Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-19
ARMS FOR EMPLOYEES
Situation at Paterson is Very
Much Strained.
MAYOR TAKES CHARGE
TELLS THE POLICE TO SHOOT IF
NECESSARY.
Several of the Mills Open for Business
Today-Dye Houses All
Closed.
MAYOR TAKES CHARGE

PATERSON, y. J., June 19.-AIayor
Hinchcliffe took personal command of the
police of this city today. He was much
displeased that the meeting 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 head
quarters today and had all the men of the
reserves lined 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 to the aggres-
siveness, were then dismissed to await the
call to action. In addition to the regular
police force of 1O4 men there were sworn In
today twenty-three constables twenty-five
deputies and fifteen firemen who are to do
duty as policemen. All these men were i'm
mediately armed with revolvers and heavy
night sticks.
Factories Open for Work.
Ten silk manufacturing firms opened for
work this morning. These firms have their
plants in the Hope. Harmony and Todd
mills. Each employees about twenty five
men. In each of these plants every en-
ploye was armed today with q revolver.
The weapons were supplied by the mems
employers, with the approval of Mayor
Hinchcliffe. Before taking this step the
mayor had been consulted by the manufac-
turers. and he expressed the opinion that
the employers We're fully justified in arm
ing their men, and that it was necessary
IreCaution in view of yesterdays riots
When the employees of the Pelgram and
Meyer mills. on Matlock street. reported
for work this morning every fourth man
WAS provided by the management with a
gun During the night shotguns. Winchcs-
teTS and revolv-rs, comprising small but
formidable arsenal. We're carried into the
mill. Accompanying the weapons were thirty
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, although sey-
eral were opened.
Non-Union Men Afraid to Work.
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
body of strikers and their sympathizers to-
day About 400 Italian strikers and others
gathered in the quarter of the city where
the larger part OF the Italian colony lives
and forming in procession started 10 marcn
to Turn Hall. The hall is only about d
block from police headquarters. 1t is said
that the proposed meeting there today was
arranged at a meeting of anarchists last
night The police had been keeping sharp
watch on the movements of the strikers and
the procession had barely got under way
when the reserves charged the paraders.
There was quick scattering in all dire;
tons by the men in line, and in a remark
ably short time there was not a parader to
be seen in the neighbCrhood.
At the hospitals and the county Jail the
condition of those who were wounded 1T
yesterdays disturbances was reported II
be about unchanged. Harry Harris the
reporter. who knocked down. beaten
and finally shot with his own revolver by
the mob was very low today, but nope OF
his recovery is entert aimed.
Incendiary Talk Prohibited.
Mayor Hinchcliffe announces today that
only the executive committee of the Overs
Helpers Union would be permitted to hold
meetings for the present. and that if at
that tended to incite violence. the speaker
would be instantly arrested The mayor in
sisted that representatives. of the city gov
errment be present at a meeting Of the
strikers executive committee this after
noon 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 some of the
largest in the city.
II was reported that number of silk
mills in Jersey City had been shut down on
account of lack of material as a result of
the closing of GVt houses AZ