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LAWRENCE AND
LOWELL STAND
WUKPASSAIC
Will Stop Scab Work
from Strike Zone
(Special to The Dally Worker)
LAWRENCE, Mass., April
United Front Committee la buey In
Lawrence and Lowell and will block
any attempt on the part of the Paa
aalo mill owners to pet their work
done In these oenters. They are de
termined that the mill ownere of Pas
•alo and adjoining towns be forced to
yield to the demands of the strikers
they have so bestially fought or faoe
ruin by being deprived of their fall
orders.
, The slogan here Is: "STOP THE
BOSSES FROM TAKING SCAB
WORK IN YOUR MILLS!"
Trusted workers In the mills here
are charged with the task of detect
Ing any Passaic orders that may come
In and the moment they are discov
ered the Lawrence and Lowell bosses
will either refuse to take them or face
a strike in their mills.
Issue Manifesto.
A manifesto issued by the United
Front Committee of Passaic textile
strikers to the workers of Lawrence
and Lowell has been received with
enthusiasm by the workers and they
will respond to its demands in case
scab work is attempted here.
The manifesto follows:
PROTEST
Police Terror in Passaio
"For three months we, 15,000 tex
tile workers of Passaic, N. J„ have
been engaged in a life and death
struggle with the millionaire mill
owners. For three months we have
withstood the brutality, trickery and
terror of the bosses. Our ranks are
just as strong as ever. Our mass
picket lines of thousands of strikers
are as firm a iron. Police clubs,
jails, spies, suckers, poison gas, jets
of cold water, and the whole under
world let loose upon us by the mill
barons, could not break our soli
darity.
"WE ARE DETERMINED TO
WIN. AND WE ARE CONFIDENT
THAT WE WILL WIN because our
cause is just—because we are fight
ing for our human rights: the right
to organize—the right of a living
wage—the right to bring up our chil
dren decently.
“Our fight, fellow-workers, is your
fight. We are in the front line of
the Textile Workers’ army. We are
batting against wage cuts —against
starvation wages—against the cruel,
inhuman conditions forced upon us
by the greedy mill owners.
“The textile barons have made a
final attempt to break our strike.
The most savage brutality is used
against us. All our leaders are
jailed by the police of the bosses,
and are held under criminally ex
cessive bail. WE HAVE BEEN PUT
UNDER THE RIOT ACT. The thugs
and bosses’ hirelings in the police
department of Garfield and Passaic
have been let loose like a pack of
wolves to kill and murder peaceful
strikers. Our halls have been closed.
Our strike offices have been raided.
We are under martial law without
the troops, but with Sheriff Nimmo
and his thugs as dictators..
"The bosses are desperate. This
is their last stand. They want to
force us back into oie mills thru
violence and terror. Will you stand
by in silence, fellow workers? IF
WE WIN YOU WIN. IF WE LOSE
THERE IS NO HOPE FOR YOU.
STAND BY US! Let your voices
be heard in protest!
“Demand the abolition of the state
of riot in Passaic and the freedom of
our brave leaders! Remeber! It is
us today. It may be you tomorrow.
Don’t do any Passaic work. Stop
the bosses from doing scab work In
your mills.
“WE MUST WIN. WE WILL
WIN. Our spirit is strong. Our
union is powerful. Our fight is the
fight of the Textile Workers.
"Hold Protest Meetings! Show
your solidarity."
Seventeen Workers
Hurt in N. J. Blast
CAMDEN, N. J., April 19—Seven
teen persons were injured, one prob
ably fatally, in an explosion late to
day in the plant of the Victor Talking
Machtne Company, here. About 200
employes were working on the third
and fourth floors when spontenaeous
combustion caused the blast In a
metal sawdust conveyor.
Plumbers Helpers’
Club of Brooklyn,
New York
calls on all helpers to join
the club. Meetings every
FRIDAY night, 8:30 p. m.,
at
7 Thatford Avenue,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
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ST. LOUIS CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL IN
VIGOROUS PROTEST AGAINST ALIEN
REGISTRATION BILLS IN CONGRESS
ST. LOUIS, April 19.—The Central Trades and Labor Union at its regu
lar meeting here went on record unanimously condemning house bills Nos.
5583, 8848, 6523 and 4489 which propose to register, fingerprint and photo
graph all aliens. The resolution which met with the approval of the entire
body points out the vicious class nature of the bills.
