Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-30
SILK STRIKERS
CHEER LEADERS
At COURT HOUSE
Haywood, Miss Flynn and
Others Accused Plead
Not Guilty.
Especial to the Newark star.1

BilI' Haywood, Miss Elizabeth Gnr-
| ley Flynn, Carlo Tresca, Patrick
Quinlan and Adolph Lessig were ar
raigned before Judge Klenert today.
They were charged, under the stat
utes of 1908, with having melted the
strikers TO violence against the po-
| lice
Each pleaded not guilty when called
to the bar. Their bail bonds were
continued. so that they will be at lib
erty until their trials.
May 7 was the date set by Judge
Klenert for the beginning of the
strike cases, which will be the most
notable in the criminal annals of
Passaic county.
Forty others Arraigned, Too.
Besides the leaders. forty mill
hands, who also were arraigned to-
day, will be tried for unlawful as
semblage," under an ancient statute
introduced into the labor war by Po-
lice Recorder Carroll.
I'VE are confident of convicting
these men," said Prosecutor Michael
Dunn to an Evening Star correspond
ent today. I'VE have the evidence.
The broken heads of the victims of
mob violence. the hospital records
those are what we shall use to show
the guilt of leaders,
''Who will be placed on trial first?"
he was asked.
81 haven't decided yet We are
going to hold a conference this aft
ernoon, and that matter will proba-
bly, be settled. OF course, we shall
press the cases against the leaders
first"
The prosecutor pointed out that
the charge was not the old one of
'inciting to riot" but one based on
statute of 1908 making it unlawful
for anyone to make public utterances
urging or causing violence against
the police The miximum penalty is
seven years.
Although there were scores of dep
| uty sheriffs and a large squad of
police reserves on duty at the Court
House to guard against a possible
riotous demonstration, no outbreak
followed the arraignment of the |. w.
W. leaders.
AS soon as the formalities of the
proceedings were over, they left the
Court House.
Tremendous cheers greeted their
appearance.
The scheme of the manufacturers
to open their mills on Monday under
] the guard of an army of armed de-
] tectives and take back all the opera
tives who will return was promptly
met by the strikers announcement
+ that their demand for wages has
risen 10 per cent.
May BE Another 10 Per Cent. Raise.
Delegates from shop committees of
100 mills met in Turn Hall, and after
refusing the offer of the mill own
ers tackled on that big increase in
their terms.
Adolph Leasing, who was chairman,
said that If the mill men do not
capitulate by next week another 10
per cent will be tackled on, followed
by similar increase every week.
Not more than fifty striking silk
workers have returned to work, but
the manufacturers said the number
would be increased materially by to-
morrow.
Discussing the detection of these
strikers Lessg said:
Even if 5000 go back it won't af-
feet the strike The men are sticking
together and the mills can't be run
by 5000 weavers.'
The reports of the agents who were
sent out to learn how many strikers
are ready to go back will be turned
in to the manufacturers tomorrow
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eide whether q force of sufficient
size, can be gathered for the opening
of most of the mills on Monday.
Thirty strikers resumed work in
the Doherty & Wadsworth mill and
about a dozen in the Passaic Silk
Works. Smaller mills took in
couple of workers each Pickets did
nothing to prevent the men from seek
ing unemployment.
Some Mill Owners Said To BE Yielding.
Rumors that some mill owners were
making concessions to the strikers
were numerous, but Samuel McCol-
lom, acting president of the Manufac-
turers' Association, said the stories
were false. He asserted the men
would return with the understanding
that hours and pay would remain as
before the strike, unless the manu-
facturers individually remedied con-
ditions.
This is the day selected by Eliza
beth Gurley FLYNN to march to the
City Hall with about 100 children and
ask Mayor Mcbride to feed them.
The mothers of the children will ac-
company them. There will be no men.
Miss Flynn says policemen, if or
dered to dispense the crowd, would use
their clubs and perhaps accidentally
iniure women and children.
The children are to appear at the
City Hall at o'clock The mayor
usually departs before that hour and
the choosing of it makes a puzzle.
"Big Bill' Haywood, in talking to
! strikers at Turn Hall, predicted that
| not many years hence all the small
silk mills will be abandoned and the
work done in one mammoth plant
conducted by the workers.
at will be utopian," he said
"There will be a wonderful dining
room, where you will enjoy the best
food that can be purchased; your di-
which will be waited to your ears by
an unexcelled orchestra. There will
be a gymnasium and great swim
ming pool and private bathrooms of
marble One floor of this plant will
be devoted to masterpieces of art,
and you will have a collection even
superior to that displayed in the Met
ropoitan Museum in New York. A
frst-class library will occupy another
floor
1.-THE roof will be converted into a