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In a battle royal, iron pipe, stones, and other impromptu weapons were used freely. A union sympathizer and an open shop man suffered injuries requiring medical attention and an open shop man was arrested by Jersey City police.

As the battle began a riot call was turned in to Jersey City police. Inspectors John Underwood and Harry Walsh and Captain John Lyng responded with two wagonloads of police. The emergency squad went to the spot. Police remained to patrol the scene.

ASKS FOR DEPUTIES

Special deputies to protect the workers were asked today of Prosecutor John F. Drewen of Hudson. He said he had no power to appoint or swear in deputies and referred the matter to the sheriff, the only official who has such powers. At the office of Sheriff William V. O'Driscoll, who is on vacation, it was said no application had been made.

The request to the prosecutor came from John G. Flanagan, counsel for the American Bridge Company, which is doing some of the iron work on the elevated structure. Mr. Flanagan was associated at one time with former Prosecutor John F. Milton.

Special deputies were last sworn in in Hudson in 1915 during the Standard Oil strike in Bayonne. Eugene F. Kinkead was sheriff.

EACH SIDE ACCUSES OTHER

The trouble occurred at the eastern end of Broadway, where open shop men were erecting a wire mesh fence. Union men declared the open shop men were the aggressors. The open shop men say they were set upon by union sympathizers, who outnumbered them four to one.

George Oriani of 21 Center street, Jersey City, a union man, was taken to Medical Center, where it was found he suffered from lacerations and abrasions of the left breast and possible fractures of three ribs. He was removed to his home. Victor Vogel of 65 West Third street, Bayonne, open shop worker suffered lacerations and contusions and was treated by a company doctor.

August Libke of 65 West Third Street, Bayonne, open shop worker, was arrested and lodged in the Seventh Precinct station as responsible for Oriani's injuries. He was identified by several union men as having hit Oriani with an iron pipe.

GUARDS DISARMED

Disarming of several guards by union sympathizers featured the close of a relatively quiet day yesterday at the scene of the labor trouble.

The trouble occurred about 6:30 after work had stopped and the Kearny police had escorted two wagon loads of open shop bridgemen to the Central Railroad Station at South Kearny,

All appeared quiet and the extra police had gone off duty, when an automobile containing six of the guards, who had been doing duty all day at the Passaic River bridge, left the Lincoln Terminal reservation and headed into Lincoln Highway at Jacobus avenue.

The car was driven by George Creelman of 88 Beech street, Kearny, and the passengers in it were Harry Nyman, 346 Elm street; Hartley Heeley, 267 Devon street; William Creigar, 133 Stuart avenue; Gildes Dolaghan, 19 Windsor street; and William Williams of 19 Wilson avenue, all of Kearny.

Creelman had proceeded about 100 feet along Lincoln Highway toward Newark, when he found his passage blocked by two automobiles filled with union sympathizers. Two similar car loads pulled up in the rear and the occupants were joined by others from the sidewalk. The crowd surrounded the guards' car and started jeering and arguing. One of the crowd remarked that Nyman was "packing a gun. One of the men asked Nyman if the gun was loaded and the later replied it was. The questioner demanded that he hand it over, which he did. The man took out the cartridges and was about to hand back the empty gun when one of the group said, "Don't let him have that toy he might hurt himself with it" and the union man pocketed the empty pistol.

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SURRENDERS RELUCTANTLY

"Get the rest of the guns," suggested one of the crowd. Heeley and Williams were the only ones remaining armed.

Heeley gave up his gun readily, but Williams was stubborn. The latter said; "I'll give you the cartridges but not the gun." Then he broke open the weapon and threw the cartridges at the crowd.

The crowd dispersed and no arrests were made. The guards' car proceeded over the drawbridge into Newark and went to Kearny police headquarters by way of the Jackson street bridge a distance of eight miles. The scene of the disorder was approximately a quarter of a mile from the Kearny Second Precinct Police Station.

EXHIBIT 2867

[Extract from the Newark Evening News, August 1, 1931, Page 1, Column 5]

UNIT INDORSES BRIDGE STAND

EMPLOYERS' ASSOCIATION BACKS CONTRACTORS, URGES STATE PROTECTION The open shop atittude of the three contractors erecting elevated Route 25 between Newark and Jersey City has been indorsed by the Employers' Association of North Jersey. The contractors, McClintic-Marshall Corporation, Phoenix Bridge Company and American Bridge Company, explained their policy in a formal statement Thursday. It was this the Employers' Association accorded its approval.

