New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 21, 1915, Page 1

light Disorders Occuf' When Blliecoats Attempt to «Make Strikers Move On---Paraders Shout “Scabs” -and “Come Out for Eight Hours” to Workers DEMONSTRATION CAUSES MANY MACHINISTS TO QUIT THEIR JOBS fimme by strikln: machinists, in _front’ of the Union Meumc Cartridge A3 yhnt of the Remington Arms and Am- J‘wgl,nmon Company, resulted in slight fgisorders when the police attempted | w force the strikers to move ‘on. -As | thé' dembonstration Drogressed, (he .‘pom:o Fesprves. wore called out and wh marched to the man; a pa.r-de from the h adquarters of e machinists’ union i ‘the - center ol the city became pickets %Vring .the ch mom at the plant." hen the ng the workers back to u:hlnu blew nearly all of Some few. remmefl side. - 'Then. the - pickets’ kK and Ih‘eec for severcl blvch was (lined with men, wemen the time Lht.ax!ru force arrived. 8 Labor. leaders in the crowd declined ‘te coniinent upon the situation. Thty Jasked, not to be talked to ‘on the | istreets “Every time a newspaper corre- ondent comes Up to us . some! of meenvu Spot us,” said Thomas e, member of the general ex- Boa of the International as. of hinists who seemed o be'in charge of the strikers. Other | leaders including John' A, -Johnston, | | International e president iof the 'lhwtur;l Iron Workers were pres- ‘Right to Arrest Picket. . Te police asked A. ‘P. Delaney, Progecuting attorney of . Brid, : ruthe, they would" be justified in lacing pickets under arrest. Mr. ggla.ney informed .them . th they ould not, saving that the _pickets hud a right to stop am; sman himself 41 W ‘ob:; B eaders claimed they had taken 110 additional men from two _'plants doing work for the Remington Arms and Ammunition company; that pickets had succeeded in keéping 80 meén from work -at the new plant of the Remington concern; that 100 man on the night shift at the Union. Mes _tal rtridge company: had ‘gon Son'strike They estimated this fopa- i Moon that nearly 500 skilled machin- ists, were . now on strike. v, Teit- erated th statement ki “would be complete close down 'of war “imunition factories by Satuiday. & Disorder . seemed imminent twice today; once at the new Remington “plant and once outside the weorks of & contractor making machine tools ington company. ' Double igons, drivem two ahreast cleared the road in fromt of the first named plant. The police, ac- . cording fo .an official connected with i the contracting concern, dispersed 4 ltflken and sympathizers after they de a demnnsiraticn for the bene- o! the men who remained at work. /' ' Guards on Strike. ’é’ labor leaders Asserted that ‘more guards at the Rem- i % | hands, | to the main | spread memaelvh that there | l ington plant had gone on strike foi more money today. Fifteen were said to have walked out yesterday. Shortly before noon a large crowd of machinists gathered at the head- quarters in the center of the city and formed into lines. ' They then started to march to the big U. M. C: plant, on the outskirts of the city. The men in the parade, according to. the leaders, were to start a demonstration in front of the U. M. C. shops. The paraders, it was said, would do picket duty. All the men in the parade were strikers, it was- said. Many Reéady To Go Out. When the parading strikers ar- rived at the plant shouts of “‘we want more money and eight hours” and ‘“‘eome -on out, you will all go back again,” drew thousands of workers on the ‘inside of the buildings to the windows. Many shouted back that they were ready to go out. Amaong those were scores of girls working at machines. The paraders had their newspaper, with big headlines, calling on the workers to come out, in their Thes held these up to the window for the men and women in them to r The paraders were instructed t. auznd by the exits, and {‘grab every person that comes our.” It was 4 manu:s belore the work- .ers were ‘due to come out to Wwhen an autonichile heuring the mark of the Remington Compai its door hurried through the ‘street exlt, Policemen, in drr&lled.’tlm The Y ar. - They it afong ths. flrqqt. lined With several blocks of | shops and to each worker; they urged a walk-out. One girl, a worker, in the factory, joined the