New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-22
Attempt to "BOo' Meeting OF
A. F. L. in Big Armory
Foi|ed by Harsh Work
of Officers.
FLAG FAILS TO QUELL RIOT
Woman Waving Stars and
Stripes Jeered by Mob
That Flaunts Red
Cards of Clan
in Her Face.
lBy Telegraph to The Tribun. ]

By Telegraph 10 The tribune
Paterson y. J.. April 2l.-One thou
sand bowling. jeering strikers Of the
Industrial Workers Of the World STAN.
peded the mass meeting in the big ar
mory here tonight. and for one hour
the speakers OF the American Fedora
ton OF Labor were unable TO make their
appeal to the public. About O'CLOCK
Police Sergeant Ryan leaped on TO tn
platform and began reading the rio
act At the same time Chief Bimson
with seyenty-fve OF Paterson's I'm
est" crept in front OF the platform ans
with drawn clubs Grove the howlins
red flag wlYers en- rlasse from the floor
The Industrial Workers Of the Worls
shouters We're powerless TO resist. Some
Of them wanted TO fight. but they were
driven down the great floor SO swiftly
that they could not raise their hands.
When the floor wac cleared the SYM
pathizers of the American Federation
Of Labor. who had ducked into the side
lines reappeared on the floor. The po-
lice shut the doors. and the galleries.
which were neutral set up great
cheer
In less than ten minutes the .hmcri-
can Federation OF Labor. with John
Golden. president Of the United Textile
Workers. in command. had regained
possession Of the meeting and had five
.bnuSaud ottortiya lctcpprS
In response 20 the commands of Big
Bill" Haywood. the Industrial Workers
Of the World shouters lad Tacked the
floor close to the platform before the
meeting opened. They kept up a con-
slant chorus OF "boos'' and for more
than an hour they lifted men. women.
boys and girls on 10 their shoulders
and held them aloft screaming. gcs-
ticulatin, and waving the blood red
membership cards OF their organiza-
ton.
American Flag Fails to Pacfy.
Mrs. Sarah \. Conboy the American
Federation OF Labor's organizer from
Pennsylvania, rushed TO the speakers
table and waved a mammoth American
flag in the faces of the seething mob.
but they only yelled and screamed the
louder Haywood, Carlo Tresca and
Miss Gurlcy Flynn. the Industrial
Workers OF the World agitators. en-.
tered the hall and made a detour Of the
floor. while pandemonium reigncd
Finally Ewald Koettgen. the local In
dustral Workers Of the World organ
izer. was dragged on 10 the platform
and begged his followers 10 go home. as
they were not 10 be allowed TO speak.
Haywood himself squeezed his por:ly
frame through the mass OF his fanati-
quiet them. He might as we'll have
been i'm bed and fast asleep as far ~
quieting the din was concerned. When
Paterson's non-combatants saw Chief
Bmson lining up his men TO sweep ths
floor they demurred.
"There'l be more than one dead cop
before they get through" they muir
INJURED. The doubling ones were hardly
able TO believe their eyes when they
saw clear floor with no broken heads.
Haywood led his followers 10 Turn
Hall after their eiectment, where h.
and Tresca and Miss Flynn rouniW
denounced the police and the Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor. President
Golden said after the meeting that the
grip of the Industrial Workers of the
World in New Jersey had been broken
"Paterson's intelligence has been vln-
dicated." he said. We got a lair
hearing in spite Of the deliberate at
tempt of Haywood 10 break up the
meeting according 10 his usual meth
DDS"
President Golden said the American
Federation Of Labor would organize a
committee Of strikers this week 10 con-
fer with the delegates Of the United
Textile Workers and the Central Labor
Union 10 devise ways and means for
negotiating with the mill owners TO
end the strike.
Mill Owners May Ignore Them.
Il am not positive that the manu-
facturers will negotiate with the COM
mittee. but | believe they will he said
THE meat of the demand will be
standard list of weavers' prices, in
order that the manufacturers may be-
placed on an equal basis all over the
country. We are committed to the
eight hour day. and in many places We
have brought the owners down 10
nine hour day. For the dyers. on ac-
count Of the conditions under which
they work. We are i'm favor Of an inn
mediate demand for an eight hour day"
The respectful audience that re-
mained to hear the American Fedora
ton of Labor speakers roundly ap-
plauded the attacks on Hayward. the
red flag" and the shibboleth of mo
God. no church and no country" They
cheered when they were told that com
munistic doctrines like that could never
win in the United states.
The Paterson situation according 20
the American Federation of Labor
speakers who signed the contracts be-
tween the silk strikers and iVIlufact-
urers in HaZleton. Penn. two weeks
ago. was Identical with the situation IN
that city. The Industrial Workers of
the World had been driven out there,