The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-19
Mayor of Paterson Takes Per-
sOnal Command of Police.
Tells. Them What to Do IF Clubs
Prove Useless.
EXTRA MEN SWORN IN.
Ten Factories Opened For Work
This Morning.
Operators Are Given Arms With
Sanction of the Mayor,

Paterson, N J., June 19.-Mayor
Hinchcliffe took personal command OF
the police of this city today He was
much displeased that the n Getting OF
strikers Tuesday night was not broken
up. 1t was at this meeting that
speeches were made which it is believed,
led to the disorders of yesterday The
mayor went to police headquarters TO
day and had all the men of the reserves
line up in front of him. Then he said
to them:
Men, if your clubs prove useless, you
know what to do. Be aggressive from
the start
The reserves who looked as if they
fully approved the command as to the
aggressiveness, were then dismissed te
await the call to action In addition to
the regular police force of 104 men there
were sworn in today % constables, 20
deputies, and Is firemen who are to do
duty as policemen All these men We're
in nmediately armed with revOlvers and
heavy night sticks.
Ten silk manufacturing firms opened
for work this morning. These firms
have their plants in the Hope, Harmony
and Todd mills. Each employs about
% men. In each of these plants every
employe was armed with a revolver.
The weapons We're supplied by the men s
| employers with the approval of Mayor
| Hinchcliffe. Before taking this step
the mayor had been consulted by the
manufacturers and he expressed the
| opinion that the employers were fully
it was a necessary precaution in view OF
| yesterdays riots.
When the employees of the Pelgram
and Meyer mills, Oh Matlock street, re-
ported for work this morning every
| fourth man was provided by the man
agement with a gun. During the night
/ shotguns, Wiuchesters and revolVers
! comprising a small but formidable ar
senal were carried into the mill. Ac-
/ companying the weapons were 80 rounds
| Of ammunition for each piece. With the
| arrival of the men workers the fire
/ arms were distributed and the employees
went armed to their looms. Not one
| dye shop started up this morning, al
| though several We're opened.
| The dye house owners were willing TO
start operations, but the men refused to
so to work, as they feared violence at
the hands of the strikers.
| The police had a slight encounter with
/ a body of strikers and their sympa thiz-
| ers today. About 400 Italian strikers
| where the larger part of the Italian
| colony lives. and, forming into a pro-
| ceSSiOn, started to march to Turner hall.
/ The hall only a block from the police
/ headquarters It is said that the pro-
/ posed meeting there today was arrange
| for al a meeting of anarchists last
| night The police had been keeping a
sharp watch on the movements OF the
| strikers, and the procession had barely
got under way when the reserves charg-
! ed the paraders. There was a quick
+
in line and in a remarkably short time
there was not a parader to be seen II
| the neighborhood.
At the hospitals and the county jail
| the condition of those who were wound
ed in yesterdays disturbances was re
| ported to be about unchanged. Harry
| Harris, the reporter who was knocked
| down, beaten and finally shot with his
| own revolver by the mob. was very low
today but hope of his recovery is en-
tertained.
Mayor Hinchcliff announced today
that only the executive committee of the
Dyers' Helpers union would be per-
mitted to hold meetings for the present
and that If at any Of these sessions one
word was uttered that tended to incite
violence, the speaker would instantly be
arrested. The mayor insisted that rep
resenta tives of the city government bt
present at a meeting of the strikers
executive committee this afternoon. He
says that if the proceedings are in any
way obnoxious all the members of. the
committee will be liable to arrest.
As the morning advanced more OF
the silk mills opened up, including SONS
! of the largest in the city.
1t was reported that a number of sill
mills in Jersey City had been shut dowr
for lack of material as a result Of ths
/ strike of the dyers at Paterson.