New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-25
EMPLOYERS HALT SILK
STRIKE SETTLEMENT
Refusal to Recognize Weavers'
Union Lends New Courage
to !. w. w. Leaders.
OVERS VOTE TO STAY OUT
Defy Paterson Police by Meet
ing in Forbidden Hall-Stand
Firm for 8-Hour Day and
So a Week.
fRv Telegraph TO The Tribune. ]

BY Telegraph 10 the tribune
Paterson, n. J., May 24.-The refusal OF
the manufacturers to recognize pro-
posed union of all the broad silk weavers
on wage bsasls advanced by the weav-
ers of the Empire Silk Company put
temporary check on the talk of strike
settlement to-day. The Empire weavers
did not strike. They were the best paid
weavers in Paterson and were out or
work because of the closing Of the dye
houses. The Manufacturers Association
refused 10 recognize the Empire workers
plan of n broadsilk weaver's union ana
wage schedule on the ground that IL
would not deal with any body Of work
ers "as a whole"
The dyers held a mass meeting in Turn
Hall this morning under the noses Of the
police and voted TO remain on strike until
they get their eight hour day and sl2
week minimum wage. The police drove
the Overs out OF the auditorium and COM
PEELED them 20 take refuge in the lodge
room upstairs The Overs and their help
ers hold the key TO the strike situation,
although the manufacturers say they are
getting silk material from dye houses IN
Philadelphia, Hoboken. College Point and
other places.
W. d. Haywood. Carlo Tresca, Elizabeth
Gurley Flynn and the other indicted l.
W. w. organizers have been troubled by
the published reports of near break
in the strike, and have devoted their
oratorical energies toward chastising the
newspapers. a mass meeting will be held
in Haledon tomorrow afternoon to call
out the strikers for picket duty on Mon
day morning. Automobiles have been
engaged to go 70 Haledon and take chill
dren Of the strikers 10 Elizabeth, \. j.
The rain put a damper on the Haledon
meeting this afternoon. Miss Flynn an
nounced that resolutions of sympathy for
the manufacturers would be drawn up at
the Sunday meeting on account Of their
Impending bankruptcy" Miss Flynn
read a newspaper clipping telling of sew
eral prizes won at Orange, n. j.. by MISS
Ruby. a prize bulldog owned by MIS-
Henry Doherty, wife of the owner Of the
Doherty mills at Lakeview, where the
strike started. She said Mrs. Doherty had
been offered $500 for the dog and re-
fused IT.
'The manufacturers say they would
have 10 commit suicide if they gave you
the eight-hour day. 1 only wish they
would make good their assertion" said
Miss Flynn. What they meant was that
their automobiles and prize bulldogs
would have to commit suicide. ! haven't
anything personal against Mrs. Doherty's
81 800 prize bulldog. ! am only sorry 1t
chooses to keep the company that II
does. II the manufacturers were TO give
you more pay TO clothe and feed your
children they would be robbing their au-
tomobiles and prize dogs"
Miss Flynn scoffed at the plea OF the
National Manufacturers Association for
the believers in God. the country and the
flag TO rally against the l. w. W.
For manufacturers to mention the
Deity is rank blasphemy. The only God
they know is the god Of the dollar sign.
Neither God nor the country needs pro-
lection from the I. W. W. It's only the
dollar sign that needs IT," said Miss
Flynn. She said real religion and real
patriotism were not the handmaidens of
child labor and IS and SO week wage
schedules for workers with families
Prosecutor Dunn was amazed when
Justice Minturn told him the other day
that a great many big minds favored
the abolition Of the wage system. In the
DAYS OF Sumner and Henry Ward
Beecher there were men Just like Dunn
who believed that all law and govern
ment would fall with the abolition Of
black slavery. II takes courage TO de-
nounce Industrial slavery to-day" she
said.
The strikers will defy the police to-
49, Ill 44.-1x L.
vacant yard opposite Turn Hall, in ELI
son street. Thomas Cappa and James
Cangtaneln, owners OF the 1. W. W. halls
closed by the police. gave 500 bail to-
day for indictments charging the keeping
OF disorderly houses. They expect TO OBJ
tain intunctions next week, and say they
will sue the city for damages.
In response TO call for a mass meet
ing Of silk workers in New York and
vicinity in support Of the Paterson silk
strikers about 500 people gathered in the
plaza at Union Square yesterday after
noon 10 hear assertions that the strike IL
on as hard as ever. The principal speech
was made by William D. Haywood who
declared that the reports that the strike
IN Paterson was waning emanated from
the mill owners.
There is absolutely no break in the
strike in Paterson" he said. 1T is on as
strong. II not stronger. than when IL start
ed. thirteen weeks ago We can do with
out the bosses. but the bosses can't do
without the workers We can run the
looms and are coming 10 that We are
after the bosses dividends. They say we
- ho
World, but we are the workers, the In
dustrial Workers OF the World. We can
get along without the bosses and without
the police. We have TO pay for the po-
Ice We don't want 20 push the police
off the face OF the earth. but when the
new order Of things comes we will take
them and put them to work in the mills
Two policemen in the plaza smiled at