pickets. = Sh> stood o ‘the curb and shouted to virtually ‘every girl that passed, “I'm game to strike. . Are you?” § As far as was possible the poncs- men present kept the pigkets on the move. “During the noon hour, the strikers went among the crowd - announcing | that a meeting would take place at t.o'clock at a neighboring hall, and ‘W6 meeting would be open to all. The labor leaders amnounced tmsw foreroon that the machinists in the plants of the. Grant. Manufacturing and Machine Company and Coulter and McKensie Machine company had walked out on strike. Twenty nien, they sald had left the Grant concern and ninety ‘had quit work at the Coulter and McKénsie Machine Com- pany works. One concern manufac- tures tools for the Remington Com- | pany and the other manufactures tool mnking machines. 100 Agree To Quit 'Work. It was also announced that when "‘the night shift left the U. M. C. plant of the Remington Company today they { were stopped by pickets. One hund- red men on the night shift, said the 1 labor leaders, agreed to quit. ‘The la- bor leaders claim that these additional 4 | figures bring thé number of expert i machinists on striké up to approxi- | mately 460. |+ An attempt fo get some statement . from Major W. A. Pénfibld, works Imamger of thé company as to how many méfl, dcefding to the company’s count,’ had struck was unsuccessful. John W. French publicity agent of the Remington Company, in reply to | questions said: “We are not at liberty | | to say how many machinists if any are out on strike. We can givée 'no figures. e do not want to appear discourteous, but it is utterly impossi- ' ble for us to make any statement. of | any kinad. Scores of machinists visited the headquarters in the center of the city before going to work today at tne U. M. C. plant. Each was informed ; by ‘George @, Bowen, local “business agent of the union, that the walkout i was scheduled for noon. All of the | men who talked with Mr. Bowen said i they intended to quit at the time des- tgnated. . Other machinist working | {in"a ‘sub-contrdcting ‘plant . also ap- peared &t the mechanics’ headquar- ters, 'The men in this plant have also Been notified to walk out at noon. GERMANY AND RUSSIA T0 SWAP PRISONERS | Agreement Due Largely to Work of American Am- bassador Gerard. Berlin, July 21., 'by wireless to Siy- ville, N. ¥.—The Overseas News Agen- cy today gave out the following: “Negotiations between Germany and Russia for the exchun‘e of incapaci- tated ‘prisoners of war have finally been successful, after many. fruitless efforts, This is dus largely to the work of James W. Gerard, the Amer- ican Ambassador at Berlin. “The prisoners will be forwarded by railway through:Sweéden, by way of Karungi, ‘and. f6r the purpose, ex- change stations have been secured by 1 the Swedish government. “An agreement has been reached | for the designation by the Danish Red Cross of' men to. visit prison cambs in Russia and Germany for the pur- pose of determinng conditions there. Three Danish officials will inspect the German camps ‘and three others | will go to Russia.” German: papers print wnthout com- ment letters and press despatches concerning President Wilson’s forth- coming note to Germany on submar- :ne warfare. Occasionally a paper remarks that the wnrld adually "y becoming accustomed to. the the British to act as Ameri- msntor and prescribes for the | President the tone and text of his notes. The Vossische Zeitung estimates that using official headquarters re- ports as a basis, the number of Rus- sian -prisoners taken since the begin- ning of the new otfensive is 176 of- ficers ‘and 66,790 men, which . the newspaper calls “‘a nice start.” , NEUHOLD WILL FILED. SRl Estate l!eqncweilm Wife and l)sugll- ter. The will of the late Carl Neuhold was filed in ‘probate today. 'The tes- tator bequeaths:to his daughter Helen Neuhold, the sum of $500 to be placed in a savings bank until she reaches her majority. In the event of her demise, the sum is to be divid- ed equally between the wife of the deceased and his brother 'and sister who reside in Germany. The residue of the estate is left to his wife Mrs. Fannie Neuhold. The will was drawn on April 17, 1915 by Harry E. Morton and was witnessed by Adolph and Carl Lex and:Frank Thomas.. F. M. Zimmerman .