The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-05-20
R|OT|NG PATERSON
STRIKERS P UT
BEHIND BARS
Fight with Police Results in
Many Arrests
SENTENCED TO TEN DAYS
Trouble Arose When Police Gave
Protection to Employees Who Were
Going Back to Work.

Paterson N. j., May 19.-One po-
liceman was beaten, silk striker
was dubbed into Inconsistencies
and sixty eight men and seventeen
women and girl strikers were arrest
ed here today and sent to Jail for ten
days as a result of one attempt to
break the grip of the Industrial
Workers of the World in Paterson.
twenty-five non-union broad silk
weavers brought about the riot when
they went back to work for the Ar
thur Price Silk company on the guar
antee that all the /. w. w. demands
would be granted, !. e., an eight-hour
day, a 10 per cent increase in pay
and the abolition of the three and
four loom system.
More than two thousand /. w. w.
strikers swarmed to the mill to stop
the workers from going inside. Chief
Bimson and one hundred policemen
surrounded the mill The strikers
jeered the bluecoats and dared them
to stop the picketing. Captain Nc
Bride threw his men on the crowd a
dozen times and at every onslaught
the policemen used their clubs.
When it began to look as if nothing
but display of firearms would scat
ter the mob reinforcements of police
arrived from the Stern & Polly mill,
where trouble had been expected. I'm
mediately police patrol wagons and
ambulances began to race through
the main thoroughfares of the city,
and the injured and arrested were re-
moved. Meanwhile the weavers in
the Price mill were safely at work
1t was the worst conflict between
the police and strikers that has TAX
en- place since the strike began last
February. The Industrial Workers of
the World agitators, headed by Will
liam d. Haywood. went to their head
quarters in Helvetia hall. They de-
nounced the Price weavers as ''scabs"
and the police as "the scum of the
earth" The speeches were more vi
triolic than any heretofore made
here.
Meanwhile hundreds of infamed
strikers were listening to fiery de-
nunciations of the authorities in
Turn hall. Sidney Turner. official
stenographer for County Prosecutor
Dunn, sat in a corner at the rear of
the hall taking notes. Half a dozen
detectives surrounded him. .Ewald
Kottgen, local Industrial Workers
of the World organizer, roaming
around the hall, saw Turner. He went
to the stage and whispered to an Ital-
ian speaker. The speaker said some
thing to the audience in Italien.
Threats were made to throw the ste
nographer and the detectives into the
street.
Adolph Lessig, the indicted local
organizer, made his way to the detec-
tives and told them that the crowd
was getting beyond control, and If
they wanted to avoid trouble they
had better get out. The detectives
drew their revolvers. The sight of
the guns GIelled the threats, but the
crowd kept ieering for half an hour.
When the meeting was adjourned
the detectives, With their revolvers
in their hands, escorted the stenogra-
pher to the street. They ran up Eli
son street, toward Headquarters, fol-
lowed by crowd of booing men and
women. AT Main street the reserves
who had been ordered out to clear
the streets, charged the yelling mob
and dispersed it.