New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-23
Wesvers Ara Weakening.

WeaVers Are Weakening.
About 1000 silk weavers are back at
work, according to conservative esti-
mates made to-day. Workers from the
Empire SILK Company and the Doherty
& Wadsworth company. two OF the larg
est plants in the country. met to-day
and agreed To go back 10 work If their
shop committee could induce the weav-
ers in six Of the larger broad silk plants
TO join them.
If the strike is broken II will be ad-
mitted only when the police try TO lend
their protection to the workens in three
or four of the larger mills Past eX-
perience has shown they cannot cope
with the picketers then. because the
force isn't big enough" said Patrick
Quinlan. the convicted Industrial
Workers Of the World agitator. to-day.
County Counsel DE Voc. chairman Of
Mayor Andrew McBride's "investiga-
ton committee" said to-day that stub
bornness on the part Of the manufact-
urers in refusing 10 meet with their
workers had practically blocked the
work OF the commission.
Indignant Italian strikers invaded In
dustrial Workers Of the World head
quarters in Helvetia Hall to-day. bit
terly denouncing the congestion at the
county Jail. They reported four or five
prisoners I'm one cell, with no discrimi-
nation as TO prison records. The eXecu-
tive committee presented resolutions to
the county authorities tonight de-
manding an investigation Of jail con-
ditions. Sheriff Radcliffe said tonight
the Jail was never in more sanitary
condition than at present.
Tresca Freed on Bail.
Carlo Tresca, the Italian strike agi-
tator. pleaded guilty to-day TO an In
dictment charging unlawful assem-
blv." He furnished $1,000 bail. His
trial before Judge Klennert in Quarter
Sessions was set for June =.
The police received message Of sym
pathy to-day from the police of Law
renee. Mass. 1--WE know here what it
means to have Haywood. Ettor and the
rest in your midst" IT said.
Recorder Carroll who has imposed
maximum sentences on Industrial
Workers OF the World plcketers, re-
leased to-day three boys caught red
handed" stealing rolls and milk bottles
from East side houses. The Recorder
said that while he had suffered similar
losses himself, he could not make the
youngsters" suffer because they were
hungry.
The strikers meeting in Haledon this
afternoon was broken up by down
nour of rain. About three hundred re-
mained under umbrellas to hear the
last of the speakers. Quinlan was
among them.
"Tve told all the facts Of your strike
and of my trial to some millionaire
LAWYERS in New York, and they tell me
the only anarchists in Paterson are the
the police. the Recorder and the Coun-
~ prosecutor" he said. The strikers
applauded.
THE strikers in New York and vicinity
:, the silk mills. who are looked on as
branch of the striking silk workers In
Paterson. listened to characteristic
sneech by w. u. Haywood at the LABOR
Temple. S,th street. near Second avenue
HAYWOOD denounced the statements that
the strike was likely TO peter cut soon AS
false. He denied that the strikers had
planned TO wreck trains. and savaseiy
attacked the persons whom he said were
responsible for the charges. lie also cr!ti-
cised the newspapers.