New-York tribune., 1912-02-07
LABOR FACTIONS At WAR
Lawrence industrial Workers
Spurn Federation.
CALL THEIR RIVALS IDIOTS
Ettor Fails to Secure Freedom on
Bail-More Strikers Return
to Work in the Mills.

Lawrence. Mass, Feb 6.--Rvalry he
tween labor organizations over the conduct
Of the textile workers strike was accentu-
ated tonight when the leaders Of the In
dustrial Workers of the World issued a
statement asserting that the entrance of
the American Federation OF Labor into the
situation is an effort by capitalists to d.
vide the workers. The statement which is
in answer to a proclamation issued last
week by John Golden, of Fall River, presi-
dent of the United Textile Workers of
America, and other members of the Ameri-
can Federation OF Labor is signed by
William b. Trautmann. of Chicago, ma
tlonal organizer of the Industrial Workers
OF the World, and three members Of the
strikers executive committee. IT. Is in
part as follows:
In their proclamation Golden and his as
sOciateS assert.
"As trades unlonists we cannot permit
these unfortunate people to be starved INTO
submission; neither can we silently permit
the pernicious doctrines Of brute force
further to be spread broadcast, by the
would be leaders at Lawrence without sur
fering an injury to ourselves
Believing that such a proclamation can
emanate only I'm the brains of idiots or IN
the Offices of the mill agents against whom
years of suffering and abuse, We can con-
clude only that this seems to be another
attempt by which the capitalists hope 10
divide the Workers and use the writers OF
the proclamation to bring professional
strike breakers into the mills now vacated
We base our statement on the fact mat
the first signer of the proclamation John
Golden, claiming to represent a trades
union organization. offered organized strike
breakers to the mill owners of Skowhegan,
Me-, when all their employees were forced
out on strike by the brutal treatment OF the
employers and their agents.
The fact is admitted by us that the thou-
sands OF textile workers in Lawrence are
not trades unioniSts, as they recognize tne
fact that the doctrine Of trades uniOnsm
as adhered to by Golden and his associates
leads to the pernicious use of brutal force
Of blowing up of buildings ana destlnc'ioi
Of human life, Oy bombs and dynamite az
proven only recently by passing events.
AS industrial uniOnists the Lawrence
strikers openly, state their proG,lSanll5 ~ ~
be that only by complete shutdownS OF
plants in which controversies arise is the
use of brutal force and dynamite and the
destruction of human lhe-of the nVcs OF
workers-as practised as result OF traaes
union doctrines, absolutely discarded
There was an increase in the number
Of operatives returning to work to-day
although the mills are not yet able ia
operate under normal conditions.
Boston. Feb. 6.--An attempt of repre-
sentatives Of the striking textile workers
in Lawrence to have their leader. Joseph
]. Ettor, and his lieutenant, Arturo Clio
vannitti, who are charged with being ac-
cessories before the fact Of the murder Of
Annie Loperzo. liberated on bail failed to-
day. Judge Braley. in the Supreme Ju-
dicial Court, refused to release the prison
ers on the habeas corpus proceedings
which had been instituted. The two men
will remain in the Essex County jail at
Lawrence until next Friday, when their
case will come up in the Lawrence police
court for a continued hearing.