Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1912-09-11
PROTEST
BY BIC STRIKE.
All Workers Of Nation to Be
Asked to JOIN
PLAN OF INDUSTRIAL WORKERS

TLAN Ut lNUUS Dial WUnkcnS
Haywood Leads Movement to Call
Upon All Trades, Men and Women,
For a General Strke-Demand Et-
tor and Giovannitti Be Either Tried
or ReIeased-say A. r. of L. Will
Not Respond
New York, Sept. SIN protest
against the Imprisonment at Law
renee, Mass, of Joseph J. Ettor
and Arturo Giovannitti since last
Jan. %, William D. Haywood, lead
er of the Industrial Workers of the
World, has announced that on Sept.
80 all the |. w. W. men and women,
in all trades, will strike and will is
sue a call to all workingmen of
America to strike.
He said the call will be printed at
once in every possible language and
that it will be directed to all classes
OF workers in all parts of the country,
without specific regard to union or Or
ganization Affiliations.
Haywood had just returned from
Providence, R. l.. where a meeting
Of the Ettor and Giovannitti defense
committee was held and plans COM
pleted for the protest strike
I'VE are not acting hastily" said
| Haywood. The labor world has been
more wrought up by the imprisonment
! of these men than by anything in
years. 1t is causing agitation in for
| eign countries as well as here. We
all feel that it is now time to take the
most radical step.
These men are in jail and no date
has ever been set for a hearing. They
are scheduled to be railroaded to the
electric chair. They are held because
woman was shot during the Law
renee strike, although witnesses were
produced who sWOre they saw a po-
liceman shoot her.
The call will mean a walkout in
the steel industry. We have positive
assurance that the steel workers will
respond. From numerous other Sec
lions we have positive assurance that
the workers will go out.
1T will be a general strike of the
laboring men of the country, demand
ing justice for two of their number :,
Low held in Jail without bail, denied
habeas corpus and without a date set
for their trial. We will demand their
immediate release or an immediate
trial.
I'VE are informed that the prosecu-
ton is planning to hold these men in
jail still longer and not let their cases
come to trial at the fall term of court
Tie feeling is bitter throughout the
common laboring classes especially
among the foreign-speaking laborers.
Il believe that more than a major
ity of the common laborers, employed
in our industries, are foreign-speak-
ing people and it is because of this
that we will print the call in all Ian
guages. At Lawrence we had to use
| -LWO uldl0CLS. 1uSIG were
twenty-seven nationalities.
Washington, Sept. S.-"Organized
labor will not quit work in response
to any call issued by William D. Hay
wood" was the statement of Secre-
tary Morrison of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, when told of Hay
woods threatened strike call to all
American workingmen, including the
Industrial Workers of the World.
Il am quite sure that no member
affiliated with the American Fedora
ton of Labor will have anything to dc
with Haywood's SUGGESTION said
Morrison. Certainly they will moi
strike in. response to his call.
"Organized labor, as typifed by the
American Federation, is not following
the leadership or suggestion of Hay
wood or any of his ilk.''