Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-01-15
WOMEN IN BATTLE
WITH GUARDSMEN
As STRIKERS RIOT
CONTINUED from First rage.)

struggle. in which many were injured,
the mob was driven back. IT headed
up the canal toward other mills.
The striker have increased to $4,000.
strike leaders had circulated handbills,
printed on yellow or red paper. The
handbills read:
Textile workers of all rades and
all nationalities, listen:
warning, Do not list TO the
promises of the bosses.
DO not go to work except on the
word of the strike committee.
Stay out of the Wood mill, the
Eyer i'll. the Washington mill, the
Duck mi,,,. the Pemberton mill, the
Lower Pacific mill, the Atlantic mills
and the Arlington mills"
The regular opening time for the mills
IN $3.50, when whistles blow. bells ring
and the operatives come to work.
As this time approached today Mill
and Canal streets were packed with a
mass of yelling people. Fully 10000
men, women and children We're there.
The strikers have a committee of pick
cts who urged the employees, speaking
in nfteen different languages, not to go
W - Ia
fusion OF, tongues. The heavy snow
storm that was in progress did not APP
pear TO quiet the workers, but the
police on hand, rather than dispense
the strikers, waited in the hopes that
q few hours in the cold and snow
would send them away from their po-
sition.
Battery c, Light Artillery; Com
~ ~ tha NTtpfb DoOiya ont and
Company l., of the Eighth Regiment,
numbering $50 men. reported at the
state armory at 6 o'clock in readiness
to march double quick to the mill gates.
The greatest crowd gathered at the
Wood mill before the hour OF opening,
In spite of pickets, VINO were on duty
as early as 8 a. m.. a thousand hands
reached their places in the mill. There
strikers who had evaded the police and
watchmen brandished clubs to force
the operatives out. The disorder was
80 great tina the mills were shut down.
Meanwhile strikers made W attempts
to storm the outer doors. Two of the
rioters were arrested.
When the Wood mill was closed the
strike sympathizers marched to the
Prospect mills and assailed the gates.
They resisted strenuously the attempts
OF the police to force them back. VIM
cenzo Lamarest, who the police say
was one OF the most violent in the
crowd, was arrested charged with as
sault. He carried a receiver and ~
cartridges, a long dirk knife and a
stiletto.
Another crowd of over a thousand
gathered at the Washington mills,
where they had several minor scrim-
images with the police.
At the Pacific cotton mills a body of
strike sy1npathizers had worked them
selves into fighting mood and had just
, .,erged from an assault on the mill
gates when the Washington mill crowd
arrived. Soon all was in an uproar.
The mob raided coal cars on "a siding,
and, ssixing the chunks of coal bonn
barded the. windows OF the PACING
weave shed. Six temperatures inside were
hurt, but none seriously. The police
then charged the mob and fired In the
air. The shots did not scare the
strikers, and orders were then gwen
to turn on the water in the mill hose.
At this time W companies Of militia
under Captain Randlett were ordered
out for service and the riot act was
read.
Captain Randlett's orders to the
crowd to dispense were not immediate
~ obeyed, and he ordered the hai1-
hundred militiamen to charge with
bayonets set. During the charge many
of the bayonets were pressed against
the crowd. Two rioters were hurt, but
not seriously.
Battery c, light artillery, was or
dered out half an hour later. After
unlimbering their guns the battery
cleared that thoroughfare without
much trouble.
Additional police were requested
from Boston, Lynn, Lowell, Haverhili,
Salem and elsewhere and were on
their way here by 1880 q. IN.
In all thirty arrests were made dur
ing the forenoon.