New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-14
Many Shots Fired When Mob
of silk Strikers Attack
Special Police Officers
with Stones.
SIX WOMEN IN CELLS
Prisoners Taken to County Jail
Under Heavy Guard-Sev-
eral Are Hu- t by Flying
Missiles g ID Police
mems Jlubs.
lEy Telee,arh q ..rhe Tribune. ]

Paterson. y. j.. June 13.-Forty-six
prisoners. mostly Italians. including
six women. were placed under arrest
tonight in a riot with police officers
of the city Of Paterson, who had been
sworn in as special deputies. and fifty
other sheriffs deputies appointed ~
Sheriff Amos Radcliffe. of Passaic
County The trouble took place just
across the Sixth avenue bridge, leading
into Prospect Park Borough. where
minor strike disturbances have hap
pened in the last few days.
The police officers and deputy sheriffs
we're escorting fifty workers from the
Weidmann and the Anger & Simon
plants TO their homes in the borough
when they were attacked. Stones had
been piled up for ammunition purposes,
but the unexpected rush Of the uni
formed police over :he bridge prevent
Cd their effective use, and the mob was
chased UP a hill. with four mounted
officers Of the Paterson Police Depart
ment in the lead.
Stones were thrown and shots fired,
hut none was killed or seriously in
jured The prisoners were surrounded
BY a police Gordon. and were taken 10
Paterson police headquarters in an auto
truck Of the Anger & Simon company,
and in the two automobile patrols Of
the city Of Paterson.
At the direction Of Prosecutor Nj
ehael B. Dunn, charges of rioting were
preferred before Justice of the Peace
John Keys, and late tonight the pris-
oners were transferred to the county
Jail under heavy police guard. A num-
Der were injured by flying stones and
several showed the result of police
mems clubs.
The rioting tonight vas the out
come Of bomb throwing in the borough
and several previous attacks upon the
workers in the Paterson dye shops
living in Prospect Park Borough. To-
night a large number Of special police
officers were added to the force AL
ready in service for night patrol duty
in the city Of Paterson.
Minor disturbances were frequent in
vaious parts Of the city in the early
hours, and both patrol wagons were
kept on the jump. These were caused
in the main throughout the foreign set
Elements by friends Of those who had
participated in the rioting in the earlier
part Of the night and were due TO the
refusal Of the authorities 10 accept
bail in the riot cases.
Judge Abram Klenert, Of the Court
Of Common Pleas, passed sentence in a
dozen strike convictions here this
morning imposing fines Of $50 each
and holding sentences of from one 10
three years in state prison over their
heads. contingent upon their good be-
havior. Several of those arrested to-
night were among the convicted par
ties who were sentenced to-day The
Judge makes the prison terms upon
the former convictions operative at
once and all such will be held pending
further trial upon the complaints OF
rioting
Upton Sinclair. the socialist novelist, in
letter 70 Alexander Scott. the editor
recently convicted in Paterson. protests
against what he terms the most outra-
geous legal persecution that has ever
been recorded in Lsstory"
After praislng the editor for his stand
he continues: by what they have done
to you the police and judicial authorities
Of Paterson have proved themselves 10 be
anarchists OF the very worst and most