Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-19
FEAR STRIKERS VILE
BLOW UP HOMES Of
SILK MILL OWNERS
Wealthy Paterson Manufac.
turers Armed to the Teeth
TO Protect Women.
y
MAY BE NECESSARY TO
CALL OUT STATE MILITIA
Business Men Ask Haywood
Driven Out-Workers Want
Detectives Expelled.
Especial to the Newark st.r.l

SILK manufacturers are today carrying
fevolvers to protect themselves and
their families
Ihey obtained special permits to do
SO after numerous threats had been
n ade by telephone to blow un the
homes Of some of the most prominent
mill owners.
IN addition, the OPERATORS have inn
ported an army of 200 detectives to
guard their factories and dwellings,
This Wholesale arming. the strike
leaders assert, is like throwing a fire.
brand into keg of gunpowder. A
delegation of twelve strikers waited
on Mayor Mcbride today and de-
manded the immediate withdrawal
from Paterson Of the outside sleuths
many Of whom are from Newark.
I'VE won't be responsible for what
happens while these men are here"
said one OF them.
The mayor said that it was impos-
sible for him to grant their request.
although he would keep the detectives
strictly within the bounds of the law.
He pointed out that the two Newark
men who were involved in the Wied-
mann riot had been arrested and held
in heavy bail.
Hasten to Guard Women.
The attacks on Miss Laura Green
and Mrs. Samuel Kaufman, the one
a daughter of mill owner and the
other the wife of another manufac-
turer. have aroused the silk men to
realization of their danger.
The residence section, as well aa
the mill district, was patroled by pri-
vate detectives during the night and
several manufacturers asked Chief of
Police Bimson for more uniformed
men.
Several bombs, have been exploded
during the strike and the detectives
are still trying to find out where they
were made. The police can cope
with ordinary mob violence, but the
use of explosives is something far
more difficult to handle. This ex-
plains the anxiety felt here at the
present display of active hostility
and the many yelled threats that
have trickled by devious courses into
police headquarters.
1t became known today that num-
Der of business men have asked DR..
Mcbride to request Governor Fielder
to call out the militia. Continued
rioting Is considered inevitable and
II is thought that by calling out the
troops in advance would be better
than after a week or SO of strike
violence. The mayor has the matter
under advisement.
Edward Ball. president of the First
National Bank who is spokesman
for the bankers and manufacturers
of this city, is to call on the mayor
this afternoon and ask him to try to
drive big Bill" Haywood and his
aids from town.
The grave danger of the striks
situa tion is complicated by an im-
pending clash between the American
Federation of Labor and the Indus
trial Workers of the World. The two
orga nizations are bitter enemies.
A. r. l.. Deaes 1. W. W.
The A. r. of l.. has announced its
llOD 10 iiOiu a OiS mass hicO'f-.
ing in the armory on Monday night
for the purpose of organizing the
weaVers and settling the strike, This
is nothing short of downright defy
to the l. w. w, The threatened in
terference has put some of the ]. w.
w. men in an ugly mood and an In
ternecine labor war may result
They consider that thew have car
ried on the strike peacefully for two
months. but they do not intend TO
let their rivals step in and share
their glory without strenuous resis-
tance.
The campaign of the A. f. Of Il.
men is not only designed to take
away from Haywood. his followers
but, in the end, to smash the power
of the l. w. w. in the East,
Haywood declared today that the
silkworkers' strike has become ma
tional. and that $4,000 workers were
out in New York, New Jersey, Penn
sylVania. Connecticut and Virginia.
Referring to the threats of the |.
w. w. leaders to take the children
of the $4,000 strikers out of school
and remove all the needy youngsters
to New York, the mayor said:
Calls Threat a Mere Bluf
"Bluster and bluff Please say most
emphatically that Paterson will take
care of every needy child herself.
Not one will be removed. If any little
one is in want / would be the first TO
help. and hundreds of citizens will do
likewise"
Mr.. Bell says that he is convinced
that not only the buildings and
homes of the mill owners will be at
tackled, but that other prominent
persons in Paterson will be taught
that the unions are bigger than rich
individuals"
That general sentiment in Paterson
is with the strikers was shown last
evening at a service in the Barnet
Memorial Temple. The Rev Leo
Mannhimer, pastor of the church, at
the end of his sermon said that be-
cause of his stand as to the strike
there was an indication last Sunday
that he would fail of reelection to-
morrow. He made it clear that with
out regard to the result he stood by
4bo ssfrikere He WAS liherullV an