Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-04-03
Workers dubbed
in PaSsaic Strike Riot
Special Deputies Rush Score of
Women Pickets, Badly
injuring Several.

shop committee. of which she was a
member, appeared before the Botany
officials, will be tried Friday in the
district court. A suit for $500 has been
instituted.
Confidence among the strikers is one
of the results of Haywood's visit yes
terday. Today strike leaders are talk
ing about what he said and some of
them are r~eiterating his remarks in
informal meetings.
I'VE believe in direct action This
is the slogan of the strikers. Hay
wood also said: After we win this
strike, and we will. we are going to
strike for an eight-hour day. We will
get it simply by taking it.
I'm Lawrence we tool every child
out of the mills. There are nc chill
dren in the Passaic mills, but unless
the owners accede to our demands we
will take every man and woman out
of the city and leave Passaic a desert
ed mud pile"
Haywood said he did not believe in
craft organization" He explained
that the genera strike was the only
effective one He told his audience
that when a set of workers in a plant
had a grievance all the other workers
should make it a common cause.
This general strike plan appeals to
the strikers. 1t means that instead of
a mere handful of weavers out striking
for better conditions the number of
strikers is swelled by the other de-
partments of the mill.
What is direct a%ction?' This ques-
- =. - IL -.H@1I A.5-. Tn1.N1k
action may mean anything. Haywood
is a leader of great experience. The
result of his direct action" policy l.
now awaited with interest.
Two hours after big Bill Haywood"
came to town yesterday afternoon a
strike committee representing five
nationalities had been organized, a set
of demands prepared, permanent head
quarters established and everything
made ready for business.
Flushed with his success in Law
renee he came like a c~onquering hero
and was greeted with bursts OF ap-
plause by 300 enthusiastic strikers who
assembled at Belmont Park Hall
awaiting his coming. The rush and
swing with which things got under
way after he came made many of those
present open their eyes and say Tho
strike is just starting"
Conditions in Passaic and vicinity are
SO similar to Lawrence at the begin
ming of the trouble hat it is feared
all sides that the same disturbances,
and bloodshed will be the price
Northern New Jersey will pay before
the storm will blow over. The storm
that is brewing over this section of
New Jersey threatens to be even more
than that in the New England
town, because of the greater number
of persons involved and the fact that
the workingmen and women employed
in the textile industries here are living
under worse conditions and getting
poorer pay.
The internal strife between the two
factions of the l. w. W., of which Hay
wood represents the older, is regarded
as an additional reason for trouble.
Everyone seems to feel certain that
violence will occur sooner or later.
Where it will begin or how no one is
able to foretell. The of strikers
is becoming a highly charged mine that
may go off at any minute.
The strikers are getting holder. The
small riot hat occurred at the Forst-
mann HUFFMAN mills yesterday morn
ing when an attempt was made to
open the two plants, is a foretaste 1T
what might ome
The leaders are constantly telling
them that they have a constitutional
right to do picket duty in a peaceful
manner. A few fights like this morn
Want and suffering is beginning to
be felt among the men inc ome
who have been out longest. The COM
missary department was opened yes
terday and a large number of strikers
and h children were fed; the
adults at cost and the children free.
Every hall in Passaic, Garfield ano
Clifton held a meeting of strikers.
Bands of marching strikers with tags
reading Don't be a scab,' We're parad-
ing the streets of the city all day. The
uneasiness had spread to the "Hilf"
section of the city, which is the better
residential section and far removed
from the storm centre.
Every effort is being made to control
the passions of the strikers, but the
area affected is so extensive and the
mass OF workers so large and un-
organized that the outlook for a peace
full solution of the trouble is not re-
garded as bright by persons in the city
who have watched the growth of the
strike.
Mike Smicheower, a striker employed
at the Brighton mill, got into an argu-
ment with Harry Wilson, whom he
accused of being a scab, in front of the
Rofanv mills last night at G o'clock