Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-19
CHANCE REVEALS
TO SILK STRIKERS
EMPLOYERS PLOT
Calls for Use of 500 Deputies
as FIRST Step in Crush
'ng Movement.
PROVIDES FOR MEANS TO
END STRIKE BY DISCREDlT
Paper Dropping from Mill
Owners Pocket Outlines
Campaign Plans.

Especial 10 rnC NGHHEk SeaAtA
PATERSON, N. J., June 19.-An ex-
pose of the secret campaign plan OF
the Manufacturers Association today
! aroused the $4,000 silk strikers to a
pitch of indignation greater than at
any time since they stopped work
seventeen weeks ago.
Chance aided in the unearthing of
& the mill owners scheme of action.
f According to Adolph Lessig. one OF
4 the leaders of the Industrial Work
ers of the World, a weaver brought
him a paper which he had picked up
after it had dropped out of the pocket
of a manufacturer.
Lessig found that it contained, in
eight numbered paragraphs, de-
tailed plan of procedure to break the
strike. It was proposed to discredit
the l. w. W.. play the employees OF
one mill against another and infiu-
ence the local newspapers 1t was
taken for granted that the mayor and
sheriff could be influenced to give 500
special deputies for guards, and in
addition to prohibit all strike meet
ings except those authorized by the
employers Association.
barred from Every Hall In City.
This last part of the scheme has
already gone into effect, for the strik-
Prs are barred from meeting in any
hall in the city, although certain
meetings of shop employees, such as
are described in the outlined cam
paign plan, are permitted every day.
According to the strike leaders, the
manufacturers have also been sue
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newspapers-so much so that when
Gustav A. Hunziker and Henry Ma
relli wished to obtain a panel OF out
of-town veniremen in the strike cases
all they had to do was to produce be-
fore Supreme Court Justice Minturn
clippings from the papers to show
that an unprejudiced jury could not
be obtained in Paterson.
= Ff1esplan of the mill owners. as set
down in the outline the I. w. w. has
hnearthed, was briefly this;
Each manufacturer and dyer was
tn arrange a conference with group
of his employees. explain to them
that the strike had been started by
agitators who wanted to collect the
initiation fees" give them to under
stand that every mill in the city
would have some of the help return
and assure them that any grew
~nces existing will be given fair
hearing and proper consideration ar
Ter thew have returned to work.
5oo Deuuties to Put Plan Into Effect.
"In order to accomplish this the
document went on, I'VE viii ask the
sheriff through the mayor to swear
in 500 special deputies to stop, as far
as possible pickets interfering with
the workers and also stop them from
assembling in mass
This was the seventh paragraph OF
the arrangement:
"The newspapers shall be asked to
co-operate with us in furthering TINS
nlan and give out favorable notices
regarding it, This is important, and
all influence should be brought 10 pear
in this direction by emphasizing the
fact that Paterson is in danger OF los
ing its principal industry and that II
has already lost its prestige Also
that this strike is being run by PAID
aeitators, who don't care how lone
the strike lasts. as they are getting
their pay. while the city's trade Is
paralyzed, etc
When Lessig read the paper to 9
crowd of strikers at a vacant lo'
meeting in Water street last night II
was listened to with "boos' ano
eroans. Later, he scored the du-
plicity of the manufacturers, who, ne
said, had the backing of the National
Employers Associa tion and were will
ing to go any lengths to win the
strike. He asserted that both the en-
ployers and the I. w. W. regarded
the strike as decisive, since victory
for either side would affect not only
the silk industry, but the status OF
+ba w w. everywhere.