The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-13
Increased Wages for all Workers Are
Promised by the Owners of the
Great Wooden
Mills.
ETToR STILL IN JAIL.
Industrial Workers Of the World
Managed This Labor Dispute
With Credit to the
Organization.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
LAWRENCE, Mass, March Ia
The detailed figures contained in the
offer made by the American Woolen
company to its employees through the
subcommittee of the Industrial Work
ers of the World. which conferred
with President Wood yesterday after
noon, were announced today.
In some instances the mill owners
cent. In actual salary the increases
offered, which are those under consid-
GRAFTON by the strikers committee of
the whole, run from s1.oS per week
down to 81 cents per week for highest
paid skilled operatives.
] The notice of increase, which will
be posted Friday in the mills here,
4 is as follows:
"All employees formerly receiving
81 cents and less per hour will be
given an increase of two cents per
hour.
4 Employees formerly receiving 91a
to 10 cents per hour will receive in.
creases of ~ cents per hour.
I Employees formerly receiving 10 to
IL cents per hour will receive In.
creases of liz cents per hour.
Employees formerly receiving II to
! IL cents per hour will receive in
! crcases of IN cents per hour,
: Employees formerly receiving IL "a
20 cents per hour will receive in,
creases of one cent per hour. The
same increase will be given all those
who formerly received over twenty
cents an hour.
: ''All job workers will get an in
crease OF five per cent All overtime
work will be paid for at time and a
! quarter
Immediately after endorsing the
: schedule, the sub committee submit
ted it to the strike committee of the
whole, which enthusiastically adopted
il after less than half an hours con.
sideration.
! Stirring scenes marked the meeting
! which probably will close the con
NV ehdt. DCCouSt VI LIE RESISTANCE
" OF the mill owners and the aggressive
tactics of the strikers, will be cele
: brated in American strike history
The hall, in the basement OF which
more than two thousand men, women
+. and children, have been fed by the
union for two months, thundered with
/ the jubiliant cries of the strikers One
man rushed TO the platform and lei
: i'll the singing of international,
which was chorused by the audience
The Lawrence strike seemed a for
lcrn hope when the workers walked
! from the mills, leaderless, and spen
r two days aimlessly walfing The
d streets. Then came Joseph Ettor
e the fiery leader of the Industrial Work
l. ers of the World, who quickly organ
. lied the strike. When Ettor was al
rested and held without bail on {
charge of murder William d. Hay
= wood took charge of the strike ant
\ has since directed every importan
= move in the campaign.
1t is understood that, within few
, days, Ettor and his associate. Giov
. anniti will be admitted to bail Th
. strikers have insisted for two week
. that the release of these men was on
. of their demands and it has been ad
. mitted that following the settlemen
= of the strike, way would be foun
. to get the two strike leaders out @
. jail.
= The tide Of public opinion shifte
. 10 the strikers following the polio
. assault upon women and children a
. the depot. two weeks ago On the fo
4 lowing Monday, Senator Miles Poir
. dexter, republican from Washington
Q made sensational speech in the sci
= ate, declaring that he had made
. personal investigation of conditions a
y Lawrence and charging that the pt
. lice and officials had denied citizen
. their common rights. This was TO
= lowed by action in the house and ais
. by the opening of an investigation b
= Commissioner Neill, Of the depar
= ment of labor.
. These activities caused an almo'
= immediate suspension of the polio
. tactics in Lawrence and the striker
. took fresh hope The strikers orr
. inal demands were a 15 per cent wae
. increase, double pay for overtim
= abolishment CT the premium syste
. and no black list of persons who hf
. been active in the strike.
. Gate City wait ads get results.