«anl Frank Thomas Have been named ap- praisors and Mrs. Fannie Neuhola, administrix. MILK TRAIN m'l‘s AUTO. B Sy Two New !nrk People. Killed on Grade Crossing at Amenia Last Night. Winsted, Conn., July 21— Kénneth McArthur of Colemans station, N, Y., and Miss Catherine Riley of Amen- ia, N, were killed at. 4 grade crossing at Amenia last night, when theéir automobile was Struck b a milk train on the Harlém division éf the New York Central, according to word received hére todday. Another young woman' was {n the automobile but she was not seriously hurt qu name was not léarned. McArthur, who was 20 years old, ployed- on the Céntral New England Railway. Miss Riley, was 22 years old. FRANK WILL RECOVER. Milledeville, July 21.—Marked im- provement in the condition of Leo M. Frank, whose throat was cut Sat- urday night by a fellow convict at the state prison farm, was announced tcday by physiclans attending ‘him. His temperature was 100, the lowest since ‘Sunday, and his pulse and res- piration were nearly normal. The physicians say that while he .is not yet out of danger his récovery is virtu- ally certain INVENTIC Berlin, July 21, London, 11:45 a, m,—The statement attributed to Em- Those who visited the union hsead- quarters said they were ready to quit. . Labor Leaders Satisfied, Mr. Bowen said that he and the in- ternational labor leaders were satis- | (Continued ‘on Eleventh Page) peror Willlam, which was appeared in foreign newspapers, that the war would end in October is stamped by the Tageblatt, as “plain invention.” The Tageblatt says it learned that competent officials know nothing of | such a declaratior was an extra telegraph operator em- ! } tufl . | therefore is ey SALL OUT POLICE RESERVES - IN BRIDGEPORT TO DISPERSE | “ROOSEVELT” DAY AT PANAMA EXPOSITION Former President to Make Two Ad- dresses -and to Participate in Tree Planting Ceremony. san Francisco, July 21.—This “Rosevelt” cific Exposition. Theodore ~Roose- velt, former president of the United States is on the program to make two addresses, participate in a tree planting ceremony and be the guest of honor. Mr. day is for the members of the army and navy. His second address was to be on “War and Peace,” which he said on arriving here last night, migat just as well be called “Damn the Mollycoddles.” Tonight Mr. to witness the second storming of Sam Juan Hill, depicted in fireworks. — LOCAL BOYS’ CASE CONTINUED., Hugh Couroy and Frank Leist to Be Tried in Meriden on July 28. Owing to the iliness of thei at- torney, P. T. O'Brien, the case against this city, charged -in the Meriden police court with assault, speeding and evading responsibility in that city on the night of July 10, was ¢on- tinued until one week from today. It is charged that .an automobile driven by ‘Conrgy and in gharge of Leist ran down Doria Hill: in Meri- dén on-this might and left.him Ly the roadside without stopping %o ‘as- { certain the extent of his infur WELSH COAL MINERS. T0 RETURN TO WORK Strikers Accept Terms : of Agreement—Cheer Lloyd George. London, July 21.—The South Wales coal miners have accepted the terms agreed upon yesterday and the strike ’ efinitely at an. end. Throughout the coal fields there wus an overwhelming majority in favor of the settlement. Work ih-the mings will be ruumed at’ ence. Botn sides nuve yum‘nd 1"the jgoverniant to éxert -évery effort to make up for the wéek of idleness | David idovd George, Minister of Munitions, 10 whose efforts the end- ing of the strike is largely due, ap- peared in the conference hall in Car- aiff aftgr the deciston had been reached and. réceived an enthusisatic welcome, President Winstone of the Minér's ¥eéderation declared: that Mr. Lloyd Genrge &nd his colleagues had performed a great service 'for the miners of the empire, Who now wers prepared to do everything possible towards bringing the war to a speedy termination. Mr, ‘Lioyd Jeorge addressed the miners, expressing sincere joy ' that the men had decided to go back to work with him and his eanngurs “to, flght the commeon enermny. ' He added, A week of enormous valuc has been lost to this country. It is only gradually the seriousnéss be- gomes known or the how tremendous is the struggle in which we are en- ged. Even now I am not sure that we fully realize what will be effect on the whole course of human affairs.” “The coal fields of Frante ars now -in the hends of the enemy. France depends upon you for coai. Five vessels from France lie in Car- diff harbor, waiting for their bunkers to be filled and I am going to ask you to make up for lost time and show the Democracy of France that you are prepared to assist her in the struggle for ihe freedom of the world. 