The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-09-18
WARRANTS
FLOOD VILLAGE
Entire Village Seems to Be In
Hand Of Strikers.
ACCUSE PUBLIC OFFICIALS
They Msy Have 10 Answer Head Of Fac
tory On Twsnty.Fhp
Charges.
ACCUSE PUBLIC OFFICIALS

Vineiand, n. j., Sept 1s.--Warrants are
flying thick and fast at Minotola. the
scene of the glass strike The fight has
been shifted almost entirely to the courts.
where IL Is being waged with all the skull
at the command or the eminent counsel
employed by the Jonas Glass Bottle COM
pany and the Glass Bottle Blowers asso-
citation OF the United States and Canaoa-
Nearly every person or any consequences
at Minotola has been arrested on some
charge or other. A regiment OF witnesses,
accompanied by battalion OF counsel.
will go to Mays Landing, Sept q, when
the Atlantic county grand jury will hold q
special session 10 hear all the cases grow
Ing out of the Mintola glass strike.
WARRANTS THICK AND FAST.
Both hostile forces have their favortte
rural justices of the peace for issuing
warrants by the wholesale. When the
glass corporation wants warrants issued
It goes to Justice John II. Sims, at MIN
tola. and when the officers OF the glass
union desire arrests 10 be made Justice
j. L. Aspinwall. OF Buena Vista, accom-
modates them by issuing the warrants.
The pace in issuing warrants got 80 hot
that hardly before he could realize II one
OF the village squfres, j. H. Sims, found
himself arraigned before Justice Aspin-
wall on the charge OF disorderly conduct
and sentenced TO 20 days I'm jail
Justice Aspinwall issued yesterday, four
warrants. sworn out by as many different
complaAnants, for the arrest OF George
Jonas, president OF the Jonas Glass COM
pany all on the charge OF violating tno
labor law by Incorporating in contracts
with employees the condition that they
shall not Join labor union.
There are in all q charges OF like char
acter against Jonas. and the remainder OF
the warrants will be issued this week
say the counsel OF the glass union. which
are also preparing over 200 civil suits
against President Jonas for the collection
OF back wages due glass workers, result
ing from the Apprenticeship system.
INJUNCTION AGAINST COMPANY.
the grand jury are Manager OF the Glass
Works and Postmaster David C. Appie-
gate charged with conspiracy in proour-
ing eight OF his relatives and TWO friends
TO come TO Mintola to ''incite riot to aid
In the company's application for an In
Junction against the union" and Justice
OF the Peace and Deputy Postmaster John
III. Sims, charged with a conspiracy ana
assault and battery.
A man employed in the Jonas company
who fired revolver pto crowd at
festival Of the glass strikers VIII appear
before the grand jury on a charge OF un-
sault with intent to kill.
The summoning of Drs. Cunningham
and Wilson, OF Vineyard. to appear DO
fore the grand jury. has given rise 10
the rumor that County Prosecutor ABB
bett, of Atlantic county. intends making
a rigid investigation into the killing OF
the Music boy. who, IL is alleged, was
under the legal age limit, at the Jonas
Glass works last spring. The relatives
OF the boy and the glass union. besides
claiming that the Child Labor law 10
openly violated at Minotola, through the
neglect of State Factory Inspector Waro.
say that the glass company Is RESPONSE
bic for the boys death by neglecting HIM
after he was fatally injured In squabble
with another youngster.