Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-01
CRIMINAL LIBEL
CHARGED TO SCOTT.
Agitator Arrested at Meeting.
Accused by Police
IChief.
Especial to the Newark start

PATTERSON, N. j., March 1.-Crim-
if,al libel was the charge made today
against Alexander Scott, Socialist edit
tor, who was arrested at the climax
of his speech to 5000 men and wom-
en-, striking silk workers for the most
part, in the Auditorium last night.
Scott was held in $4,000 bail for the
grand jury, but he provided bond
and was released.
Chief of Police Bimson, who has
used an iron hand in dealing with
the strikers, made the charge against
the editor. He alleges that Scott in
articles published in The Weekly
Issue deliberately libeled him.
= In those articles Scott is said to-
have criticised the chief for arrests
ing strike leaders for ''inciting to
riot before there had been any vio-
lence and for reading the riot act
before there had been any riots.
Strikers Defiant.
The strikers are so enraged at the
ready to defy the authorities. The
feeling among the operatives is ex-
tremely bitter, and it is feared that
the drastic methods used to prevent
violence has succeeded only in de-
laying it.
A monster demonstra ton is plannedz
by the strikers for tomorrow after
noon. The police here, of course, will
allow no parades and no mass meet
ings, but the strikers are said TO
have obtained permission from Will
lam Brueckmann, Socialist mayor of
Haledon, suburb of Paterson, to
parade in his municipality.
Wilson B. Killingbeck, who ran on.
the Socialist ticket against Woodrow
Wilson for governor two years ago.
announced the plans that have been
made for this demonstration. The
leaders hope that 1t will put heard
into the strikers.
The protest meeting held last night
in the Auditorium was first addresseo
BY Scott, Six detectives from poles
Headquarters were sent to the hall
With a warrant for his arrest, but
they allowed him to finish his talk.
Riotous Demonstrations.
As soon as the audience realizes
that the editor had been taken intH
custody a tumultuous demonstrations
was made. Hoots and eatcalls wer4
yelled at the detectives, who forces
their way out of the hall. In th4
street a crowd of nearly 1000 ga tHI-
cred and followed the policemen -
the station.
The arrest of Scott was precede1
by a raid on the Socialist headd uar-
ters. 1856 Main street, where 10, taa
copies of the paper containing the ai-
legged libelous articles were seizea
and destroyed,
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn also adj
dressed the meeting at the Audi
forum. She declared that 1877 mills
in Paterson were closed and that tbs
ranks of strikers were being swelieQ
constantly rs
Woman Speakers Threat.
"If the police insist on their, pres
en- tactics" she added, the strik*
leaders in Paterson will not be re-
sponsiblc for any methods that tne
strikers may resort to-
Before this strike is over Paterson
will be very much on the map.
long as the rights of free speech, frea
press and assembly are denied us w
will resort to other means and the
police will be held directly respon-
sible. "a
IF they put all the organizers iron
here to California in jail this strif&z
will go on until we have workers
all industries with us