1 want you to work moreve the sake of the Britisn navy, ; Fill it's bunkers. (It means: an in- violate. brain, the existence of , which makes it impossible for the Germans to despoil the Wnsll!flze coal fields 'as théy have thé coal flelds of France. “Peace at home is éssential. I am sick at heart at the necessity of callr ing attention to the gravity of the po- sition, but the situation is shfficiently for Roosevelt's first address of tha | Roosevelt is expected | 'BAYONNE STRIKERS | One Rioter leled—me three day at the Pnnama.mfii | riously i ers most of whom are of foreign birth Frank Leist and Hugh Conroy ot | GLASH WITH POLICE Injured Taken fo Hospital. MAYOR ASKS FOR TROOPS. Standard Oil Company Will Consider No Ultimatuim With Answer Within | Twenty-four Hours as Was Pre- sented Yesterday by Men. New York, July ing during which John Molosky, 18 years old, was killed and nearly three | score persons were more or less S¢>‘ injured, marked the second day of the strike of workmen at the plant of the Standard Oil company of New Jersey at Bayonne. The work- and unorganized gathered at the gates of the plant at an early hour, and:! disorder, which then began, lasted until nearly noon. At that time, the Ppolice, assisted by deputy sheriffs and fve men,. brought the situation une der temporary control at least. The |pouee say several thousand persons took pm in the aftack. ‘Of the “tittysthres injured taken to the- anne nblmul fifty ‘are men ‘ahd ,boys who fought aBout the Bates of the.plant; thé other three are policemen. ‘ Inspector’s Horse Shot. Inspector Cady, had a horse shot| from .under him and he narrowly es- | caped ‘serious injury, himself, when he’was at one time surrounded by ri- oters, near a fire house to which he | had gonme to stop an attack. Sherift | Bugene Kinkaid of Hudson country arrived on 'the scene shortly after noon. and took command of affairs, In ap endeavor to bring an end to the disorder by means of persuasion, the sheriff, soon after his arrival rode in his ‘automobile to a square where a c¢rowd of five hundred persons were i assembled to discuss the strike, and watch the gates., The sheriff, standing in his car, told | CELEBRATE SILVER | to a suppe: | eering society of which Mr. Sergent is |'a member presented the couple wilh | sweet { Corbin Screw manufacturing 1915—TWELVE PAGES. WEDDING AT HOME Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Sergent, of Hawkins Street, Entertained Fifty Friends to Supper. and Mrs, Stephen Sergent of celebrated the Mr. 56 Hawkins street, twenty-Afth anniversary of their wedding last evening by entertain- ing more than fifty of their friends at their home, An engin- a case of sterling silver, The Sergent homestead was artis- | tically decorated for the occasion with peas and ferns. During - the | evening the guests were entertained | with musical celections by the Misses | i Sergent and Middleton. Mr. and Mre Sergent were united in matrimony on July 20, 1860 in | the Methodist chusch 'at - Gilberton, | Pa., ithe Kev. Dr. Bell tying the nup- | tial knot. After their marriage they moved to Potiaville, Pa,, where they resided for ncarly a decade. Mr. and Mrs, Sergent moved to this ciy fifteen years ago and have lived here ever since. Mra. Sérgent, before her marriage, was Miss Anna Haynes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Isaac Haynes, of Portland, Pa. | Mr. Sergent ut present holds an im- portant position as engineer at the com- pany. Seven children have Dblessed the union, Waller, Arthur, Sarah, Emily, Thomas, Raymond and Mrs, David ‘Templeman. GERMANY TO BE HELD TO LETTER OF LAW U. S. to Regard Further Loss of American Lives as Unfriendly Act. | i | Washington, July 21,—The United | States has docided to inform Germany that further loss of American lives a5 a result of German submarine warfare contravention of the principles of in- | ternational law, will be regarded as an unfriendly act. (The discussion of principles is virtually ended. The | American government will now warn the crowd thal they must remain derly ‘and what his duties wers its | ln the musuon, under the llw.