Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-15
Incensed by Convic-
ton Of f Quinian,
Strikers to Adopt
Militant Campaign.
CONVICTED MAN CLAIMS
HE HAS BEEN ''FRAMED"
Faces Term of Seven Years in
States Prison-Appeal to Be
Made Immediately by |. w.
w. Lawyers.
[From a stan Correspondent.I


PATTERSON. N. j., May 15.--In-
censed by the conviction of Patrick
Quinlan. the. $1,000 silk strikers today
abandoned their passive tactics for
a campaign OF militancy
A rumor was spread that an at
tempt was to be made to blow up the
Court House today, while The con-
victed I. w. W. leader, Patrick
Quinlan, was being sentenced Inves-
tigation proved this rumor to be un-
founded. Quinlan is not to be SEN
fenced until tomorrow.
Five thousand men jammed them
selves into Turn Hall, where the most
impressive and ominous demonstra-
tion since the strike began was held
this morning.
The convicted labor 1eader-the
greatest captain in the ranks of the
Industrial Workers of the World
who has ever been found guilty of so
grave a charge as melting to riot
sounded the keynote in a warlike
speech, pnnctuated by cheers.
Enthusiasm Is all right he thun-
dered, but it doesn't win strikes.
The thing TO do is to picket and keep
picketing. Your fight is on the picket
lines
No matter what the outcome of
my appeal or of the other cases, keep
on lighting.
The officials of Passaic county are
all lined up against us. You know
your remedy. Clean the whole crowd
oiit when you get your chance.n
The OfIaar ipHiofad II, dn,..- -
Bill Haywood, Elizabeth Gurley
Flynn, Carlo. Tresca and Adolph Les
sig, all of whom are charged with
the same crime as Quinlan. addressed
ahe strikers in a similar vein.
Sentence Tomorrow.
Quinlan will so before Judge Klen-
ert tomorrow for sentence He is out
! on $500 bail and has not yet SUR
Rendered.
The maximum penalty is seven
years in prison and a fine of $1,000
His conviction has infiamed the
strikers as nothing else since the
strike began. If be is given a heavy
sentence neither the police nor the
county officials care to forecast what
will be the result.
To man, the strikers are con-
vinced that Quinlan was framed"
by the police He believes SO him
self.
There never was an honest police
man. he told the crowd that packed
Turn Hall and was lined fifteen deep
around the wall. Henry Grattan
said: Policemen are liars in court,
builies on the street and towards in
a fight Hs was right"
Gustav A Hunziker, of counsel for
the l. w. w. leaders, also is of the
opinion that the police framed"
Quinlan.
Can't Understand Verdict.
II don't see how any jury, he said
to an Evening Star correspondent to-
DAY. could have found him guilty
on the evidence We had twenty-five
witnesses, the majority of whom were
young women. and they swore that
he did not say the words attributed.
to him.
The States contention was that
he interrupted a speech of Miss Flynn
and said: I make motion that We
go to the mills. club them out, draw
them out. pull them out or get them
0ut anyway we can.
1.-THE police witnesses all testified
that those were his very words, and
they were letter perfect in them.
"As soon as Quinlan is sentenced
shall apply for a writ of error and
fight it out to the last ditch. We
shall do the same in the other cases
II convictions follow"
1t is not alone Quinlan's conviction
that has driven the strikers to- des-
peration They are at the very end
of their resources.
While they We're cheering Quinlans S
appeal for militancy today so vigor-
ously that their shouts could be
heard two blocks away, another phase
of the strike was being enacted in
Ellison street, nearby.
Women in Bread Line.
There two long lines of women
many of whom carried babies. con-
verged TO small restaurant in
which is stationed a bread station.
For two blocks in either direction
these lines extended
The worn faces of the women. the
thin, poorly clad children and the oc-
casional wall of some half-famished
infant are other spurs that are driv-
ing the men to violence.
When the jury that had listened to
the evidence introduced at the second
trial of Quinlan brought in YER
dict of guilty yesterday he was not
in court. Expecting the jury to be
out for several hours, as in the
first trial last week. when the jury
i. 1na hod - q,
Hail. where hundreds of excited
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