Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-25
COLD WEATHER
STOPS STRIKE IN
PATERSON MILLS
10000 Go Out but
Decline to Shiver
in the Streets.
ELIZABETH GURLEY FLYNN
ORDERED TO LEAVE CITY
Serio-comic Labor War Is Very
Different from Others
s City Knew.

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PATTERSON, N. j., Feb. 25.-Coll
drove 5000 striking mill operatives
back to their looms at noon today
after what threatened to be the worst
labor war in the silk industry ha6
begun with the wallk-out of nearly
10000
A force of 150 policemen, armed witt
nightstieks, patrolled the factory dis
trict and kept the strikers moving
Soon the bitter wind sapped the en-
thusiasn of the men and women and
they returned in squads to the mills
they had left few hours before.
Although the walk-out was orderly
subsequent mass-meeting at Turn
bull Hall was marked by riotous en-
thusiasm.
The police, charging through the
street crowded by the overflow of the
meeting barely avoided bringing on a
pitched battle Three strikers were
arrested, hustled into waiting patrol
wagon and rushed to the police sta
tion. They were technically charged
with lettering"
Although the sheriff has not sworn
in deputies he said shortly before
noon that he might be forced to do so
this afternoon.
''Wc are ready for trouble" he
said, ''and can muster a force of
deputies in short order
The sheriffs office warned the
police of Acquackanonk township
that small army of 400 Paterson
strikers had left the city in march
i
Doherty Company's gigantic factory
at Lakeview. A force of ten police
men were rushed to the plant to
await the arrival of the militant
pickets.
The strike is being directed by or
ganizers Of the international Work
srs of the World. William d. Hay
wood is on his way from Ohio tc
take personal command. Elizabeth
Gurley Flynn and Ewald Koettgen
are the present leaders.
Miss Flynn and her companion,
Carlo Presta. who was leader In
the strike of the garment workers
and walters in New York, were ar
rested when they refused to leave
Paterson today. With other leaders
of the Industrial Workers of the
World. they were waiting to address
a meeting of silk workers when the
police gave them their choice of tax
ing the first train back to New York
or going to jail.
Organizers Promise Peace.
The organizers promise that the
strike will be pacific. but the police
and sheriff are pessimistic, on ac-
count of the great disorder and vio-
dence that have marked previous
labor troubles in the silk centre.
The police opened stands of riot
guns, which We're bought for use in
strike ten years ago, in case Of emer-
gency
The demands of the strikers, al
most third of whom are women,
are
4 return to the two-loom system
for weavers. an eight-hour day and
minimum wage of s12 week for the
dyers.
One of the biggest mills to be hit
by the strike was that of the Henry
Doherty Company. Lakeyiew consid-
cred to be a model factory.
strikers Demands Unknown.
1--WE hardly know yet just what the
strikers are demanding" said the
manager today, "and we can't say
what chances there will be of reach
ing a settlement. So far only 200 of
our 500 weavers are out. We haven't
yet made arrangements for a detec-
tive force to guard our plant, but
there is no telling how bad this
strike is going to be-