New-York tribune., 1910-03-11
PAPER WAR GROWS
FOCR COMPANIES or
SOLDIERS OUT.
Corporation Imports Strike
Breakers and Refuses Pyin-
cipai Demands Of the Men.


Corirth. y. =. March lo.-The strike Of
paper makers and sulphite workers has now
spread 20 five mills of the International
Paper Company. Four hundred men
walked out this afternoon at the Fort Ed
ward mills. making more than fifteen hun
dred out in ail-at Glens Falls. South
G!ens Feils, Niagara Falls Fort Edward
and here at Corintli
Three companies Of militia were ordered
10 active duty to-day. Companies f and
OF the 2d Regiment. at Schenectady
joined Company l. here tonight making
200 men thus far stationed At the mills
M attempt was made to modest the troops
Company Of the 2d Regiment national
guard of Glens Falls, was ordered to en-
train for Corinth al o'clock tomorrow
morning
Provisions and bedding continue to flow
into the mills as if for a siege three hun
dred strike breakers are massed at Sara
toga for convenient distribution. and It is
believed that as soon as the company feels
II has the situation in hand it will try 10
resume operations with non-uHiou men. Al
though the presence of the guGrdsmen has
served to restore order here to-day. there
is bitter feeling among the strikers. and il
ers will lead TO further violence It was In
this belief that nine strike breakers were
arrested here last night charged with car
rying concealed weapons and deported TO-
Gay by the village authorities. The Sheriff
Of Saratoga County before requesting per-
mission Of the Governor to order out the
militia told him over the long distance
telephone that the situation here in his
opinion is ominous
Clergymen here to-day announced 20 the
strikers that they had received letters from
officers or the International Paper Com
pany authorizing them 10 offer the mer a
siX-day working week. instead os a seven.
# the men would return. The mon took no
action on the offer. They ask recognition
Of the union. 10 per cent advance in
wages and no Sunday work.
tins company's indirect proposals are rot
taken seriously by the men. They under
stand that the company is complying with
petition from the men in the Watertow.n
district. made individually and not as union
men, and recognition OF the union IS A
main contention here. Thus far the COM
pany has refused ia treat with President
Carey Of the Paper Makers Union or
President Malin Of the SuIphite Workers.
President Carey said tonight that in all
proba 5Iity She strike viii soon spread to
the Great Northern Paper Compsuy's mills
The union, he said, would act as union.
and no membec of It would assume indi-
Nidual responsibilities
Albany March 1Q-sherin John Wash
burn OF Sara toga County telephoned Gov
ernor hughes to-day that the strike sitd-
alton at Corinth is serious and that be
proposed to ask fo- additional troops to
maintain order. The Sheriff has authority
in case of emergency to call upon troops
from adjacent counties and soon after
talking with the Governor he asked Colonei
Lester TO order Companies + and T, of
Schenectady, 70 proceed to the scene of
the trouble The adjutant generals office
was notified that the companies had been
ordered out.
The members of Troop r. of Albany.
were notified tonight to hold themselves
in readiness to proceed to Corinth' for
strike duty.
Saratoga, y. Y. March I0-strikers from
Corinth are circulating among the three
hundred strike breakers 1nassed here in all
effort to dissuade- them from going TO work.
One striker was arrested while haraugunS
crowd. y revolver and club were found
IN his pockets. and lie was locked up.
charged with carrying concealed weapons.
Glens Fails \. Y. March "a strike
breaker was arrested here tonight while
posing special officer. for drawing a
revolver on a crowd that gathered about
the entrance of the Interna tional Paper
Companys mills when ten additional non
union men were conveyed into the mills.
Fire, thought to he incendiar: in its
origin. broke out in one of the bles of
the International Rapcr Company al Fort
edward shortly before midnight. The viii
lage fire depasment responded, but was
unable TO save The building. The firemen
confined the flames. how ever. to the stable,
and it is thought the loss viii not exceed
s25oo
Franklin y. H., March l0.-The employees
Of the International Paper Company's mills
here express some dissatisfaction with a
new order under which, The mills are
started al 3 p. m. or Sundays. instead of
a p. m. but have taken no action. The
clergymen Of the city. however. have sent
Z petition TO Attorney General Eastman re-
Questng him to enforce Tie state laws pro-
hoiting SUNDAY work.
Boston. March l0-Tmen carloads OF
strike breakers bound FOR the lnterratiou-
al paper mills in New York State passed
through Boston to-day The men are said
20 have been recruited rom rhe mills of
the company IN Maine. None Of the party
was allowed to cave the cars while in
Boston.
one OF the cars was attached 10 train
co., Troy, y Y. late in the afternoon, and
another was nai of a train which LEI;
for the same place al midnight The third
car went late tonight by way of Bellows
Fails ".
Mr.. CALHOUN STARTS FOR POST.
Chicago March William J. Calhoun.
Minister 10 china. accompanied by his wife.
left Chicago to7night for san Francisco
whence he will sail on March Is for his