The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-25
SHOOTING FOLLOWED
BY NEW STRIKEPLAN
Elizabeth Fertilizer Plant
Workers Asked to Join
Fight.

ROOSEVELT, y J.. Jan. 2i.-Leaders OF
the striking workmen at the fertilizer
plants here are endeavoring to extend the
strike to Elizabeth They apparently eX-
poet that the killing OF two laborers and
the wounding OF eighteen others by pri-
waite detectives acting as deputy sherns
at the Williams 4 Clark plant will excite
workers In Elizabeth fertilizer factories to
join their ranks
A committee Of strikers went to Eliza
beth to-day. They tried to persuade the
men employed at the plant of the Bowker
Fertilizer Company, in South Front street.
a subsidiary OF the American Agricultural
Chemical Company, to 70 on strike in
sympathy for the strikers here. They
told the Elizabeth workmen that, owing
to the situation at the williams a. Clark
and the Liebig & Co works. the A. A.
c. e. concerns here, the company Is plan
ming to MI part of it's orders ut the
Bowker works and, therefore, FOR the
good Of the cause IL was up To them to
go out"
Prosecutor Of the Pleas Alfred \. stein
Of Union county said at his home In
Elizabeth tonight that he had been eN-
pecting such a move, but he hadn't heard
that negotiations for a sympathetic strike
had started lie was very certain. he
said. that the Elizabeth police and Sheriff
George c. otto OF Union county would
Ne dblt ~ ldllNlt IlbNl tuF'AlNfA1 any
situation that might arize.
Sheriff Otto has said that to protect
property and preserve the peace I'm case
of a strike he wouldn't swear i'm q single
employee OF n detective agency, but would
he able to find 200 reputable citizens OF
Union county to act as deputy shcrids.
At several church services to-day
clergymen urged tho strikers TO continue
living up to the letter OF the law in their
conduct OF the strike.
Mayor Joseph \ Hermann. who has
been chief Executive since the formation
Of the borough nine years ago. said to-
night he didn't intend to reply to the
statement of Sheriff Edward IIoughtou 81
MiddeseN, but proposed Ia let the results
OF tho Grand Jury investigation into the
hi,,,nS g: I've s:-ikera ard the shooting ~
eighteen others speak for themselves
HoughtOn said that had the Roosevelt
police dispersed a gathering Of armed
strikers there wouldn't hay. been
tragedy.
when all the facts are dspassionately
made public" Mayor Hermann said. they
will show To the people OF Middlcsex
whether We have been lax or not in doing
our duty"
It IL expected that nearly one hundred
residents of Roosevelt will go TO New
Brunswick next Tuesday TO testify against
the twenty-eight deputies under arrest on
murder charges when their cases are
called before the Grand Jury. The police
witnesses will include Policeman Joe
bowling. who saw the deputies charge out
~ the plant and fire into the crowd OF
strikers at the Williams & Clark station.
and Policemen John Donovan and Tom
Scully. who arrived on the spot few
minutes later. Chief Harrington will also
be one OF the witnesses.
4 friend OF Mayor Hermann said to-
night that II was ridiculous TO accuses
the Mayor % trying 10 play politics by
siding with the strikers for the simple
reason that comparatively few OF them
are voters. There are only about 500
voters in Roosevelt. About 500 male resi-
dents are not voters.