Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-23
VIOLENCE FEARED
AS CLAY BELT is
SWEPT BY STRIKE
$500 Workers Walk Out of
Plants With Warning When
Demands Are Refused.
MANUFACTURERS ASK
SHERIFF FOR PROTECTION
Burning Factories from Perth
Amboy to New Brunswick At
fected by Labor Trouble.
Especial to the Newark star.I

PERTH AMBOY, N. j., April %
As the result of a wildfire-like spread
of a series of strikes the entire belt
of elay-burning factories along the
, Raritan river from here to New
Brunswick is shut down today. Among
the factories are the three immense
plants of the National Fireproofing
Company. the Didier- March Company
and the Raritan River Clay Company,
and violence is feared.
Altogether there are more than $500
men out So far there has been mo
rioting. but officials of the various
companies are taking precautions
that there will be no repetition of last
years labor troubles here in which
two men We're killed and score or
more wounded. Special deputies have
been pressed into service and the
police have been asked to reinforce
the patrol in this part of the city.
Fearing disorder today the manu-
| facturers called upon Sheriff Albert
Bollschweiler for protection. He
visited the scene and promised to
swear in special deputies as soon as
the striking men become violent. The
men now on patrol are in the COM
panies' employ
The strike came with the sudden
ness that has marked similar labor
troubles in this city during the past
three years. Without warning dele
cation representing the 1900 en-
ployees of the National Fireproofing
Company's Raritan, Standard and
Perth Amboy plants, visited the Of
H..
pay of 21s cents an hour They are
now getting 171s cents. When the de-
mand was refused the 1.200 men
walked out. and within six hours
| laborers at the c. Pardee works and
the United Lead Company had Joined
| them.
| Fearing that the strike fever would
spread to his men, Superintendent
John c. Olsen, superintendent at the
Raritan River Clay Company's plant
, called some of his employees into his
office and advised them to strike,
giving as his reason that should they
fail TO strike voluntarily. they would
he worked upon by the fireproofng
employees and the other strikers,
with serious disturbances as a pos
sible result. The 200 employees of The
plant then joined the strikers.
Seven hundred men at the Didicr-
March plant walked out today. They
have made no demand yet, but it is
believed they will ask the same
scale They have been receiving 171s
cents an hour.
La Dor men here are watching the
strike at the fireproofing plant with
the greatest concern. In the last
strike at the fireproofing plant, four
years ago, the same men who walked
out yesterday became so violent that
Governor Fort ordered the State mi
litia here. They patrolled the fac
tories for a week and several men
were shot in night riots. Several
plants voluntarily granted their en-
ployees increase in pay when the
Standard Underground Gable Com
panys men went on strike three
weeks ago in the hope that the strike
fever would be STAYED off. They rely
on this increase to prevent their
men from striking now in sympathy
with the Fireproofing Company's la
borers.