New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-13
PEACE, EHOR'S COUNSEL,
HE TELLS THE Jury
BEAT Guns and GalloWS by
Folding Your Arms" Strike
Leader Says He Advised.
ACCUSES WILLIAM M. WOOD
Mill President, He Testihes, AS
serted Dollars Would Last,
but Men Would Starve-
No Faith in Scaffold.

Salem. Mass, Nov 12.-Defending him.
self against the charge that with Joseph
Caruso and Arturo Giovanniti. he was an
accessory before the fact to the Kliiihg
OF Anna Lopizzo during the Lawrence
textile strike last winter. Joseph j. Ettor'
leader of that conflict. faced the jury 10
day. Ettor for several hours, gave MS
recollection of addresses he made 10 the
strikers, detailing incidents OF the strus-
gle. and the conferences with the MN
owners and authorities.
Ettor insisted that from the oeglhh'hs
of the strike he counselled against VIC
lence, and that the way for the strihei'
TO win was 10 keep away lloh inc iii''''
and to do nothing
Nc admitted that on the first day ne
advised the strikers to go to the Nuns
and urge all who remained at WORK ~
cease, so that every mill woo'u
be shut down. Re continued
told the strikers after the st 1 e6ns
had been on for some WeTHS had begun
that they had demonstrated theLr Pnttnn
that i'm solidarity OF purpose any was
they had one source OF strehstmi INC 81 de-
far greater than all the aseitets can
-,
ital, I told them, had property 10 sus' az
il: that II had the police, the arlnS, t da-
laws, the Constitution, 10 anu I.I,,t ~
fence; that capital hau S 9v TO
rrnvoke the enemy-meaning the worn,
crs But the workers. l told them nao
more power than all that, more IMAM B"m ,f
and gallOws-the power OF soliu Hn,,obs
purpose and action. greater IMAM Ooii'0''
In tracing the events, Ettor told OF CON
ferences with the employers. lncluolhs
those with officials of the American
Wooden Company in Boston. On Jahu-
ary &c. he said, he and other members
of the strike committee met "lilam W.
Wood. president Of the American WOODEN
Company, and representatives OF other
mills in Boston. He outlined the strikers
demands. including that for an increase
OF 10 per cent in wages. Ettor continued
Mr. Wood said to me when l asked for
dcsrite message: Tell the strikers
ia 20 back to work; that l cannot alI0Tu
10 pay them this. Tell them also thd'
neither can / afford to have them go naCh
a. work discoptented and that | VIII DO
so,oofbing FOR them soon" That was
certainly very neutrality-suspicious. noun
ing-and when | reported II 10 the StTlhe
committee Il was agreed that we shouiu
continue the struggle, ana not treat wiz WIZ
tba mill owners until they sent for US anu
assured us that they would talk business
Il told the strikers" said Ettor, of
BANQUET attended by President Wood at
which the labor problem was discussed
told them that Mr. Wood had said al
that banquet: Put a dollar on smell
and leave it there six months. Then go
back and you will find the same dollar.
Put a workingman on shelf. Go back IN
six months and you will find corpse. 1
told them that illustrated what the capt.
tslists thought Of the workers"
Addressing a crowd Of Jewish strikers
Ettor said he referred 10 the turning OF
the hose on the strikers at the mills, say
ing that 1.-THE labor problem could not be
oienched by fire hose" He also referred
70 the slaughter of Jews in Russia, and
said that "the scaffold had never settled
an argument
Ettor charged the employers with plant
ing the dynamite in Lawrence. In dis
cussing violence. he said. he had used
the incident Of the stabbing of seven
teen-year-old boy by a soldier as a basis
for telling the strikers that the masters
had drawn the first blood"