New-York tribune., 1912-02-27
STRIKE INQUIRY ASKED
Senator Poindexter Brings up
Lawrence Mill Trouble
NO MORE BABIES EXPORTED
Rioting Renewed, Police Facing
Bullets and Women Throw
ing Pepper.
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tFrom The Tribune Bureau
v.-a,htry,on. Feb GA resolution pr
s.o,ss nv Senator Miles Poindexter dire.V'
In the Bureau Of Labor 70 inVesuga'e t'''
1su,.nce strike. aroused storm OF
hate in the Senate to-day, IN "nicn w
e,ns of Senator Lodge and severaI ol NV
rr,,,,o,rats were brought to bear on inc
Western insursent for attempting TO III
fringe on the right OF the state OF MasSa-
cbuyetts 10 settle the problem for itsel'
The resolution directed the Commissioner
Of Labor 10 ascertain. among other thihES
ubat number OF foreigners were employed
IN the mills involved in the strike, the
bo,r. of labor and wages. and what are
the facts concerning the attempt OF the
strikers 20 send their families 10 o'iie'
states
Senator PoindeXtcr, who mas Ie''u'N
hear in Lawrence. characterized the action
Of the police and militia in preventing 'he
children Of the strikers from ho'ng sent 10
other cities as autoCratic and unconsutu-
tional
'Forbidding the passage Of aliens from
one state to another may become an inter-
national matter at any moment ne oe-
olaTed with vehemence
THE situation at Lawrence is serious
said Senator Lodge in reply. "A large
number Of children were sent 10 New YORK
"a he The centre Of a socialistic Gemonsra-
tion. Attempts we're made 10 send them 10
nther cities. The local authorities have
taken serious step. but the Governor INC
1Aeislature and the Attorney General are
nerfectly competent TO deal with the situa-
ton"
Senator Poindexter continued to inveigh
against the police and militia, denounclhg
them for preventing women from sending
their children outside the state and impris-
oning them for attempting 70 40 so. Reply
Ing further to his charges, Senator Lodge
read telegram from John Golden, presi-
dent or the United Textile Workers This
message denounced the practice of send
ing children 10 other cities to be tho centre
0f q sympathetic demonstration as plan
of Haywood and other leaders of the In
6ustrial Workers Of the World. It con-
tsned the charges that the children were
heing separated from their parents by
threats, and that in many cases children
whose parents were not affected by the
ttrike at all were included in the number.
Al the same time the attention of the
Eenator from Washington was called 10
the fact that similar measures had been
,hken by the police in dealing with the
scuvties Of the same leaders in Spokane.
At this Senator Poindexter abandoned his
humanitarian plea and based the need for
en- investigation on more general grounds.
Senator GalAnger presented an amend
Ynent to the resolution providing that per
sons rot residents Of the state who are en-
Raged in the strike and iutimidations and
threats Of violence also be included in the
\ subjects 10 be investigated Action on the
M resolution was not taken.
Lawrence Mass, Feb. 26.-No attempt to
export children will be made tomorrow, as
hsd been planned according to a statement
made tonight by the textile strike com
nnittee OF the Industrial Workers of the
Word. This decision was reached in view
Of the possibility of a Congress investiga-
ton and the fact that the cases of tho
mothers and children arrested on Saturday
morning, when an unsuccessful effort was
made to send party of children 70 Phila-
delphia, have not been disposed Of by the
court
The city marshal. John J. sullivan. had
announced that until some higher authority
instructed him that he was not getting
within the Law he would do all in his
power to prevent the expectation Of the
children.
As an aftermath of one Of the most
yiotous days since the strike began. seven
weeks ago the District Court was in ses-
sion until late tonight, and Judge J. J.
Nahoney, the presiding Justice. heard sixty
eight cases Only one Jail sentence was
reted ont. This was imposed on Julia
Yulka, who was charged with throwing
pepper into the face Of Patrolman O'Brien.
She was sent away for thirty days. The
others were fined from s. to $40 each.
In an early morning affair nearly a dozen
shots were fred from tenement houses
or a squad OF metropolitan park police.
and the officers returned the fire Two
strike sympathizers were arrested, one Of
them being taken to the hospital with a
bullet wound In his back.