A statement issued today by Arthur Torrey, executive secretary of the employers' group, declares:

"The directors of the Employers' Association of North Jersey have observed with interest the events which have transpired in connection with the work on the bridges and viaduct on Route 25. They are in hearty accord with the views expressed in the statement issued Thursday by the contractors, McClinticMarshall Company, Phoenix Bridge Company with respect to open shop operation. They believe that an informed general public will support the position of the contractors as being in the interest of the whole people.

"The one important issue in this situation is whether the sovereign state of New Jersey shall permit a coterie of labor leaders through coercive measures to acquire absolute control of the state's construction work.

"The stated object of those directing the attempts to interfere with the progress of the present contractors is to unionize the jobs; the real purpose is to obtain for the leaders of certain private organizations a monopoly of this employment and the power which would accrue therefrom.

"The costly effect which such a monopolistic control of employment on this and future state construction would have upon the taxpayer is made clear by the record of difficulties in private building work in this locality. Important building construction has been delayed for weeks because of dispute between unions with which the owners had nothing to do. Costs have been loaded with enforced payment of wages to men who did no work. Contractors have been unable to obtain workers until they complied with demands of leaders. In one case of record the construction of a large store building was stopped until certain equipment was removed and replaced by similar equipment rented from a company in which a labor leader was interested.

"These scattered instances serve to indicate the degree of control over private construction work which closed shop labor monopoly vests in labor leaders. They now seek to similarly control the work done by the state.

"It is fortunate for the people of the state that the contractors on this work are steadfast in their determination that employment shall be open to men of ability, without regard to membership or non-membership in any organization.

"The state has a plain duty to protect the employees of these contractors from molestation by outsiders, and thus to assure them their constitutional right to freedom of action. In performing that duty-and only by performing it-will the state protect the whole people and maintain for itself control of its public works."

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Please telegraph me early this morning whether Walter Drew of the National Erectors' Association is expected in his office in New York this morning. If not, over what telephone number can he be reached.

C. S. GARNER.

8:50

EXHIBIT 2869

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SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES OF UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION

PRIVATE TELEGRAPH SERVICE

Telegram Received at Carnegie Building, Pittsburgh, Pa.

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N/Y 8/1

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CS GARNER.

Drew Not here. Telephone number Saybrook 551 Connect you.

Received, Gen. Mgr. of Erection, Aug. 1, 1931.

A. L. DAVIS. 1035am

EXHIBIT 2870

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[Extract from Newark Evening News, August 3, 1931, Page 1, Column 2]

QUIET REIGNS ON SPAN JOBS

JERSEY CITY POLICE GUARD IS DOUBLED-JELIN PROMISES WORK FOR JERSEYMEN

Work Began quietly on Route 25 today as State Highway Commissioner Abraham Jelin issued a statement pledging that that body will use "all the means at its disposal" to have New Jersey citizens given preference in employment on the work.

Kearny police maintained the customary guard around that portion of the work between the Passaic and Hackensack rivers. Jersey City police doubled the number of officers guarding the work at the foot of Broadway, that city.

Increasing the number of Jersey City police to twenty was regarded as a precaution against repetition of the near riot Friday afternoon when a crowd of union ironworker sympathizers rushed a group of workers erecting a wire mesh fence around state property. Today the union pickets are being kept at least a city block from the work.

The fence builders arrived on the scene on the Jersey City side of the Hackensack this morning under police escort. This was contrary to expectations as Police Inspector Harry Walsh declared after Friday's disorders his men would not continue to do escort duty for the shop workers.

But at 7 A. M. today the police escort of twenty men in autos and on motorcycles met trucks bringing twenty-five workers at the Jersey end of the Holland Tunnel and accompanied them to the site.

OUTLINES PARLEY RESULTS

In Trenton today Commissioner Jelin submitted a formal report to the Highway Commission outlining the results of conferences he has engineered on Route 25. He recommended the commission use all its influence to have citizens of

New Jersey given preference in the work and that there be no discrimination against union labor.

Mr. Jelin's efforts at conciliation were the result of requests received from Theodore M. (Ted) Brandle, North Jersey Ironworkers' leader, who has declared his intention to unionize the work being done by the McClintic-Marshall Company, the American Bridge Company and the Phoenix Bridge Company.

