloomfield police and
railroad detectives.
Next the men started for the Bloom
field Park. Chief Gilhooly had been
summoned by telephone. Just as the
men were sweeping through the park,
he and his men rushed up at full speed
in an automobile.
They sprang out and drove the men
back. As the routed men were retreat
ing s%ullenly one of the leaders turned
and hurled his defy at the policemen.
Wei got" he shouted. Well go!
But well come back tomorrow and clean
you out!"
We'll be ready for your retorted
Chief Gilhooly.
Through West Hudson and Kearny a
crowd of 500 strikers swept today, en-
pIoying the same tactics as the Newark
divisions, At every place they halted
they stopped the laborers at work. Not
a single man ignored their demands to
LAY down your picks
At the new West Hudson park twenty.
Ave laborers obediently stopped work.
Men WORKING at a number Of new houses
throughout Harrison became recruits as
quickly as the column of resolute strik.
ers approached them.
Chief of Police Michael Rodgers, of
Harrison, with several patrolmen, fol
lowed the strikers until they reached
Kearny. Chief Rodgers was afterward
informed that the strikers had threat
ened to kill the laborers IL they did not
stop work.