Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-16

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help. Requests for help have also
mayors, chiefs Of police and private
citizens.
From q Pennsylvsnia Viewpoint.
Major Groome. head of the Penn
sylvania force: in his annual report
says:
in the first few years of its exist
ence. the force did have lot of riot
duty to perform, owing to the large
number of labor disturbances and the
consequent disorder in various parts
of the State: but in the last two
years conditions have been compare
lively quiet. and we have made very
few arrests for rioting, as our records
will show. In the nine years the
force has been in existence il has
not been necessary to once order out
the National Guard, notwithstanding
the fact that in that time there have
been many serious riots caused by
strikes and industrial disturbances.
"On seven different occasions in the
first six years of our existence it
would have been necessary for the
governor to order out the National
Guard to suppress disorder and pro-
tect lives and property had it not
been for the State police at Mt. Car
mel in 1906, Chester in 1908, McKee's
Rocks in 1902 Philadelphia in 1910,
South Bethlehem in 1910. and Shen-
andoah and the entire anthracite field
in 1912.
1.-THE last time the National Guard
was ordered out in Pennsylvania Tor
riot duty was in 1902 at Hazelton,
and ii cost over s995,000 in cash for
the eight weeks service, an amount
sufficient to support the State police
force for three years, and this does
not include the personal loss in salary,
or wages, to the 5000 members of the
Guard, who were kept away from
their daily occupations for two
THE labor agitators still claim that
the members of the State police are
of corporations and are
only used to intimidate the laborlng
classes. but this charge is disproved
by our records, which show that dur
ing the year 1912 only ten arrests We're
made for rioting out of total OF
1 .141 arrests for over eighty dlnerent
crimes, and during 1918 not a single
arrest was made for rioting. while
arrests were for rape. ana
forty for murder"
As to Arrests and Convictions.
cit is not necessary to take up your
time by enumerating the full list of
these eighty crimes and the number
of arrests made under each classical
ton, but I should like to mention a
few of them, so as to give you some
idea of the varied duties our men have
to perform; and, in judging the eficl-
that it is not the total num-
Der of arrests that counts, but the
average of convictions to arrests.
Last year we made 1872 arrests for
and disorderly conduct
and secured 12S convictions; ia ar
rests for aggravated assault and bat
terry and assault and battery, with ia
10 arrests of keepers ana
inmates of disorderly houses, with "A
40 for murder. with %
convicted or now awaiting trial; 30
for gambling, with SIS convictions; 80
for rape, with % convictions; 25 for
horse stealing, with is convictions.
"Of the 494 arrests made for these
crimes we secured 422 conyictionsf |
which is an average of 90 per cent. !
The reason we get such a large per- |
pentage Of convictions is because our !
men do not make arrests without |
cause, and after making arrests, from !
their constant schooling in the crimi- |
nal laws of the State, they know just |
what evidence is necessary and can |
present 1t In the proper manner to |
the justice of the peace and later on |
the Judge in the court
Like the requests for assistance |
that have already mentioned. nearly |
ALL or at least an enormous majority, |
IF the 2463 arrests we made were for |
crimes committed in small towns or |
n the rural districts"
Diagnosing Labor Unions.
Referring to the argument that II |
S an anti-labor measure, Major |
Sroome declares this claim is not |
oorne out by facts and that it must |
De remembered that q very small per-
,entage of the laboring men in this J
country belong to any labor organiza- I
ion. Even those who do are d.
yided among two types of organiza-
ion, he says. One type, that deals |
With skilled labor almost exclusively,
le declares, obtains its ends by peace
'ul methods and strikes without vio-
ence. Labor organizations of this |
lass and the non-union laborers OF
his country are not only not op- /
posed to the State police, but are real
Y In favor of them as representing |
aw and order. The other type OF /
abor union almost entirely deals with
lnskilled foreign labor, ana while it
.iaims to be Fighting wrongs by its
he declares 1t only breeds
iiscontent, socialism and anarchy. |
This latter type, he points out. is
opposed to all law and or
Ter, whether enforced by local police,
state police. the National Guard or
ocular army.
He considers the failure of the last
legislature in Pennsylvania to In