New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-21
GIRL STRIKE LEADER
TOCALL MAYORS BLUFF
Warns Paterson's Head He VIII
Get Chance to Feed Children
if He Stops Exodus.
GREYSONS FAIL TO APPEAR
More than $1,000 Idle Silk
Workers Hold Meeting at
Haledon-Police Ban on
May Day Parade.
rR, Tclerraph 10 Tho tribune !

fBN Telegraph TO The Tribune
Paterson. April 2o-More than fifteen
thousand silk strikers nockcd to Ilaledon'
outside the city lines. this afternoon, to
listen 10 Big Bill Haywood, Elizabeth
Gurley Flynn and Carlo Tresca. the lead
crs OF the Industrial Workers of the
World. The impending clash between the
organization and its great rival the
American Federation of Labor, which is
seeking to settle the strike. tripled the
usual Sunday attendance. The Fedora
lion of Labor was roundly abused by
Haywood and others.
| Miss Flynn announced that the first de-
tachment OF hungry children would he
sent out Of the city to be cared for by
industrial Workers OF the World parents
lin New York on Wednesday. She berated
tMavor Mcbride soundly for saying that
sending the children away was done for
: effect"
Mayor Mcbride says that Paterson is
Il bic TO take care of its own cried Miss
fFIynn HE tells YOU that If there is any
\ neod for sending them away he viii see
| to il that the children are cared for ut
lhome. When we called on him TO con-
! tribute money 10 feed and clothc the I'M
employed two weeks ago, how much ana
she give? He gave g. And we sent his
J money back to him.
May Let Mayor Feed Them.
4 If the Mayor makes any move to stop
4! the deportation of the children We will
i call his bluff. We will gather the hungry
women and children into great army CT
several thousand and march them right
up TO the doors of the City Hall. and put
them in Mayor McBride's hands. Then
we'll see whether he is sincere The
Mayor has not said what he will do If
/ the removal Of the Industrial Workers Oh
the World children transpires.
J HAYWOOD and the other speakers called
& ON the strikers TO attend the mass meet
! ing I'm the armory tomorrow night They
told them to wait until the American
! Federation OF Labor speakers began 10
attack the Industrial Workers Of the
Worlc. and then drown them out with
cstcalls and Kisses. Capture the meet
ing i'm any event." was the word they
PASSED off the platform The police are
quietly preparing for trouble tomorrow.
The Industrial Workers of the World
strikers have asked Police Chief Bimson
for permission 10 hold a May Dav parade
through the streets of Paterson. The re-
quest was denied. The strikers wanted
to wind up the parade with picnic IN
IIaledon woods where there is so
calist administration. headed by Mayor
Bott The Mayors refusal has stirred up
great Indignation.
Antonio Geracho. the machnist who
was shot by a private detective emf
ployed to guard one of the mills. died
this morning at the General Hospital
The strikers are planning TO make
demonstration when the body is borne 10
the cemetery Chief Bimson says he Will
not disturb the funeral. even If the
strikers get up q parade five miles
long" Joseph Cullenton, Of the OBrien
detective Agency. is in the county Jail
without bail for the shooting Of Geracho
Edward Dyer and Albert Rutan. fellow
detectives, are being held in $4,000 and
$1,000 bail respectively. for "atrocious as
sault" The grand jury convenes April -
freeze Out" for Small Mills.
Many Of the merchants in Paterson are
openly criticising the mill owners on &C
count OF their refusal 10 enter into the
aldermanic conferences looking 10 a set
tlement OF the strike This feeling. on
/ the part of the merchants has been
strengthened by the report that the mill
owners want to keep the mills closed until
July ]. II has been openly charged in
the public prints here that the manu-
facturers have used the strike to work
of old stock. and il has also been alleged
/ that through the existence Of their com
mon enemy, the Industrial Workers Of
l the World the larger concerns have pro-
longed the strike TO freeze OUT their
smaller competitors.
Victor Greyson. the expelled Socialist
member Of Parliament, and his wife. who
was Ruth Norreys on the English stage,
did not appear to speak TO the strikers
AT HaledOn to-day
They are admirers OF Big Biz Hay
wood and Industrial Workers OF the
World methods, such as sabotage, syndi-
calism, etc. Last week they accepted
'Haywoods invitation TO address the Pat
.reop efrikprs nj HalodOn this afternoon