Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-04-01
STR|KEDREAKERS
IN SUMMIT MILLS
INCREASED TO 64
Union Leader Appeals to Police
Chief and Has Five
Suspended.
special 20 ihe E,enInr Star.

SUMMIT, April 1.-The force OF
strikav avbreakers filing the places OF
the striking silk weavers at the silk
mills here, was increased to sixty
four men this morning. The mills
were reopened yesterday morning
with forty alleged scabs. The twenty
sheriff's deputies and the squad of
local police officers in charge of
Sheriff George G. Otto and Chief of
Police George w. Brown are still on
guard at the mills today, but there
has been no sign of disorder among
the strikers.
Shortly after the sirike- breakers
entered the mills at 7 o'clock this
morning, five of the men who re-
ported for work were suspended by
superintendent Paul Dorgeyai, On the
request of Chief of Police Brown. Be3
fore reopening the mills, the silk COM
pany agreed not to employ any wenv7
ers who are under bail pending dis
position of charges made against
Them in 60 pseqfs sence OF the riot wflifh
marked the wnlkout OF the strikers
tive weeks ago tomorrow.
BsIish Appeals 60 CHIEF.
When Saba Balish, president of the
| iWeavers Union. noticed five of the
strife breakers who are under bail
entering the mills this morning, he
appealed to Chief Brown to request
the company to discharge them
The chief took the matter up with
Superintendent Dorgeval and the lat
ter called the men from their looms
and they were dismissed. For a few
minutes this morning, as the process
sion Of strike-breakers passed into
the Mills an outbreak among the
strikers, especially the women,
seemed imminent.
Shouts of ''scab' and Kisses were
directed at the strike breakers by
women and girls in the throng of
strikers which crowded close to the
mill
sherig Cautions Women.
Sheriff Otto addressed the strikers
and cautioned the women to refrain
from shouting at the strike breakers
or he would not permit them on the
property of the silk company. Chief
Brown also admonished the women
to maintain order under penalty of
being committed to the county Jail.
The remarks of the officials appa-
rently made little impression on the
women, some OF whom told Sheriff
Otto and Chief Brown that they could
not restrain themselves when they
saw uelT OFcaQ ana Dutter po1ilB
taken away by strike breakers.
Mayor Francis Fl. Bergen visited
the scene of the strike yesterday and
was shown through the silk COM
pany's plant. He expressed satisfac-
tion at the way the situation was be-
Ing handled by Sheriff Otto and Chief
Brown. A half dozen of the sheriff's
deputies, with as many local police-
men, remained on duty at the mills
last night.
About midnight fifty strike break
ers. said to be from Brooklyn, arrived
and are quartered in houses in Au-
brey street, and at the home OF Rev.
Paul Kassar, o Syrian priest, who is
charged by the strikers with being
responsible for bringing the strike
breakers here. 1t was said today that
Paul Barli. president of the silk COM
pany, Is planning to bring here
numbers of Wrappers, winders, loom
fixers and other worlsmen from his
silk mills in Norfolk, Va, to I'LL the
places of the men on strike.
The company appeared confident to-
day that they will soon be able to
operate their mills with full force,
while the strikers declared that they
are sure to win. 4