It shows clearly that the bills are being supported by the most militant
representatives of the capitalist class and if allowed to become laws will be
used to destroy the American labor movement. The resolution reads as
follows:
Whereas, Representatives Aswell,
Johnson, MoClintic and others sub
mitted in the house bills Nos. 5683,
3748, 6523 and 4489, proposing to regis
ter, photograph and finger-print all
foreign-born workers, and to deport
them in case they tail to have them
selves registered, photographed and
finger-printed, thus threatening to sep
arate them from their families, and in
many cases sending them to their di
rect death in their former home coun
tries, and
Whereas, the purpose of these pro
posed laws is to create a reserve army
of foreign-born workers, prevented un
der threat of deportation from organ
izing and going on strike to secure
higher wages and to better working
conditions, thus tending to lower*the
standard of living of the entire work
ing class in this country, and
Whereas, the committee on legisla
tion of the executive council of the
American Federation of Labor in its
report to the 54th annual convention
of the American Federation of Labor
made the following declarations re
garding the above mentioned mills, as:
“This highly obnoxious measure,
which would, if enacted into law, mean
the adoption by our government of the
spying practices of private detective
agents.
“The potential danger of the prin
ciple embodied in these bills is very
great. It has all the elements of a
strike-crushing, union-breaking pro
posal.”
LIVES OF COALDIGGERS ARE
SACRIFICED TO GET DIVIDENDS
By LELAND OLDS, Federated Press.
How the lives of coal diggers are sacrificed to the demand* of stock
holders for dividends is told in a letter to Black Diamond, the leading jour
nal of the industry. Many recent mine explosions, according to George
Wolfe, the writer, are the direct result of low prices produced by the compe
tition for profits. The letter is of especial interest because it comes from a
man with experience in West Virginia-*
mine operation.
Explosions Due to Skimping.
“I do not hestitate to say,” Wolfe
asserts, “that many of our mine ex
plosions are directly traceable to the
intense competition that mow exists
and which has existed in the bitum
inous mining Industry in the past sev
eral years. Competition in the selling
of coal has so reduced the returns of
the mining companies that in many
Instances these companies are run at
a loss.”
Wolfe recalls Hoover’s statement
that one-third of the mines must be
eliminated and continues: “People who
have their money Invested in the min
ing industry have been constantly
fighting to escape this elimination and
have in competition forced the price of
coal down to a point where in a num
ber of cases it does not yield the min
ing cost to the operator, let alone the
depreciation to his property thru the
withdrawal of the mineral from his
land."
From practical knowledge acquired
in the running of these mines Wolfe
then goes on to describe how “the
stockholders are on the back of the
president of the company for divi
dends; in turn the president goes after
the general manager for lower op
erating costs; the general manager
goes after the superintendent for
lower costß, and when It gets down to
this point, thq superintendent is gen
erally told that it he cannot produce
coal cheaper he will have out.”
So the pressure of the stockholders
finally reaches the foremen, supplies
are skimped, necessary dead work is
left undone, and supervision, so im
portant a factor in safety, Is elimin
ated.
“It takes a brave and Independent
mining official,” says Wolfe, “to Ignore
demands made upon him by superior
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"Bills of this kind are potentially
• dangerous, because they can be fre
, quently used by hostile interests to
■ the injury and disadvantage of the
l labor movement.” Now be It there
; fore
Resolved, that we delegates to the
l Central Trades and Labor Union of
• St. Louis, Mo., assembled at our reg
i ular meetings on Sunday, April 11, at
■ 2228 Olive street, do hereby earnestly
. protest and emphatically declare our
opposition to the passage of bills Nos.
• 5583, 3748, 6523 and 4489, or to any
■ other legislation having for its pur
• pose the outlawing of the foreign-born
• workers in this country, and be it fur
» ther
; Resolved, that we call upon the ex
> ecutive council of the A. F. of L. to
■ carry on an energetic struggle against
the above mentioned bills, and to use
- all of its resources in its efforts to de
i feat them, and be it further
i Resolved, that copies of this resolu
i tion be sent to the representatives of
■ this state in congress with the demand
• that they shall cast their votes against
this discriminatory legislation against
, the'foreign-born workers and that cop
i ies also be sent to the press.
! The above resolution was passed
i without dissenting vote. In accord
ance with the standing custom it will
• be spread on the minutes of the Cen
tral Trades and Labor Union and also
be sent to the press and various indi
viduals and organizations mentioned
in the resolution.
