Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1920-04-16
CATTLE PERISH
At 50. ANBOY
Cable Works to Close Down
Tonight and Copper Works
Threaten to Close Tomorrow

Due to the OUTLAW" strike of rail-
road employees, and the movement
of freight so that raw material can
be brought to the plants in this city,
the Standard Underground Cable Com
Ipany will close down tonight and the
Raritan Copper Works will close some
more departments tomorrow. Already
four furnaces at the Raritan plant
are idle. Passenger train service from
the Central Railroad of New Jersey
station here is again normal. all morn
ing trains making their usual runs on
schedule, although no trains are
operating to or from the Pennsylvania
station in State street Employees at
the coal docks still remain out. A
number of cattle in train arriving in
South Amboy from the West were
dead from lack of care. IL is said
1t was learned at the Central Rail
road of New Jersey freight station
here Today that it is expected that an
effort will be made on Sunday or
Monday to move freigh. trains on
this division of the Central railroad.
Since Saturday no freights have op-
Grated i'm either direction over this
line and the tie-up has affected two
of the largest plants in the city. They
are the Raritan Copper Works and
the Standard Underground Gable
Company. 1t is impossible for either
| of these plants to obtain their supply
of raw material.
Four furnaces of the Raritan Cop
per Works have already been closed
! down, placing fifty men out of en-
ployment, and tomorrow night other
| departments of the plant Will like
wise be shut down until after a sup
| ply of raw material is received. The
| shut down tomorrow night will throw
! nf
! At the present time the company has
| twelve cars of copper ore ON sidings
| of the Lehigh Valley railroad in this
| city, and efforts were made to have
| the strikers move these cars to the
| plant so the two million pounds of
| ore they contain might be made Into
| the finished product and in this way
| keep the plant running and the men
| employed.
! The company officials We're in
| formed by the strikers that they
would take the matter up at meet
| ing to be held last night and If they
| decided to move the cars to the plant
| the officials at the plant would be
notified today. Up TO IL o'clock moth
| ing had been heard from the strikers
, and preparations were made to close
| down the several departments at the
| plant tomorrow night.
The Standard Underground Cable
| w OfkS Will Gloss QOWn tthlbii ohV
| whether work Is resumed on Monday
| or not depends upon the ability OF
| the railroad company to get the raw
| material which is now In transporta-
tion to the plant by that time. Be-
! tween 200 and 800 employees VIII be
| thrown out of work by the closing
| of several departments at this plant.
| Not only could the strikers keep the
Raritan Copper Works running by
| moving the ore now in the LehiBh
Valley yards to the plant, but by TAX
' ing some copper from the Rarltan
/ plant TO the Standard Underground
| Cable Company would enable TINS
plant to continue operations until
| freights are again moving at normal.
From t.:is fact it would seem that
whether or not these two plants re-
main in operation is directly up to
the local strikers.
| Passenger train service from the
Central station here is running nor
NAL again. Both the trains of the
Central Railroad of New Jersey and
the Pennsylvania railroad operating
| over the New York a. Long Branch
| division are running on schedule time
I and from latest reports viii continue
TO do so, the strikers having returned
to work. No trains, however, are
running as yet from the Pennsylvania
railroad station in State street and II
was Said at this station today that IT
was not known when service there
would be resumed
| Although there are a few crews
working at the Pennsylvania railroad
coal loading docks in South Amboy,
some of whom it is said are Princeton
) shipped. The Lehigh Valley coal
/. docks here and the Philadelphia IL
Reading docks in Port Reading are
still idle, not wheel being turned.
Work was at once started to save
the remainder of the cattle and cattle
lbarges were brought into the harboI
land those still alive were placed
aboard and continued their journey to
1.-THE slaughter house. 1t is SAID ina,
/ they were a first class shipment and
would have made excellent meat. SeV'
lcral of the railroad men in South Am
lbov who are not working were tolt
of the condition OF the cattle and they
all agreed that such condition shouio
mot exist.
At the Pennsylvania freight station
lin South Amboy do today 1t was ad,
United that the cattle had arrived
There and been reshipped to New YORK
Ibut that any were dead or in pao
lcondition was denied.
About fifty cars of cattle shlppei
, from the West, en- route TO New oI n !,
r, CITY slaughter houses, were piaceu
, vesterda on the Pennsylvania rail-
road sidings in South Amboy. The
cattle were all In bad condition. ana
IL is said that when the cars arrived
several of the cattle were dead from
lack of food and water ana that
!. others died after the cars arrived.
All o'clock it was reported at tho
Central Railroad of New Jersey sta
ton here that all trains would rur
according to schedule from this sta
lion both for New York and points
south. excepting the Pennsylyania
train due here at 2:1S and the Penn
syIvania train from new Aolh o"S
! due here at SPA tonight.
No trains will run today from th'
pennsviyania station IN State street.
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