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Two Thousand Men Scattered
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Rioters Flee at Approach of Sheriff ! and Twenty Men Armed with Rifles*
Speciat to The New York Times.
SOM15RVIJ.JLE, N. J,, Nov, 10,~Shorlff
Brokcw with twenty deputing armed
with riot guns, today broke up an at
tempt by 2,00.0 workers, mostly foreign
ers, to blockade the plant of the H. W*
Johns-Munvilte Company, at Monvilie,
about two miles from here. The armeu
deputies were called into service after
the strikers had thrown a cordon around
the works, and attempted to dictate who
should be admitted.
Without presenting any demands, the
men, egged on by what the company
described as the Bolshevist** element,
walked out of the plant this morning.
Manvllle is reached by two highways,
and workers who were loyal to the com*
puny tried to get to work by Jitneys,
The strikers lined the loaue and halted
ail traffic. For a time they had that
section of the community absolutely
under their control,
Walter De Witt, Superintendent of
the plant, on his way to work success
fully passed several hundred of the
strikers' patrols. Within sight of the
factory, however, hla machine was
brought to a stop by a barricade thrown
across the road. The news that the
*' boss" had been stopped spread, and
many of the strikers hurried up. A
sudden rush was made on the automo
bile. Mr. De Witt Wiw dragged from
ills scat and badly beaten, lie re
quired medical attention before he could
return to his home. The motor was
putted from the highway and shoved
into a diten.
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A short time later George Chrlstlan-
stn. a foreman, came along in his car.
The machine was driven by his daugh
ter, The strikers signalled to Christ an-
^on to stop. Ho ignored their command,
but was halted within a hundred yards.
The* striker/* offered no violence to the
foreman, and one of them hopped on to
Uit; running board and passed him Into
the plant.
When word was received of the attack
on Superintendent De Witt. Sheriff I>ro-
kc\v swore in deputies and hurried out
to the MnnvHIo section fn automobile
trucks. At the sight of the rifles and
shotguns the strikers fled. Ten of them
wore cnested and lodged In the countv
jail. According to one of the deputies
one of the strikers was so*en to throw
an ay a revolver just before he was
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George Cyzck, Arrested in Friday nlyht's raids at Newark, wu sent to Fills Island yev U>rd a v fo r der o rty 11o n, Federal agents say. He admitted that he was an anarchist, but denied that e w-*s a counterfeiter. When his room vi-a /searched counterfeit money and pities were found there, secret service nfronts declare. Another prisoner, who roomed with Cyzck, Ip being held while the authorities Investigate the origin of Inc counterfeit money and plates.
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Copyright The New York Times Originally published November 11, 1919