New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-01
STRIKERS LAY.
SIEGE TO CITY HALL
Host of 10000 silk WeaverS
and Families Make Vain e.
fort to See Mayor.
REFERRED TO POORMASTER
But Wrestler's Wife Who Led
Invasion" Retorts with Moth
ing Doing"-Children Com
ing Here To day.
IN Telegraph 70 Tho TrIhune !

fBy Telegraph TO Tho Tribune
Paterson. n. j., April Getty Hall
Plaza was packed by 1000 men, women
and children who gathered this afternoon
TO learn what Mayor Mcbride would do
when the leaders Of the Industrial Work
ers OF the World brought the children OF
the striking silk weayers to him for food
and clothing
The crowd jeered when bare-headed
Italian women carrying youngsters I'm
their arms climbed the steps on the Eli
son street side and inquired in broken
English for the Mayor. The strikers
"booed" the police when the latter
shcoed them away from the big granite
pile after the thing was all over
Mayor Mcbride. who Is physician. was
not In the building when the women and
children arrived. about 4 O'Clock. lie was
visiting his patients. scattered about the
city. He notified Police Chief Bimson ne
expected callers. however. and asked for
detail of men to guard every door in
the City Hail
Mob Surrounds Building.
The men and women carrying their
children could scarcely make their way
through the mob that surrounded the
building. as the police made no effort 10
keep street traffic moving. The invaders
were headed. not by Elizabeth Gurley
Flynn. the Industrial Workers OF the
Work agitator who planned the affair
but by Mrs. Emma Gold. the wife or
John Gold, local professional wrestler
II haven't any children" she said at
Helvetia Hall. when she was chosen az
leader, but ] suppose II doesn't matter"
-Four other men and women were drawn
TO accompany her Miss Flynn told them
TO ask Mayor Mcbride what he would do
for the needy children. on no account,
she said, were they TO take any children
to the City Hall BY actual count there
were eighty-slx children ushered into the
| corridors, many Of them In the arms OF
fathers and mothers
They were told TO go to the basement
and see Poormaster O'Neill That official
met them I'm his shirt sleeves and mopped
his forehead many times while he ex-
planned that Mayor Mcbride and the city
OF Paterson were ready and willing 10
help the Outside poor" II the applicants
would leave their names.
Nothing doing" said Mrs Gold.
These fathers and mothers here won't
go on record as paupers and run the risk
OF being bla enlisted by the mill owners
who will turn out OF work every employe
whose name they see on your books"
The poormaster held out the induce
ment OF s. worth OF groceries a week to
all who were found to be I'm actual want
The city's market basket list dor a fam
lily OF five) included bacon. -four. beans
coffee. tea, butter, yeast. prunes." and in
the cases OF the Italian families, spa
ghett." Arthur ". Bishop, a retired
local Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty TO Children. was IN the office. He
, took aside some Of the mothers with chill
dren In their arms and assured them that
their babies would not be left TO suffer.
Police Show Visitors" to Street.
Poormaster 'O'Neill's terms didn't suit
Mrs. Gold or her colleagues, so the police
showed the visitors to the street. Then
they shut the doors The strikers loitered
outside and the crowd wouldn't bulge
Suddenly the police appeared in a bunch
and began TO drive the strikers away The
latter set up chorus of groans and cat
calls.
Miss Flynn announced one hundred
children would be sent TO New York TO-
morrow about noon. They will first be
placed In the local May Day labor parade.
which is likely to be the largest ever held
in Paterson. Then they will be taken I'm
auto TRUCKS 10 New YORK, and Will be
featured In the East Side labor parade in
the afternoon. Next they will be escorted
to the Labor Temple. al Second avenue
and 18th street, where they will be as
signed TO private families to be cared for
unul the silk strike is over.
Mayor Mcbride says he will not At
tempt to prevent the sending away of the
children. He has limited, however. that
he will have the parents prosecuted for
taking their children out of the public
schools.
The trial OF William D. Haywood. Carlo
Tresca, Miss Flynn, Patrick Quinlan,