The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1915-07-22
.BL00DSHED TODAY
BY SHOTS FIRED AT
OIL WORKS STRIKERS
Guards at Bayonne
Say They Were
Fired On.
ONE MAN KILLED
Fifty Wounded Are Taken te
Hospitals 600 Rioters
Attack Guards.

trenton, N. J.-NlayOr Pierre
u. Garvin. of Bayonne, today
asked the governors Office here
to send troops to Bayonne. The
request was not granted and no
troops will be sent unless the
request comes from Sheriff
Kinkead of Hudson county, and
then only after every local
remedy is exhausted.
New York City.-The second riot
of the day at the Bayonne plant OF
the Standard Oil Company later to-
day assumed serious proportions,
The fighting was resumed after the
iircmen and mounted police had sur.
rounded the plant as guards. The
Bayonne chief of police said that
about 5000 men were engaged in
the second attack and that one of
sons were taken to the Bayonne hos
pital suffering from injuries. The
injured included both rioters and po-
lice.
In the plant were 75 deputy
shcriffs and also 100 extra policemen
furnished by Bayonne. Outside the
inner guard was of uniformed police
under the personal command of In
spector Cady, together with the city
fircmcn using the hose on attackers.
Number Wounded Unknown
The mounted police with the in
spector bore the brunt of the first
attack on the plant, but the second
| fight brought all the guards into ac-
tion, together with the firemen. The
police and tiremen We're fired upon
With revolvers in the hands of the
strikers and were pummelled with
Istones and pieces of heavy Stag
Inspector Cady ordered his men
to fire a volley into the crowds,
which We're rapidly fire. over their
heads. Ui
Many bullets found human marks
and a number of injured were taken
TO hospitals. There is no indication
of the total number of wounded as
many We're carried away by the
strikers and sympathizers.
While the firing from the crowd
was in progress, Inspector Cady's
horse became almost uncomfortable
and swung about wildly in the ranks
of the police. Investigation showed
the horse was shot and was suffering
from an internal hemorrhage.
General Manager Clifford of the
plant said:
I'VE stand ready now, as in the
past, to consider the complaints or
requests of our men, but. under no
circumstances will we deal with out
siders. Nor will we consider any
.ultimatum requiring an answer with
in twenty-four hours. or any other
period. such as was recently pre-
sented."
Trouble Starts EARLY.
New York City.-Serious rioting
occurred today around the plant of
the Standard Oil Company of New
Jersey at Bayonne, where the strike
is in progress, when the mob en-
countered the guards there. In the
fighting that followed three OF the
rioters were wounded by pistol shots
fired by the guards They were talk
en- to hospital, where it was said
their wounds We're not serious.
1t is stated that the guards did
not fire until the mob attacked them
with sticks and stones, and had fired
number of revolver shots. Then the
guards responded with a round from
their revolvers and three men weee
wounded. The cowd thereupon dis
persed. Inspector Daniel Cady, in
charge Of the police at the plant fol-
lowing the attack, called on Fire
Chief Davis for assistance. and the
latter took a dozen men and many
lengths of hose to the plant. These
will be used to fight the rioters with
water, should there be further at
tacks.
Thirteen hundred men quit the
Tidewater Standard Oil plant, at
Bayonne, when strikers attacked the
plant this morning.
More Strike at Bridgeport.
Bridgeport. Conn-The strike calls
here resulted in the machinists throw
ing down their tools in aSnumber of
Bridgeport plants where they walked
out. The labor leaders claimed they
had taken 40 additional men from
two plants doing work for the Rem
ington Arms and Ammunition Com
pany; that the pickets had succeeded
! in keeping eighty men from going to
work at the new plant of the Reming-
ton concern; that 100 men on the
night shift of the Union Metallic
Cartridge Company had gone on a
strike and that during the noon hour
hundreds of men on the day shift
would quit. They estimated that
500 skilled machinists are now strik
ling. They reiterated the statement
lthat there would be complete shut
down of the war munitions factories
by Saturday. Disorder seemed inn
minent several times, with the strik-
iers making demonstrations and the
police and guards driving crowds
from the vicinity of the plants.
! Shortly before noon a large crowd