Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-10-05
R|OT|NG RESUMED
AT LAWRENCE MILLS,
SCORES INJURED
Industrial Workers Protest
Again to Aid Leaders.

/ Strikers As to Their Course and
/ During Riot the Woman Was XIII.
I ed--industrial Workers Throughout
the Country Have Come to Rescue.
LAWRENCE, Mass, Sept. 30.--Seri.
Gus rioting was resumed today in the
twenty-four hour general strike of the
/ Industrial workers in their protest
+ against the imprisonment OF their
leaders, Ettor and Gioyanitti, who are
being imprisoned ON the charge of
/ numbering woman during the wool
en- strike last winter.
/ Women led the outbreak and trouble
/ started as soon as the mills were open
/ ed. Hundreds of workers, who were
ordered to strike, refused to obey.
One worker was fatally hurt and
/ scores injured
1 There were fourteen arrests, and
about four thousand persons are on
strike because their leaders were
put on trial today at Salem, Massachu-
/ sets.
/ Sixty or more strikers FLASHED with
the police at the Everett mill this at.
termnoon. The police beat back the
rioters with clubs Ten more were
! arrested, bringing the total up to TWEEN
/ ty-four since the strike began.
Trials Begin.
A
| ly discussed case of Joseph J. Ettor
and Arturo Giovannitti, the Industrial
/ Workers of the World leaders in
whose behalf William D. Haywood re-
Gently proposed a nationwide strike
! to tie up every industry, was called
for trial today in the Essex County
Superior Court in this city. Few cases
/ in the history of criminal actions
| growing out of industrial disputes
have attracted equal attention. The
! widespread interest and Importance
with which the trial is regarded was
manifested this morning by court
| room filled with newspaper correspon-
/ dents from many sections of the coun-
/ try.
/ Ettor and Giovannitti, who hail from
/ New York city, where the former was
/ engaged in editing labor paper with
/ Giovannitti as his assistant, are
! charged with accessories before the
fact in the alleged murder of Annie
| Lopezzi in Lawrence, January 8, 1912
! The killing of the Lopezzi women oc-
Cured in street riot during the great
textile strike in Lawrence last Janu-
airy. Joseph Caruso is accused of be-
| ing the principle in the murder. 1t
| is contended by the government that
/ the bullet which killed the woman was
/ intended to kill "a Lawrence police
| officer.
| Ettor and Giovannitti went to Law
renee shortly after the outbreak of
/ the big strike in the woollen mills.
! AS officers of the Industrial Workers
| of the World they addressed meetings
/ of the striking operatives and coun-
seled them as to their conduct during
the disturbance. A few days after the
beginning of the strike the distur-
Dances became alarming and the mi
| litia was ordered out. Serious riot
! ing, in which street cars were attack
ed, took place on the morning of Jan
uary 30 The police and strikers
| dashed that same evening in front of
| the Everett Mill and Annie Lopezzi
was MORALLY wounded bya bullet.
I The day following the killing of the
Lopezzi woman Ettor and Giovnnitti
were arrested on the ground that their
speeches had melted the principals to
4 commit the acts of violence which re.
suited in the shooting. In April in
| dictments were returned against them
and they have since been held with
out bail to await trial.
Since the arrest of the two leaders
nation wide campaign in their be-
half has been waged by the Industrial
| Workers of the World, which has pie
tured them as martyrs held in pris-
/ on by the interests" Notwithstand-
/ ing the prevailing belief that the men
/ have been denied trial up to date by
4 the government, the records of the
court show that all continuancos of
/ the case have been at the request Of
counsel for the defense. 1t Is ex-
pected that the trial will occupy ct
least six weeks.