New-York tribune., 1912-03-12
ACCUSE STRIKE LEADERS
Contributors Charge Misuse OF
Workers Relief Money.
RECEIVER IS PRAYED FOR
Police Rout Mill Mob Which
Threatens to Rescue Woman
End of Trouble Near.

Boston. March 1l.--Joseph J. Ettor Will
lam H. Haywood William Yates and VIII
lam Trautmann. leaders Of the Lawrence
strike. and Joseph Bedard and James
Shechan. members OF the strikers finance
committee. have been ordered to show
cause why an Injunction should not be
issued preventing them from further dis
,ribution Of relief funds and a receiver be
named 10 take charge Of the matter.
Judge Hammond. Of the Supreme Judicial
Court to-day issued an order Of notice in
the case, which is returnabc Friday.
Contributors 10 the fund who believe that
the money has not been properly handled
induced Attorney General Swift 10 permit
his name TO appear on an Information
which was fled I'm the Supreme Court to-
day. The information names as rclators
James NJ Prendergast. the Rev Herbert
s Johnson and Robert A. Wood all Of
BOSTON, and all contributors to the relief
fund
The plaintiffs allege that the defendants
conspired together and have used substantial
portions of the fund for purposes entirely
different from what was intended; that the
fund has in part at least, been improperly
used for the private and personal benefit
NJ the defendants and their associates;
that the defendants. or some Of them,
have drawn sums from the fund as salaries.
a purpose for which they had no right to
use the fund: that substantial amounts
have been contributed for the board and
private expenses of the defendant Ettor;
that large sums have been paid for trans
portstion TO New York and other cities OF
children for the purpose Of inducing the
public more literally to swell the fund;
that large sums have been paid 10 counsel
for defending Ettor. and that other large
amounts have been turned over TO the In
dustral Workers of the World.
The plaintiffs say that they have been
unable to get the defendants to disclose the
exact nature of the expenditures. and so
ask that the defendants be restrained from
drawing any more money from the Law
renee Trust Company; that receiver be
appointed to take charge of the fund and
under direction of the court to distribute 1t
in the way intended by the contributors,
and that the defendants be compelled to
restore all sums improperly abstracted by
them.
Lawrence, Mass, March 1.-THE confer
ence between representatives Of the strikers
and Of the American Woolen Company,
which, il had been expected, would be an
important factor i'm the early settlement Of
the textile strike, did not take place to-
day. owing to a misunderstanding. The
strikers representatives claimed 70 have
received no word from Boston to-day re-
garding a meeting. Chairman George r..
Ellis Of the legislative Committee on Con-
ciIiation claims. on the other hand, to have
sent notice to the committee appointing d
meeting at the State House this afternoon.
1t is now expected that the meeting will
take place tomorrow
There is a feeling in Lawrence, both
among the leaders in the strike and citi-
ems in general. that the end of the trouble
is near. At a conference in Boston on Sat
,uday the American Wooden Company of
fered an average increase of ~ per cent
and this was generally satisfactory TO tho
strikers committee but there was a dis
agreement over details.
The strikers insist that they will make no
agreement with the American Woolen Com
pany alone. but that they viii demand a
general settlement in all OF the mills. This
It is believed. will naturally follow an un-
derstanding with the American Woolen
Company. There was no increase in the
number Of strikers returning to the mills
to-day.
Strike leaders tonight had little COM
ment TO make on the action Of contributors
10 the strike fund in endeavoring TO have
an injunction issued restraining them from
further handling Of relief funds. They de-
clared that thcrc had been no refusal 10
give an accounting. but that the finance
committee had been so overwhelmed that
they had had no opportunity TO prepare
such a statement
\ demonstration i'm front of the police
station by several hundred strikers and
srmpathizers, including many women
threatened TO disturb the city this morning
This crowd assembled after the arrest Of
a woman striker and became so menacing
Gtat the police had TO use their clubs. The
i'oi'ce claim that the woman displayed a
revolver while engaged IN picket duty. On
the way 10 the station house with their
captive the officers were followed by a
crowd OF several hundred persons. For d
10 rescue the prisoner was to be made. Six
of the lcade-3 in the demonstration were
arrcstcd, and four of them were women.
The strikers made the biggest demonstra-
tion OF picketing to-day since the strike
began. Ii was estimated that more than
five thousand persons paraded Essex and
other streets. The greater part of the
crowd was happy, evidently believing that
the end Of the strike is in sight.