Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-17
Citizens in Terror.
Fear Dynamite as
Bands of Strikers
Grow Bolder.
PRISONERS CLAIM JAIL
DIET Is BREAD AND WATER
Attempt Viii Be Made Next
Week to Tie Up Industries.
Mill Foreman's Home Is
Wrecked.

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PATERSON. n. J.. May 17.--0rders
for a general strike are to be issued
by the central committee of the IN
dustrial Workers Of the World.
Wednesday Is the day tentatively
set for calling out the men on the
street car lines and in the power
houses
This is the last desperate resource
OF the $4,000 silk strikers in the labor
war they have been waging for more
than three months. Il follows IS
direct sequel 10 the indictment by
the Passaic grand jury OF seventy !.
W. w. adherents and Of the discoy-
cry of alleged inhuman treatment to
strike prisoners IN the county jail
The general strike, If successful.
viii not only plunge the city into
darkness, but. it is feared. viii usher
in a reign of terror worse than that
Of the strike of 1902.
As it is, the city today is awed BY
the fear Of bombs.
Dynamite partly wrecked the home
Of Harry Hudding. mill foreman. At
Fairlawn. and gangs threatening mis-
chief roamed through the streets last
night. Many citizens are eniisting
detectives TO guard their homes
The bands of maraudinE strikers
have been bold enough in weIl-Hzhted
streets but with the city plunged IN
darkness and the trolley service sus-
pended. the two ends which the
l. W. w hope to secure by a general
strike, Paterson would be at the
mercy of the strikers
A meeting Of the exe&ative co1n-
mittee of the central strike COMMITTEES
of the Industrial Workers Of the
World was held at Turn Hall The
purpose of the meeting, as announced
in advance. was to decide upon Ways
and means OF bringing about The
general strike
The session lasted for about an
hour and a half. and was held behind
closed doors. When asked afterwari
as to what action had been taken
upon the plan to darlSen the city
through strike in the electric light
ing plant Adolph Lessig. general or
ganizer. said:
I'VE have our agents at work upon
week we expect to be in a position to
put through our purpose of planging
Paterson into darkness as a result Of
a general strike among the employees
Of the Edison plant Of the Public
Service Corporation. We also expect
TO tie up the traction business
through a strike of employees Of the
Public Service Railway Company.
Say Prisoners Are starved.
The strikers were further infiamed
| today by the amazing story told by
Abraham Schepps. OF l45 Governor
street, who had just been released
from serving a ten-day sentence in
the county jail for picketing at the
Henry Doherty Silk Company's mill
For the first three days / was fed
on nothing but bread and water he
informed the strike leaders. Il plead
ed with the jailers, but they only
laughed and jeered at us strikers
Afterwards they put me on the
regular prison fare. It was no bet
ter. The soup was so greasy I
couldn't eat it and the meat was rot-
ten through and through.
"In the daytime we were all crowd
ed into one big room. At night We
slept two in a cell.
"One of my friends took sandwiches
to the Jail for me. I never got them.
although / was starving.
The strike prisoners aren't treated
4 like human beings at all.
Sheriff Amos H. Radcliffe denied
] the assertions of Schepps
"ie was probably one of those pris-
oners who threw food around. Ii IS
true that we put some of them on q
/ bread and water diet as punishment.
/ but it was their own fault.
Why We buy our provisions from
John Eyres. of Totowa avenue. one
| of the leading grocers and butchers
I in Paterson. I have tasted the soup
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