New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-19
Price Silk Mill Reopens To-day,
and the |. w. w. Will Make
a Desperate Move to
Stave OF Defeat.
RIOT PLOTS UNDISGUISED
Strikers, Infamed by Oratory,
Vow Violence in Any Form to
Win Vital Clash-Tresca
Eludes Police, and the
Flag Is Assailed.
fRy Telegraph to The Tribune. !

4 hN'i sun d., MAY 10 Nv II iSAo
Of the silk strike will come tomorrow
morning. when the Price broad silk
, mill will open its gates to the workers
with every demand made by the Indus
trial Workers of the World granted.
II the strikers go back more small mills
will start up. and the longest strike OF
single industry on record will he
broken. with the advantage on the mill
owners side. The Industrial Workers
Of the World agitators admit this.
Al a mass meeting in Haledon this
afternoon seven speakers implored the
strikers. especially the English speak
ing weavers and dyers. 10 get out carly
on the picket line in front Of the Price
mill and the Stern e. Pohl mill aud
keep the workers from going in.
They told the strikers that the man
ufacturers we're trying 10 work he
same game" they worked eleven years
ago, when they broke silk strike by
reopening the small mills with all de-
mands conceded after which the bis
mills filled orders through the smaller
ones and then they all eventually went
back 10 the old terms Of labor.
Riots Expected To-day.
All signs point TO riotous scenes
around the two mills in the morning.
chief Bimson will rcdouble police pro-
lection at these strategic points. The
strikers nfamed by the oratory of the
Industrial Workers of the World agl
tators this afternoon. are reported TO
he prepared TO resort To violence Of
any form To keep the fifty or more em-
ploycs of the Price mills from going TO
work.
The workers of tho Stern q Pohli
mill voted yesterday 10 go back TO
work. but Ewald koettgen. the local
Industrial Workers Of the World or
sanlzer, appealed TO them in Turn Hall
and they rescinded their action.
The meeting this afternoon was the
largest Of the strike. Fully 1000
strikers and sympathzers were there.
Boys and girls sold pictures of Carlo
Tresca. the Italian agitator. and Eliza
beth Gurley Flynn and Patrick Quin
Ian. the convicted I. ". W. organizer.
passed the hat. Altogether they raised
about $40.
While Tresca was speaking. half a
dozen Italian detectives employed by
Prosecutor Dunn, Of Passaic County,
we're waiting on the edge OF the crowd
with warrant for the Italians arrest
for unlawful assembly" Tresca, how
over. eluded them and was whisked off
10 New York in an automobile.
Not word was mentioned this after
noon about the l. w. W. plan to put
the city in darkness by calling out the
electric and gas light workers. Adolph
Lessig. the local agitator who voiced
the idea at a protest meeting on
Lafayette oval last Thursday. wasn't
I'm evidence to-day.
Big Bill" Haywood was at to-days
meeting. He read a synopsis Of the
strikers play" that he says he plans
10 stage i'm New York soon. The act
ors. he said. will be strikers and their
children. and six scenes Will he ar
ranged TO depict all the critical events
If the big strike. including the burial
of Modestino Valentino file maker,
who was accidentally shot.
FIaa mot Fit to Eat"
Fred Mohl. of New York, started the
Speaking at Haledon. He said the
American flag might he pretty enough,
but he vowed 1t was mot fit 10 cat
and never was any comfort to a starv
Ing man. He said ii waved for years
over human slavery and would, he pre-
dicted. wave for some time over IN
dustrial white slavery AS for the
great resources Of the country, they
were 'in hook al the offices Of the in
ternational pawnbroker firm Of Rocke-
feller & Morgan
Patrick Quinlan was hailed with
great acclaim. He said he wanted TO
take back what he had said about
Judge Klenert, the trial judge in his
case. when he declared all the county
officials were the ''rottenest he had
ever known" Quinlan said Judge
I<lenert's rulings were unfair but his
charge was very impartial.
Miss Flynn said the National AS
sociation OF Manufacturers stood be-
hind the Paterson silk men in their op-
position to the eight-hour day. The
fear OF a nationwide demand for the
eight hour day by the workers in all
the unorganized industries prompted
their antagonism to the Industrial
Workers Of the World. she said.
The presence of the detectives wait
ing to arrest Tresca caused Miss Flynn
TO pay her respects to spies. They
will die so.ne day just as Benedict Ar
mold did unnonored and despised." she
said Paterson has put itself back in
the days Of the Inqulsition."
HAYWOOD said the Industrial Work
ers OF the World would carry the evil
dence in the Quinlan case TO the United
States Senate TO protect the constitu-
tional rights OF the convicted man, and |
thus prevent him from being rail |
roaded" to the Trenton prison. This. |
he said would turn the white search |
light Of the federal government on the |
mills where the blood OF the workers |
dyed the silks that they might adorn |
the backs Of aristocratic women"