( H. @ on every.man, wheo would- 'bT to he!d u% | ‘Jority of those présent ata so. | Sheriff Kinkaid spoke for half an | hour. and several times the men cheered his statements, especially his | promise in do what he could to seftle the difficulty. The sheriff said he was willing to meet represéntatives of “the strikers, hear their grievance and do his best to bring about a set- tlement. In consideration of this he asked the men to diSperse peaceably to their homeés and they said they would do so. A committee of three was appoiated by the men and they ;vlll meet Sheriff Kinkaid later in the ay. Al Saloons Closed. 'As a measure of precaution the sherift today ordered all saloons in Ba.yqnne closed ! 'The Tide Water company issued a | statement in which it was said their | employes had made no demand either i for shorter hours or increased wages. “The strikers from the Standard Oil | company have interfered with a large | number of our employes,” the state- ' ment said and “many of them were afraid to go to work. So rather than risk physical injury of any of the sérious to call for the united mtiuu' of every man &nd woman in whole land.’ “We nlve sent the men to the | tront. Support them. 1If we do o | we shall win a victory for European | the liberty which will resound through— i out the ages. The miners cheered wildly as. Mr. Lloyd. George concluded hjs speech and left the hall, WHERE IS QUIGLEY? President Pro Tem Parker, or as he was called today, Mayor Parker, is presiding in the capacity of chief executive, due to the absence of Mayor George A. Quigley from tie (‘H v, but just where the is being kept 'a dark secret. ‘‘Mayor” Parker will preside at this evening's session of the common coun- cil. WEATHER. Hartford, July 21.—Fair to- night and Thursday. WHESEE IS RO SR Sy ‘‘real mayor” | | révolvers and the three i wounded. } ail | altached hose to hydrants and pre- men we have practically shut down | tlie entire plant. We have laid off | between 1,200 and 1,300 out of 1,600 empioyes. In so far as we know they i had) no grievances against us." The entrances to the Tide Water plaht dfter its men left were fortified with ‘batteries of water hose, the noz- zles mounted upon . tripods which were ”ouctad iike ‘machine ~gu The company officials said that dup= m’ ‘the. disturbance in front ‘of the | plant, ‘gne of théir men within the 'works was hit by 4 bullet. “ At the plant at Bayonne, early to- day, a mob encoutitered the guards. In thé fighting that followed, thrée or the .rloters Were wounded by pisto! shots ‘firéd hy the guards, - The men weré taken to' a hospital. Their wounds are not serjous. Strikers Fired . First It was: stated that the guards did | 1 not fire until the men attacked them | ‘with sticks and stones and had fired | | several pistol shots. Then the guards | responded with a round from their; men were | thereupon | The crowd spersed. Inspector Daniel Cady, in charge of the police at the plant, following the attack, called on Fire Chief Albert Davis for assistance and the.latter 100k a dozen men and many lengths of hose to the plant. These will be used to fight the rioters with water should any further attacks occur. Previous to the attack on the police a digorderly crowd of several hun- dred persons gathered at the house of Fire company number 4 of the Bay- onne department, and smashed the windews in the building. The firemen i { 1 i 1 pared to defend themselves with streams of water, but the crowd with- | d1ew. The fire chief said that their seemed to be no reason for the at- | tack except the fact that the fire hose l governor statement on Eleventa Page.) | (Continued obey | a¢sumes-that his hand, and a ma- | admitted the, | perintendent of schools, Germany of fhe lntem' will place on future tri ‘Germany” Wfl’h | gers muse he removed safety before the d Takmg the pofl.unn, the two goveruments principle, the United ax incumbent upon 