Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-07-26
MILITIA ORDERED
READY FOR STRIKE
DUTY At BAYONNE
First Brigade, Comprising New
ark, Jersey City and Paterson
Troops, to Prepare.
WALK-OUT IN EAGLE OIL
WORKS REVlVES FEELING
Governor Says Action Was
Prompted by Failure to Sc
cure Police Aid.
Special to the Evening Star.

BAYONNE, July 26.-The ordering
of the First Brigade of the New Jer
sey National Guard to prepare for
strike duty at Bayonne and the
walking out of 400 sympathetic strik-
ers in Jersey City revived tensity of
feeling here this afternoon.
Governor Fielder, in directing that
the militia get in readiness, said he
took the action because Jersey City
and Newark had declined to furnish
uniformed police to help the Hudson
county sheriff. Composing the First
brigade are infanry regiments at
Newark, Jersey City and Paterson,
mounted companies at Newark, Red
Bank and Hoboken and a battery at
East Orange. Brigadier- General Ed
win S. Hine is commander.
The strike of Standard OIL employees
extended to Jersey City today, At
noon 200 coopers employed in the
Eagle Oil Works, a subsidiary of the
STANDARD Oil Company, located at
SaVan Point, went on strike and their
leaders announced that before evening
all of the $500 men employed in the
plant would be involved
James A. Smyth, one of the Federal
mediators, said today that the sitca-
tion was well in hand and he believed
there would be no further disorder.
He said the mediators were continu-
ing their conferences with the Stan
dard Oil officials and others and that
he had reason to believe the company
would make another proposal tomor-
row that he hoped would meet with
the approval of the strikers.
jeremiah j. Baly, chairman of the
strikers committee, was placed un-
der arrest this afternoon by order of
Sheriff Kinkead. He is charged with
inciting riot, the same general charge
made against the company guards
and others arrested yesterday.
Believing that the arrest of thirty
guards on duty in the plant of the
Tidewater Oil Company, Bayonne
has already had a salutary effect
toward bringing about peace, the au-
thorities today are redoubling their
efforts to prevent any "sniping'' in the
labor contest now raging there For
| the first time since the guards have
been on duty in the plant for more
! than a week there was no firing at
night and the Constable Hook section
of the town was quieter than any
other part of the city, where residents
Went to bed expecting 10 wake up to
find the town in a state of anarchy.
But for the guards patrolling the
oil plants and the presence of nu-
merous officers throughout Constab BILE
Hook, no one would have known dur
ing the early hours today of the week
of turmoil just past. None of the
strikers approached the works, and
even the street crowds, a feature of
last week S demonstrations, had dis
appeared
During the night a guard was
maintained at the rectory of Mt
Carmel Roman Catholic Church,
which was hit by a bullet yesterday
and the residence of George b. Gif-
ford, general manager, and q. b.
Hennessy, superintendent of the
plant.
The men were paid off today with
out sign of disorder Pay day fell
on Friday last, but was postponed
for fear that there might be dis
orders.
Today the employees assembled at
Union Hall and in hocks of 100 they
were marched to the offices of the
Tidewater plant, and as fast rs they
got their money they were hustled
away. Sheriff Kinkead had charge of
the arrangements.
william V. Reilly, chief of police,
thinks, however, the situation is still
far from satisfactory, because he be-
lieVes that the minute an effort is
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