New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-15
OIL STRIKE GAINS;
PEACE IS SOUGHT
Bayway Workers Walk
Out; Bayonne Riots Halt;
Scare Kills Woman

Steps toward arbitration of the diff
ferences between the Bsyonne strikers
and the officials Of the Standard Oil
Company's plant there we're taken last
night, after a committee representing
the strikers had conferred with Henry
Wilson, the Bayonne Commissioner of
Public Safety. The strikers spokes-
men obtained a permit for a meeting
of striking workers tomorrow morning
in Mydosh Hall.
The programme for this meeting is to
name committee to treat with George
B. Hennessy, superintendent of the
company, in an attempt to adjust mat
ters by compromise. IL is understood
Mr.. Hennessy is not averse to opening
negotiations with the men. The super
intendent was TO have addressed an
open air mass meeting of strikers and
sympathizers yesterday, but the permit
was rescinded on the recommendation
of Chief of Police Michael Reilly, who
feared violence.
Search Trains for Invaders
Captain Edward ". Griffin and
SQUAD of detectives armed with pump
guns went through the Constable Hook
section at 10 o'clock last night in an
automobile without drawing a shot No
signs Of disturbance were TO DC seen.
Their trip was intended to cut of re-
Inducements which were said to be on
the way to join the strikers from Bay
way. Two trains we're searched as they
stopped at the West Eighth Street sta
ton. but the reinforcements were not
found.
Commissioner Wilson said police pro-
lection would be provided for all work
ers who returned to their tasks to-
morrow. Mr.. Hennessy said the plant
would reopen as soon as absolute safe
Is for the workers had been assured
Hope for a compromise settlement OF
the strike grew when the Pacific Coast
Borax Company, near the Standard Oh
plant. succeeded in averting walkout
by meeting the men half way in wage
demands.
These demands were the same as the
oil strikers. They asked 80 per cent
increase to workers making less than
SO day and 20 per cent raise Tor
those drawing more than ~.
A walkout Of 500 men in the Standard
Oil Company's plant at Bayway, near
Elizabeth. cheered the Bayonne strikers.
IL is believed the Bayway men were IN
duced to go out by Bayonne agItators.
The first intimation of the Bayway
strike in Bayonne came when hand,
bills printed in English, Polish ana
Italian appeared on the streets IN the
strike zone. These dodgers besought
tho strikers 10 "wait your committees
decision in a peaceful manner" and IN
Polish added. I'VE are getting great
aid from Bayway"
Police Seize Handbills
The police confiscated large supplies
of the handbills and arrested Tony
Konisky. Vladislau Spedolofski and
Frank Tawaski, strike leaders. While
The peace committee was conferring
with Commissioner Wilson in the City
Hall their three colleagues occupied
cells in the police lookup downstairs.
Strikers appear to have abandoned
violence for more conservative methods
of achieving their aims. Only a Few
shots were fired yesterday.
John Miller, OF 234 Track Avenue,
took a trip beyond the Avenue dead
line TO look the situation over. A bull
let passed through his left hand.
Mrs. Stephen Popp, sixty-two years
old. who was i'll in one of the houses
the police raided early in the day
tainted when the officers entered the
house and died shortly afterward. The
funeral of Mrs. Sophie Torak, the bride
who was shot, attracted crowd out
a heavy police detail kept order.
The police continue their vigllant
natrol of the troubled area. Many
more armed strikers were arrested dur
ing the day. From John Crock was
taken a pistol with a diamond studded
handle.