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Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-23
MANY DEAD, OTHERS
WOUNDED In RIOTS
AT STEEL CENTERS
More Mills Close Down and Disorder Grows in Several Places
One Citys Communications Cut OF Entirely Rioting Con-
tnues at Farrell Pa Buffalo and Pittsburgh Bullets Fly
Woundng Many Chicago Hard Hit By Riong, and Gen.
eTaI Strike Disorder.
Bv THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The struggle between the labor unions
opened with the question to the
which the ndusty has been effected by the strike IS sun
uncertain the conflicting claims OF the leaders
of either side That industry has been gave crippled the
great Psburg Chicago and Youngstown certain ana
harly reports for the strikers
In the Pttsbug district several of the Carnegie Steel Company
plants Braddoc and Rankin Plant OF the Aer
both of which expected to continue p
CREATIONS Yesterday shut down today These employ
approximately 10000 men.
In the Chicago all the plants either closed to-
operating greatly reduced capacity The strike leaders
claimed that rs workers out and that IN
Gary the Steel officials refused to con-
cede higher percentage than 20.
Mahoning Valley district all reports agreed tnat he
had quit work and their claims were sup
ported by many plants cosed three N par
800 Plants which were sun op
Grating had admittedly greatly reduced forces
possibility of the spread of the strike to unaffected plants
the Bethlehem Works of the Beth
ehem Steel Corporation $4,000 employed the union
leaders announced that reply been received to est
Tor conference with company officials and that
were being completed for calling out the workers
Rong broke the close OF the first day OF the
different points this morning The known cauaes
far are badly wounded that they e
and scores less severely wounded
The fatality the Psburg district Every mill IN
this morning. but this did not prevents
renewal of violence which eleven wounded
simultaneously outbreak of riotng at Farrell pched
strikers took place at Newcastle
to have been wounded TWO
Of them women. Three Of the injured men may die
the independent plant OF the Lacka
has been forced suspend opeaon accord
to reports rong night and resumed tins
morning Company sister plant Of the Lacka
operations would tomorrow ncpenC
otinew reported from Youngstown
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-23
ASK FIVE CENT
FARE RETURN
Camden Starts Flight Against
Zone System
Bv Special Correspondent.

TRENTON. Sept. 23:-Declaring
that the Camden people are intensely
opposed to the, continuation of the
zone fare system on the lines of the
Public Service Corporation E. G.
Bleakley, city counsel, today .aske1
the Public Utility Commission here
to Immediately suspend it and re-
store the seven cent rate pending
final disposition of a petition, just
presented by Camden, asking for a
straight five cent fare. The board
will fix a date later in the week when
testimony can be heard on the ques-
ton of suspending the zone system.
I'm all my twenty-five years in
public life in Camden" said Bleakley,
''I have never seen the best people
SO thoroughly opposed to anything.
The feeling is intense against the
zone system and they will never stand
for it. Words fail to convey the situ-
alton which exists in Camden city"
President John w. Slocum, of the
board, declared that that body has
only been following the rulings of
the Supreme and Errors courts In
granting increases to the Public
Service to meet the company's in
creased cost of operation, due in part
to the wage increases granted en-
ployes by the Federal War Labor
Board.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-23

