The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-20
Especial from United Press1


 Lawrence, Mass. Jan. 2o-Compan- ies andD, of Lynn, c of Glouces- ies I and D, of Lynn, G of Glouces- second battalion of the eighth regi> ment, M. V. M-, arrived here shortly after 10 o'clock, to aid the eight com panies already here in maintaining order
 The entire regiment. composing 12 companies. will remain on duty here, today. Tomorrow, or Monday. Col E. Leroy Sweetzer, in command of the TOO or more troops, will order home the first four companies who were first on the scene.
 Quiet marked the morning here, to- day where 5000 mill operatives are on strike. Strike Leader Ettor sand his lieutenants spent most of today getting the strikers into closer orga- nization at several big mass meet ings. Ettor denied that the strikers are facing starvation. He admitted there is some suffering where fami- dren are compelled to depend on the $7 or $S weekly wage of one worker. ''These conditions are but to be ex- pected, just now" said Ettor. Again do I say we are not starving and will
 Mayor scanlon again, today, order opened. yesterday, but they had been closed for the three consecutive days.
 shoot the strike leaders if you want to win this strike. It's the only way" Pinkerton detectives reported this to the mill owners after five days investigation, according to ing of 10000 strikers i.- ChaDis Hall, shortly afternoon, today.
 This charge and another charge that two big savings banks here have refused to let several hundred Polish depositors draw away thsir accounts without the usual 30 days notice will Tr4W-e l. gation by the bureau of labor. ' Lawrence. Mass. Jan. 2O.-The first slzirnish goes, to the strikers; strikers regard the "explanation" published, today. broadcast through out the state by W. M. Wood, presi- pany. The American Woolen Com pany has the largest holdings here of any concern of it's size in the Company does, so do the other com panies here.
 President Woods statement is the first formal or informal recognition given the strikers who have hereto fore refused to go back to work un- der conditions that please the mill owners to determine, or to continue the strike and starve.
 The wool interests continued, from the start of the trouble when a pal try IS cents per week was cut from
  hour week was reduced to 54 by law. to circulate charges that only the hotheaded foreign element was strik- ing. This was partly true a week ago. Today, however, 5000 Ameri- can, skilled operatives, many of whom are American citizens who vot- ed unanimously to strike. yesterday, are meeting with the strikers who first went out, to take action with inc ioint Industrial Workers of the World Those who did not attend these meetings. today, already belong to unions affiliated with either the Knights of Labor or the American Federation of Labor, rivals of each other but all now apparently work ing for bettering conditions of opera tives at the mills.
 Asked, today. to comment on the Wood statement, Strike Leader Joseph Ettor safd
 ssPresident Wood finally ,has been in which he and other mill owners find themselves. It will be remem- bered that he has belittled the strike since the operatives were first com peIled to save themHelves and their families by concerted action for a living wage. He harped on the foreign element but his statement is remarkably. freee from comment on the walkout Of the 5000 skilled American operatives. yesterday. As a matter Of fact he had nos need to which broke the hauteur and high hapdedness of the owners That walkOut. yesterday, closed the Arlington mill, today When the whistles blow for the opening. Mon 6%~- less than 2,0OO of the 30,00o em-