Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-26
BOMB SKATERS
BOSS SILK DYER'S
HOME; HE LAUGHS
Family, HURLED Out of SIum-
Der, Regard 1t a Funny
Joke.
IspeciaI to the Newark star.I


PATERSON, N. J.. June 26.-A
bomb explosion early today imperiled
the lives of Adolph Fretschie, boss
silk dyer. his wife. son and three
daughters:
The deadly missile was hurled
through a cellar window in the
Fretschie home, 1879 East Eighteenth
street. It exploded with terrific de-
tonation.
The family. asleep in bedrooms di-
rectly above, escaped only because
the force of the explosion was down
and outwards rather than upwards.
The rear cellar wall was blown out
and hole was ripped in the yard. A
preserve cupboard was shattered to
splinters and the wreckage was coat
ed with splintered glass and jam.
The neighborhood was rocked for
blocks. Sergeant Sautter sent Detec-
tive Close and Reserveman McNa-
mara to find out what had happened.
They discovered Fretschie and his
wife, surrounded by their daughters
and their son, Gustave, jr., surveying
the havoc wrought by the bomb and
laughing over it.
It's a wonder vol -eren't all
killed." said the amazed Close.
Regard 1t as a Joke.
The family persisted in regarding it
as a joke.
Il thought I'd had a nightmare, :"
said one of the girls. "but I found
myself on the floor and heard Mary
calling to see If was all right
Liam Farine. OF 12s Grant avenue,
Totowa borough, was arrested by
Special Policeman Mcdonald and
held on a charge of disorderly con-
duct pending an investigation to dis
cover if he knew anything about the
| bomb. He was found lettering in the
neighborhood.
The police believe that the bomb
was made with dynamite stolen from
the Sowerbutt quarry magazine some
time last week.
Frederick Sumner Boyd, a Socialist
newspaper man and l. w. w. leader,
is still in jail, unable to furnish $4,000
bail. The two indictments charging
him with melting the workers to use
methods of sabotage, are based on
the following passages from a speech
alleged to have been made by him
in Turn Hall early in the strike:
His Sabotage Speech.
Workers, when you go back into
| the mills, If there are any scabs
when you 60 in, let them know that
they can't stay in the Paterson silk
mills. You can't put them out by the
scrap of the neck or put your toe to
them, because that would be assault
and battery. That would be riot
or something equally as bad. Use
no physical force, But do with them
what they are trying to do with you,
! starye them out Now, how?
Fellow Worker Tresca told you in
Italian, now l will tell you in Eng
fish. You take, for instance, you
weavers, you take a cloth soaked in
vinegar and with that cloth you rub
| the reeds of the scab loom, and in a
very short time that scab will have
| to stand up until the loom Is re-
paired So that it will work. He will
| be earning no money during that
| time If that should not fix him
then take a piece of sand paper and
rub the spindle of silk; you can give
| il two or three rubs and then all its
| threads will break on him and there
| he is, down and out and can earn
| no money, and you can starve him
out in that way If you find one of
these sca.bs out in the dye house you
can put some rhodamine into the dye
| box. There are all these things you
can do. and If this is the only way
of getting rid of the scabs, then do
that.
IF you lose this strike outside of
the mill things that worried the mill
owners in Lawrence, and one of them
is what we call sabotage. Sabotage
means taking away the bosses profit.
Down in Lawrence when the weavers
are weaving a piece of cloth they
put a kink in the yard and then it
goes to the finisher and through the
inspectors and finds its way into the
retail stores and into the hands of
the consumers, and when the con-
sumner begins to cut it. it all crinkles
UP. You can't use 1t or sell 1t, and
the bosses in Lawrence are getting
tons upon tons of that cloth every
week. and what you can do with
wool and cotton you can do with
silk. and if the boss thinks he can
starve you into submission, disap-
point him. and when you go into the
mills put kink into the warp and fix
a little something up in the dye box.
and nobody knows anything about it
except you, and the boss will find it
out when he figures out the profit
and loss. and he will find that he has