You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Monday July 26, 1915
Bayonne, New Jersey - Two More Strikes Shot Down in Standard Oil Strike
On July 22nd two more strikers were shot dead on the streets of Bayonne, New Jersey, as the strike against the Standard Oil Company continued.
From Pennsylvania's Scranton Republican of July 23rd:
TWO KILLED DURING RIOT IN BAYONNE
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Fights Between Strikers and Armed Guards
At Oil Plant Swell Death List.
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SHERIFF IS POWERLESS
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Effort to End Trouble Meets with Some Success,
Strikers Accepting Arbitration.
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NEW YORK, July 22.-Two men were killed today in fights between striking employes of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and armed guards at Bayonne, bringing the total deaths up to three since the inception of the strike.
Sheriff Eugene Kinkead, who had worked earnestly to pacify the strikers, called on Governor J. F. Fielder for troops when he was jeered by crowds after the battle. Wilbur F. Sadler, adjutant general of New Jersey was ordered to Bayonne and on his report rests the calling of the militia.
Later, Sheriff Kinkead appealed to Washington for federal mediators and two of them were immediately sent by the department of labor. They were expected to reach Bayonne late tonight.
A development tonight which may have the effect of helping to end the strike, or at least bring a truce, was the acceptance by the strikers of an offer of the five county commissioners to act as arbitrators...
From The Scranton Republican of July 24, 1915:
ANOTHER RIOT MARKS STRIKE
AT OIL PLANT
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Sheriff and Fifty Deputies Attacked By Thousand
Strikers and Sympathizers.
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NEW YORK. July 23.-A fresh out break late today disturbed the comparative quiet which prevailed in the Constable Hook section of Bayonne, N. J., after the cessation of the rioting of the previous three days when three were killed and scores injured. It occurred when Sheriff Eugene F. Kinkead led fifty deputies through the streets and was attacked by a crowd of more than 1,000 strikers and sympathizers, necessitating a call for the police reserves. Although the sheriff made an appeal to the crowd to disperse, they answered with showers of clubs and stones and were only quieted after priests and strike leaders appeared and counseled them to go to their homes.
Many shots were fired, but the only known injuries consisted of sore heads and bruised limbs.
While the rioting was going on the two mediators from the federal department of labor were in conference with officials of the Standard Oil company in an effort to bring about a settlement of the strike at the oil plant of the Standard, which caused a shut down of the Tidewater company's plant. The mediators announced they would have no statement to make tonight regarding their efforts.
Governor Fielder was told late today by Sheriff Kinkead that it would not be necessary to call the state militia, if he secured 100 uniformed policemen from nearby towns to assist in preserving order. "If we don't get these extra police, we ought to have the militia," the sheriff told the governor. "Every man who throws a stone or draws a gun should be arrested."
The only flurry besides the rioting occurred earlier in the day, when the strikers made a demand on Sheriff Kinkead for their wages, it being the regular pay day at the plants. When the strikers were told they would not be paid until Monday they became incensed and for a time threatened reprisals. The authorities thought it wise to defer paying the men unless they were in dire distress, until Monday.
Sheriff Kinked, at his conference with Governor Fielder, told the state's chief executive that he was prepared to stay in Bayonne and defend life and property.
"Not a deputy of mine fired a shot today," Kinkead told the governor. The only shots fired were by police officers to intimidate the crowd."
The strikers held a meeting tonight at which their leaders pleaded with them to be peaceable, promising that their grievances would be adjusted satisfactorily.
[Photograph added.]
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SOURCE
The Scranton Republican
(Scranton, Pennsylvania)
-July 23, 1915
http://www.newspapers.com/...
- July 24, 1915
http://www.newspapers.com/...
IMAGES
Bayonne Standard Oil Strike, Strikers Shot Down,
New Castle News, Jul 24, 1915
http://www.newspapers.com/...
On patrol during Bayonne Standard Oil Strike of 1915,
https://www.flickr.com/...
See also:
The New Republic
-Aug 14, 1915
"The Bayonne Strike"
https://books.google.com/...
The New York Times
(New York, New York)
-Aug 16, 1915
"HIT ROCKEFELLER IN BAYONNE REPORT; Industrial Board's Investigations Lay Strike to Low Wages and Oppression. SHERIFF'S ACTS CRITICISED Findings Given Out by Chairman Walsh Constitute an Arraignment of Standard Oil Methods."
http://query.nytimes.com/...
For more on condition which led to the strike:
"Hellraisers Journal: Bayonne, NJ- 900 Coopers Join Stillcleaners
on Strike at Standard Oil Refinery" by JayRaye
http://www.dailykos.com/...
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Dear Readers of Hellraisers,
This year for my vacation, Hellraisers will not be as scaled back as it was for the past two vacations. This happy change is due to my new & much faster computer and to the library of photos, songs, resources, etc, that I have built up over the past 2 and 1/2 years.
The big change that my readers will see, starting July 16th, will be the shorter length of the postings along with fewer links. I'm writing three Hellraisers per day right now and don't have the one or two hours extra that I usually take to find and put in the links.
When my readers find unfamiliar names, places, or events, please use the tags along with JayRaye (in diarist section of search feature). Or just leave a question for me in the comments and I will get back to you.
When I actually leave for Minnesota, I'll let everyone know. My access to computer will be limited while I'm away, probably about twice a week. But I will definitely be checking in.
Solidarity,
JayRaye
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The Red Flag - Socialist Victory Choir
The people's flag is deepest red,
It shrouded oft our martyred dead,
And ere their limbs grew stiff and cold,
Their hearts' blood dyed its ev'ry fold.
Then raise the scarlet standard high.
Within its shade we'll live and die,
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer,
We'll keep the red flag flying here.
-Jim Connell, 1889
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