Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-02-10

Mr. st. John and was dated at Chi
cago. Jan. 25, 1912. The letter began:
Friend Bill Mr. ST. John wrote in
part as follows:
This mornings paper contains the
news that you are on the job It also
contains the news that a Pearl Magill
is also there and working with you. /
am making a rough guess that if this
party is there she is there in the in
terests of the American Federation of
Labor. that is, the bosses. Ono thing
is certain that II the strikers allow
any one connected with the American
Federation of Labor 10 have anything
to do with the strike they will have
no chance to win
Il want to suggest that if the strike
is to be of any length the practice OF
trying 10 carry it on by paying strike
benefits and opening commissary
must he cut out. There is no chance 10
win anything that Way. These are
QUITO date methods Let those 5000
or 10000 organized Ia break into the
jail and make the county feed them
while they are on strike. Or organize
them TO so back into the mills ana
fight there. Get them bacl, as an or
they are TO continue To fight
Here is some dope that reaches me
this for, noon. 1t comes from absolute
ly reliable sources. / do not mention
any names in here fer reasons that
you will understand The wool trust
cannot long continue its fight because
it has just passed through business
depressior Yhe holdup of Schedule X
L..
position as far as dollars goes. \ win
at Lawrence means 4 start that viii
only end with tile downfall of the
wage system
Mr. s.. John wrote to Ettor along
the same lines.
The letter TO Ettor from Thomas
MILLER was dated at Il Rosemont Ter
race. Lymansville, r. T.. Jan. &c. II
said in part:
Here is little dope that would
make good copy. Give il out that the
workers in at least two mills in or not
far from Providence, including Ital-
ians French, Belgians. Armenians
and many English speaking operatives,
working for Mr.. Wood are ready to
go on strike, but that the strike COM
mittee figures out that about three
weeks from now viii be a far better
time and that about three weeks from
now they can look out for squalls in
Rhode Island and at least one place in
Massachusetts, and that is not a pipe
dream either, because / am q Dutch +
man if / don't believe a strike can be
started in Olneyyille if necessary. If an
italian speaker is coming here for
Saturday or SUNDAY we will get out q
lot Of dodgers in the mills and scare
the bosses stiff. a strike in most OF
the American Woolen Cos. plants in
two weeks would not bother them a
h of a lot, but after that-well we
would have them about as bad as you
fellows have them in shutting down
the yarn department"
Medical Examiner George ". Dow,
the last witness OF the day. described
the autopsy which he performed on
the body of the LopiZ2o woman ana
said that death was due to an internal
heInorrhage caused hx Il bullet which
severed large artery. The bullet en-
Tered the front part OF the body near
the breast bone. He was shown a bull
let ant Identified 1ft as the one found
in the body. The court then adjourned
until Monday. -.
That Fttor# in one. Of his speeches
urged the strikers to .l1eep the gun
shops busy" and declared thar he was
going To get a gun himself, was the
testimony of the two newspaper mon
called TO the stand. James Z. Don
oghue, testifying regarding a meeting |
of the strike comHittee which he at |
tended. quoted Ettor in regard to the |
buying of guns and described how
Ettor had said that the workers during |
the French revolution had hanged the |
masters with grass in their mouths |
Cross examined, the witness could re- |
peat but little of what the leader said, |
but declared; He didn't preach peace.
Joseph p Toye. the other newspaper |
man called as a witness, repeated a |
similar statement regarding the pur-
chase of firearms.