Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-20
Pickets Taken by the
Police One by One
as They Appear at
the Price Mill.
$4,000 STRIKERS PLAN
CAMPAIGN OF VENGEANCE
Barred from Meeting in Pater~
son, I. w. w. Leaders Gather
Mill Workers at Haledon and
Agitate War of Retaliation.

From a STAN Correspondents
PATERSON. n. J.. May 2o.-By ar
resting pieketing silk strikers one
by one as they arrived on the scene.
forty patrolmen. under Captain Nc
Bride. today prevented another riot
at the Arthur Price mill IN Broadway
F'ifty-seven pickets were made
prisoners and bundled OF to the po~
lice station Eight mounted police
men galloping up and down Broad-
way. between Church and Bridge
streets. kept the street cleared.
The $4,000 strikers are feeling the
heavy hand Of the authorities. for
they are now barred from neetinE
anywhere within the city limits
In retaliation they are planning =
free speech war that VIII strike ter
ror into the hearts Of all Paterson
They hope 10 plunge the city into
darkness. tie up the trolley traffic
and call ont the teamsters.
Both Turn Hall and Helvetia HaI1
the only meeting places open to the
strikers-were closed against them
today In great exodus thousands
Of mill hands men and women. jour-
neyed 10 Haledon. suburb. IN order
to lay plans for a continuance Of
their fight
Detective Sergeant Lord. three po-
licemen and Sidney Turner. a stem
ographer. went with them to watch
for infiammatory utteranees. But the
speakers were crafty. They begged
the strikers to be very careful.
Patrick Quinlan was in the midst
of docile speech when some one in
the crowd caught sight Of Turner
busy with his notebook. Pointing
him out, he eeied
xiii hiFas~-Lyaeh the spy
The strikers surged upon Lord and
his men. who drew their revoIvers.
stop thundered Quinlon. No
violence here. This is a public street
in a friendly township The 2olics
have as much right here as we have.
Let them stay
bib Biz Haywood leaped to Quin=
lan's side and together they mana
aged TO quiet their followers.
Then Quinlan continued:
Don't blame old Bimson (the CHIEF
! of police) for closing Turn Hall and
Helvetia Hall. His orders came from
] higher up. The politicians are re-
lsponsible for that. They are getting
scared. Their brazen resource TO such
/ move as that shows how frightened
they are. They are desperate
There was another move on the part
Hof the crowd toward Lord and the
other Paterson policemen Councils
man Julius Copp Of Haledon. inn
plored the sergeant 10 remove his
men to avoid riot Lord telephoned
Chief Bimson, and. receiving permits
sion to do so, retired from the meets
ing
That. too. marked the end of mild
/ speechmaking. Herbert L. Harrison,
la negro Socialist and New York
l;teacher of English, delivered a fiery
address. The vigor of his vitupera
tion grated on Elizabeth Guriey
Flynn's ears, as she admitted after-
wards
To Fight Hsil-closing Order.
Meanwhile Gustav A. Hunziker and
Henry Marelli, counsel for the strik-
ers. are preparing to institute pro-
Iceedings in the Court of Chancery to
enjoin the police against closing the
halls.
Although the iifty-seven pickets ar
rested at the Arthur Price min Ia
& Broadway. where the riot of yester-
day took place, seemed to think tha
proceedings a good joke. they found
the joke on them when they were ar
raigned before Recorder Carroll.
Instead Of fining them S5 each. he
held them all. with the exception of
the one woman prisoner. Nettie Ritz
eel. in $500 bail for the grand jury on
the ancient unlawful assembly,
charge.
city Attorney Prosecutes.
Randall Lewis, the city attorney.
appeared personally to prosecute the
strikers, who were represented BY
Mr.. Hunziker. Patreiman Kearny.
despite the protests of the latter. was
allowed to testify in regard TO thu
Haledon meeting on Sunday after-
noon.
"At that time the patrolman said
Il heard Boyd tell the strikers TO
picket at the Price mill good and
! heavy
Other witnesses for the police wers
Chief Bimson. Captain Mcbride. Ser
geants Coyle. Draper, Fitzpatrick and
Murner and number of patrolmen.
Prisoners aDoubled Up.-
Sheriff Amos H. Radcliffe. when
!. told of the new batch Of prisoners
he would have to take care Of. adj
mitted that the men in Jail were
doubled up. He asserted. however.
that so far the county had been able
to take care of the strike prisoners
without much ineonvenience
Carlo Tresca. who has evaded caps
ture since he was found guilty of M
citing to riot last week. came 20 Paf-
erson on the trolley car from Passaic
today. TO avoid the detectives waiting
at the Erie railroad station He had
a conference with Mr.. Hunzlker hts
attorney. and went out to arrange fer
bondsman
A grocery store keeper in the Peo<
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