The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-05-20
STRIKE FEVER GETS
PATERSON DEPUTIES
Two Throw Up Their Jobs aud
Others Threaten to
Follow Suit.
WANT 81 AND 3 HOT r DAY
"a Pickct> Arrested at Price
Mill. Where Demands Had
Been Granted.

PATERSON. May l9.--To add 20 the
troubles which the police are having in
looking after the strikers, many of
whom are without any food excep, that
which they get from the relief COM
mittees. the strike fever has broken out
among the twenty-five deputy sher!ffs
doing patrol duty for the city and they
MAJ 4iit. Two deputies Frank Van
R.per ana william Livingston. threw
up their Jobs this afternoon and Others
are threatening ~ follow suit The
deputies get 81 30 a day for policing the
streets while the regular policemen are
looking after the strike situation. Some
days they work ten hours and some
DAYS longer They evidently have be-
come converts To the l. W w. warcry
and want an eight hour day.
Several deputies said in the afternoon
they would refuse to go out al night
unless thev got eight hours and 81, but
when roll was called they toed the mark
and wen, forth with their clubs. guns
and borrowed uniforms II was said
~ tn. Sheriffs Office that Of the depu-
t.es uI.t others would take their places
at once.
The twelfth Weeh u! the WrsNers' and
dyers strike ended with exciting doings
The |. W W. took firm stand that the
employees of no single mill would be
allowed To return to work. even thoug h
they had won their demands. until
| every mill owner in the city had sur
rendered. Seventy-eight strikers who
went on the picket line to carry out
the orders Of the agltators were ar
| rested and sent to jail. Detectives on
guard al strike meeting in Turn Hall
had to draw their guns 20 protect an
| officla. stenographer taking u report OF
iniiammatory speeches from being at
| tackled by angry I. w W. "hooers'
| Later the detectives found themselves
1 IN "A tight hole "a they were returning
| to police headquarters from the meet
| ing and the reserves were hustled out
| TO protect them
The treatment accorded the de
tectives SO worked up the police com
| mittee that AN order was issued ia
close Turn Hall and Helveta Hall on
the ground that they were disorderly
| houses harboring disorderly characters
and as such were unlawful.
When Chief Bimson received the
order he waited in person upon Fred
Koettgen. manager Of Hplvetia Hall
and Justice OF the Peace Thomas Cappa
| who, with John CanGiancli. lease.
Turn Hail. The chief declared very
cmphatically that Haywood. Tresca
Quinlan. Miss Flynn and the Others
must not be allowed to speak at either
place. Both replied that they woulo
consult their counsel before deciding
what TO do. Bimson said he woult
throw a Gordon OF police around thu
halls to prevent any speechmaking
The action of the authorities fllet
the strikers with CONSERVATION, as al
halls in Paterson will now be close,
against them.
| Obeying commands Of the speaker
at Sundays meeting AT Haledon t.
see that the employees Of the Price
mill in Broadway near Bridge stree
did not return to work horde O
pickets went to the mill this morning
The strikers were good natured bu
determined.
Twenty-Five employees not connected
with the l. w. w. entered the mil
delighted at the chance of returning
work on !. W. w. terms and each wa
1eered at as he or she went in. No
one of the workers was attacked. bu
the crowd in the street kept gettin
bigger and extra police were sent t
the mill to clear the street. The OF
ficers in some cases had to use thei
clubs. Seventeen girls and sixty-on
men and boys were rounded up.
All the prisoners were ordered h
Recorder Carroll to pay "A fine Of IS q
60 to Jail for ten days, and all bu
a few accepted the latter alternative.
Tresca, the Italian I, w. w. leade
1 stesrsd clear of Paterson to-day an