1t was stated that conditions at the
Homestead plant were improving ana
that more men were reporting.
At Duquesne, the company repre-
sentative, said the plant was working
one hundred per cent. The company
had no early reports from outlying
sections, 1t was stated.
Six arrests were made of men found
lettering about the plant of Jones q
Laughlin who were counting workers
as they came out, the police said. They
are said to have refused to move on
when ordered.
1t was learned today that two COM
plete troops, about fifty men each,
have been ordered from the eastern
part of the state to the western part
OF PENNSYLVANIA. One of the troops
will operate out of Greensburg and
the other out of Butler, the headquar-
tors of the two troops permanently 10
Gated In this section of the state. VIII
liam G. Foster secretary of the Steel
Workers National Committee said to-
day that reports showed the strike
was spreading
He said his report showed that the
Homestead works of the Carnegie
Company We're practically dead"
He said he had telegram from
Birmingham, Ala. stating that 1000
men are out there
Orders have gone out, Mr.. Foster
said, to pull out" the men in all the
plants of the Jones & Loughlfn COM
panv. He appeared in the Allegheny
county court, as a defendant for al
legged violation of an ordinance az
Duduesne. He was arrested several
weeks ago.
Several departments of the y. 5.
Steel Corp. were being operated today
with small forces. Union representa-
tives say that ninety-tiye per cent. OF
the men employed by the corporation
are out and predict that the entire
plant will be closed down In rev
days. Officials of the company declln-
ed to make any statement
Hits Chicago Hard.
BIZ The Associated Pres3.
CHICAGO, Sept. 2S.-The second
dav of the nationwide strike In the
steel Industry found all plants in the
Chicago district shut down, except IN
dependent mills at Hammond. Labor
LADDERS asserted today that more than
seventy-five per cent. of the workers
have left their work In the distrlct.
while company officials said tho num-
ber who failed to report at the nllis
were not more than twenty-five per
cent of the total of 10000 men en-
nIoved in the districts.
In This district the strike has DE-
yeloped no violence. AT cary, tne.,
guards escorted from work. men way
had continued their employment ana
thousands Of strikers about the gats
(continued on page tWo.1
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-23
DISAGREE WITH
ELECTION BOARD
Walter ReIIIey and City Clerk
Hanson State Views

That any soldier, sailor or marine
able to produce his discharge papers
ana the proper witnesses at the pri-
maries today will be entitled to Vote
in the primaries, as well as in the
general election, Is the contention of
Walter ]. REILLY, local attorney and
member of the County Board of Elec-
tions.
Mr.. REILLY gives the opinion of the
State Attorney General, Thomas F.
McCrann, as the basis of his 1on.en-
tion. The ruling is contained In Sec
tion Z, Chapter 246, Laws of 1919
and by a liberal Interpretation is
claimed to permit the soldiers to vote.
The opinion giving the soldiers the
ballot today whether or not they reg
istered an registration day. September
8 last, forms the minority report
made yesterday at the meeting of the
County Election Board. A statement
issued by the board declared that SOL
diers who had not registered could
not vote at the primaries unless they
had been discharged from the SER
vice since September 0. Mr.. REILLY
argued that the board was placing a
too strict Interpretation on the law,
which specifically provides that a
liberal Interpretation shall be placed
upon it.
In order to make sure that his
opinion had official warrant Mr..
REILLY communicated with the Office
Of the state attorney general yester-
day, when his contention was upheld
by the opinion of Mr.. McCrann as
filed in his office. The attorney gen.
eral was not at his Office at the time,
but the information was given au-
thoritatively.
Mr.. REILLY was practically anxious
that the poll clerks should learn of
the attorney generals ruling in as
much as there are many hundred SOL
diers and sailors in this country and
In this city who will be affected.
What City Clerk Says.
The Interpretation placed upon the
election laws by the city clerk John
Hanson, Jr., and given as intructions
to the poll clerks sustains Mr.. Riel-
ley's opinion. According to the city
clerk only those men now in service,
but not in the service at the time of
the last election are restricted from
voting if through their own neglect or
indifference they did not vote last
year. All men prevented from voting
last year by military reasons are en-
titled to vote this year and may not
be challenged as to their political
sympathies as they are not subject to
the same primary party regulations as
civilian voters.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-23

