Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-29
UNPAID WORKERS
TELL DEALINGS
WITH RAYMOND
No Wages from Receiver, Men
and Families Forced to
Suffer.
RESULT OF RAYMOND'S
BUSINESS lNcAPAcITY
One Laborer Unable to Buy
Medicine for His Dying
Daughter.

Some OF the results of the failure OF
Thomas L. Raymond, Republican can
didate for mayor, to show business
capacity in the haLdling OF local re-
ceiverships were told today by rep
resent3tiye of the $50 laborers en-
ployed on the work who have yet to
receive their wages. These men were
In the hire of Mr. Raymond while he
was receiver for two firms that went
bankrupt on local sections OF the new
passaic valley trunk sewer.
AS told in the Evening Star yester-
day, Mr.. Raymond's lack of business
capacity compelled him to throw up
the receivership work er;'rely AS
matters stand at present, the receiver
is indebted to the sum of about SS5,ooV
to a number of sub-contractors and
the 1850 laborers. 1t is hardly neces-
sary to state that these workmen Will
not indorse Mr.. Raymond as man
fitted to carry on the business of the
city of Newark.
Joseph Reyle, laborer, OF l57 Boyo
street. was one of the men VINO
worked on the trunk sewer job under
the Raymond regime. He said Mr..
Raymond's laxity in business carried
with it the loss of their homes 10
more than one of the laborers VINO
couldn't get their wages. :,
But more than anything else, salu
Mr.. Reyle, as his eyes filled with
tears, was the fact that l couidn
get money to buy medicine for my
little girl. She's dead now. | hope
she's at peace. But | might have
been able to make her last hours on
earth more comfortable had l had the
money with which to buy her the
nroper nourishment. And remem-
her" Mr.. Reyle continued, II worked
for that money, and worked hard, too.
But we men couldn't get any OF IT,
: RAYMOND would send word every
day thai the pay-rolls would be there
The next day. But it never came
Why didn't he tell us beforeY we
could have gotten work elsewhere
Planned Riot.
,.sonle of the men were SO enrage5
AZ The treatment to which Raymond
had subjected us that they planned
trouble. At that time we were work
ing on the sewer in Fourth avenue
We were going to get revenge. but
In some way officials OF the sewer
lOl0mlEElOn SOl On W CAA
tipped eff the police. The day tho
,iof was scheduled for, mounted
policemen and patrolmen, as well as
chief Engineer Brown, of the Sewer
Commission. appeared on the scene
and urged us not to use violence. st
INV case was bad. but there were
others much the same" said Mr..
Reyle
s.One of the men on, the job was
dispossessed because he couldn't pay
his rent. Mind you, he had money
coming to him for the work he did.
His name Is William Taylor and ne
lived in Passaic. He worked along
side of me in the trench. There were
other laborers who lost their homes,
too. and some whose grocery supply
was cut off, but l don't know their
names.
Just Plain sandhogs.
..But YOU see," Mr.. Reyle continued,
"it didn't make much difference to
RAYMOND. We were only sand hogs.
We were the fellows who worked IN
compressed air all day long. some
times in water up to our waists we
were the common people. But RAY
mond should have born in mind that
even if we were only san6hogs, we
have wives and children to look after,
and who must be supported.
Mr.. Reyle asserted that another
man, a saloon keeper, lost his busi-
ness entirely when the laborers at
work under the Raymond receiver
ship didn't get their salaries. His
name was James Feeley. the proprie-
tor of a business located at the cor
ner of Ogden and CLAY streets. Many
of the "sandhogs," Mr.. Reyle says.
who needed some of their salaries
before due would go to Mr.. Feeley
with requests for advances on their
wages In return they would give
him as security their brass pay
checks, which Feeley would cash on
pay day But when the much-de-
layed pay day failed to arrive, Mr..
Reyle says, F'eeley was forced to
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