Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1912-06-21
CAUSE
TROUBLE AT
CIGAR PLANT
One Arrested But Sentence
Is Suspended Expect EN-
ployes to Return Monday.
PROTECT THOSE WORKING
Managers of Cigar and Hand
kerchief Plants Refuse to
Give Any Increases.
PROTECT THOSE WORKING

Women and girls striking from
the Perth Amboy Cigar Works at
Johnstone and Neville streets be-
came generally troublesome last
night and this morning as they wit
messed a number of girls employed
at packing and pasting, entering and
leaving the factory. AS a result one
girl was arrested to serve ninety
days in the county Jail. Sentence
was suspended under condition that
the peace be kept.
Turn Down the Demands.
Superintendent Siegfried Kauf-
man said he expected most en-
ployes back to work Monday morn
ing at the old wage scale, as most
of them were satisfied to return
but were frightened by a few, he
declared. The Perth Amboy Cigar
Company and H. Rosenthal & Com
pany Will make no advancement to
the strikers, but the concern will
take their employees back and the
Rosenthal officials say they will
make such concessions as they see
fit. In no case will the demands of
the strikers be granted, it is declar-
ed, as both concerns say they are
paying as high for their respective
work as similar factories are pay
ing throughout the east. The Perth
Amboy Cigar Company estimates it
would cost more than 100000 to
grant the demands of It's strikers
for trouble would probably follow
at their factories in other cities.
Deputy Arrests Girl.
Mary Pinko, q Hungarian, seven
teen years old, of CTS Hall avenue,
was arrested by John Valley, a
special deputy Of Newark, assisted
by Patrolman Chris Hanson with
the city patrol wagon. Valley
charged that during an attack of
strikers on the plant and some Of
the packers and pastors about 2
O'Clock this morning, the Pinko girl,
a striker, hit him with stone. Pa
trolman Hanson testified that the
girl espied about twenty packers and
pastors leaving the rear of the
plant as Superintendent Kaufman
was talking to the strikers In front
of the factory and ran after them
with stones in her hands. The
workers escaped to Amboy avenue
after li-ely run, during which they
were pursued by half score of an
cry strikers Recorder Kehoe Sc
verely criticised the Pinko girl In
passing sentence at o'clock this
morning. At the same time he eau
about the court room to refrain
from creating trouble and throwing
sticks and stones.
The packers and pastors were at
tackled when they quit last night
t11 to tnr
this morning. AS result but
few packers are working today. Su-
perintendent Kaufman announced
today that there would be ample
protection on hand Monday and he
urged all to return to their posi-
tions ct the same pay received when
they left.
Sheriff On Committees Trail.
A committee enroute from this
city to pull workers from plants
along the Raritan river through the
western part of this city, Keasbey
and Piscataway yesterday morning
stopped activity after visiting plants
in Keasbey when 1t was reported
Sheriff Bollschweiler WAS on their
trail. They succeeded in causing
strike at the Didler-March plant and
causing increases to be granted at
that and the Raritan River Clay
Company plants. They failed to
reach plants of the New Jersey Pro-
ducts Company at Piscataway and
Germantown and as result no
strikes were caused there as 1t was
reported yesterday.
Conditions remain the same today
at the Vulcan DEFINING Works in
Sewaren. About 17b laborers are
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