You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Wednesday July 28, 1915
Bayonne, New Jersey - Sheriff Arrests 30 Company Guards; Funerals for Two Martyrs
From The New York Times of July 26, 1915:
SHERIFF ARRESTS 30 STRIKE GUARDS
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Seizes Superintendent and a Labor Adjuster
Also at Bayonne Oil Plant
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SNIPING WARNING IGNORED
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Kinkead Asserts Men Fire and,
by Appearing with Arms,
Provoke Strikers.
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SALOON MEN ARRESTED, TOO
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Sheriff Eugene F. Kinkead of Hudson County, New Jersey, yesterday made thirty-two arrests in the plant of the Tidewater Oil Company at Bayonne, which has been closed on account of disorders in the strike at the neighboring plant of the Standard Oil company. The men arrested on the charge of inciting to riot were Samuel H. Edwards, Superintendent; P. L. Bergoff, the labor adjuster who provided the armed guards for the Standard and Tidewater Oil Companies, and thirty of the guards.
The arrests were due to the constant sniping from the walls of the oil plants, in violation of the Sheriff's orders. By his action, together with the arrest of seven saloon keepers who had kept their places open in defiance of his orders, and the prevention of disorder at the funerals of two of the three men killed in last week's rioting, the Sheriff made yesterday the most peaceful day since the strike began.
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[Continued from above.]
[Funerals Held for Two Strike Martyrs]
Large and possibly belligerent funerals were talked of for the two men who were killed on Thursday, but in these cases, as in that of the funeral of the boy killed on Wednesday and buried on Saturday, the Sheriff took personal charge, and there was no disorder. At 1 P. M. services over the body of Nicola Iwaszkiu, 19 years old, of 415 Broadway, were held at his home by the Polish Young Men's Club, and the body was conveyed quietly to the Hudson County Cemetery in Jersey City. Basil Nezsko of 52 East Twenty-fourth Street belonged to the Russian Church at Twenty-fourth Street and the Boulevard, which is outside of the strike zone, so his funeral was held in the church at 2 o'clock, after which the body was taken to the Hudson County Cemetery.
The Sheriff's first activity of the day was in connection with an attack on the Rev. Father Sigismund Swider of the Mount Carmel Polish Roman Catholic Church, at Avenue E. and Twenty-second Street. Father Swider was one of the priests who had tried to dissuade the strikers from further violence last week, and some of his phrases were understood by some of them as advice to go back to work. This aroused much hostility, and early yesterday a rifle was fired at the rectory, the bullet lodging in the wall a foot or so beneath his study window. He was not in the study and there was no further disorder, but it was reported that there would be a demonstration at his church at early mass.
The Sheriff went to mass himself, with two deputies, and there was no demonstration. After that he asked the priests in charge of the parishes in the strike zone to limit their advice to the strikers to recommendations to keep order and go home directly after the services...
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SOURCE
The New York Times
(New York, New York)
-July 26, 1915
http://www.newspapers.com/...
IMAGE
Bayonne Standard Oil Strike, Strikers Shot Down,
New Castle News, Jul 24, 1915
http://www.newspapers.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
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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.
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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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Lawrence Jones - Kathy Mattea
The dead go forward with us
Not one is left behind.
-Si Kahn
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