New-York tribune., 1913-05-20
1000 Strikers Riot and Fight
1cc0 Policemen to Keep
W0uId-Be Workers Out
of Price silk Mill.
TODAY SENTENCES GIVEN
Many Hurt in Battle with Re-
volvers and Clubs at Close
Range-Haywood and Other
I. w. w. Heads Say They'll
Have Victory at Any Cost.
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Paterson. y. j., May 1o.-One police
man was ten. a silk striker was
dubbed into unconscousness and six
ty-eight men and seventeen women
and girls trikers were arrested here
to-day and sent to Jail for ten days as
a result of one attempt to break the
grip Of the Industrial Workers Of the
World i'm Paterson.
Twenty-Five non-union broad SILK
weavers brought about the riot when
they went back to work for the Ar
thur Price silk Company on the guar
antee that all the I. W. w. demands
would be .ranted, l. g., an eight-hour
day. n 10 per cent increase In pay
and the abolition Of the three and four
loom system.
More than two thousand ]. w. w.
striker swarmed TO the mill to stop
the workers from going inside Chief
Bimson and one hundred policemen
surrounded the mill. The strikers
ieered the bluecoats and dared them
10 stop the picketing. Captain Nc
Bride threw his men on the crowd
dozen time and at every onslaught
~. policem used their clubs.
Patrolman Zimlinghaus was caught
in a fusillade OF sticks and stones ana
came out Of 1t with battered ear
black eve and many laceratons Lou
is Soleran. a striker, resisted arrest
and was dubbed by Patrolman Done
pan until he became unconscious.
Bite and Use Knives.
One of the striker who tried TO
rescue Soleran whipped out knife
and made a lunge at Patrolman Done
gan. The weapon caught his uniform
on the shoulder and cut siit severai
inches long. Patrolman Mcdonald was
.h,,ten on the wrist by an Italian wom-
an.
When II began to look az If nothing
but a displ Of firearms would scat
ter the mob reinforcements OF ponce
arrived from the Stern & Pohiy MILL
where trouble had been expected. I'M
medIately police patrol wagons ana
onbulances began 10 race through
,he main thoroughfares OF the city.
and the injured and arro ed were re-
moved. Meanwhile the weavers IN the
Price mill wer safely at work
T, ,,.as the worst conflict between the
noI,ce and strikers that has taken place
since the strike began last FEBRUARY
THO Industrial Workers of the World
aoi,a,ors headed by william ID. Hay
wood went to their headquarters IN
ueIvetia Hall. They denounced the
Price weavers as "scabs' and the po-
,ico 40 "the scum OF the EARTH" The
speeches we're more vitriolic than any
heretofore made here.
Frederick Sumner Boyd, the English
soc,al,st who has had charge Of taking
the Paterson children TO New YORK.
shouted that the Industrial Workers OF
the World would cut the electric light
wires I'd plunge Paterson into dark
ness IL the employees Of the Edison
Electric Company would not walk out.
Meanwhile hundreds of infiamed
strikers were listening to fiery dennn-
ciations of the authorities in Turn
Hall Sidney Turner. official stenogrd-
nher for County Prosecutor Dunn. sat
Tn y corner at the rear OF the hall tax
Inc notes Half dozen detectives sur
rounded him. Ewald Kottgen. local
Industrial Workers of the World or
panizer. roaming around the hall, ga"
Turner. He went to the stage and
u,bisnered to an Italian speaker. The
sneaker said something to the audience
In Italian. Threats were made to
throw the stenographer and the detec-
tIyes into the street.
oueIled by RevoIvers.
Adolph Lessig, the indicted local or
panizer. made his way to the detec-
tives and told them that the crowd was
eating beyond control. and II they
wanted to avoid trouble they had bet
for get out. The detectives drew their
The sight Of the guns
ouelled the threats, but the crowd Kept
teering for half an hour.
when the meeting was adjourned