The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-06-23
Twelve Thousand Silk Operatives
Ordered to Strike, Against
Will OF Many.
POLICE PREPARED FOR MOB.
Situation at Paterson More Threat
ening and Authorities Admit
They Expect a Clash
To-Day.
REPUBLIC

REPUBLIC SPEcIAL
New York, June cat a mass meeting Of
silk operatives. held this evening in Calder
ini's Hall, corner of Demott street and Cen
trail avenue. Union Hill, n. J.. which was
addressed by various union representatives.
including a delegation from Paterson, it
was voted TO order 4 general strike in the
silk mills of North Hudson. to go into effect
Tomorrow morning.
Twelve thousand operatives are affected
by this order. TIL Germans were not IN
tivor Of a strike. but their objections were
Overruled by the VACCINATIONS OF the Italian
and American elements.
Fully 500 persons were crowded within the
hall. while a big force of police was pres
ent to prevent any outbreak.
Tomorrow it is feared that the mob vic
fence. which asserted itself in Paterson.
VIII appear in Union H!ll because the mill
9H ners will open their doors. closed since
NSdnesGay last, and it Is certain that a
large number of Germans will attempt TO
go 10 work
AT West Hohoken. North BERGEN, West
New York and Gutenberg, conditions iden-
tical will prevail Deputies are being sworn
In and armed ready for action. ana orders
nave been given for the fire departments
TO be ready at the first call
Chiefs of Police of these towns lave de-
ciared that there will be a sufficient force
at each of the mills. so that any person
molested. Before the early morning hours
have passed. it will be seen If they can
make their promises good.
.Hot-headed weavers have declared that
they will prevent. at all hazards. any OPP
orator from gong 10 work. Unless one or
the other sides give way. a Clash is ineyi-
table.
Paterson's Unnatural Calm
Paterson has rarely seen so quiet. SO or
derly a Sunday as to-day. Not a single ar
rest to-day. not even one for Drunkenness
was the TapOTt late Tonight AZ n0lira head
quarters But it was an abnormal calm. a
quiet not natural. but one enforced by a
clare that the situation tonight is more
threatening than at any time since the
trouble began. and confess they fear a
Mayor Hincbcliffe is reinforcing his ar
senai at police headquarters. by oruering
a lot of Colts rifles. in addition 10 the Win
cheSters and Springfield rifles carried by the
newly sworn-in deputies. and is determined
that. II anarchy again shows its head in
the SILK city. IL will incur an awful punish
Investigation by the police to-day ELECTED
the discovery that the purchase Of arms and
ammunition by the city authorities is not
all one-sldeC. They have learned that. with
in a week. individual purchasers have ex-
hausted the entire supply of available fire.
arms in all the Paterson stores where such
goods are handled.
1t is a fair presumption that many OF
these weapons have been bought by law
abiding mer, bent only on self-urotectiou
in case Of trouble, since the lives of the
most prominent men in the city have been
openly threatened by the friends of Bresci.
the anarchist regicide; but there is reason
to believe that not n few OF them have
fallen into the hands of the more dangerous
element, which is preparing for the next
collision with the authorities
Mayor Hinchciiffe ordered a raid on a
den of anarchy on Saturday night In the
hope OF confscating arms and possibly
dynamite bombs, but a warning had
reached the reds and they decamped the
place being deserted.