Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-05
10000 STRIKERS
CHEER AS WRIT
FREES HAYWOOD
Storm Court House as Justice
Minturn Grants Plea of 4
|. w. w. Leader.
ANOTHER VICTORY, SHOUTS
LABOR MAN TO WORKERS
Paterson Police PowerIess as
Frantic Mob Rushes
Through Streets.
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PATERSON, N. j.. April 5.-Whils
a crowd of 10000 silk strikers surged
around the County Court House and
buffeted the entire police force of the
city, William D. Haywood. head OF
the Industrial Workers of the World
this afternoon won his fight for free
dom.
He was released on a writ of habeas
corpus granted by Supreme Court
Justice Minturn. Adolph Lessig, an
other strike leader, was also freed.
The news of the strikers victory
reached the tumultuous crowd a few
seconds after the decision of Justice
Minturn had been announced.
Thunderous cheers rang out ana
were repeated when Haywood and
Lessig appeared on the Court House
steps. Policemen and the special dep
nties sworn in by the sheriff were
swept aside like corks during the
strikers demonstration.
When Haywood could finally be
heard, he shouted:
I'VE have won another vietoryi"
burst of cheers cut short his
words.
Then, despite the police mandate
against parades, the strikers marched
IN body to Turn Hall. where Hay
wood and Lessig made speeches.
A riot had been feared in case
Haywood had not been freed.
So grave and unprecedented was
the situation that no attempt was
made to arraign the l56 prisoners ar
/ rested last night and this morning on
charges of unlawful assemblage. The
/ jail Is crowded to double its capacity
/ But prisoners were forgotten an6
| the mill section abandoned 10 the
/ guard of private detectives when the
police found the magnitude of the
crowd at the court house. Because
of the promise of dangerous disorder
moving picture operators were on
hand to take pictures of the demon
stration.
i Court Room Guarded.
The eourt-room was barred 20 tbt
| public. Only the lawyers, court at.
/ tendants, handful of special
deputies and those actually having
business to transact were permitted
! to enter the room.
big Bill' Haywood was brought
J to the courthouse early in the pris-
on van.
As he left the wagon he hesitated
an instant and then turned to those
pressing around.
IL shall be out this afternoon--a
free man." he said.
Then he went inside with a con-
stable walking at his side.
| In the courtroom Haywood sat
beside his counsel. Gustave Hunzi-
ker and Henry Marelli. Their argu-
ments were punctuated from time to
| time by the murmur of the crowds
| outside.
The application for the writ of
! habeas corpus was taken because
Haywood and Lessg had been sem
| fenced to serve six months in the
county jail for alleged disorderly
conduct. 1t will serve as stay OF
their sentences pending appeal
Arturo Giovanitti, who was acquit-
ted in Lawrence, Mass, of charges
that resulted from the textile strike
riots in that city, is here.
Almost Immediately upon his arri-
val last night riot broke out in front
of the Hall mill, ON Fulton street.
Seventy-five policemen charged a
crowd of 1000 strikers, dispersed them
and arrested eighty-six.
Undaunted, the [. w. w. leaders
stationed a great number of pickets
at the mill early today. The police
arrested fifty-six, one after another.
AS soon as one man was made pris-
oner, another took his place.
/ The police finally desisted in maxi
| ing arrests. because the jail is already
crowded with twice its capacity
Troops Not Needed,
/ Mayor Mcbride this afternoon told
| the Evening Star correspondent that
he saw no necessity for calling on
/ Acting Governor Fielder for troops
1--WE have the situation well in
hand" he said