Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-04-17
Injunction to Restrain
Strikers at Factory Here
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The Koch Waist Company. where
| operatives have been IN strike for
| several months, a closed down.
The proprietor says that the plant
is closed down for want of police pro-
| lection, but city officials connected
with the police department say that
other motives have led to the closing
| of the plant and police protection
does not enter into it.
Mayor Dorsey, Alderman William
C. Wilson, chairman of the police
committee. and Chief p. J. Burke of
the police department, this morning
gave their views of the matter.
The mayor said that he had had
nothing to do with the police end of
the case at all. He said he did know
that as many a six n seven police
men had been on duty at times at the
plant over a period of thirteen weeks.
No effort, he maintained, had been
made by the owner to end the strike
and that the owners had said that they
were not Interested in ending h
strike, as they had all the hands they
needed for operation.
At the beginning of the strike the
mayor says, Koch come to him with
an appeal to help end the strike.
The mayor said that he told Koch
to bring his records TO his office so
that the mayor might determine the
equity of the strikers demands by de-
termining what their pay was. Koch,
Mr.. Dorsey says came back with seven
books time books, out of fifty two en-
ployes. The mayor told him he want
ed to see all of them, n Koch prom
ised to bring them. Later. in COM
pany with his wife, ne brought thir-
ty eight time books to the mayors Of
flee, but the mayor says that half or
them were duplicates. making a rec
ord of but nineteen girls. The mayor
then told Koch to get out and stay out
IL he was not going to play fair and
square with him.
Last Thursday, the mayor says,
Stephen F. Somogyi, attorney for
Koch said hat the only course he
, could pursue would be to get out a
writ of injunction against the picket
owner of the company, a man named
Kronberg. would be here and would
confer with the mayor.
The mayor has never seen Kron-
berg, he says, and a meeting of the
waist company officials with the
mayor and union leaders was attend
ed by the latter two. but not by any
of the Koch people. after they had
agreed to attend. the mayor claims.
Chief Burke declared that he had
been given to understand work at the
factory had been discontinued be-
cause there was no protection afford
ed the ones who really wished to hold
positions at the plant.
At a recent meeting of the alder
men the ACCESSIBILITY of assigning pa
trolmen to peg post at the factory
was discussed. the outcome of which
was the removal of all police from
regular strike duty. Several times
since that there have been calls re-
ceived from officials of the factory for
assistance from the police in quelling
street wrangles between strikers and
"scabs."
There are now no men stationed
permanently at the factory, so any
disorder occurring there is not under
the surveillance of he police. Chief
Burke asserted this morning that
There were never supposed TO be
more than two men at a time posted
at the factory under his orders but
that patrolmen on their regular beats
in that neighborhood had been in
structed to keep an eye out for any
trouble.
Wilson Passes the Lie.
Alderman Wilson this morning
passed the lie to Koch in saying hat
the company got no police protection.
| He claims that the company got as
much police protection as anyone
else. He said the company would not
pay union wages and demands and
that he believed they were closed prior
TO moving away rather than pay the
increased wages asked.