Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-08-14
FIRST DEED Of
VIOLENCE FROM
THE STRIKERS
Frederick Raichart, Laborer at
Sloan & Chace's Plant,
! Beaten and Cut.
THE STRlKE-BREAKERS
ARE SLOWLY INCREASING
Non-Union Workers Leave the
City Each Night Under
Police Guard.

One of the strike breakers at the
turing Company at Thirteenth straet
and Sixth avenue, was beaten while
on his way to work this morning, the
first act of violence reported since the
Brotherhood of Metal Workers called
out $50 machinists and helpers last
week
The man hurt was Frederick Raich-
art, of 40 Blum street, a blacksmith's
helper, thirty-four years old, who Sc
cured employment as a laborer since
the strike commenced. He told Po-
liceman Schott, of the Fifth precinct.
that he had reached Central avenue
and Twelfth street about 645 this
morning on his way to work, when
four men stopped him.
They said they were strikers at the
Sloan & Chace plant, and asked him
not TO go to work. He replied that he
could get no work at his regular line
of employment, AMI was forced to
work as q strike-breaker. The usual
argument followed, and when Raich-
art insisted upon going to the fac
tory the four set upon him. but he
managed to get away from them. He
was bruised about the head and had
four cuts on the arm when he met
the policeman. Police of the Fifth
precinct are searching for the assail-
ants
President Weber's Statement.
William Weber. son OF the head
OF the Sloan & Chace plant. stated
today that Raichart had reported for
work this morning and had related
his experience with the strikers. A
request was made for permission to
interview Raichart but Mr.. Weber re-
fused to give the necessary permit
Mr.. Weber also stated that last
evening when the out-of-town men
who were working at the plant
reached the train platform at the
Roseville station to which they had
been escorted by the policemen stones
were thrown at them by the strikers.
The police who escorted the men to
the station deny Mr.. Weber's state
ment and say that there was abso-
.lutely no disorder of any kind at the
station and that the strikers never
even approached the. men who were
under escort.
President Weber fearing that the
strikers would probably make a dem
onstration at noon today when the
men left the works. requested Cap
tain Carroll. in command of the Fifth
Precinct station, to send additional
officers to the plant. The force of
four policemen who have been on
duty. since the beginning of the strike
was strengthened by the addition of
six other uniformed men and two
plainclothesmen.
There was no need for the extra
force, however, the men working in
the plant being allowed to go away
unmolested
Many of the strikers We're at the
other machine plants in this city. the
Oranges and Harrison today taking
up a collection to carry on the
strike. This fund will be used to give
aid to any of the strikers who apply
for help to the union.
Brotherhood, who is in charge of the
strike, was indignant when told
of the charge made by Raichart that
he had been beaten by strike pickets.
'I don't think that any of our boys
attacked Raichart," said Larsen,
"and the strikers court a full investi-
cation of the charge. We are win
ming this strike by peaceful methods
and have warned the men against
violence of any kind
Conditions at the factory seemed to
be about the same this forenoon with
the force of strike-breakers growing
slowly but surely. The pickets said
today that four new men refused all
overtures this morning and went to
work with the other strike breakers,
but declared they turned back more
than a dozen at the Roseville station
of the Lackawanna railroad.
The strike breakers are living out
of town, Making the Lackawanna train
for Hoboken every night and return
ing by the same route each morning.
Last night four policemen from the
Fifth precinct were assigned to guard
the departing workers, who numbered
fifteen More than that number came
in on this mornings train.
The strikers have eight pickets con-
stantly at the Roseville station and
eight more at the Ampere station, al
though no strike-breakers have come
in by the latter way thus far. 'Half
a dozen more pickets are kept con-
of the factory.