The evening world., 1915-01-21
STRIKERS INVADE
JERSEY WORKS TO
IDENTIFY KILLERS
Declare Cunmen Who Firei
Fatal Shots Were Struggled
Out of the State.
SECOND VICTIM DIES.
Citizens Hold Mass Meeting
and Deliver Ultimatum to
Factory Owners.
SECOND VICTIM DIES.

Borough. N, j., where two strikers
from the fcrtiiiser factories were
killed and twenty were wounded by
armed deputy sheriffs In the pay Of
tho plants. held n mass meeting this
afternoon and unanimously denounced
the shooting n a barbarous outrage.
The meeting was held In Chester Hall.
carteret. n. j.. and Morris Koses
acted as Chairman.
Patrick Nolan, Frederick Froelich
and William CouEhlin were appointed
a committee TO visit the owners of the
fertiliser factories and notify them TO
settle the strike by paying the men
the wages they demand or got ready
IN movc out OF Roosevelt Borough.
There was q pronounced sentiment nj
the meeting In favor of complaining
10 tho state Board of Health that tho
fertilizer works arc d nuisance dstri.
mental to the health Of the commu.
nifty and should be removed TO some
remote spot where persons outside
their limits should not be compelled
Tho twenty-five deputies who woro
arrested yesterday charged with
homicide and released on bonds of
5000 zach at New brunswick re-
turned to Roosevelt borough to-day
and resumed their jobs OF keeping
armed guard over tho plants. A
delegation OF strikers was taken by
County Detective Peltier this after
noon to look over all the deputies and
80 II any could DO picked out A. mon
who nrod shots on Tuesday. Tho
strikers think that the reai murder
srs have been smusglsd out OF the
state and that those arrested will
have little difhculty In growing
alibis.
The leader OF the deputies who did
tn shooting 10 described a. q tall
man with q black mustachs known ~
Moore or Patterson. Strikers say
that he carried shotgun and an au-
tomato revolver and started the
fusilade by firing the shotgun In the
air and shouting XIII oil the ----'
Carman Patty. who was shot five
times by the deputies In Tuesdays
disturbance. died at noon to-day In
tho Aiexian Brothers Hospital at
Elisabeth. This makes tho second
fatality. Tho other wounded men
will recover.
The State Board OF Health began
an investigation to-day into iivins
conditions within the three plants
against which the strike was de-
olared. Strikers say that Q big dele
gation OF strikebreakcra deserted
early this morning.
Frederick Haslem Of Cartarst, a
striker. went to the General Hospital
at Elizabeth to-day for treatment for
. bullet wound In the leg. and revealed
that hs waa ono Of the wounded In
Tuesdays disturbance. He was 400
yards away from the railroad station
where the deputies were stationed
when no was shot.
The Commissioners on Industrial Re.
iatlons received the report Of Patrick
Gu. the special investigator sent tc
the soens Of the trouble to-day. aid
II was announced at the CITY Hall
whore the Commission IL sitting. th.,l
a report viii be made this evening
The American Federation OF Labor 1,
also making an investigation.
PAtroiman J. L. Dowiinw Of Roose.
vslt Borough. VINO was at tho scene
Of the shooting. has reported to Chief
Of Police Harrington that the
strikers did not pile Ties on the rail.
road track to stpp . trainload oi
striksbrsakers. % says that the
deputies got on the train on the side
away from the pssembled strikers
none Of whom was armed, and hret
at the helpless men under the. bodie'
Of the coaches, which accounts FOL
no many having bullet wounds In th'
legs and feet.
Handbilis were distributed through
out Roosevelt Borough to-day. cailinl
for a mass meeting Of oitisens. Tn
object Of the meeting II Z. force IN
withdrawal OF the armed dsputis
and substitute state militia In cas-
, Of further trouble.
{ sTRikG ORGAkiNo FoRGMG'
, REACH rhG PLANre.
TITO attitude taken by the vosi
panies affected by the strike does nc
|. tend TO avert further trouble. Thss
: has been very little work done
some Of the plants recently. beoaus
! the strike breakers had no forems
70 tell thsm what to do. LAst nisf
a foremcn arrived from Boston. and
/. 10 feared that whom the strikers lear
q that efforts win be made to run u
n plants without them. they will iguol
y their leaders. who are constantly ~
y vtsing peaceab,e. orderly conduct. IN
|. start more trouble.
II was widely rumored about Roos'
welt. N. j.. to-day that the twent,
> two deputies chargsA vtth usas
! slaughter u sAsstias dewa, aaarm'
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