The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-18
Coming Into
Marlboro.
STRIKE CENSED
Mayor Hoitt and Rev. Fl
Lowney interviewed.

Marlboro Nov. 17.-If silence is gold
en-. Marlboro is a regular Klondike Sig
lence is the motto of the labor leaders;
silence the motto of the manufacturers
and for a strike" town, Marlboro still
continues to be- on the face Of things,
the most silent on record. But, like
the lull that precedes a storm, there is
a certain uncanny something about this
silence in Marlboro which bodies no
good.
There is a certain significance about
this silence which sets the serious to
thinking. The younger members in
the strikers ranks still continue to en-
10Y themselves, and their side of the
picture is very pretty indeed. One has
bus to look, however, at the doors of
the private office in Powderly Hall,
placarded, This room private, keep
OUT" and to glance at the serious
faced. thoughtful agents and other ex-
ecutives darting in and out and hurry
ing here and there through the big
building attending to the thousand and
one little details attending big strike,
to realize that there is behind this
movement not a mere idle caprice, no
mere desire for "a holiday or social en-
joyment but a principle.
Then when one stops for an instant to
think that men have laid down their
lives for principle; that the very cor
nerstone of the American nation is
primo pile, the real seriousness of MARI
boro's much-laughed-a and joked-
about strike dawns upon him
1 The SitJafiOp here iS fo baoO,,,;,,or
more serious despite all attempts to
| gloss over hard facts with the thin We
neer of orderly conduct and soeiability
To be sure, the streets are not thronged
with riCtels, there are no fiery curb
stone orators, and citizens in good
standing are not deeply dented with
| flying brickbats. All those features of
old time strikes are nowhere to be seen.
| In this modern. up-to-date strike they
are missing but in their places deter
| mtnation Is day by day becoming deep
er rooted in the minds of the strikers,
and adherence to the principles EN-
bodied in their bond Of brotherhood is
becoming with each succeeding hour
more and more part of their daily
lives
On the other hand, the manufacturers
although they spent a good share of the
afternoon playing pool together in their
club room, apparently oblivious to la
DOl NAiAlCltiAtES Will lilCtt Gil piOyG tS,
are If anything more determined than
ever not to concede one inch of ground
| to the strikers. In the face of this sit
uation, and between these conttending
elements, the townspeople and mer-
chants, like men and women aboard a
doomed ship, are waiting, simply wait
ing.
The situation was more strilke-like
| today than it has been been since the
opening of the contest. With the big
shops under the watchful eyes of a.
small army of pickets. the officials at
labor headquarters were kept thor
oughly informed upon the outside de-
velopments. Thefirst installment of the
looked for outside help came today The
/ party was made up of four Swedes,
who came from Worcester. They We're
shoe workers, and were looking for
i job.
Upon striking this city they went to
the Gleason barber shop, where two of
them got shaved. They then went over
to the OConnell shop and applied for
work. but were unsuccessful in getting
lit From OConnell's they went to the
home factory of the Howe company
where they also failed of getting labor
BY this time their presence in town
and the object of their visit were known
to the strikers. and they were taken in
tow and the situation explained They
took the matter philosophically and ap-
Ipeared very friendly with the strikers
They spent the afternoon about the
cityN visiting the saloons and enioyine
themselves hugely
a few men are still at work in some
Iof the shops. and the strikers were in
/ censed over the matter TO-DAY. If the
strike is not settled soor there will he
trouble over This point bevond the
shadow of a doubt The men the strils-
ers are particularly incensed against
are George Evans Ed gar Rice and
Walter Flint who are emnlove-5 in the
lcutters' department in the MiddJasev
i factory Of Rice e Hutchins
II is claimed mat these man have
lcontinued 10 work ignorine The stril,S
ers and today +he matter yyas tbe s,,h-
iact If r,ucb warn, diScuse{o, IN tt,a
inert Of the striixers If Il also rano,,te
ed mar one man ie AZ v-orlr il, tho saIo
ieathe,. room, If tba 49,
The stitcbars vsara yreatl,, aHrciteS -.
da1 IL, ~ ,e,,o, that n ,ti+l,rs 49,
at worls in The NSidSleeev fscto,,, Tbe
Il T3joe e. tsutcbi,,s co,,,,,a,,,, =, 80
fs,Jor ap1ones tba striI1a,s to-, - %
tba otha,.s 1,aos,,se f ~ Jl,tia,ly
tituda tbe,, ba1,a .,ss,,,,,e5 j., +a 80
anS should matters reach crisis s p Il i