The evening world., 1894-03-16
OPEN REBELLION IS FEARED.
Six Thousand Men Are Now on
Strike in Paterson, N. j.
Anarchists Held Responsible for IL
Bomb Explosion.


Is plentiful that the chief industry OF
this usually thriving municipality. to wit,
the silk dyeing and weaving business.
Is at standstill, as IL shown Ivy the
grouping on every street corner Of
dozen or more men. who talk in sub
duel tones and watch all strangers with
furtlve Elances.
IL Is certain that 5000 workmcn are idle
in consequence of the strike of the six
dyCrs and wcavcrs, and that number Is
augmented by mechanics in other lines
who are holding off from work because
OF strife between labor and capital.
Apprehension Is plainly shown and felt
In this place that the vast army of un-
employed VIII spread out into open re
bellion and commit dcpiorable acts Of
disorder.
An emphatic indication Of the inclna-
ton of the strikers to do this was dem
onstratcd last night, when the eastern
suburbs of the city were rocked by a
o'clock. and occurred at the corner of
Nineteenth street and Seventeenth ave
nue.
The explosion, which fortunately caused
no damage and injured no person. Is at
| tributed to the strikers of AnarChtstic
, tendencies.
Capt. Bimson, of Paterson's police
said to-day his men made careful in
vestlgAtion, but could recover no frag-
mcnts Of the bomb or any clue to the
throwers. He is prepared at. the short
est, call TO protect life and property
and has his entire force of reserves on
duty in the police headquarters to re-
spond to every emergency.
4 committee representinE the strikers
called on Police Judge Van C!eve this
morning to demand the release of the
five strikers who were sentenced to jail
Wednesday for melting riot
Judge Van Clevc explained that, t,although
he had committed the men for thirty
days to the county jail, any commuta-
ton of that sentence would depend al
together upon the manner in which the
strikers conducted themselves.
He was not inclined to be too harsh,
hut D.: the other hand he wished to be
merciful, and he added in conclusion
that he might reduce the term or release
the men altogether, If the strikers only
| behaved themselves. and acted In an
entirely orderly way,
day "a at the Arnold Bros mills, in Haw-
thorne, and the mills of the American
SILK Dyeing and Finishing Company re
turned to work this morning, with the
Trouble was expected this morning
at the mills in Hawthorne. and Sheriff
James Johnson, OF Paterson, was at his
mons to the Arnold mills
He had prepared himself for an out
break, in view of the bomb explosion of
last night, and said he could get 100 men
as deputies together at almost mo-
| ment's notice.
Word was aent to him, however, few
minutes after 7 that the strikers had
| weakened and returned to work
When an Evening Word man drove
out to Hawthorne to-day he saw Will
lam A. Arnold, who, said: our, men
went out yesterday. claiming raise OF
81 each on their weekly wages. We re-
FUSED We sent for new men, and this
morning about 100 dyers, anxious tc
work, applied to us.
Outside our gates the strikers con
gregated and tried to prevent the the neW; ~
some cases they succeeded, but W,
stepped In aEd protested against theii
intercep.lng the applicants, and VT
peS sseS to esf9r no our mill al wSen m
strikers saw this they weakened anC
agreed to go to work at once. They al
went back except the five or six ring
LEADERS,"
The strikers meet in general session ir
the afternoons at hall on Paterson
Island in the Passaic River Individua
bands of strikers meet in different smal
halls throughout the city. The bomt
which exploded is generally regarded as
intended for II notification to Foreman
John Bates, of the warping department
in Bamford's silk mill, that he should
He lives In the immediate vicinity OF
| where the bomb exploded and has re,
| fused to strike While the police do not
say that they bel ieve Anarchists rospon,
sible for the explosion and other acts OF
violence, still they think it the work OF
strangers, and not directly traceable tC
the dyers or WeaVers.
The few weavers in the Bamford mills
where Bates works, who did not 90 Ou
on strike. quit this morning. They TX
plained that the Wrappers from whom
they took their work We're 50 ncompe
tent that they couldn't make anythiinf
like satisfactory wages. and so they de-
termined to stop work. This ties VI
laf fDr rnmnlptplV.