Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-07-22
MORE BAYONNE RIOTING;
TWO STRIKERS KILLED;
SHERIFF CALLS TROOPS
Washington Dispatches
Two MediatOrs at Re-
quest of Kinkead.
BUILDINGS AND TANK CARS
SET AFlRE BY STRIKERS
Firenen Succeed, 10y Laborilag
All Night, in Keeping Flames
from Oil Tanks.
ILLETIN.

BULLETIN.
BAYOSNE. July gs.--Two mon weye
killed shortly after noon today in an
attempt to rush the walls of tire standard
oil plant. Both we're strikers.
sheriff Kinkead at 1890 o'clock sent
rush request to Governor Fielder for The
State troops to quell the rictnE here.
Special to the Evening Star.
BAYoNNE, July 22.-Three more
strikers were shot in a street fight
which developed today outside the
works of the Standard Oil Company
This brings the total of wounded
men almost to sixty. with one fatality.
The three men, John Surgen, Steve
Fvohla and Tony Bednank. We're
members of a gang that tried to scale
the wall of the plant Deputies
picked them off the fence and they
tumbled back into the street
After several shots had been fired
by the strikers and guards the crowd
withdrew. Sheriff I<inkead telephoned
TO the department of labor at WASH
ington to ask that mediators be dis
patched Immediately TO Bayopne to
try to end the trouble. The sheriff
said he hoped it would not be neces-
sary to call out the State troops.
Back from Washington. almost
Immediately, came word that the de-
partment of labor had delegated two
| men-one a Jerseyman--to act as me-
diators. They are John A. Mofit, OF
| Orange, and James A. Smythe. Of
Pennsylvania.
Fielder Stays In Hudson County.
! Governor Fielder refrained from
| going TO his summer home a Sea
Girt today or TO his office in Tren-
ton. remaining in Jersey City TO
keep abreast of the situation. He
agreed with Sheriff kinkead that the
State militia should be called out only
as last resort
The Bayonne Civic Association sent
him a telegram today, asking that be
call out the militia, because the ASSOC
citation considers the situation sun
cienty serious
Scores of strikers and others gath
| cred at the works of the Standard Oil
! Company this morning. Inside the
| yard fire broke out i'm a watohman's
house. but II was quickly extin-
| guished. The strikers say that thu
! trouble started when Tony Bednank
! was shot while walking near the
company's works The crowd, led BY
/ John Surgen, q former Austrian SOL
/ dier. charged up the bank to attack
/ the company's guards, who we're sta
toned behind the oil tanks. Surgen
! fell at the first fire and rolled down
the bank
The crowd pressed on and in the
next exchange of shots Steve Fvohla
/ - faa al .I<.sI
! Then the crowd fell back and With
| drew from the neighborhood.
| street rumor was current after
! the early morning lighting that two
guards in the Standard Oil plant had
been wounded by pistol shots, and
some color was lent to the report
when the ambulance from the Bay
onne Hospital drove up and entered
the works. 1t bore no injured men,
however. when 1t left the plant and
the surgeon in charge said he had
been unable to find any injured: IN
side needing attention
| Sheriff Kinkead. who was on tbs
scene said this morning that rsbc
would make another effort later--in
| the day to bring about arbitration or
settle the differences In some othe,
way. If he failed, he declared. he
would then take additional measures
that would certainly guarantee peace
and protection of property.
| After the early attack the strikers
and their sympathizers gathered a
groups all along the streets leadins
to the Standard oil works.
Militia in Readiness.
With several regiments of niiitia
standing in readiness to answer call
| from Sheriff Kinkead, Bayonne was
still in the hands of the Standard Oil
| Company's rloting strikers today. Tbs
troops will not be called unless new
complications arise, the sheriff said
| today.
| Bayonne was q city of terror last
night The strikers applied the torch
to several outbuildings around the
| plants and the fire department,
wearied by strenuous efforts during
the day, labored all night TO prevent
i the blaze reaching the oil and naphtha
| tanks.
A long string of box cars was de-
| stroyed
| Shortly after dawn today the nine
thousand strikers in the Standard Oh,
Tidewater Oil and Vacuum Oil Com
pany plants, and as many more sym
pathizers, many of them women and
| children, renewed their disorder OF
yesterday. The few police who were
on guard were utterly unable to cope
with the situation 1t is expected thpt
| Governor Fielder will order q regf-
ment of the National Guard TO the
strike zone.
Last night the sky was illuminated
with the fires started near the Stsnd-
ard plant Seven freight cars were
set on fire by the strikers, Standard
Oil pumping station and hundreds OF
railroad ties.
All of the shops are closed down
and all iron work is stopped on the
| buildings for which iron works n
| the Hill" section have the contracts
| Unless an agreement is reached to-
! day. between the bosses and the
| union the Central Building Trades
will he asked to call off the worknasn
employed i'm the other trades on the
! buildings on which the iron WORK
has been stopped, the strike-leaders
| say.
Marcus Herkowitz president of the
union stated today tiiat telegram
| had been sent to John G. Johnson,
international vice-president, who -
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