Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-03
PATERSON FACES
STRIKE RIOT AND
REIGN OF TERROR
Mass-Meeting Is Held at Hale
don, a Suburb, and Police
Forces Gather.
REPETITION OF CARNAGE
OF 1902 is NOW DREADED
General Strike Purpose of
Meeting of Men InfIaned
by Haywood Arrest.
Especial to the Newark star.I

PATERSON, N. j., April 3.-The
silk strike took on an aspect of open
warfare this afternoon.
Thousands of operatives gathered
in Haledon, a suburb adjoining this
city, for a gigantic mass-meeting, at
which plans for a general strike are
to be formulated.
The police are massing reserves
along the boundary line on Belmont
avenue, Haledon avenue and Ham
burg avenue in expectation that the
army of strikers may attempt to
march en- masse from their meeting
place. In case they do a pitched
battle is inevitable.
1t is feared that today's mass
meeting will be counterpart of the
one that ushered in the reign of ter
ror in 1902.
At that time there was gathering
of strikers at Haledon called for the
same purpose Inflamed by the
speeches of their leaders the strikers
mill to another, closing them by
force. The roting that followed
stained the streets with blood
Police VIII Contest Entry.
If such an attempt is made this
afternoon the police will entrench
themselves on the boundaries of the
city and contest the strikers entry.
The |. w. w. leaders expect at least
10000 men to attend the meeting, and
they might be able to overwhelm the
reserves by sheer weight of numbers.
Nothing has inflamed the strikers so
much as the falling of William d.
Haywood, He said, in discussing his
sentence
IF | could manage to get arrested
six times a year on such trumped up
charges as this one the /. w w.
would take on hundred thousand
members q year"
The authorities of Paterson are dis
appointed because the arrests of Hay
wood and Lessg have not weakened
the determination of the strikers. The
strike is now in its sixth week, with
both sides deadlocked and no prospect
OF settlement in sight.
Haywood. in his cell, has turned
conservative He denounced the in
fiammatory utterances of Fred S.
Boyd, who told the strikers last night
that the stars in the American flag
represent 'policemen's Shields" and
the stripes stand for the bars of the
prison CELL"
The bipartisan board of police COM
missioners. one of whom is a mill
owner, stands pat on the decision of
Recorder Carroll, their appointee, who
sentenced Haywood and Lessg to six
months at hard labor for permitting
strikers to gather on the baseball
park last Sunday. They believe that
Recorder Carroll's sentence and the
$1,000 bail We're not excessive
Haywood promised Chief of Police
Bimson that he would not call
meeting in the park Sunday after
noon" said Thomas f. Morgan, chair
man of the police commissioners, to-
day. "He deliberately broke his
promise. Several hundred I. w. w.
strikers were there ready to listen to
the speeches.
'Chief Bimson broke up the meet
ing, and Haywood started for Hale
don. and by the time the crowd
reached the outskirts of the city there
were more than two thousand of
them, blocking the streets and acting
in disorderly manner.
Says Chief Was Too Lenient.
"Some have criticised Chief Bimson
because he did not arrest Haywood
long before he did. The strike leader
had given vent to infiammatory re-
marks and had conducted himself in
most exasperating manner The ar
rest Sunday was the elimination of
series of outbreaks of lawlessness
and disorder on his part"
Commissioner Morgan said the mer-
chants and many of the mill owners
recognized justice in some of the de-
mands of the strikers. The only
reason why the owners would not
confer with the strikers was because
they were determined not to recognize
Haywood and the ]. w. W. leaders.
Fully half of those on strike, he said,
had been intimidated by the sgita-
tors