Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-27
STRIKERS MAKE
DEATH THREATS
TO MILL OWNERS
Police Believe New York Gum
men Have Been Imported
to Create Violence.
HUNDREDS SEE POLICE
AND PICKET IN BATTLE
Courts Flooded With Cases of
Brutal Assaults Due to
81 Labor War.
tFrom a Stan cOrrespOndent)


PATERSON, N. j.. May a.
Threats of death against the mill
owners today heightened the panic
caused throughout the city by the
renewal of strike rioting.
: One notice, boldly tackled upon
! telegraph pole, at Lafayette and
: River street. read:
"Aaronsohn is trying to force
us back to the four loom. He
must be killed
The police are certain that the
strikers have been importing gun
men for the express purpose of car
rying on night campaigns of violence.
+ Accordingly, as soon as the Aaron
sohn notice was discovered this morn
ing, Chief of Police Bimson ordered
a large staff of policemen into plain
clothes and sent them out to patrol
the residential districts.
Alleged Gangsters Arrested.
Four men, thought to be New
York gangsters, were rounded up
within two hours. They were taken
TO police headquarters to be put
through grilling.
There are three Aaronsohn brothers
sin Paterson, Samuel j., Barney and
Harry. All of them are big silk man
ufacturers. They are said to have
hired private detectives to act as per-
sonal bodyguards and to guard their
homes.
The $4,000 strikers, although the
strike is beginning its fourteenth
week, are standing solidly together.
There was nothing for the pickets to
do today. for practically no workers
attempted to enter the mills.
One of the most spectacular fights
sof the strike took place this morning
in full view of hundreds of commu-
ters at the Erie station.
Martin Mazi, who was doing picket
duty at the Frank & Dugan mill, near
the railroad, was ordered to move on
by Patrolman O'Brien, a big, husky
ssix-footer.
mot for you, you big stiff" said
Mazi. Run along. like nice little
boy. before | shove your face in"
you can't get away with that TO
an Irishmant" roared O'Brien. Put
your hands np!"
O'Brien could fight, and he knew 1t.
the beginning of the first round. But
Mazi was a bit too quick. He sent
one to the cops jaw that all but
ended the fight.
After a minute of GREATNESS bat
thing, O'Brien knocked Mazi down.
The striker was up in the blink of
an eyelash. They fought for five
minutes The policeman gradually
tired his opponent and finally
Knocked him out. Then he arrested
him. amid the cheering of the New
York business men who had watched
che battle.
Arthur M. McNabb, of 1874 South
Tenth street, Newark, draughts-
man at the Weidman SILK Dyeing
: Company's plant, who was badly
beaten up by strikers. who tore him
off his motorcycle, appeared before
Recorder Carroll today and identified
Russano Marzarro as one of the men
! who had assaulted him. Marzarro
was held in $1,000 bail for the grand
fury.
Night Rioters Held Under Bail.
Seyino Gruno, of lis North Tenth
street, and William Van Endt. of 2s4
North Ninth street, who were in
volved in riot last night at the
zAarohnson Brothers Silk Company's
plant in Cliff street, were also held in
I s., 900 bail.
Together with seven other pickets
and woman, they were on duty last
might when Patrolmen Nathaniel
Love and Thomas Stapleton, in plain
clothes, appeared in Marion street,
escorting three workers home
The pickets took the police for hired
guards. They rushed upon them.
Love went down in the first rush.
His coat was ripped off, and the
woman picket goughed his face with
her f1ngernails.
Stapleton, lighting for his life, man
tagged to draw his revolver. He fired
and one of the strikers apparently
witfr<a bullet in the ankle, hobbled
away into an alley.
The reserves arrived just in time
to save the policemen, both of whom
were badly beaten.
Wilson B. Killingbeck, State secre-
tary of the Socialist party. an
nounced today that he had made ar
rangements to have Mother Jones,
the heroic strike leader of the West
Virginia miners, speak in local hall
fovuorrovv night