Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-07-27
1,5OOSTR|KERS.
BACK At WORK IN
J BAYONNE PLANTS
Sheriff Positive They Will Get
Increase and That Trouble
Is Over.
ALL WILL HAVE RETURNED
BY TOMORROW, HE SAYS
$50 Uniformed Policemen on
Guard, Many Armed
With Rifles.
Special to the Evening Star.


eral days returned to work today in
the plants of the Standard Oil Com
pany and the Tidewater Oil Com
pany here. Mayor Pierre Garvin and
Sheriff Eugene F. Kinkead declared
that the strike was broken, that by
tomorrow all of the strikers would be
back at work and that the several
hundred guards who have been pro-
tecting tine plants could be removed.
The sheriff said he was positive an
increase i'll pay would be granted the
employees before the end of this week.
About 5000 have been idle since the
strike began in the plant of the
Standard Oil Company. AS a result
of this strike and of disorders in
which several of the strikers and
their sympathizers were shot and
killed, employees of the Tidewater Oil
Company quit work, 1t is said. un-
willingly. The return of the men to
work followed Sheriff Kinkead's ac-
fion yesterday in taking command of
a meeting of the English speaking
strikers and obtaining their vote to
60 back, after he had arrested Jere-
miah J. Baly, their leader
Sheriff Ki1kead had $50 uniformed
policemen and guards stationed about
the Standard Oil plant when the men
vent TO work today. For six blocks
a guard was stationed every fifty
feet, and on every corner was a po-
llceman with rifle A crowd of sew
eral hundred men who gathered near
the oil works was dispersed by the
sheriff
s there was no disorder and the sheriff
appeared to be in control.
Many OF the alien employees fol-
lowed the English h-speaking strikers
as they entered the oil plant, and the
sheriff was confident that all the for
eigners would go back to work The
strike was begun to enforce a demand
:, Tor 10 per cent. increase in wages.
Strikers Accept Offer.
John A. Moffitt, one of the federal
conciliators, said today, following a
long conference with the strikers
committee, that the latter had finally
agreed to accept the offer of G. B.
Hennessy, the plant superintendent,
that they return to work and that he
would then recommend an increase in
pay and use his best influence to
have II granted. He also offers to
right any alleged wrong that may ex-
ist In the works.
Mr.. Hennessy reiterated his offer
today to Mr.. Mofit and James A..
Smyth, the other federal conciliator,
and extended the time for the men
to return TO work until tomorrow.
The strikers committee has called
meeting of the men still out this
afternoon, when the committeeman
will present the proposition, declare
they are satisfied with it and urge
the men to accept it and return to
work. The Federal conciliators and
Messrs. Cronin and Wilson of the
citizens mediation committee, have
been invited to attend the meeting
In making the announcement of the
favorable progress and outlook, Mr.
Moffitt said:
las | can see no material difference
between the proposal submitted by
the strikers Saturday afternoon and
that of Mr.. Hennessey. I feel that it
is our duty, as conciliators represent
ing the United States, to advise the
men to accept"
Sheriff Kinkead presented to about
800 strikers late yesterday at a meet
ing the proposition of Mr.. Hennessy,
which was in effect an offer to recon-
mend to his superiors that the men
be granted an increase in wages just
as soon as I0ey returned TO Work.
The sheriff urged the men to ac-
cept and to return to work to-
day, but after discussion a majority
by viva voce vote declined to ac-
cept it. The sheriff said to the men
Just before the meeting closed:
UNLESS you accept the offer ! pro-
pose to have the Standard OIL Com
pany reopen their works and they
can accept you as employees or not.
Just as,(they choose. I will protect
all men who want to go to work when
the plant feopens. Law and order is
now in control in Bayonne and the
first man who violates it will be
placed under arrest
Frank Tannenbaum. of New York,
who has been active in the work of
the Industrial Workers of the World.
and was warned out of Bayonne, but
came back yesterday, was placed un-
der arrest during the meeting. The
charge, 1t was stated, was melting to
riot
The arrest of Jeremiah ]. Baly yes-
terday came while the men were re-
ceiving their wages at the Tidewater
plant 1t was shown by the records
that Baly had never been an emplove
of the Standard Oil Company and he
was also charged with melting to
riot.
Baly, in a signed statement, which
was made public by Sheriff Kinkead
said he had falsely and malciously
represented himself to Sheriff Kin
kead, the strikers and the Standard
Oil officials as an employe of the
company" and that "he regretted the
part he had played"
Baly, who is twenty two years old
and says he was born in Bohemia.
lives in Elizabeth and was an en-
ploye of the Singer Sewing Machine
Company there up to the time the
Standard Oil strike started.
In a statement to newspapermen
Baly denied that he was at work In
Bayonne in the interest of any for
eign government. He said that a
friend had urged him to go to Ba-
yonne to help the strikers and that
he had done so In the belief that he
was fighting for the right of man.
a doctrine which he strongly held,
JERSEY CITY, July 27.-Sheriff
Eugene F. Kinkead, after declaring
to newspapermen at Bayonne police
headquarters last night that he was
going to Jersey City to arrest Chief of
Police Frank Monahan, jumped into
his auto and came to this city. Be-
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