Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-16
WINR TO BLOCK
STRIKE IN SCHOOLS
Mcbride Not Dismayed at Pros.
pect of Filming a Few Hun
dred Parents.
DENIES TEACHER CALLED
i. w. w. LEADER ANARCHIST
New Department of Labor May
Be Called In to Settle
Silk Trouble.
IspecinI to the Newark star.l

Especial to the Newark start
PATERSON, n. j., April 16.-Dras-
tic action was threatened by Mayor
Mcbride today if big Bill" Hay
wood makes good his boast to call
out on strike between $4,000 and TO-
900 school children to join the $4,000
striking silk operatives.
II don't think the strike will ma
terialize," he said to the Evening Star
correspondent. 1T would be a very
foolish thing, hurting no one but the
children themselves and their parents.
But if such a strike does occur we
shall take immediate steps against
the parents, who will be legally ac-
countable for the truancy of their
children"
1t was pointed out TO the mayor
that he would have his hands full
attempting to fine or imprison half
the parents of Paterson.
mo doubt" he replied. What we
should do would be to pick out the
most conspicuous cases and make
examples of them"
He was then asked regarding the
truth of the assertion of both Hay
wood and Miss Elizabeth Gurley
Flynn that they had been used by
certain school teachers to explain
definition of "anarchism."
No Influence Pupils.
THAT is not true" exclaimed DR.
Mcbride. There has been no attempt
in the schools to influence the chill
dren in any way. You know how
easy 1t might be for children to ex-
aggerate words spoken perhaps by
one or two teachers without the
slightest intent of censuring the
strike leaders or poisoning the pupils
minds
So far, during the eight weeks of
the strike, every attempt at arbitra-
ton has failed. The strikers have
been willing, but not the manufac-
turers. Even the aldermanic confer
ence was ignored by the big mill
owners.
Mayor Mcbride was, therefore,
asked what his next step to secure
a settlement would be.
Our hope now" he said lies in
federal investigation. We are petit
tioning the department of labor to
oldi I GIL llllO lllC DOI llOuDttS
here. Under the law, the department
has the power to conduct such an in
vestigation.
If this probe is made IT will be the
first of its kind to be conducted by
the new department
Mayor Mcbride said that, accord
ing to the best figures at his disposal,
there were $4,000 men on strike.
The school demonstration, If it
takes place, will be another unique
feature of the labor war already dis
tinguished by the practically COM
plete absence of violence
Haywood Attacks Teachers N
I'VE have the names If certain
teachers in the Paterson public schools
who have been casting slurs on the
silk mill strikers and the Industrial
Workers of the World during school
hours, said Haywood today. I'VE
are convinced that these teachers
have been saying things to pupils
who are children. of strikers that they
have no business to say as teachers.
We don't propose to stand such ac-l
tions, and we are seriously intending
to call a school strike"
Tomorrow evening there will be a
meeting exclusively for children, and
then, Haywood says, the question of
the strike will be decided.
And We will not make any pre-
lminary protest to the Board of Edu-1
cation or to the mayor" he con-
tinued "Out of the 10000 school chill
dren in Paterson l estimate that To-,
900 are children of the mill workers,
the vast majority of whom are on
strike. If Paterson is as proud of its
school system as 1t pretends to be it
will have to take care of it better
The teachers are working people, just
as all of us are, and some of them
will find that the strike may mean
TO them the loss of their jobs. Such |
a strike would be unique, but it would
emphasize the principles we are
fighting for"
Two big manufacturers, Aronsohn
& Bloom and the Schetty Silk Dye
ing and Finishing Company, are plan |
ming to move from Paterson. The |
first firm is building plant in Bay
onne and the other in Towanda, Pa. !