'Germany maké Her submarine pnbu& contorm with the principles of International law. Any deviation in actual prac. tice resulting in the loss of Ameri-’ can-lives, it is then poinied out, will be viewed as un unfriendly act. i The action which the United States might subsequently take is not in- dicated, but in diplomatic usage, the | phrase "‘unfriendly act” has alwuys carried with it an implication of fi- nality leading often to a severancc of % endly relations. Onicials generally - were secretive concerning the treatment of the Lusi- tania case in the new note, by the request for reparation will be renewed are | | governments as a subject of first im- portance in their futuré relations The note will reject Germany’s. pro- complete immunity when not carrying Russians contin and this jesue kept before the two | gpparently tlo“ ported by the G | posals that American vessels be given | by General Von Ivangored. Thie | GONTINUE ADY. IN BALTIC | Iatians Gain Ground on Plateau, in the G French Capture In the Vosges, and ¥ of Dud.nelh So far as om the Teutonic drive Al has as a larger motve of a crushing blow armies. The Russians | to be showing & resistance as the iine o ing hots draw flolog capital, Latest official the Germans under fortress of Nowo G tc Warsaw, on the nineteen miles from north, the fortress Advance In the Baitic pressive German . The campaign in is interpretad by in eapitals of the possibly intended | ran lines of co vent a successfnl p armies from ‘he Wa Less speedy,’ 1 steady, 'is the vance through Jouthues far as reports show' wmmunlul‘g 1 lflnumed Nustrien for several the Darda on the of the Fecht, in troops {'the north of aeroplane o ed. London, July 24, mors of the s ,clrcuhuqu muy but ¢ | munication from both & the Austro-German | Polish capital has, !“ been brought to ‘J tec The most 1. o " 2 -~ contraband, and for the transfer to ' a surprise attack. ' American registry of four belligerent | had heavy resery vessels for trans-Atlantic vided they did not carry contraband. Again the American traffic pro- 1 { will reiterate its willingness to act as Ehl-“’ !'the high | 36 miles of the i an-intermediate in adjusting the in- terests of belligerents on the government | ground. hood, later deliven | attacks, but failed Windhu ¥ . ie defini Germans, séas, but wil make it clear, that so | POrt of Riga. far-as American rights are concgrned, they are hot te be confounded with thé practices of reprisals of one bel- ligerent agéindt another. « The note probably will be furnish- | td tomorrow or Ftiday. ' Cabinet of- | | mans would mies hear Sha To Cuy Possession w,» ficlal$ today Bélieved it would be un- 'W Ge nécessary to diktuss it 4t another Cab- inet meeting anda predicted that the ;mmunidé!:i would be on its wa rlin by day at the latést, ANOTHER T EAK m CITY HALL, ?l Coéuncil Chanibér Célling Repaired But Office Has Trouble Overhoad. i3 Although the ecity hall commission has had the ceiling in the common council chamber repaired in time for | tonight's session of the city fathers, that board is now burdened with fur- ther trouble. Some days ago an jco | box in the New: Britain eclub rooms, on the third floor of the city build- ing, overflowed and soaked through | the ceiling of the office of the su- As a resylt the plaster there is in constant danger of faling down, 1 GETS BECKER'S APPEAL, Albany, N. Y. July 21.—Charles Becker's final plea to -Governor Whif- man (o saye him from the electrig ¢hair for the murder of Hermann Rosenthal, the New York gambler was-handed to Willilam Orr, Governos Whitman's private secretary, today by Jonn B Johnson, partner of Mar- tin T Manton, Becker's counsel. The said he would make a8 unti! he had time 10 8x- amine the docunient. a » I ture Warsa: ¥ 1o | treat of tho between the rogiad Bukowina: sians || ments and to: retake q the river, ndicated ¢ it Military wr! ines indicates | ers are exerting |erulh the Ruw Mine warfare, | and isolated sec: der of the not of’ sufficlent ort | tract public attention campaign. The Italians are 0 ngaged in_ treiiendous long the Isonso front, | uccess on Corso ph Russians Assume € Berlin, July m.—A Aespatch 1o ciger from Cze Bukowina, long the i vt de de i seitions on 1 whirh ha (Continued on Eileventh§