The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-04-07
1000 STRIKE CHILDREN
MAY Be BROUGHT HERE
Movement in Passaic to Follow
the Example Set by
' Lawrence.
TROUBLE WITH DEPUTIES
A Short Strike Of Their Own and Com
plants That They Are Too
Friendly With Mill Girls.

keeps on for few days more. and there
was nothing to-day to indicate that the
deadlock between workers and EN-
iployers will break. the strikers may do
as the Lawrence workers did and send
an army Of children into New York. II
was reported to-day at the strike head
quarters here that Foris Reinsteiri. the
organizer. will send .OOO children TO
town in case their parents become too
needy. Various social and labor or
ganizations in New York have offered
to take care Of the children.
Mrs. Julius Hammer. who is the wife
Of physician at lass Washington avenue.
Tho Bronx. and Mrs. Henry Robbins of
8ii Fourth avenue. Brooklyn are the
women through whom the Offer reached
the strike committee here. Mrs. Ham
mer and Mrs. Robbins have been busy
at Reinstein's headquarters for several
days as members of his commissary
department. They have been sending
wagons ont through Passaic to collect
food and money for the relief Of the st rik-
ers. Free meals have been served twice
a day at the strike headquarters. Those
who still had money were expected to
pay five cents for IA meal. but, all chill
dren have been fed free.
But strikers on every side are beginning
to feel the loss Of their pay envelopes
Most Of them are dependent on the weekly
wage from the mills and have little laid
by. Such as had money are getting near
the end Of il and the children are beginning
to feel the stress of short rations SO
Reinstein was glad to hear that sympa-
l., ia N.rl. g.. s..I.z
care of 600 children He is not ready to
say yet. however. that the help will he
needed. lie isn't inclined to allow the
children's invasion of New York unless
he has to
This WAS the first day since "Wednesday
that has not seen u brush between depu-
ties and strikers. william ID. Haywood.
whose coming here early in the week was
followed Immediately by riots which
became more serious each day. did not
show himself. Moreover. it was the day
before Easter and many Of the strikers
were at mass when the loyal workers went
TO the mills for their days labor So the
body Of deputies whom Under Sheriff
Heath Of Hackensack has enlisted for the
defence Of the mills had nothing to do.
For an hour AT noontime the deputies
were on strike themselves. and il looked
for while that the detectives and the
police of Garfield which has been the
centre OF Haywood's activities and the
scene of most Of the rioting. would have
10 guard the mills alone
The trouble with the deputies was a
matter OF wages They wanted SIS for
their days work Uptoii o'clock yester-
1av IN nnt thar. nj, h,rt,.
men with deputy sheriffs badges on duty
at the Forstmann Il HUFF mann mills in
Garfield. They were paid by the COM
pany at the rate Of ss.,5 a dav and seemed
satisfied They spent the night in the
mills and were. ready for duty il tro'lbla
dev velope-d
But when Under Sheri n Heat u APPEARED
at the Fors, man HUFFMAN plant at II
O'Clock yesterday morning he brought
with him thirty more men. and all hands
We're put on the county pay rolls. The
county rate is s. a day of eight hours and
the men acqliiesced. Heath was on hand
at noon to-day To pay them of He al
lowed each man S. and said that was all
they would get. IL didn't take the ,lepI-
ties long to adopt strikers tactics They
dropped their pist OILS and bllies and said
they were through. Heath reminded
them that they had agreed to work for
s. "a day.
That's right" they answered, but
the day was TO be eight hours long and
We have been here twcut -four That
makes $I5. doesn't IT."
They wrangIed over the point for an
hour and in the meantime nobody stood
guard except the police aud Brien de-
tectives. At last Heath yielded and
gave each Of tn" sixty-iive men his Si5
They agreed in return that they would
work in future for $s7j "A day. Heath
says he will drop half of them to- morrow
or Monday. for those are holy days and
troubla need not he expected Tuesday
is different matter. he thinks. and he
NAV take some Of them on again
That is not all the trouble hat Heath has
had with his deputies. There is talk in
Garfield that they have been TOO familiar
with the women strikers. that they have
talked to them AS they came near the
mills and walked with them and treated
them roughly. Last night Heath had a
mittee. at which he heard complaints
This morning he got the deputies in a
corner OF the mill fence and told them
that they must lot the mill girls alone,
they must not drink or smoke while on
duty. they must not use their clubs
except in an extremity and must keep
their pistols out OF sight and not Use them
until they get orders from the man in
command.
Deputy Garret Fleming. who was caught
drinking beer while nominally on duty,
was sent TO the county Jail in Hacken-
sack for thirty days. There are John
Doe warrants out for two other depu-
ties also. Recorder Whitehead OF Gar
field issued them at the instance of Rein
stein, the organizer. One il for the dep
uty who dubbed woman on Wednesday
and the other is for the man who beat
Michael Gorger into insensibility yes-
terday. Reinstein says he wants protec-
tion against brutality on the part OF the
deputies.
Reinsten charges that there has been
trea cherry in his camp also. The financial
secretary Of his organization was Frank
Plessdomo. n smooth little Italian. His
duty gave him power over all the records
OF tho union and the names of the strl-
ers who were enrolled in the organization
passed through his hands Renstein
says that he has indisputable evidence
that Plessdomo is n detective of the
O'Brien agency. which has had men
at the mills where strikes have been ON,
and that Plessdomo has been an O'Brien
ina for two years, His knowledge of
: the m mes of the strikers. Renstein points
out, Is OF advantage to the employers
Now that Plessdomo IN out of tho Rein
stein faction he has undertaken to allv
himself with the Haywood outfit, which
OperateS chiefly in Garfield.
Haywood was expected to return to
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