Ogden Daily Standard | 1903-04-21 | Page 7 | Strikers Waited with Clubs

STRIKERS WAITED WITH CLUBS but were scared Off With a gun NJ april 21 because james D duke president of the american tobacco company refused to inc i ease the wages of several hundred hungarians Hung arians and poles who work on his estate here about one hundred of the men have gone on strike for an increase of bagci the gathered at the river bridge laist night armed guns and cluba intending to attack the men who had remained lema ined at work as they crossed the bridge to their homes john lawson manager of the duke estate placed the men arf wagons and headed the procession for the bridge and he was held ap at the entrance by a hungarian with a gun lawson drew his own revolver and covered the man who became frightened and lowered his weapon the wag OIK were then to cross alie bridge the strikers threaten to prevent alie men from returning to work today and trouble is expected ta t a