The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-03
Pathetic Scene Attends Upon Burial Of Little One Whose Death Fol= lowed Arrest Of Mother
 After Strike Riot
Shelton Mill Strikers Repudiate Pri= soner Convicted Of Throwing Stones At Blumenthal
 Plant

That calm which betoken deep grief and the sorrow accompanying death pervaded the strike zone at Shelton, today, as with solemn tread and bowed heads a cortege of poor ly clad, yet zeaIous strikers, marched over the roads from Shelton, through Derby and into Ansonia where the body of the little Komick child was laid at rest.
 It was a solemn, yet striking caval- hcade which unexpectedly assembled in tribute to a mothers grief and loss, at the Cement House'', after the reg ular meeting of the I. W. w., in So- kol Hall In fact the assemb1age of such a host of sympathizers as gath cred around the house prior to the long march over the frozen roads which crunched under the tread of three hundred determined men and women, brought the local police, dep- uties and guards under the command of Chief of Police Robbins, upon the run from the court room.
 Therew demonstration, how ever, and the guards stood in. small groups at a respectful distance as the Little white cloth caSket was borne from the house,gwhiIe the closely packed strikers barred their heads iH respect to the -dead d. ssss.s,-
 Without either the red emblend Of
 
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 Directly following the cross came the little white casket containing the Komick child, born tenderly in the I,-, Tito, Easy Kaslo and Peter zanovik. Led by Miss Cath crime JaboIwski and Miss Matilda Rabinowitz, in column of two, between 150 and 200 women followed. A second division was made up of almost an equal numb CT of men, terminating with a coach bearing the bereaved father and consoling friend Bowed down by grief at the death, and still tenderly nursing the other sick child, who was today pronounced as possibly out of danger, the mother was unable to at- tend.
 In passing from the Cement house. a over the crest of the Shelton hill and directly parallel with the Shelton Mills, many faces of operators at work in other departments were seen at the windows paying silent testi- mony of their heartfelt sympathy at the death which brings sorrow to the community.
 
 mo1ested. Unexpected es it was, there were few in Derby and Ansonfa to greet it's coming with such sexpres- sions as in less well regulated centers, might have caused trouble.
 The course Of the cortege was up Fourth street hill in Shelton, through Howe street, thence across to Derbys up Olivia. street, Elizabeth street, At wate ravenue, Clifton street to An sonia: through Howard avenue, to May street, to bridge and into ths Ansonia. Greek church where Catholic services were rendered by F,r. Daniel ovitz Thence to the cemetery. The return to Shelton was uneventful. An early meeting of the I. w. w. at Solool hall was addressed by Miss Rabin nowitz. It was announced that Peter Ko1niclx the second child to be taken i'll through exposure, was irn- proving and thought to be out of dan ger. Arran cement for two meetings to be held on Sunday next in the Derby theatre, local moving picture house. were concluded. It was prom ised that a morning meeting at 10 o'vclock would be addressed by the well known l. w. w. organizer, Ed monde Rossani, in the Italian Ian guage, followed by a speech by Miss Rabinowitz, in English. The after noon meeting, at 2 o'clock, will be in charge of well known Polish-speaking organizers and promises to draw large audience of interested workers in the various mills. 1t is not antici- pated that any restrictions will be put upon the assembly by the police, other than that order must be main tained.
 Next to the funeral procession, which was one of the largest ever witnessed in the community, the prin- cipal event of the day was court Ges- sion held by Judge John B. Dillon, which was attended by nearly every strike e-breaker, deputy and policeman not actively detailed at points near the mill.
 The session was in full swing when word of the assembling of strikers about the Cement house nearly cleaned the room. Chief Robbins was prompt to muster his forces and proceeded on the double quick to the scene of the former trouble. It was soon ob- served that a peaceful and sorrowfu1 errand had assembled those present and the guards kept at a respectful distance. It noted that the OBrien guards numbered about fifty men, and much comment upon the cost of the detective protection to the mill