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officers in the matter of costs and to
at all times preserve inside conditions
of his mine at a high degree of safety.
There are such mining officials and
there are some companies that place
the general safety of their property
and the lives of their employes above
every other consideration, but the
tendency is pretty general to do every
thing possible to meet the continued
lower sales price of coal by reducing
the operating cost and in reducing
this cost long chances are sometimes
taken.
Accidents on Increase.
1 “There Is no one connected with the
state mining department of West Vir
ginia who would openly admit that as
the price of coal goes down the num
• ber of mining accidents Increase. They
would not dare to make such an ad
mission. But these very men will tell
you privately that such is the case.”
Mill Shutdown Throws
2,300 Out of Job
PROVIDENCE, R. 1., April 19
Twenty-three hundred operatives were
thrown out of work when the Natick
and Arctic mills of Knight Borthers,
Inc., in the Pawtucket Valley, and
the Grant mill of that concern in this
city, closed today for an indefinite
period.
The Royal mill at Riverpoint also
suspended operations with the excep
tion of about 900 looms. Unfavorable
market conditions were given as the
cause for the suspension of work.
A bust of Lenin with each five
hundred points. Oct the point!
A book of cartoons with every
Hundred points. Get the point!
GIT THI POINT!
THE DAILY WORKER
BOSTON A, F. OF L.
ORGANIZES DRIVE
IN 3 INDUSTRIES
Card System Makes All
Organizers
BOSTON, April 19 —The American
Federation of Labor organizing con
ference committee for Metropolitan
Boston, at a meeting in Wells Me
morial building last night, selected
three Industries of this city for the
first organized drive in the local cam
paign. Thp, names were not an
nounced, but will be given the im
mediate atention of members of the
committee assigned by the confer
ence. i
Card System.
Last night’s meeting unanimously
approved the ( card system campaign
suggested by; the executive commit
tee. By this lystem every member of
a union in the entire organized labor
movement acts as an organizer and
can pick hw-own field for his work.
More than 600,000 of these cards, bear
ing the “Declaration in Favor
of Union Membership," with designat
ed places for filling in name, address,
the name of industry and employer,
will be distributed among the various
affiliated uniohs and will in turn be
given in blocks of 10 to each member
of a union by an officer of the local
to whom the filled in cards must be
returned.
Enrollment.
According to the plan worked out
by the body, the cards when filled will
be turned back to the conference for
classification, after which they will
be turned over to the unions of crafts
of occupations of the signers. When
there are no unions of crafts or indus
tries mentioned by the signers, these
applicants will be enrolled into organ
izations by the conference and appli
cations made to the A. F. of L. so:
charters for these particular groups.
BRITISH CRISIS
CONSIDERED BY
INTERNATIONAL
World Mine Unions to
Support British
BRUSSELS, April 19. —At a meeting
of the executive committee of the In
teimational Miners’ Federation to hear
an outline of the British coal crisis by
A. J. Cook, Frank Hodges and other
British miners’ leaders, the following
action was taken:
"The international committee is pre
pared to take action, if necessary, to
prevent coal being exported to Great
Britain in the event of a stoppage.”
International Strike.
"In the event of an international
strike being called by competent na
tional organizations, the international
committee adjures the national organi
zations not to terminate the strike be
fore a satisfactory basis for the re
sumption of work has been found in
all countries.”
On to Moscow—get the pointl
ESPIONAGE SYSTEM TERRORIZES
THE PASSAIC TEXTILE WORKERS
(Spaelal to Tha Dally Workar)
PASSAIC, N. J., April 19—In the following affidavit, Justine Wise points
out the low wages, the long hours, the terrible working conditions in the
mills and the espionage system that is employed by the Passaic textile barons
to terrorize the workers in the shops and keep them from organizing into
trade unions And fighting for better conditions:
"State of New York,
“County of New York.
“Justine Waterman Wise, being
duly sworn, dbposes and says, as fol
lows:
"I have lived in Passaic for over
four months during the winter of
1924-1925. During that time I worked
on the evening shift of the Passaic
Cotton Mills, for day at Forstmann-
Huffmann’s when I was discharged
and threatened with arrest by the
head of the personnel department, Mr.
