The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-21
% ARRESTED IN
STRIKE KILLING,
BALLS $4,000


wasn't q picket or syrnpathzer I'm sight.
The deputies scrambled on to the cars in
Jig time and the train started before all
we're aboard. Half dozen prisoners
came near being left. but they managed
to swing themselves aboard without mis-.
hap
Ferguson and Sedan spent the greater
part Of the day In Roosevelt questioning
witnesses OF Tuesdays shooting before the
Justice signed the warrants Whenever
Ferguson came across a man VINO pro
fessed to have seen the attack or who
knew anything about the incidents imme-
diately preceding Il he took him aside ard
got his story, while groups of men and
boys snugsled up rs near as they dared.
The issuance OF the warrants was based
on deposition by Policeman ]. l. w
Bowling. one OF Chief Harringtons eight
officers. who set forth In much detail
Tuesdays tragic event as he witnessed IT,
lie swors that the strikers were peaceable
and that none was armed. He saw them
standing at the station and observed n
committee go aboard the train to see II
there were any strike breakers on board
He was sure there were no ties on the
track
The big gates OF the Williams & Clark
plant opened. he swore. and the deputies
came out. Then a shot was fred, followed
by a general fusillade, and the fring con.
tnued. he said until the leader gave
strikers were "butchered' In manner
that was impossible TO describe and were
shot and beaten and sho: again. No at.
tempt was made by tde men VINO did the
shooting to assist the injured
When word was telcphoned TO a meet
ing Of strikers In Nash's Hall that the
deputies were then on their way TO New
Brunswick the news was received without
any demonetration
Would Appeal 20 Governor.
Mayor Joseph 4 Hermann made the
significant statemen; TO a SuE reporter
this afternoon that II serious trouble
should occur again in Roosevelt IN con-
nection with the strike he wouldn't hesi-
tate to call upon GOV Fielder for assist
ance, without following the usual custom
OF first appealing to the Sheriff ana then
waiting for the county to ask the state
for help. He said he has already made
arrangements with Adiutant-Genera, Will
lam F Sadler. Jr. 10 reach him az
minutes notice on the telephone In case
he couldn't set hold OF Sheriff Houghton
Mayor Hermann said he has tried TO
bring about settlement OF the strike
IN the fertilizer plants and hopes to work
out a plan whereby the companies and
their former employees will submit their
grievances to the merchants of the Dor
ough for arbitration.
There doesn't seem 20 he much likeri-
| nOOu VI an lIllllthlhlc NtbNitIIltUl VI llt
strike, however, r.. {. Champion, division
superintendent OF the American Agricul-
ture Chemical Company. the Williams &
| Clark and the Liebig 4 Co. plants, said
this afternoon with much postiveness that
the companies will remain firm and will
not give in
THE williams & Clark plant has been
shut down" he said. and we will run the
! Liebig q Co. works as best we can"
Mr. Champion said the $3.50 day
wage. the minimum for laborers. Is the
same that is paid in Elizabeth for COM
mon labor on sewer work. The work
consisted principally. he said, in pushing
/ wheelbarrows. The strikers quit work
because they wanted 50 day. the wage
thar prevailed before the European war
started.
He said that on Monday the strikers
| lined up beside the railroad track and
| fired several shots. Attempts had been
made to assault workmen. he said, and
| the strikers even tried to intimidate the
| family OF James King. foreman, by
going 10 his house and telling his wife
they would blow up his home with dyna-
mite
| BIames the Police.
j. +. WaIing, superintendent OF the
| Liebig 4 Co. plant said that when forty
| or fifty extra deputies arrived from New
ark Monday two strikers grabbed one of
.
ties pushed them from the platform. A
striker (PlnaiD fired shot at one OF the
deputies Mr. Warng said, and from four
| to six shots were exchanged.
officials OF the Liebig & Co. plant say
$50 real laborers," many of them long
shoremen from the big cities. are at work
in the Liebig & Co, plant
Patrick Gill, an investigator for the
United States Commission on Industrial
Relations. came to Roosevelt to-day to
investigate the shooting OF the strikers.
lie was sent here by Chairman Frank =.
Walsh OF the commission in response to
a telegram from Julius Jaeger, secretary
OF the Chemical Workers Union. which
read as follows:
| yesterday nineteen OF our unarmed
brother workers were shot down while
standing at the railroad station b. deputy
sheriffs stationed a the williams & Clark
plant. who fred volleys without provoca
ton into the dead and dying after they
had fallen. This is another Colorado mas
sacre and we ask you TO appoint a day
and time at which our witnesses can APP
pear before the commission and give tes-
timony"
Mr., GIN got anidavits from number
OF strikers He said that as far as his
| investigation had gone he found no evil
dence that the strikers were armed when
' they were attacked by deputies, 't1d
added that tho attack seemed 10 he
unprovoked He said he intended to get
the names and addresses of deputies
guarding the plants TO md out II any
OF them were New York gunner, as
has been reported
The strikers asked Representative
elect Meyer London the New York So
clallst, to become their legal representa-
tive. Mr.. London is not n New Jersey
! lawyer. but he offered 10 do what he
could for the strikers and sent Charles
Solomon as his personal representative
here to-day, Mr. Solomon brought a
message from Mr., London that Chairman
Walsh OF the United States Commission
on Industrial Relations had promised to
do what he could.
Seven hundred strikers ATTENDED a meet
ing OF the newly organized Chemical and
Fertilizer Workers Union AZ NHshs Hall
this afternoon and appointed n committee
to arrange for the funeral Of u, sidori
Alesandri, who was mortally wounded Mt
The one sided battle at the railroad station,
The union now has charter from the
American Federation OF Labor.
The question has been raised whether
the Middlesex grand jury. selected BY
Sheriff Houghton and Jury commits
sioner. can consider the complaints against
the men whom the Sheriff himself swor'
In as deputies.