Labor organizations charged these companies were not employing New Jersey labor exclusively, that there was discrimination against union labor and that the schedule of wages was below that prescribed by union rules.

The three companies, Mr. Jelin reported, denied there had been any dispute or disagreement between them and union labor. They disclaimed the existence of any strike, walk-out or other situations requiring a conference with labor representatives.

LITIGATION (CORRESPONDENCE AND OTHER DOCUMENTS)

EXHIBIT 2871
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LINDABURY, DEPUE & FAULKS,

763 Broad Street, Newark, N. J., August 12, 1931.

State Highway Commission v. Jersey City-4931 LDF.

WILLIAM AVERELL BROWN, Esq.,

Assistant General Solicitor,

United States Steel Corporation, 71 Broadway, New York City.

DEAR Mr. BROWN: I am enclosing herewith both a certified and uncertified copy of the order advised by Vice-Chancellor Buchanon in the above-entitled cause on the 8th inst. enjoining Jersey City during the pendency of the cause from interfering with the American Bridge Company's work on State Highway Route No. 25 Connecting Link. I think Mr. Fine would like to have the certified copy of the order. I imagine that he may want to have copies of it printed and posted on the job. The other copy is for your files.

Yours very truly.

FJF:RM

Enclosures

(Sgd.) FREDERIC J. FAULKS.

[Pencil notation: This came from Mr. Brown's office in N. Y. C. S. G.]

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Subject: State Highway Commission v. Mayor and Aldermen of Jersey City.

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DEAR MR. GARNER: I am transmitting to you herewith a copy of the conclusions of Vice Chancellor Buchanan of the application for an injunction pendente lite against Jersey City. I received copies this morning from Messrs. Lindabury, Depue & Faulks, who also advise me that they have received from the New Jersey Attorney General a copy of the proof of service of the order upon the City Clerk and the Chief Clerk of the Department of Streets and Public Improvements of the City of Jersey City.

Very truly yours,

Signed WM. AVERELL BROWN.

EXHIBIT 2873

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AUGUST 22, 1931.

Subject: G-4000-7, New Jersey State Highway, Injunction
Mr. WILLIAM A. BROWN,

Law Department, U. S. Steel Corporation,

71 Broadway, New York City.

DEAR MR. BROWN: I have your letter of the 21st enclosing copy of the conclusions of Vice Chancellor Buchanan on the injunction in connection with placing tracks over Broadway in Jersey City. Incidentally, the tracks have been placed across Broadway (the mud road) and we started building the first 320" span yesterday.

I spent two days studying our operations this week and found that during the fifteen days of working time, our organization had made remarkable progress, notwithstanding the local conditions. There is one feature about this work that I do not like, as I told you, and that is the picketing on the job where there is no strike. We are told that the picketing is unlawful and there is certainly some way of stopping it under the law.

We are gathering all the evidence we can quietly and the other companies are doing the same thing, so that a little later we hope to be in position to stop the picketing and let Jersey citizens peacefully carry on their work.

Yours truly,

CSG: W

EXHIBIT 2874

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(Signed) C. S. G. General Manager of Erection

(Stamped: Rec'd. Gen. Mgr. of Erection August 28, 1931)

AMERICAN BRIDGE COMPANY

PITTSBURGH, PA.

AUGUST 27, 1931.
DH:T

Subject: Fuel Oil, Jersey City Delivery

Mr. J. B. GEMBERLING,

Division Erecting Manager,

Philadelphia, Pa.

DEAR SIR: We are enclosing copy of letter, dated August 26th, from the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey in connection with deliveries of Oil, etc., on our work at Jersey City.

We have discussed this matter with Mr. Garner, and it is his opinion that we should take our requirements in carload lots, in the manner suggested by the Standard Oil Company.

Since you will, no doubt, need Lubricating Oils and Greases, as well as Fuel Oil and Gasoline, and as you have, no doubt, ample storage space, we presume combination carloads, if necessary, could be delivered from time to time.

We will await your advices before notifying the Oil Company of this arrangement.

Yours very truly,

Enclosure.

Copy to Mr. C. S. Garner

(Signed)

D. HAMMERSCHMIDT, Assistant Purchasing Agent.

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