The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-06-06
POLICE THERE.
Otherwise There Would be
Trouble in 0lneyville.
Crowds of Angry Strikers Gather al
the Mil Gates.
Now and Then a Case Of Violence But
No Serious Outbreak.
The NEWS BUREAU, oLSEYyILLR,
No. ) Hartford Avenue.

Three times a day since last Monday
morning a crowd has gathered on Manton
avenue. opposite Atlantic Mills, to watch
the going in and coming out
of the few hundred persons who
have returned to work at that
come apparent that the crowd was little
larger thean before. IL was more luclineu
TO be boisterous and demonsuatlve ana
there was tendency to show vindlc-
tive spirit in many ways.
The crowd is composed OF men, women,
and children. Curiosity attracts many oi
the number to the scene. CHIEF Chlid
commanded the police and held
the crowd back to allow the mill
workers TO come out unmolesteu.
A mounted officer drove back the mop
which persisted in surging up to the ex-
treme limit of territory allowed them TO
move on.
Young fellow named James Swee.
ney was arrested in the crowd
for persisting in elbowing MS
way to the front and becoming con-
| spicuous. Later in the evening he was
released upon promise Of good behavior.
With the watchful eyes OF many police
| officers near the mill gates 1t has become
next to an impossibility for the
strikers to hold any conversation or
make any show OF trouble ITO
the workers at this point. For this rea-
son tactics have been adopted which prove
quite as troublesome for the police to look
| after. A party OF two or three strikers
waylay a striker at some as
tance from the mills and pro-
ceed to annoy and persecute him as
they see fit. An instance of this KIND
occurred on Bough street last evening
when girl was surrounded by
delegation oil strike skrmishers @
| The girl who dared to work faced hei
prosecutors. She was equal to the emerg
encv and her determined manner pre-
vented any trouble.
The Working Force Increasing.
An increase OF the number at work IL
| the various mills was the news received
all along the line by NEWS reporter WnS
made a circuit of the mill offices thi
morning.
The Atlantic and Fletcher plants ar
! simply holding their own. Ihis Is TO
wondered at when ii 1, considered tina
these are the two objective points OF tn
strikers, who are inclined to let the hlVer
side, Mauton and Weybosset mills III
up without any offer of resistance.
Arrest of a Strike Leader.
John Thornton was arrested at hi
home No. Riverside Block, at 10 o'cloc
last night by Deputy Sheriff John r. Kat
bitt at the instance OF Attorne
Thurston Ripley acting as counsel 10
a Maggie Hurry, who has caused WI
h OF libel TO be issued against Thornton
tho sum of $4,000, for the alleged public'
} tion of her name on circular givin
r n definition OF "scab," whiC
O was circulated about the streets here
week ago and reported in THE NEWS
- the time. The writ is made returnable
" August. and the case Is to be prosecute
TO the full extent of the law.
N' Thornton is an agitator OF the socio
istic stripe, who was prominent In III
II strike Of 1893, and served on the cor
D. mittee. After the mills had resume
operation he had trouble with I
of boss OF the spinning room In
In Riyerside mills, where he was employe
and soon after left the mill and became
10 organizer OF the Textile Union. La$t G
80 while out OF employment, and beinl
determined and aggressive leader oil thC
an inclined to be restless, he was appoint
collector OF the Union which position
No has held ever since. This Is one OF I
"a paving positions in the Textile UNI
Thornton was taken to Cranston Jail