Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-18
Reign Of Terror Is on
After Series of Fu-
nous Outbursts of
Mob Passion.
CARS STONED, WOMEN
ATTACKED BY RIOTERS
School Strike Is off, but 5000
Children viii Be Led from
Town TO Escape Threatened
Harm.
TFrom a stan Correspondence

TFrOm n stan Correspondence
PATERSON, N. j., April 1s.--As
the result of the sudden. ferocious
outbreak of rioting among the strik-
ing silk workers, this city is today
In the midst of reign of terror.
Fights between millhands detec-
tives and the police We're of almost
hourly occurrence. Two men, one an
innocent bystander, have been fatally
injured in the battles and score of
others hurt
A trolley car in Ohio avenue was
stoned by a mob this morning. Wom-
en- tainted and men passengers
orouched in the aisle as volleys of
rocks spintered the windows. The
motorman put on full speed and ran
out of the danger zone.
The mill owners fear dynamite. Two
women relatives of wealthy opera
tors have narrowly escaped death at
the hands of infuriated millhands.
To clear the field for the last des-
perate stages of their struggle, the
strikers will send 5000 children to
New York, starting next Wednesday,
This is done with the avowed inten-
tion of keeping them from starva-
ton Miss Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
and big Bill Haywood will have
charge of the arrangements. Similar
action was taken by the /. w. w.
leaders when the Lawrence, Mass,
strike was at its height.
The first blood of the strike was
drawn. it is alleged, by Joseph Gull
1erton, of 16 State street, Newark,
private detective. He and another
detective, Edward Dwyer, of 556
South Tenth street, Newark, will be
arraigned before Recorder Carroll
this afternoon for firing into mob
of strikers.
@-,sf Priming the Riot Guns.
The strike has reached Crisis.
There is an ominous certainty here
that the city will witness other
scenes like those of 1902, when
pitched battles were fought in the
streets and the police did deadly exc
cution with riot guns. Those
weapons, so long unused, are being
overhauled and oiled today.
After eight weeks of quietness un-
parallel in any similar labor war, the
outbreak of general rioting was
ushered in by desperate fight be-
tween 500 millhands, police and pri-
vate detectives at the Wiedmann's
silk Dyeing Company's plant, in
Fifth avenue.
Gee man, shot through the back
ir2that riot, is dying in the General
Hospital. Another, who was strudk
on the head with a stone, has frac-
tured skull and is in a serious con-
dition.
In fear of dynamite the mill-own-
ers have surrounded their homes, as
well as their factories with detec-
tives.
Not only the wealthy operators but
their wives and daughters are men
aced by the strikers. Miss Laura
Green, who had been visiting her
fathers plant, was set upon in the
street by a mob of women. She was
nearly stripped of her clothing,
knocked down, kicked and dragged
about by the hair. Almost uncon-
scious she was rescued by police re-
serves and taken home, where she is
under the care of a physician.
Mrs. Samuel Kaufman, whose
husband has a dyeing plant, was
another woman who received rough
handling before detectives went to
her aid
Fifty strikers I'm Cells.
The police station is packed with
prisoners. There are more than fifty
men and women in the cells
The aldermanic attempt to bring
about arbitration was formally
abandoned last night when Samuel
McCullum, president of the Manufac-
turers Association, sent court
notification that the mill owners
would have absolutely notA-ns 20 do
with Haywood and the l. w. w.
Rose Savasta- :, a girl striker, was
fined S. today by Recorder Carroll
She was the leader of numper of
pickets, who beat a woman at the
Phoenix mills
Antonio Ferrero boy, who tried
to induce the pupils of Public School
No. ? to go on strike, was arraigned.
His case was the first to come before
the authorities in the proposed school
strike of "Big Bill'' Haywood.
Recorder Carroll scored the ooys
parents roundly and said he would
s fine the father $40 a day for every
day the boy is out Of school, start
ing tomorrow.
The riot at the Weldmann dye
works last night centered about
Dwyer and Collerton, two detectives
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