That Perth Amboy's problems
should be considered first by the resi-
dents here instead of trying to solve
the big problems of the day, was the
theme upon which Judge Robert E.
Carey elaborated in his speech here
last night at the civic dinner held in
the New Packer House.
The dinner, which was attended by
$50 prominent men and women of
the CITY, set a new mark in civic in
terest, here as the purpose of the
gathering was to push the Greater
Perth Amboy project which Is now
being launched here by the Chamber
of Commerce.
Perth Amboy First
Every seat in the dining room of
the hotel was occupied, the turnout
having exceeded expectations Each
one of the diners, after hearing tho
two stirring Perth Amboy first"
talks by, the principal speakers of the
night, Judge Carey and Saunders
Norvall, were imbued with the en-
thusiasm over the possibilities of
making Perth Amboy q real pace
making City,"
The local Chamber of Commerce,
formerly known as the Board Of
Trade, has been allotted the work of
pushing the Greater Perth Amboy
campaign and to do SO a large or
ganization is needed-not a body OF
200 men such as constitutes the
Chamber of Commerce at present. A
drive to bring the total membership
of the chamber up to 1000 Is being
gotten under way today and with this
large organization completed, 1t is be-
lieved no task will be too large for
the civic organization to attempt and
successfully carry out.
PrOhIprns For CITY.
Judge Carey in speaking of Perth
Amboy and the possibilities Of making
1t a larger and better city in which
to live emphasized the fact that this
work rests entirely upon the shoulders
of the people living here. "Concen-
trate your constructive efforts on your
own city" he said. "the problems OF
Perth Amboy must be solved by you.
It seems to be the general idea that
you must help solve the bigger prob
lens, the ones of national and inter-
national interest. You should remem-
Der that the things closest home are
the most important and If you do not
act to solve such problems 1t Is an as
sured fact that others outside OF your
city will not"
Saunders Norvall, of New York city
was the first speaker of the night.
He delved into the history OF Perth
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-23
PARTING SHOTS
IN n. ]. DRIVE
.Bitterest Primary Campaign
Ever Seen in State
BY Special Correspondent.

TRENTON, Sept. 23:-The bitter
est primary campaign in the history
of the state came to q close at noon
today and at 1880 the voters of the
two leading parties went to the polls
to pick their favorites for the Re-
publican and Democratic nomination
for governor. While for time In
the contest the Democratic candi-
dates bid fair to corner all the Bit
terness and to engage in a monopoly
in the art of saying ugly things about
each other, their exhibition In THIS
respect degenerated into side show
alongside of what the Republicans
have been staging in the closing days
of the campaign. Messrs. Bugpee'
Runyon, Raymond ct. al in their
excitement over the State Militia
fizzle have attempted to outdo each
other in saying unkind things about
their rivals.
In the closing hours of the contest
yesterday the Runyon press agency,
which was more or less dormant for
many days in the campaign, issued
statements and letters to prolific
degree and in this respect the bug-
bee camp was not far behind.
Charges and counter charges con-
cerning the respective veracity or
these two candidates were exchanged
with marked rapidity, so that the
press and public lost track In the
| maze of statements.
The Bugbee publicity agents gave
| out a telegram at the eleventh hour
| last night purporting to come 10
| Governor Runyon from Major J. III.
| Andrus, of Camden, in which An
drus charged Runyon with insulting
| the Camden Battalion of the State
| Militia Reserve for alleged comments
| of his respecting this organization IN
connection with the Camden trolley
| disturbances.
The Anti Saloon League was ham
mered in speeches of Bugbee and his
supporters for contributing over
$4,000 to the Runyon campaign and
showing favoritism and partiality to
the governors candidacy.
| Compared with this. war of words
| in the G.. o. z. ranks, which is bound
| to have its effect after the prima-
ries, the Democratic voters went to
| the poles in an atmosphere OF
| conparativ calm, so far as
| the fight for the gubernatorial nomi-
nation was concerned The fiare-up
! of several weeks ago between Messrs.
| Nugent and Edwards died down al
| most as quickly as it started. Politt-
| cal observers picked Edwards to win
| the Democratic nomination, although
| 1t was freely conceded that Nugent
would run strong in many parts of
| the state.
The q. o. P. fight was narrowed
| to Bugbee and Runyon, with the odds
slightly in favor of the comptroller.
That the strength of the Governor
has grown remarkably in the last
week or so is generally admitted, but
whether the time of this growth has
been sufficient to nominate the Union
county candidate was the question
which caused speculation among po-
| lftical observers here.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-23

Contracts were signed today for
the erection of the new EVENING
NEWS building on the site recently
purchased by the Perth Amboy
Evening News Company on the
northwest corner of Madison avenue
and Jefferson street. 1t will cover
the entire lot, being sixty feet on
Jefferson street and 100 feet on
Madison avenue.
The building is to be of brick, two
stories high with a cellar under the
rear portion for the furnace and
heating apparatus. On the first floor
the ceiling will be fourteen feet high
to make room for the new Hoe quad
ruple press which has been bought
for the EVENING NEWS and which
Is now awaiting the completion of
the building to be installed. This
press will print newspaper of from
eight to thirty-two pages all at once,
of the standard size Of eight columns
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-23
Urge People To Get Behind Problems In This City
In Opening Drive For Greater Perth An1b01
NEW BUILDING FOR EVENING NEWS IS
BEING ERECTED ON THE CORNER Of
MADISON AVE., AND JEFFERSON ST.

