Waterbury Democrat., 1902-06-19
HE MAYOR TAKES A HIND
Paterson Official Not Please d
 With Work of Police.

Meeting of Strikers, He Thinks, Should
 Have Been Broken Up-His Instruc-
 tions to the Police deserves To-day
 Were That If Their Clubs Proved
 Useless They Knew What to Do
 Chief-of- Police Graul Was Suspend
 ed.
 Paterson, N. J., June 19.-Mayor Hinchliffe took personal command of the police of this city to-day. He was much displeased that the meeting of strikers Tuesday night was not broken up It was at this meeting that speeches were made which, it is be- lieyed, led to the disorders of yesterday. The mayor went to police headquarters to-day and had all the men of the re- serves lined up ill 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 to await the call to action. ID addition to the regular police force of 1O4 men there were sworn in to-day twenty three constableS, twenty-five deputies and fifteen firemen who are to do duty as policemen All these men were inn mediately armed with revoIvers and heavy night sticks.
 Ten silk manufacturing firms opened for work this morning. These firms have their plants ill the Hope, liar mony. and Todd mills. Each employ about twenty-five men. In each or these plants every employe was armed today with a revolver. The weapons were supplied by their employers, with the approval of Mayor Hinchcliffe. Be fore taking this step the mayor had been consulted by the manufacturers, and he expressed the opinion that the arIning of their men was a necessary precaution in view of yesterdays riots
 When the employees of the Telegram and Meyer mills. on Matlock street, re- ported for work this morning, every fourth man was provided by the man. agement with a gun. During the night shotguns, Winchesters and revolvers, comprising a small but formidable ar senal, were carried into the mill. Ac- companying the weapons were thirty rounds of ammunition for each piece.
 With the arrival of the men workers the firearms were distributed and the employees went armed to their looms. Not one dye shop started up this morn- ing. although several were opened.
 The dye house owners were willing to start operations. but the men re- fused to go to work, as they feared violence at the hands of the strikers.
 The police had slight encounter with a body of strikers and their al- legged friends to-day, but the latter had evidently learned lesson from yester- days occurrences and seemed to real ize that the police were prepared to re- sort to extreme measures.
 About 4GJ Italian strikers and others gathered in the Italian quarter and, forming in procession, started to march to Turn hall. at Allison and Cross streets. It is said that the proposed meeting at the hall to-day was ar ranged for at a meeting of anarchists last night. The procession had barely got under way when the police reserves charged the paraders
 There was a quick scattering in all directions and in a remarkably short time not parader was to be seen in the neighborhood A few taps on the head with the night sticks took all the fight out of the few who at first seemed disposed to be aggressive
 At the hospitals and the county iail 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 to-day. but at the general hospital it was said that hope of his recovery is still entertained
 Mayor Hinchliffe announced this morning that only the executive com mittees would be permitted to hold meetings at present and that if at any one of these meetings any word was uttered that tended to incite violence the speaker would be instantly arrest ed. It is reported that a number of silk mills in Jersey City have been shut down on account of lack of ma- terials as a result of the strike Five persons are now in jail as a result of yesterdays riots. Four of them are suffering from bullet wounds and the other is alleged to have taken an ac- tive part in the rioting
 Chief of Police Graul was suspended to-day by Mayor Hinchliffe The mayor also issued an order that the riot act would be read to any gathering strikers which seemed likely to be- come disorderly.