Rheinhold. I was then aboslutely
blacklisted, my card entitling me to
apply for jmrk being confiscated by
the Central Yknployraent Bureau, the
agency of the. Wool Council of Pas
saic, and was forced to work in a
small knitting mill in Passaic Park
where I earned $8 a week to begin
with.
Segregate Foreign-Born.
“While living and working in Pas
saic with three other friends, we
found that the different foreign groups
were segregated and were In no way
touched by any worth-while American
ization work. We found that, when
we suggested classes In workers’ edu
cation, the workers at once asked If it
would bo safe for the textile workers,
fearing that those workers who at
tended would upon being reported to
the employers be discharged.
"We found that women still worked
all night. We .found that the night
law which was supposed to go Into
effect Jan 1, 1925 was Ignored.
Low Wagee.
"Wo found wages so low that moth
ers and grandmothers were forced
Into the mills, no men, with the ex
ception at a few highly skilled wore
The British Workers Prepare for Struggle
The following is the first of three
articles on the impending industrial
crisis in Great Britain written by
Earl Browder. The writer is at
present abroad and has made a spe
cial study of the English crisis.
• • •
I. The Minority Conference.
By EARL BROWDER.
TTTHEN the Extraordinary Oonfer
' * ence of Action was called by the
British Minority Movement, to meet
on Sunday, March 21, in Battersea,
London, it was already Quite well
known that a great crisis was impend
ing in Great Britain. What remained
to be seen was, to what extent the
British workers realized the gravity of
the struggles ahead of them, and
whether they are ready in sufflcent
numbers to follow the fighting lead of
the British Minority Movement. The
conference was large beyond expecta
tions, and the spirit of the delegates
there makes it certain, that in the
impending struggles the outcome will
not be left in the hands of the right
wing leaders.
Almost 2,400 workers crowded into
the great hall of the Latchmere Baths,
where the conference met. Os these,
883 were delegates, elected by 547 or
ganizations, representing 950,000 mem
bers of the trade union movement.
About 1,600 were individual trade
unionist supporters in the capacity of
guests. This compares well with the
last Minority Movement Conference at
which 638 delegates attended, repre
senting 406 organizations with 760,000
members. It Is quite clear that there
has been a great increase in the fol
lowing of the Minority Movement in
the last months.
The extraordinary conference of
action takes on all the more impor
ance, because there have been a
/hole series of developments in Great
iritaln during February and March,
htch intensify the crisis, call for a
trong lead for the labor movement,
nd raise grave dangers before the
vorking class. The most Important
as these developments swing around
he points of (a) the coal commisison
report; (b) the threatening national
lockout In the engineering industry;
and (c) the danger of betrayal of the
trade union movement by the right
wing elements in the leadership.
Report of the Coal Commission.
A FTER “Red Friday,’’ in the sum
mer of 1925, when the splendid
What American Labor Thinks of Passaic Strike
YTYHE International Molders’ Journal,
edited by John P. Frey, takes an
entirely different attitude toward the
strike of the 16,000 textile workers in
Passaic than William Green, president
of the American Federation of Labor,
and McMahon, head of the United Tex
tile Workers.
Green refuses to organize these
striking textile workers, despite their
numerous appeals that he come to Pas
saic and organize them. McMahon of
the United Textile Workers also re
fuses to go to Passaic to organize
these workers. Both of them declare
that they will go to Passaic only after
the "strike is settled” and has become
ancient history.
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era receiving anything near what has
been determined by the United States
department of labor to be a minimum ,
wage.
“In the Passaic Cotton Mills I stood
eight hours at a time, there being no i
fixed lunch period, the workers being
expected to either eat a sanwich or go
to an adjacent building to get lunch
at a cafeteria, eat it and be back with
in 15 minutes. The law makes a half
hour lunch period compulsory. There
were no seats either near the machine
or in the dressing room.
“We found that the workers were
suspicious not only of new-comers but
of neighbors because they did not
know who might be a labor spy. I
never heard the words ‘trade union’ or
‘labor movement’ menitoned in a shop.
After the mills thru their espionage
system discovered that my friends and
I were college graduates, they not
only blacklisted tis but we went to (
the head of the Y. W. C. A. and asked '
that we be excluded from the privil- ,
eges thereof.
