The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-05-27
| W. W Member Nabbed
by Paterson Police,
STRIKERS REFUSE TO RETURN
Clereymen Attend Great Mass Meeting
Of Citizens, Who DepIore Violent
Methods, While Industrial Work
ers Assemble on Outskirts
of the City.

Paterson. N j.. May 26.-After he
was relieved of loaded revolver, a
long club, which he had carried hidden
in his sleeve, and a loaded shotgun
shell Joseph Arello, member of the
Industrial Workers of the World, was
arraigned before Recorder Carroll In
Paterson, n. j., and held for court
without bail on charge of carrying
concealed weapons.
The police of Paterson declare that
when arrested Arello asserted that "he
intended to blow up the Weidmann
dye shop and kill all the strike break
ers sleeping there" If that was his
intention he had nothing in his posses
sion with which to blow the mill up,
but the police We're sufficiently i'm
pressed by his statements to make a
search for any hidden explosive In the
vicinity.
Arello was lettering in the vicinity
of the Weidmann dye shop when ar
rested. 1t is reported that several
hundred men are working in the Weld
mann mill. Policeman Thomas Fitz-
simmons placed him under arrest, and
when he was taken before Sergeant
Perry at the police station the police
say they found a loaded revolver and
shotgun shell in his pockets and long
club tucked in one of the sleeves of his
coat. He carried membership card
of the Industrial Workers.
While the Industrial Workers held
their regular meeting in Haledon yes
terday afternoon with 10000 persons
present there was huge mass meeting
of law abiding persons in the Fifth
regiment armory to show the strength
of the religious sentiment in Paterson
opposed to the lawlessness displayed
in the strike. w. D. Haywood, Eliza
beth Gurley Flynn, Carlo Tresca and
Patrick Quinlan addressed the meeting
of the Industrial Workers.
Great Citizens Meeting.
The armory in which the mass meet
ing of citizens was held holds $4,000
persons, and there was a great gather
ing there. The Rev. David Stuart
Hamilton of Mayor McBride's peace
conference presided and the speakers
included the Rev. Winfield G. Snod-
grass of the Market Street Methodist
Episcopal church, the Rev. B. Garfield,
pastor of the Church of the Redeemer,
Presbyterian; the Rev. Father A. Ell.
Stein of the Catholic church of Our
Lady of Lourdes and the Rev. Clarence
e. Mccartney of the First Presbyterian
church.
The Rev. Father Dean McNulty, the
oldest Catholic priest in the Paterson
district, who wields a great influence.
was also present and spoke briefly.
The speakers protested against the
outbreaks and rioting which have ta-
ken place in Paterson throughout the
strike and endeavored TO show that the
great mass of the Christian community
is for law and order.
Hopes that the end of the strike was
III sight, which were entertained by
the business men of Paterson, have
been shattered by the announcement
of the shop committee, representing
1000 silk workers in half a dozen
mills that these workers do not intend
to return to work as mad been reported
Far From Settlement.
Coupled with he solid vote to re-
main on strike until their demands
Were granted. taken by 600 dyers at a
meeting IN Trrn hall. the news of the
upcomprnmisiug stand assumed by the
silk workers. independent of the dyers,
was received by the manufacturers
with no little uDeasincss. The situa-
tjnr as II now stands seems to be
absolutely devoid Of nope of early set
tlemept Of the strike, and the deadlock
apparently is as firm as il ever was
IN the last three months
The mill owners announced thas they
would treat ~" peace with their own
employees. but they would not recede
from their original stand. which was
that they would refuse to consider the
strikers as members of the Industrial
Workers of the World. The strikers
are reluctant o accept this ultimatum.