Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-29

other enthusiastic and orderly meet ing.
 Organizer from A. F. of L.
 Joseph. J. Cunningham, an organizer from the American Federation Of La bor arrived, and was met by a com mittee from the strikers and escorted to the town hall to be received with a burst of cheers MT. Cunningham addressed the assembled strikers on the necessity of organization.
 Representative of I. w. w.
 The most effective speech of the afternoon session was delivered by an out of town representative of the In- dustrial Workers of the World. The speaker stated that the company would grant the demands of the strikers If the strikers only held out and made them do 1t. The company would even tually have to do so and all that was needed was the flrmness of the strik- CTS. He said that when the strike at the thread company was finished, the Industrial Workers of the World would start with the other mills in the city. This speech was followed by one in Polish that was listened to with at tention, the speaker showing that he was thoroughly conversant with the situation There was deafening ap- plause at the conclusion of the re- marks.
 General Boss Advises Return to Work
 A committee was selected from among the strikers to confer with Gen. Eugene $. Boss, agent for the com pany locally and the meeting was ad- journed until ] o'clock to hear the report The committee went to inter F~in n tnl Q himself could not grant them the flat ten per cent. demanded but that if they would go back to work Monday he would get in communication with the New York officials and give them an answer some time Monday after noon. He said that as far as he was concerned he would gladly grant them the increase, but he was powerless to do it.
 The committee told him they desired to convey his message to the strikers, who were in waiting at the town hall. The general said they could return to him again in the evening with their decision. The committee reported to the main body of strikers at , o'clock and it was decided to remain out until they heard whether they were to re- ceiye the flat ten per cent. sought or not.
 Decision to Remain Out.
 In the evening the committee re- turned to General Boss and told him they were going to stay out until the company granted the raise. General Boss informed the committee he would confer with New York officials and would give them an answer Monday at o'clock
 Sunday morning the strikers com mittee held a meeting at 10 o'clock and perfected arrangements for the meeting to be held in the afternoon. At o'clock Sunday afternoon hun dreds and hundreds of strikers gath cred in the town hall and held an enthusiastic meeting
 Addressed by Miss Flynn.
 The fact was reported to the strik- CTS that Agent Boss would receive an answer Monday afternoon and would give it to them through their com mittee at o'clock. After an intro ductory speech, the chairman of the meeting introduced Miss Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, the young woman rep resenting the Industrial Workers of the World who did so much toward effecting strong organization among the strikers in Lawrence during the recent strike. Miss Flynn is the most able woman who ever spoke to any kind of a local audience and every re- mark was given the closest attention, eliciting frequent applause from the strikers and friends. She delivered an impassioned appeal to all to stand together, and unless the raise was forthcoming by o'clock this (Mon- day) afternoon to go down to the mills of the American Thread com pany Tuesday morning and establish a picket line around the plant and en- deavor to induce every other employe of the mills not now on strike to come out until all had obtained their de- mands. This was received with en- thusiastic applause.
 Miss Flynn drew vivid word pictures of the Industrial Workers and the bosses and their respective families. She alluded to the successful culmina- ton of the great Lawrence strike, which was Fundamentally the means of increasing the pay of fully 900 industrial workers throughout New England. She delivered a scathing de- nunciation of John Golden and the organizers under his supervision, and the methods adopted by them, styling them wOefully inadequate to cope with the emergency as 1t was presented at Lawrence and elsewhere. She said that in all the thirty years of the exist ence of the organization of which John Golden was the head, 1t had nev- CT settled a strike like the recent one in Lawrence, or the ene in Lowell, but that it fell to the part of the Industrial Workers of the World to do 50, which they had done, and in such d manner that it would brook no miscenstruc- ton.
 Other speakers followed and outlined 1 in various languages what Miss Flynn had so concisely set forth. 1 Other Oranizsrs Coming. 1 The chairman stated that there would be various organizers here Mon. ! day to get the strikers to organize Among those to come would be Johr
 Smith from Lawrence @ Pole of edu-
 cation and one well versed in the mat
 ter of organization. There would alst be a French organizer from Lawrenc,
 and others.
 Announcement was made that ther, would be another meeting Monday aft
 ernoon to hear what the bosses had t,
 offer, and that if 1t was not favorable
 granting the flat ten per cent, tha
 every effort would be exerted to bant the strikers together in such d com pact organization that not a whee would be turned in the plant of tn company and not a yard of threat
 would be manufactured in the Threa,
 city until the demands of the striker
 had been granted to their satisfac tion. There is 10 be a mammoth meet ing this tMonday) evening, in tn
 event of failure upon tho part of tn
 company to comply with the deman,
 of all the workers of the city wh
 are in sympathy with the movement