The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-07-27
STANDARD Oil
/ STRIKE BROKEN
ONE HALF OF 5000 STRIKERS AT
bS1ONNE WILL RETURN TO
WORK THIS MORNING.
American Worsnen Vote TO Aeeept
proposal Of Company-Tanne-
baum ts Arrested

NEW YORK. July 2s.-Deveiop-
ments IN the strike situation A. BAY
onne. y. J.. tonight Indicated that
probably half Of the approximately
S.oO0 employees OF the Standard OH
company OF New Jersey would return
20 Nork tomorrow morning. In re
spouse 70 an anseal by sheriff Eugene
kinkead AZ a haas meeting tonirht
me EnEllsh-speaking men and Amer
lean eitizens among the employees
akreed 20 return TO work. although
the foreign speaking element earlier
IN the day had refused an offer from
me company which the sheriff had
mated that 1900 men signifed their
intention OF returning TO work and
that probably half OF the employees
speak English or are American citi-
zens. What the foreign-speaking work
ers viii do when the others 20 back
Is proolematical
Sheriff Kinkead declared he had
every means 10 protect the men IN
tney returned to work and announced
tnat superintendent @. n. Hennessy.
OF the Standard plant, would have me
row ''i0
me sheriff appealed TO two meet.
lnss o. standard employees, composed
- liner strikers or men thrown out
OF work because OF the strike. At
one one asttesded by the foreign-speaking
men me men refused 10 accept a pro
posal OF superintendent Hennessy's
| tnat they return to work after which
ne would ask the company 10 Increase
S ce5,s pay The same proposal was &C.
,bIp.eu py me second meeting OF
nose who speak English and those
who are citizens among the workers.
Important Developments.
Two, important Developments
marked the progress OF the strikers
OF OIL wor kers az Bayonne, n J.. to-
DAY. The FIRST was the refusal BY the
men OF another offer from the Stan.
tendent Hennessy, which Sheriff Kin.
kead and city officials appeared 10
view in a favorable light. the other
was the unmasking and arrest OF
Jeremiah J. Baly. chairman OF the
strikers committee and virtually their
recognized leader.
Sheriff Kinkead presented the offer
OF MI Hennessy To about 500 strikers
late today at a meeting which he
dominated by virtue OF his right. ia
was stated. as the county's chief
peace officer.
The sheriff strongly urged the man
TO accept the offer and return to work
tomorrow, but after a discussion last
ing over an hour a majority OF the
men voted not TO accept IL.
Tannenbaum Arrested.
IL was learned later that Frank
lannenbaum, OF New York. who has
been active in the work OF the Indus
trial Workers OF the World, was
placed under arrest during the meet
ing. The charge, IL was stated. was
melting 20 riot. While Tannenbaum
was being taken to the county fail in
the sherins automobile he made some
remark which offended the sheriff,
and the latter. # is said, slapped the
mans face.
The arrest OF Jeremiah J. Baly to-
day came while the men were receiv-
ing their wages at the Tidewater
plant. IL was shown by the records
that Baly had never been an employe
OF the Standard Oil Company, and he
was taken into custody on suspicion
mat he had been Influenced BY out
! side interests to incite trouble among
the strikers in Bayonne.
Baly, In a signed statement which
was made public by Sheriff Kinkead,
VINO ordered his arrest and is investi.
eatlng his career. said that he had
falsely and maliciously represented
himself to Sheriff Kinkead, the strik-
ers and the Standard Oil officials as
an employe OF the company" and that
he regretted the part he had played {"
Baly. who Is p years old and says
/ he was born In Bohemia lives in Eliza
/ beth. n. J.. and was an employe OF the
4 Singer Sewing Machine company
there up to the time the STANDARD OH
strike started.
No Foreign Connections.
In statement TO newspaper men
Baly denied that he was at work IN
I the interest OF any foreign govern
ment He said that a friend urged
/ him 20 go to Bayonne TO help the
strikers and that he had done so in
the belief thai he was fighting for the
| rights OF man. a doctrine which he
strongly held. He will be held pend
ing thorough inquiry.
/ The unrest among oil workers
I reached Jersey City today when the
coopers employed in the Eagle OIL
company at Caven Point a subsidiary
Of the Standard OIL company. struck.
| The strikers claimed that all OF the
$500 men in the plant would join them
tomorrow.