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Two Thousand Men Scattered . After Attempt to Blockade New Jersey Factory. ; n IBM L' I BEAT THE SUPERINTENDENT i I TMl 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. ,, 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 ' nl V` s{rt\. 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. bf JfeurJlark Etmc0 Copyright The New York Times Originally published November 11, 1919