Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-04-06
Strike Duty Deputies
Now Declare WalkOut
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step will be an appeal to the Governor
for the State troops"
In discussing the Jail. he said: I'VE
treat our prisoners like human beings.
1t is my duty to preserve and enforce
the law, and | will do SO. even against
our own men. l treat all my prisoners
at the jail we'll"
A demonstration and parade of all
the strikers will be held Tuesday. 1t is
expected that the striking deputies will
head the procession.
The strikers are up in arms today
because five of their men We're COM
mitted to ten days in Jail by a justice
of the peace without the option of pay
ing a fine. The men We're tried by
E.. M. Dunn in the office of the Forst-
mann-Huffmann mill and r~ailroaded
to the Hackensack Jail. Harry H.
Weinberger, counsel for the strikers,
asked Dunn what right he, a non
committing magistrate, had to send
men to Jail.
Il am acting under orders" said
Dunn. He refused to give the names
of the men who ordered him..
Garrett Flemmin, a deputy, was sem
fenced to thirty days in Jail for drink
ing "a glass of beer. Under-Sheriff
Heath had forbidden the use of in
toxicants by his men.
Heath is becoming less hostile He
has declared his intention of being Will
ing to hold the conference with all the
judges in Bergen and Passaic counties
and the strikers for the purpose of
coming to some agreement.
Boris Reinstein has caused the is
suance of a warrant for the arrest of
one of the deputies. 1t is a John
Doe warrant. The warrant was
served; it is not known whether the
deputy is under arrest.
There was not rioting today. The
deputies have been ordered to keep
cool Heath and Conklin admit that
many of their deputies acted unwisely.
Heath said that only twelve of his
force were regular deputies and the
Others were emergency" men, n
therefore not fully competent.
Harry Weinberger is determined to
see that his clients are treated justly,
and will invoke the aid of the courts.
The absence of violence today Is re-
garded as significant. 1t is said that
the strike leaders have counseled the
men to be peaceful. because in that
way they will win favor with the
public and arouse such sentiment as
will help them settle their grievances
in a satisfactory n
The force of deputies has been in
creased from forty to seventy-fve. In
the strikers camp there was general
denunciation of the attitude of the au-
thorities in breaking up the strikers,
meeting near the mill yesterday. Sher-
if Con1xlin denies that his men dubbed
women, but a that some of the wom-
en- were of necessity treated roughly,
because of the viciousness with which
they attack the deputies, several of
them trying to bite and scratch the
officers. Henry Pagan. one of the
deputies, who was struck by a brick.
was said to be in a serious condition.
Five or six meetings of strikers were
held In halls in this city last night and
were entirely orderly. The speakers
seemed not at all inclined to urge their
hearers to violent revenge for the firing
on their friends by Bergen County
deputy sheriffs today.
Explaining tina outbreak, Under
Sheriff Robert N. Heath, said to a Star
representative in this city last night.
1.-THE trouble was due to green depu-
ties. When I mustered the deputy
sheriffs in for strike duty I swore in
only about a dozen regular deputies.
rest were new men, and when the
first violence confronted them today
they lost control of their heads"
Boris Reinstein, general manager of
the L. W. w. was in conference with
Bergen county officials at Hackensack.
Before he left for the county seat he
stated his intention of making some
body suffer for what he styled 1.-The I'M
warranted outrage"
1t is probable. n of the strike COM
mittee said, while Reinstein was away.
tina he will succeed in causing the
arrest of the deputies who fired on
the strikers.
While it cannot be said that the
strikers are in any danger of being
starved out" for a considerable time,
many of them have a keener edge on
their appetites than was wont to be
there while they were employed, and
their wives and children are also be-
coming uncomfortably hungry.
To assist these a general kitchen was
opened at Kovalycsik Hall, Sc Second
street. A dozen stoves were set up,