nearly all windows as possible, the
window frames being of the steel
frame construction made up of a
large number of panes of glass.
The plans for the building were
prepared by the architectural firm OF
John Noble Pierson G. Son, of this
city, after several trips had been
made to up-to-date newspaper
plants in this section Of the country.
Every convenience and modern ap-
pliance for getting out a metropoli-
tan newspaper will be installed.
Contracts for the building have
been placed with Greisen d Thomp-
son for the mason work, Gustav Yost
& Son for the carpenter work, George
w. Stillwell for the plumbing, and
New Jersey Roofing Company for the
roof All are Perth Amboy concerns.
The contract calls for the compile
ton of the building by January ].
The work of digging the cellar is al
ready under way.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-23
BIG ISSUES At STAKE At POLLS TODAY;
HEAVY VOTE ALL OVER NEW JERSEY
State GOVernOrship Fight Has
Great Issues at Stake
INTEREST IN co. CLERKSHIP
FreehoIder Race Exciting ---
Stage Set for Primaries
In City

The voters of New Jersey will this
afternoon and tonight decide who
shall represent them at the general
elections to be held on November 4.
The primaries this year have several
spirited contests with the gubernato-
rial race on either ticket arousing the
most interest.
The polls opened at 1890 o'clock
this afternoon and will remain open
until 8 o'clock tonight. The lack OF
a contest for any city nomination has
resulted in great interest being man-
ifested by Perth Amboyans in the
county and state races.
Everything Ready.
Everything is set now and ready
for the voters. The next thing we
have to do here will be to count the
ballots" John Hanson, Jr., city clerk,
said last night.
Nevertheless 1t took some hard
work to be able to make that state
ment as any one who stops to consider
will realize. There was one item
alone, the distribution and arranging
Of the ballots. The votes at the va
rious polls had to be estimated and
ballots prepared for each poll in the
city.
Arrangements had to be made with
the clerks at each poll and instruc-
tions given to new clerks or poll Of
ficers.
Keen Interest.
The work was made even more try
ing this year on account of the keen
interest that is being predicted to
make heavy voting. The many sided
governor fight is of course the vote
getter this year and indications are
that the vote at the primaries this
year will be heavier than at the gen.
eral election of last year, despite the
fact that last year the city had a
mayoralty contest.
The polls will be open from 1890
p. m. to 9 p. m.
Eleventh Hour Meetings
Several eleventh hour" meetings
of Republicans were held in and
about this city last night. Meetings
of Republicans in the third and
fourth wards were conducted, both
being we'll attended and addressed by
f. William Hilker and G. Raymond
Lyons. A meeting of the G.. o. P.
Hungarian voters was held in Nc
Kinley Hall also last night Hilker
and Lyons speaking here also.
In New Brunswick last night the
colored Republican voters got to-
gether, the hall in which they met
being packed to the doors. Freehold
ers Clarence M. Haight and Louis j.
Belloff spoke at this meeting.
South Amboy Republicans also
met last night and were addressed by
Candidates Haight and Belloff.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-23

to a page, the same as the New York
Evening Sun or Globe. 1t will be the
equal of any newspaper press in New
Jersey and will be larger than any
press in the state outside Newark or
Jersey City.
The entrance to the building will
be on Jefferson street In the front
will be the general business office
with private offices for the business
manager and the advertising solicitor.
The pressroom will be back of the
general offices with the press plainly
visible from the Madison avenue side.
In addition to the pressroom there
will be a mailing room, newsdeal-
ers' room, a garage and storage for
paper on this floor.
The second floor will be occupied
by the editorial rooms in the front
with the composing room and stereo-
typing room IN the rear.
The two sides facing Jefferson
street and Madison avenue will be as
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-23
Strike is Spreading.

