The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-18
DISORDER At NEW BEDFORD.
Strikers Throw stones Through the Windows
OF the Bristol Mill.

NEW BEDFORD, Mass, Jan. 17.-As a result of
a violent outbreak Mt the Bristol Mill tonight.
Treasurer Wilcox has notified the police head
quarters that he will not open the factory gates
tomorrow. and the great lockout in the cloth
mills will be complete.
Superintendent George H. Law of the Bristol
left the factory office this evening under the
protection Of police officers, who were powerless
to shield him from a shower of mud and stones.
The party was followed by a jeering crowd.
The Bristol Is tho only mill of the eighteen
cloth factories in the city which was running all
day. From the best source of it
has in operation ~ of its 1.4oo looms and $4,000
Of It's 10000 spindles.
When those in the mill ceased, work at @
o fba 3ect an immense @aass T eboW Tsw h oner saiRefG WbS a9 ysn.
tured from the gates were greeted with d~erisive
el 'hets. and were roughly handled.
TAG greater number were smuggled out of a
rear entrance. This created an impression in
the crowd, who did not see them appear. that
AS The lIgnts were turned down cobblestones
were hurled at tho factory windows.
DESPITE the piesdines of the leaders in the
union, stones were hurled until a detachment
of police ended the disorder. The outbreak is
deplored by all those who are prominent in the
operatives cause.
The manufacturers have had no meeting to-
weavers will hold a special meeting in the City
Association has also been called together.
Superintendent Congdon of the Whitman Mill
10 authority for the statement that over half or
the ring spinning frames of the mill wero run
ming this morning, but tn attempt to keep
the machinery in operation was abandoned
early.
Some OF the strikers. in the aggregate a con-
siderable number. left the city to-day to set EN-.
Idle operatives have hired out to chop wood and
do odd jobs in the country.
The vacant lots at the extremes of the city are
nyarrln with mar and hnya nlnvinU InDfhnl.
The Poor Department Is already besicged with
applicants tor aid. Mayor Ashley. in an inter-
view this evening, declared that the city would
sec that no worthy striker felt the pangs Of
At the Acushnet Mills. this morning, n few
stones were SHE'D by the operatives gathered at
the gates at Superintendent John w. Knowles.
to induce the workmen to enter the mill or dis
perse. No other demonstration was made at
any other mill. Nine corporations are idle.
the fires under many boilers being allowed to
The operatives are pleased with their showing.
for of 5000 hands less than two hundred were
DESTROYS of working this morning. The Whit
man mills have about one.half of their ring spin.
ming frames.
BIpDEFoRD, Me-, Jan. 1.-THE strike which
the dressers and web drawers of tho Pepperoll
and Laconia mills precipitated this morning
has resulted In n shut down OF the entire plant,
enforcing idleness upon 3.400 operatives, in
Guiding men. women, and children.
hands, also shut down indefinitely tonight as o
result OF the strike of the weayers. The reduce
ton IN wages which was to have gone into effect
to-day. was 10 per cent. in the Pepperell and
The cut in the York mills, whose product 10
cOlored cottons. ranges from 10 TO rs per cent.
Tho average Is about Il per cent: With tho ex-
weavers and dreSsers the idle operatives are
unorganized.