Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-24
SILK Strikers
/ RANKS Trimmed
/ BY DESERT|ONS
Two Thousand Weavers Aban-
don Long Fight and Return
TO Mills.

Especial TO the Newark start
PATERSON, N. J., May 24.--Aftef
a week Of reverses the silk strike
leaders today face wholesale deser-
tons from their standards.
tn The whole edifice that the Indus
aAsrial Workers of the World have
S erected here has been set lettering by
1Ae successive blows delivered by the
police and county authorities.
The latest one is the action of the
Passaic county grand jury in inter
dieting further fiery speeches by the
L w w. agitators. Indictments were
found against Thomas Cappa and
James Cangianelli. the proprietors OF
Turn Hail. charging them with main
tanning a disorderly house. They were
arrested and released in $500 bail each
Warns Haiedon Mayor.
Mayor William Brueckmann, OF
HaIedon, a suburb in which the strik-
ers have been meeting since the po-
lice closed the local halls against
them, was told by the grand Jurors
that he must not permit rahid
speeches to be made in his jurisdie-
ton.
The grand jury's action is the most
serious blow the strikers could re-
eeive, for it shows a disposition to
awe every person whose influence or
activity encourages the $4,000 persons
on strike. With the law arrayed
against them the strikers are losing
hope
The next few days will no doubt
tell the tale. The I. W. w. leaders
realize that to be defeated in Pater-
3 son will tend to destroy the organi-
cation in the East, and they will I'M
doubtedly make their hardest fight
4 now to reclaim what Is quickly laps
ing into a lost cause.
Is There will be a meeting in Haledon
tomorrow and nothing will be left
& undone to hold the strikers together.
& A technicality will prevent the
calling of the strike leaders cases on
Monday. The members of the panel
of jurors from Hudson county have
s to receive six days notice of their
q drawing.
1000 Viewers Desert.
Two thousand weavers have decid-
ed to return to work on the old
terms, and the manufacturers believe
that this detection from the ranks of
sthe q, 900 strikers will cause the gen.
AeraI breaking up of the labor war
which has now been bitterly waged
for nearly four months. The strikers
who are planning TO go back to work
are employees of Nigel & Blum, En-
pire Silk Company, Dexter & Lam
bert, Katterman & Mitchell, Doherty
& wadsworth and Westerhoff Bros.
e Napier. OF the employees of these
mills so per cent. are Americans.
At a meeting of the striking silk
workers in Liberty Hall. in West Ho-
boken. last night. Elizabeth Gurley
Flynn bitterly assailed Mayor Witt
penn. of Jersey City. for his interior
ence with the strikers.
THE mayor" said Miss Flynn. lis
Just now extra Jealous, as he is a
candidate for Governor and is play
ing politics. We don't want him or
his police here to settle this strike,
and the sooner he finds that out the
better for him and his police. They
are likely to get hurt"
The speaker praised Governor Field
er for not sending troops to Wharton,
Mount Hope and Paterson, though,
che added that perhaps the troops
might have been OF assistance in
Paterson, as they could have guard
ed the strikers from the attacks of
the police