New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-30
URGE SULZER TO ACT
Socialists Demand Removal OF
Little Falls Officials.
PASTOR ASKS MORE AID
Cheers for Mother" Squires
When She Says She Is Go
ing to Assist Strikers.

Resolutions demanding that Governor
elect Sulzer, when he assumes Office take
instant steps TO obtain the removal from
office OF the Mayor and the Chief OF
Police Of Little Falls and the Sheriff OF
Herkimer County were adopted at
mass meeting held Yesterday at the
Labor Temple. No. 23e East Ath street. in
the interests Of the striking textile work
ers Of Little Falls The meeting was held
under the auspices Of the Little Fails re-
lief committee apd the Rev. irwin
Tucker. pastor of St Marks Church,
presided.
Conditions among the LOO striking men,
women ana children at the mills in Lite
Falls were depicted by several speakers
and an earnest plea FOR moral and hnan-
cial aid OF the strikers was made. Among
the sneakers were Frank BONN, associate
editor of The international Socialist
Review, Miss Helen Schloss. formerly
welfare worker among the strikers; MISS
Helen Hayes. OF the faculty Of NelIes-
ley College and member or the inter-
collegiate Socialist Society: Sol Bromoerg'
OF the Industrial Workers of tie World {;
Powell Kennedy, chairman OF tie SOclet!
for Labor Legislation; Alexander IRVINE
Of the national executive committee or
the Socialist party. and Mother Squlres'
Of Oregon. one of the Oldest women SO
cialsts
The Rev. Mr. Tucker sounded the key
note OF most Of the speeches ia his open
Ing address when he said:
In the strike at Little Falls the CON
stitution Of the United states, guarantee
ing free speech and personal inviolaollity'
has been abrogated and annulled, ana the
common rights Of manhnd violated aud
denied We are gathered 10 back the
cause Of the strikers OF Little rams. De
cause II they shall be condemncd II means
the American flag has ceased to mean
Justice and right, and become the shelter
Of Cossacks: that this country mas repu-
dated it's declaration that every human
being Is entitled TO be treated as hui
man being. and that II now hoIds that
the possession Of money IL the only ute
10 life. liberty and the pursuit OF happi-
ness.
The speaker said it was not labor agi-
tators who stirred up TIE class hatred
but simple hunger. He denounced child
labor in the textile mills, and declared
that although the thirty-eight convicted
la Dor leaders al indianapolis for dyna-
hitting had been referred TO as human
devils" they were not az bad as the
capitalists who had brought about the
labor conditions at Little Falls.
Professor Hayes and other socialist
speakers called upon the Socialist party
10 do more work and less talking for the
Little Falls strikers. Mr.. Irvine declared
the greatest function OF tho Socialist
party was 10 back up the labor classes
I'm any fight. Mother" Squlres was loud
~ applauded when she said she was going
IN Little Falls 10 do what she could In
fine cause Of the strikers. She declared she
favored the doctrine Of AN eye for an
eye and a tooth for a tooth in all labor
struggles.
The meeting was attended by two hum
ared men and women. An appeal Tor
financial aid for the strikers resulted IN
contributions amounting 10 80