8u The Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, Sept 23-The sec
ond day of the steel strike In the
Pittsburgh district was ushered in
with both employers and union lead
ers claiming the advantage for their
respective sides. Representatives OF
the company announced they are in
better shape today to continue the
operation of those plants which did
not close Monday, while the union
leaders declare that the strike Is
spreading and will cripple additional
mills before night.
The Carnegie Steel Company,
largest subsidiary here of the United
States Steel Corporation. has closed
several of its plants in the districts
but according to an official of the
concern, the situation as regards Ia
Dor is improving and the opinion was
expressed that additional loyal work
men who failed to turn out Monday,
will be on the job today.
Serious Disorders.
Disorders, some of serious nature,
marked the first day or the strike N
the Pittsburgh district. Two men
were killed at Farrell .one during a
clash between state police AMI local
officers, and a crowd of about 1900
persons near the American Steel and
Wire Plant. The other victim was
murdered by a fellow boarder when
he is said to have refused to go out on
strike. Two state troopers were shot
during the Farrell outbreak, while
seven persons were struck by bullets
during a clash between mill guards
and a crowd at Newcastle, Pa.
other disorders occurred in the dis
trict and many persons were slightly
wounded.
An early survey of strike conditions
in Carnegie Steel Company's plant IN
the vicinity OF Pittsburgh, said an Of
ficial of the company. showed no ma
terial change from that of last night
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-23
Rioting at Farrell

Rioting at Farrell
BIZ The Associated Press.
FARRELL, Pa. Sept. 23.-More
rioting occurred today in Farrell
where q man was shot and killed last
night and several other persons in1ur-
ed Many shots were fred in the new
disturbance today. The police say
that several persons were struck by
bullets.
j. II. Moody, Burgess of Farrell.
has taken personal charge of the po-
lice on the streets ofNFarrell. He ap-
pealed to Sheriff Dixon at Merser, to
send deputy sheriffs here to assist the
local authorities and detachments OF
state troopers on duty. Additional
state police have been ordered here as
a result of last nights trouble. Many
cases of individual assaults are report
ed by the police.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-23
RooseVeIt's Old Pal Dies

DEADWOOD, S. D., Sept. 23-Seth
Bullock, life long personal friend
of the late Theodore Roosevelt, died
at his home here this morning after
an illness of several weeks. He was
sixty-two years old.
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Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-23
Appeal to Allies

LONDON, Sept. 23:-Italy, which
was given q free hand to handle the
problem arising out of the seizing of
Fiume by Captain Gabrielle d'Annun-
zio, as q domestic affair, is said In
reports current here to have made
take the matter off their hands, and
to send a force to Fiume to expel
the insurgent troops from the city.
It is claimed that Italy has stipu-
lated that If such a force is sent to
the Adriatic city it must not include
italian units.
1t is improbable, according to the
report, that American troops will
participate in such an operation,
there being no soldiers available for
such purpose. American marine con-
tingents in the Adriatic have not
taken part in activities there and it
is said they will not be called upon to
do so unless Instructions come from
Washington or the peace conference
in Paris.
Foreign Minister Tittoni's position
in the Italian cabinet has been one
Of growing difficulty recently, because
of the Fiume development. He is
reported not to have been in entire
agreement with Premier Nitti, over
the stand to be taken regarding the
d'Annunzio coup and as head OF the
Italian peace mission at Paris he has
been unsuccessful SO far in bringing
about solution of the Ftune ques-
tion by the peace conference.
Bombs Are Thrown.
FTUME, Sept. 21.-Three bombs
were thrown at patrols today from a
window of a cheap lodging house
where several Croatians are said to
have been living. There were no SER
ious results. but some soldiers recetv-
ed slight injuries. Otherwise, the
town remains calm and in full control
of the d'Annunzio forces.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-23

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Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-23
NEW ANGLE IN
F|UNE TANGLE
italian Foreign Minister Resigns
Bombs Are Thrown In FiuTne
Bu The Associated Press.

ROME, Sept. 23.-Tomasso Pittoni,
italian foreign minister, has resigned
because of the Fiume incident, ac-
cording to an announcement by the
Giornal d'Italia.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-23

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