The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-07-15
| WEAVERS OWN
The SILK MILLS
Strikers Stand at the Looms,
Refusing to Work or to
Allow Other to Do So.
MANAGERS coWED AND HELPLESS
Non Union Men Jeered and
Hooted At, Till Scared So
That They Quit the
Work.
MANAGERS COWED AND HELPLESS

From latest accounts the mill owners
of Union Hill are permitting the opera
tors to run things at their own sweet
will and have apparently given them full
swing at two of the mills.
This morning all the weavers returned
to the mills but the quickly made known
the fact that they intended neither to
work nor to allow anyone else to do so.
UNION HILL MILL.
At the Union Hill mill the weayers
stationed themselves at their looms, but
informed the men over thine that they
were ready to go to work as soon as the
firm agreed to their demands.
The machinery was started up and the
non-union weavers were ordered to go
ahead. They obeyed orders but as soon
as they commenced operations the fun
began. The strikers gathered around
them, hooted and yelled and called The
non-union hands ~scabs' and other hard
names. They did not lay harSs Oh the
new weavers or display any violence. but
the non union hands were so badly scared
that they stopped work at once These
tactics were repeated whenever they at
tempted to resume operations and as a
consequence no work was done at the
mill this morning.
MANAGERS HELPLESS.
All this time tie men in charge Of the
hands stood idly by. They acted as
though they were helpless and made no
attempt to clear the mill.
In West Hoboken the same state of
affairs now exists. The strikers were in
and out of the mill all morning They
did not work and refused to permit the
non union hands to do anything.
The Union Hill police appear to be
very much disgusted with the stand
taken by the BOSSES They say the men
in charge of the mills should have or
dered the strikers to leave as the mer
may resort to violence and wreck the
looms.
A strong force Of policemen are or
guard at the mills and if there is any
all their own way.
The weavers employed at Schwartzen
back, Huber & Sos silk mill, at Wesi
| Hoboken, went out again yesterday af
| ternoon and were later followed by the
hands employed in the company's mill il
Union Hill.
Saturday a committee waited on Su
perintendent Rueg and told him that il
| he did not at once discharge the non
union hands the entire force of weaver:
would go out.
Mr.. Rueg yesterday gave the weaveri
to understand that the firm had decidet
not to recognize the union, nor to dis
| charge the non-union hands. The opera
| tors seemed very much disappointed
when they learned this. a meeting wal
held during the dinner hour and it was
decided to strike
| The hands returned to the mill at
| o'clock. but went out later in body. A
3 o'clock three hundred of the strikers
| marched to the mill on the Hudson Bou
leyard, Union Hill.
| The police had meanwhile been mott
| fed. and half dozen officers We're hnr
ried to the scene. They reached the mil
before the strikers and were prepared tt
prevent trouble.
| The strikers apparently remembered
the lesson they were taught couple O
| weeks ago. and did not attempt to make
any trouble.
A committee entered the mill AMI
| quickly induced all the hands to qu
work. They went out in body and afte
4 time marched off with the other strik
| ers. leaving the policemen on guard.