New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-22

times. bringing answers from the
armed employees. One Of the ouIiets
struck his horse in the thigh, and u
collapsed, Cady ,eapiLe from the
carriage TO the street whore he re-
newed the battle, Joined Oy dozen
natrolmen. The employees were forced
AGAINST the oil company's concrete
wall, and bullets exchanged, breaking
windows in stores and the Standard
buildings. o..
One Of these bullets str X Steran-
SAX in the head. The youth was
rushed to the City Hospitl, where he
died three minutes after arriving. Dix
polieer-en and more than dozen
strikers were wounded and the police
believe that as many more were hurt
and cared for by friends
$1,000 May Quit.
These attacks continued intermit--
tentlv through the morning, and
shortly before noon the Bayonne
commissioners considered the advisa-
bility of asking for outside assistance.
Mayor Garven favored the militia, but
call was finally sent for Sherlf
Einkead. His arrival was the signal
for an outburst of applause on the
mart of the workers, for they believed
that ne could help them.
When he reached Bayonne he was
taken TO Mydosh's Hall, where loo
men, under the direction of Paul {.
Supinski, a Jersey City lawyer, who
acted a. their spokesman, welcomed
him. The Sheriff said that he had
been asked to come to the city and
that he preferred to see the situation
at first hand before asking Governor
Fielder to call out the militia.
SupinsN first explained what the
strikers wanted. Their demands. ne
said. were for a Is per cent increase
in wages and better treatment from
the foremen. Since the war started
he continued, the employees have been
driven at high speed to fill the huge
orders for oil for the European bel
ligcrents. This the still cleaners, who
work in a temperature of 200 degrees
objected TO.
an forty-eight hours" the attorney
said, this strike will spread TO al
the Standard plants in the vicinity OF
New York, and there will be 5000
men out" There are now 5000 mer
on strike at the Standard and Tide
water plants in Bayonne, and perhap:
1000 others unable to work in sub
sldiary companies.
Armed Guard Captured.
1t was the injection of SupinsN into
the strike that caused the company t
issue a statement against labor agi
tators yesterday afternoon.
That agitators would have quite I
hand in the strike question was evi
denced by the appearance in Bayonn'
late Yesterday of Frank Tannenbaum
the /. W. w. leader. and Alexander
Marx. who had come all the way from
Washington TO represent the American
Federation of Labor.
Sheriff Kinkead was the dominating
figure during the afternoon. He frs
assured the strikers that the clever
guards of the company who had lef
the yards and stepped into the street
armed, would be arrested. Then h,
proceeded to telephone to the Jerse!
City police TO send the patrol wagon.
1t was the arrival of this vehicle
that caused the big disturbance of tn
afternoon. The automobile rushe,
down Twenty-second Street and backe,
into the tirehOuse opposite the plant
where the twelve guards who had lief
the works were hidden. One of them
it was learned later, had walked ou
and disappeared into the crowd.
Armed Guards Captured.
= The strikers, who were MAXIM
5 preparations to attack the wagon, wer
z caught off their guard. They expecte,
= that il would take ten or fifteen min
utes TO put the guards into the truck
| but instructions had been sent ahead
/ and in less than thirty seconds afte
5 the automobile reached he engin
house it left with a load. The chauf
e feur turned the corner a. thirty-mlle
q an-hour speed, and ran his machine u
4 Twenty-second Street.
D Inside the patrol the eleven me-
D were crouched upon the floor, two pa
e trolmen standing at the rear door. Tn
o. strikers soon realized that they ha
Y been outguessed and, picking up rocks
shelled the wagon, as they had done a
= ambulance several hours before. Brick
A of considerable size were also hurled
. and the policemen drew their revolver
\ and fired at the ground
i Other patrolmen just managed {
D move from the street large log whic
D would have stopped the wagon, and tn
car rushed on TO Jersey City, where tn
eleven men were placed in the Hudso
- County Jail. In the morning melee tn
4 sides of the ambulance had been shat
tered by bricks and several striker
A hurt when patrolmen fired upon then
q This patrol wagon move by Sher.t
: Kinkead saved a repetition Of the morn
= ing riot, for the strikers began to calr
a down after tie Standard guards ha
4 been removed. A few, however, NOR
excitable, seized upon twenty eight
| inch sewer pipes lying along the curb
q and barricaded the trolley tracks, 5
e that other vehicles might not reach III
r plant.
c Men Barricade Street.
These pipes came near injuring Kin
d kead. who rode upon a hook and ladde
!. from the Standard plant shortly afte
(, the patrol wagon had left. The drive
d saw only the crowd, which completed
= shut off view of the pipes, and whe
r the men signalled for him to stop q
Twenty second Street and Avenue f h
c did not. He drove the wagon With
p twenty feet of the pipes before he sa,
them. The throng cheered the Sheriff
e who stood up on the truck and smile
n cheerfully. Then the chauffeur made
r detour and the truck passed on.
e At the first Mydosh's Hall meetin
i kinkead asked fer the cooperation 9