Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1912-04-08
TERNEC|NE WAR
AMONG STRIKERS?
CONTINUED from First Pngea

ever. who made the most startling an
swer.
I'VE can't prevent them from speak
ing" he asserted with conviction. "Th'
reason 1t was done last week was very
simple. Boris Reinsteln, the leader
of the so-called peaceful faction of the
l. w. W., requested us to stop Hay
wood at all COSTS
Organizer Haywood himself, the mar
who is credited with much of the sue
cess which attended the Lawrence
strikers, is expected to address the
strikers in Clifton tomorrow night.
All was quiet around the mills today
merely because it was Easter Mondays
| holiday kept with religious enthusiasm
by the mill hands.
Tomorrow however, trouble of seri-
Gus nature is expected. Instead of the
easy victory by peaceful methods
which Organizer Reinstein had pre-
dicted, the strikers find themselves
facing defeat their funds expended and
their faith in their leaders tottering.
On the other hand, they are enraged at
the heavy guards employed to protect
| the mill owners.
crucial day of the strike The striking
mill-hands themselves seem to feel that
without the leadership of men like
Haywood and Thompson and the back
ing of the warlilse faction of the In
dustrial Workers of the World the
strike will be lost.
! But the chances are that the spirit
which animated the Lawrence strikers
will be brought to the front by the
! speech of Thompson this afternoon,
and by the efforts of his fellow organ
izers In that case rioting is practi-
cally certain to follow the attempt of
the big mills to open tomorrow.
If the factories succeed in opening,
the strike may wither away But IL
the majority of the strikers have their
way, they will fight 1t out to the bitter
end.
Many of the strikers and their fami-
lies hocIed to the Slavic churches here
yesterday and there was comparative
quiet at the mills in Garfield and this
city. Under Sheriff Heath will have no
reinforcements for his staff Of deputies
until midnight today, in anticipation of
trouble when work is resumed tomor-
row morning.
"Reinstejn will lose the strike
unless Haywood comes back with
in two days" is the opinion
now generally expressed by strikers in
this city. That dissatisfaction with the
present leadership exists has been ap-
parent to observers since week ago.
when Frank Pless Domo, former secre-
tary and treasurer of the I. w. W., was
displaced by Mrs. johnson.
One of the strikers expressed the
view of a number of his fellows to an
Evening Star reporter yesterday in the
following manner
The fact that Reinstein is being patted
on the back, metaphorlcally speaking, by
both the authorities and the mill owners
for his method of conducting the strike
shows that they do not fear him rs strike
leader.
He is a social engineer and the mill
owners are patting him on the back for
conducting his strike In such peaceful
When Thompson captured Reinsteins
meeting in Mokrais Hall last Thursday
The sentiment expressed seemed to be that
they should join forces and fight the COM
mon enemy, the employers. But at meet
ing held in executive conference that night
Mrs johnson expressed herself against it
and she dominated the situation.
Now. as for Reinstein efficiency to con-
duct the strike. AT no time has he been
able to tell how many persons have Joined
his organization. anything about the f.
nanceS or the numerical strength of the
strikers. The slightest thing makes him
go up in the air, as was shown yesterday
when, after speaking for five minutes in
German, he stopped and said he thought
he had been speaking Polish
Is that the kind of man who will win
strikes? All his efforts seem directed
rather to fostering dissension with Hay
wood than to winning the strike To JUS
tify his action in the Domo matter he said
in open meeting yesterday that Domo was
in the employ of the OBrien agency.
When pressed for his source of information
he would not give it, but said he would
speak when necessary.
1t is necessary right now for us to know
If We have a spy in our ranks. Suppose
a sufficient number of Italians should be-
lieve that DomO really is a spy what would
happen to him? Yet Reinsteln always pats
himself on the back about his peaceful
methods.
What is Bill Haywood's record? Wher-
ever he has gone he has fought for us and
III mas s. made good fight, too. In Lawrence
tion 1t is true that there was violence,
bnt most Of 1t WAS induced by the Aill
owners and their hired thugs, as it was in
Garfield Anyhow, when was a good fight
ever won without violence?
This sentiment has been expressed
more and more insistently during the
last few days. 1t was pointed out that
the trouble at Garfield started Tuesday
morning before Haywood came to
town.
Inquiry was made at the O'Brien
agency in Newark, and Mr. Reinstein's
statement about Domo was not corro-
borated. Mr.. O'Brien said that he did
not know of any man by that name
who had been employed by him. This
bitter feeling among the strikers
nearly eliminated in a riot yesterday
when at a meeting in Mokrai's hall
the opposing faction raised a distur-
bance. 1t has been pointed out by the
strikers who are not satisfied with
Reinsteins leadership, that his is a
one-man organization, or more prop
erly a one-woman organization.
Mr.. Reinstein, when asked if he
would join forces with the Haywood
faction in this strike and settle the
factional differences afterward, said
that he would not. He said:
Il refuse to bear the odium of Hay
woods reputation for violence and do
not care to shoulder the responsibility
| for his acts"
When it was pointed out that the
| trouble at Garfield started before Hay
wood arrived and that a number of
men and women also bolted his meet
| ing before the arrival of the West
erner. Reinstein had nothing to say.
| Although a number of the weavers
have gone back to work the number
of strikers increased last week because
more workers of the other crafts went
| out.
| Those belonging to the Haywood fac
ton point out that if Haywood had