Discharge Workers. i
“On being asked how they knew ■
that we had been there and at the in
stitute, we had visited the latter only
once, Mr. Andres said that had been <
seen going in and coming out. Bertha 1
Paret, one of our group was dis- 1
charged from Forstmann-Huffmann, '
they at the time declaring that they <
had found that she was a college grad
uate thru a friend and not thru any
spy system. Later we discovered ,
that they had a paid detective work
next to hor for three weeks to learn
about Mias Paret and that this young 11
solidarity of the British trade unions
forced the withdrawal of the proposed
•vage-cuts for 1,100,000 miners, there
*ere no illusions as to the nature of
the truce then set up. The employers
certainly had not abandoned their at
tacks against the workers. By grant
ing the governmental subsidy to the
mine-owners, the Baldwin government
had purchased a breathing-space for
the purpose of better preparing a new
blow. This was quickly made clear
when the coal commission was ap
pointed by Baldwin, consisting as it
did entirely of members of the upper
classes, with not a single worker or
even a person who could be suspected
of having the remotest sympathy for
the miners. It was not for nothing
that A. J. Cook, the fighting left-wing
secretary of the Miners Federation, de
clared at that time that the miners
should hope for nothing from such a
commission. It report, made public
aatly In March, fully justified Cook’s
prediction. This document proves that
the commission was only a cloak be
hind which to prepare another attack
against the miners.
The key to the policy laid down in
the report is—that wages must be re
duced. All the rest is trimmings, de
signed to confuse the workers and dis
turb their solidarity. The government
and mine owners are determined that
the bankrupt capitalist industry shall
be "stabalized” at the cost of the
workers—and that in the process, the
trade unions shall be broken. The ex
tent of the wage-cut proposed is set
at an average of 10 per cent. The ex
tent of this blow can only be realized
when it is remembered that even pres
ent wages are already below pre-war
by 30 per cent, and that pre-war wages
provided a bare subsistence.
Other features of the report of im
portance may be summarized as fol
lows:
1. Immediate discontinuance of gov
ernmental subsidy.
2. Establishment of variable dis
’ trict minimum wages, while retaining
1 the principle of a national agreement.
1 3. Rejection of nationalization, put
ting forward in its place acquiring by
the state of royalties with compensa
tion.
4. State aid for reorganization of the
industry by the employers.
5. Compulsory “profit sharing," or
“00-partnership.”
While this is being written, neither
the government and employers nor
■ the Miners Federation has made public
i their attitude toward the report. Al-
Points Out Miserable Conditions.
Frey, in his editorial entitled “Sup
plying Radical Ammunition,” points
out the miserable conditions the work
ers were forced to work under and the
unreasonable attitude of the employ
ers in trying to slash the starvation
wages 10 per cent. He points out the
police brutality, showing that Passaic
police, by the use of their clubs and
tear-gas bombs, are doing more *to
make revolutionists than all of the
agitation of the Communists could do.
The DAILY WORKER agrees with
Frey that the police thugs, by beat
ing and throwing gas bombs at the
strikers, are making Communists and
opponents of the capitalist system and
Timber workers Badly
Exploited in Texas
HOUSTON, Texas, April 19—Saw
mill hands work 9 hours a day for
$2.25 in Wiergate, Texas.
The workers, majority of whom are
white, live in company houses and
buy all supplies from a company store.
These houses are built from old lum
ber and a few months rent pays the
cost of building.
A brother-in-law of John Kirby, lum
ber king, is the owner of the whol<
country. This boss and owner, Myers
of the Wier-Longleaf Lumber Co. and
the W. R. Wier Lumber Co. is judge
and lawmaker. When an “undesirable”
moves in he is soon found out and
run out. An “undesirable” is one who
disputes conditions.
Mr. Myers is "very considerate” of
his men. When they are sick he in
quires about them and sees that their
religious needs are administered to.
As yet the whole Industry Is un
organized. In fact, a union man is
not permitted on the vast holding's
of this “king.”
woman had been forced to report that
‘she seemed perfectly all right.'
Terrorized by Spy System.
"We found the workers terrorized
by the espionage system, which was
doing more than any other single fac
tor with the possible exception of the
starvation wages, to prevent the
workers from becoming Americans in
anything but their physical press in
America.
"Justine Waterman Wise,
"Sworn to before me this 31st day
of March, 1926, Kate V. Slovin, Notary
Public, Kinks County Clerk’s N. 573.
New York County Clerk’s No. 131, N.
Y. County Register’s No. 7296. Term
expires March 30, 1927.”
