Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-22
RIOTS TO FOLLOW
IF STR|KEBREAKERS
SHOW |NPATERSON
800 OF Them Are in Hiding
Awaiting Call of Man
ufaCturers.
SMUGGLED IN WHILE
STRIKERS WERE OFF GUARD
Row Between |. w. w. and A.
F. of |. Gives Additional
Cause for Alarm.

PATTERSON, N. j., April 22.-The
importation of 800 strike-breakers,
who were smuggled in secretly from
New York city. today gave sinister
turn to the silk strike.
Big Bill" Haywood and his aides,
exultant in having routed the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, Immediately
turned their undivided attention to
the problem of combating the inva-
sion of scab labor
Pickets by the hundreds were rushed
out to the railroad stations and ear
lines. aid the force of strikers patroll-
ing the mill section was doubled.
The appearance of a single outside
ike-breaker On the streets Will be
the signal for instant battle. Even
the police admit the gravity of the
situation.
So far secrecy has marked the plans
of the manufactur srs. During the
riotous scenes in the Armory last
night reports were filtering into strike
headquarters and the police station
that the vanguard Of strike-breakers,
300 strong, would be brought by train
to Passaic at O'Clock this morning
and brought under a heavy guard OF
private detectives to this city.
But the plan was far craftier than
that. While $1,000 strikers stormed
the A. F.. of L. meeting in the ar
mory and the interest of the entire
citv was centred in the one spot, the
strike breakers are said to aaVe
quietly detrained at one of the
smaller stations of the Erie near this
CITY. They were hustled away to the
few mills still making a pretense OF
operation and lodged in rooms has
tily fitted up in the factory buildings
There, under the rifles of private de-
tectives, Trey will be comparatively
secure until the end Of the strike, pro-
yided they never show themselves
outside the grounds.
II never dawned on either the A.
r. of J. leaders or the orgaalzers
of the Industrial Workers OF the
World that while they were waxing
o riotous battle between themselves
in the arrnory the mill owners were
strengthening their own defenses so
effectively.
Cops Charge strikers.
The two hours tumultous demon.
straticn az the great Fifth Regime mt
armoIy, where the A. f of l.. had IN
tended to hold a reconciliation meet
ing, was ended only by a hying
wedge of fifty-five policemen. BY
charging repeatedly the hooting, veil
ing crowd of 10000 men and women
they finally cleared the huge audi
torium.
Then the enormous assemhiaSe,
augmented pv thousands who had
been unable > get into the nal,
marched off III triumph, defyine the
police, waving red flags and chserlng
the l. w. w They left no doubt IN
tho minds of Patersonians that they
were lined no solidly with "Big Bill
Haywood.
The Fifth regiment armory, where
the A. F. of l.. meeting was held, is
one of the largest in the State. 1t
covers square block and is bal
conied. There were no chairs ex-
oept on the temporary platform.
John Golden, president OF the
United Textile Workers, was the
principal figure. Mrs. Sarah Conboy,
an organizer: Stephen Mcdonald,
president of the central body of the
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