KEARNY

a city of New Jersey, in Hudson Co. It is on the Erie railroad and on the Pa aic river. Although it is chiefly a residential community it has many important industries, including the manufacture of linoleum, thread, bra goods, fertilizers, lamps, buttons, etc. It is the site of the State Soldiers’ Home, Roman Catholic Protectorate, a hospital and an orphan asylum. Pop. (1920), 26,734. land. He settled in San Francisco in 1872 after a youth spent at sea and became a foreman of stevedores. Later he conducted a draying busine and led a labor movement against capital and the admi ion of Chinese labor. His attacks upon wealth brought him you sands of adherents, whom he dominated, and resulted in his supporters packing a constitutional convention in 1879, when a new State constitution was adopted that favored labor and was inimical to roperty interests. The following year 6 attempted to extend his influence to the East but the violent speeches he made in the chief cities of that section failed to stir Eastern labor and he returned to California. Subsequently his influence among labor gradually waned and ‘Kearneyism’ lapsed into obscurity. Bryce dealt with the fleeting influence of Kearney’s crusade in his American — Commonwealth.