The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-05-26
WOMEN HATTERS
IN TERROR STAY
AWAY FROM WORK
Fear Being Stoned to Death,
Following the Assault in Or
: ange Yesterday Afternoon.
SAY PROTECTION OF
POLICE INADEQUATE
Workers Pummelled and Beaten
and Innocent Bystanders Are
Hurt by Flying Missiles.

Terrorized women strike-breakers
did not return to work in the Orange
Valley hat factories today.
The show of force of the mob of
strikers last night. when a half dozen
of the women employees of E. v. Con-
nett & Co. were injured by flying
stones, was sufficient to cause the
women to refuse to return.
Little knots of strikers, skirmishers
from the main army, watched incoming
trains from Newark and New York all
morning at the Highland avenue sta
ton.
Chief of Police Washer. of Orange,
and squad of his men, who fortu-
nately today did not miss the car which
would bring them to the scene in time
as was the case last night, were on
guard at the station during the morn
ing. Hat manufacturers, police COM
missioners and commuters, who wit
messed the scenes of violence last night,
are united today in declaring that the
local police are no longer able to con-
troll the situation. The actions of the
local police last night are characterized
as "cowardly' incompetent" and
inefficient
"Outrageous," Says Connect.
Eugene Connect, head of E. v. Con-
nett & Co., nat manufacturers of Or
ange Valley, whose action in bringing
the women hat trimmers back to work
in the factory caused renewal of the
physical troubles with the strikers, said
today:
The police conditions are outrageous.
have been asking the police for pro-
lection for the last FIVE months and
have not received it. I will ask the gov
ernor for further projection
Shortly after o'clock last night the
doors of the Connect factory swung
open and I the f1fty women strike
h-eakers formed in line and marched
out. AT their head was Eugene Con-
nett, and his brother Ernest was half
way down the line. Bringing up the
rear was o. L. Yeomans, the superin-
tendent
No sooner had the procession ap-
peared upon the streets than it was
greeted by screams of derision and
mocking epithets.
Kill the scabs!" "They are stealing
our bread! came from the mob of
women, boys and men which lined the
street on either side. The women. of
the little marching party shrank back
in terror, but, encouraged by their
leaders, they forged ahead. AS the line
turned the corner their tormentors were
reinforced by crowds of men who
poured out of three saloons. Women,
unopposed by the meagre police rear
guard-Chief Washer with his reserves
had not yet reached the scene--fell
upon the marchers literally with tooth
and nail. Miss Bertha O'Connor was
dragged from the line by two women,
who pulled off her skirt, tore her waist
into shreds. pulled off her hat and
stamped it on the ground. Three
policemen managed to arrest an old
woman who snatched off the hat of an
other of the women strike breakers.
Later they let her go.
Air FILLED with stones.
This was but the beginning of active
the men employees of the factory on
their way to the. station was the signal
for the second outburst of the fury of
the mob This happened at 6 o'clock.
BY that time Chief Washer and twenty
of his men had reached the scene.
Their presence served to prevent any
attack until the platform of the station
was reached. Then the air was filed
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While this fusillade continued, seven
suburban trains from New York en-
tered the station and many of the pas
sengers alighting on the platform were
struck and severely injured. Abraham
Glover, white-haired member of the
group of strike breakers, had his head
laid open by a brick, and was so Sc
verely injured 1t was found necessary
to take him to the Orange Memorial
Hospital. Albert, f. Timpson, brother
of Philip F. Timpson. alderman from
the Fourth ward-the scene of the
trouble, was one of those who were
struck.
Six Arrests Made.
The police arrested six of the rioters
last night This morning John Mayer,
a striking halter, was arrested on
charges of lettering and intoxication.
When the six prisoners were arraigned
in court today Jasquale Leonido was
held in $1,000 bail for the grand jury.
He was accused of taking a woman
prisoner from the police The other
FIVE were held in $100 bail each.
An attack on the home of James
Gordon, in Cary street, today, caused
an appeal to be sent to the police from
the No Name Hat factory, where the
man was employed. Three policemen
went to the house and offered to escort
Gordon to the factory. He refused
police aid and did not return to work.