If you send a sub you will build
Ths DAILY WORKER, and Ths
DAILY WORKER will hslp to build
th# movement. Get ths point!
ready, however, the strategy of Bald
win is becoming clear. On March 17,
the Scottish miners’ executive official?
ly took note of rumors that the report
originally called for a continuance of
the subsidy, but that this was with
drawn on the request of Baldwin. On
March 18, the London Times printed
an inspired story which said:
“It is understood that the cabinet
feel that the continuance of a modi
fied form of subsidy should be ac
companied by an agreement to »o
cept the main proposals of the re
port in their entirity, coupled with
an assurance that there shall be no
upheavals in the industry for a defi
nite period of, say, five years.”
TjIROM all the foregoing, it is clear
what are the lines of attack
against the miners. As it is well
known that only the continuance of
the subsidy will prevent the closing
down of innumerable mines and mass
unemployment of miners, the threat of
this is held over the heads of the work
ers in order to force them to agree to
the wage-cut. Further provision for
completely destroying the Miners’ Fed
eration of Great Britain is contained
in the proposal for tying its hands for
five years (taking a leaf from the book
of the American mine operators, who
have used precisely such a scheme to
break the union in the United States);
in the proposal of variable district
minimi (setting one district against
another, and destroying the basis of
national solidarity, while keeping the
workers tied up with a “national agree
ment" which means nothing except na
tional control to revent strikes); and
especially In the proposal for obliga
tory profit sharing and pit commit
tees, (another Item Inspired by the
success of similar methods used by the
capitalists of America—the infamone
"company unionism,” and the corrup
tion of special groups and leaders by
“profits,” bonuses, etc., at the expenee
of the workers as a whole). Accom
panying this is generous assistance to
the private capitalists, already rolling
in wealth, for the necessary reorgan
ization of the Industry. The so-called
"nationalization of the minerals” is
nerely the consolidation of the present
royalties in the form of government
securities, a measure in the interests
of ths exploiters.
Altogether, it Is a vicious and cun
ningly prepared attack, which will re
quire intelligence and iron determina
tion, and fearless leadership on the
part of the trade unions to repulse.
(Another article tomorrow)
its institutions among tho textile
workers of Passaic.
Tomorrow the DAILY WORKER
will print another comment from some
other union Journal to show the atti
tude the greater section of the Ameri
can trade union movement is taking
toward the Passaic strike.
Frey’s editorial follows: ’
Supplying Radical Ammunition
“It is rather difficult to secure a
complete, well-balanced statement of
what has been taking place In Passaic,
N. J. Wages in the textile mills In
Passaic have been reduced. So have
wages in most of the other textile
mills. The reduction was unjustifia
ble for no industry has been more
thoroly protected by the tariff.
Police Beat Strikers,
“The textile operatives in Passaic,
smarting under low wages which were
being reduced to a still lower level, or
ganized and went on strike. Some
authorities claim that this strike was
seized upon by Communists as an op
portunity to educate the workers, to
drill and discipline them in prepara
tion of an armed overthrow of the gov
ernment. If this is true, then the po
lice force, under Chief of Police Zober,
iid everything possible to assist these
revolutionary elements in training the
Hscontented for the day at the barri
cades and the revolution.
“What alleged revolutionists endeav
ored to stir up by words the police
-orce endeavored to stir up by direct
action. While many details are lack
ing. there was something in the nature
of unusual excitement at least. The
police used tear-gas bombs, mounted
policemen rode down strikers, firemen
turned the hose upon them, and police
men’s clubs were freely used. Not
only did the strikers get the benefit of
this display of force, but the news
paper reporters and photographers
came in for a plentiful share of vio
lence, among the casualties being
some three thousand, five hundred dol
lars worth of newspaper cameras
which were smashed,
“There have been, and there still
are, some men who preach she gospel
of revolution. They teach the work
men that their only salvation is to
overthrow tho government, and seize
the power themselves. They tell wage
earners that the authorities are noth
ing but the tools of' employers, pre
pared to shoot down the workers upon
the slightest provocation.
Attacks Police Fores.
“What the police force did in Pas
saic, N. J., % few weeks ago supplies
at least as much ammunition for the
flery-tongued revolutionists as that
supplied by the most pig-headed arbi
trary employers. Os the two, the un
necessary use of force against strikers
is much more dangerous to good gov
ernment than the doctrines taught by
those who believe that European revo
lutionary theories should be adopted
by America wage-earners.”
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