The Detroit times., 1912-04-03
SNAKE OF ANARCHY is
STEPPED UPON PROMPTLY
BY STRIKERS IN PASSAIC
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horde has been put TO hard work at
low pay by manufacturers who nave
tilted the whole wage scale to the
level of these labor serfs and exploit
ed them 10 the limit.
Now, for the first time in the east,
these foreign-born workers, n large
numbers, are rebelling against evil
working conditions. and wages I'M
equal TO life's demands Nearly o.
900 are out in New England, eastern
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New YORK,
with strikes Threatening in many cities.
For the first time they are showing
what sort OF stuff they are made OF.
Ii was the same class OF workers
who rebelled at Lawrence, real Amerl-
canism in the face of the now motor
ious official anarchy of all the police
powers OF city and state. AS result
of that strike il is estimated that 1885,
900 textile workers. all over the coun-
try, will receive between $12.000,O0O
and $15,000,000 a year additional
wages, employers having volunteered
raises 10 forestall strikes and union
ization. The strikes now In progress
are in mills where employers refused
to follow the Lawrence lead or did
not give enough to satisfy.
In every strike town visited during
the past month, the writer has heard
the same warnings against violence,
the same inspiring Americanism, Of
ten quoted from the bill of rights,
coming from tongues that cannot even
utter the words in English.
These desperately poor strikers
have left their looms nnorganiZed.
The Industrial Workers OF the World,
socialists of various degrees, and un-
| til now comparatively weak, has or
eanized these surfs by the tens OF
thousands. There has never before
been such a rapid spread OF unionism,
the leaders declare.
WIN. ID. Haywood is in command OF
the strikes in New England and vari'
Gus parts of New York and Pennsyl-
vania. Another faction of the l. w.
w. more in sympathy with the So
cialist labor party, are in command OF
the northern New Jersey strikes and
are agitating in the middle west.
While these factions quarrel they
both stand for industrial democracy
as distinguished from trades union
ism. solid organization upon COM
mon footing, no contracts with en-
ployers, frequent strikes to better
conditions, and, of course, ultimate
ownership of the tools of production
/ in which state, the leaders proclaim
there will be work fer all, good pay,
short hours decent conditions and a
chance for individual improvement
''for all except the exploiters, who
will then have to go to work like the
rest of us"
So peaceful have the strikers been
in northern New Jersey that the town
officials, though frankly antagonfstic,
have had no excuse to even swear in
extra police. The I. w. w. organizers
were told to get out of town by the
chief of police, but laughed at him.
Boris Reinstein, going TO court to
give bail for a striker, was searched
without warrant. He only smiled at
the cops.
There have been many such Incl
dents. but nothing queerer than when
Lizzie Sering, II, called the 1000
weavers in the big Botany mill to
strike. The foreman and so private
detectives attempted to restrain the
workers from walking out There
were fist fights. Several women were
| injured Mrs. Mary Hoffman, pitt
full deserted wife with one child, earn