New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-28

MISS HELEN ScHLOSS.
4 socialist who was arrested on charge
of melting a riot in Little Falls.
and a few other things. thinks about
Little Falls. y. Y. And when you have
heard her story you don't wonder.
II YOU were charged with leading riot
which happened when you were in your
room In bed. and then thrown into jail
and kept there ten days in a cell which
had been occupied by condemned muir
derer. and where a mouse ran over your
face if YOU lay down. you wouldn't have
very good opinion of the town In Whlch
s,,cb things were permitted Miss
Schloss saws she entered Little Falls last
AIav, quiet social worker, and she left
il a redhOt revolutionist in her heart The
things which happened during the strike
of the mill workers there last fall-not
the things that happened to her, but 10
others-and the conditions she found in
the tenement houses there have made
her feel that much Of the so-called re-
form work done to-day is nothing more
than scratching the surface
Now One of the Jobless.
She looked quiet enough yesterday, sit
ting in her room in The Hotel Martha
Washington. A rather demure dark
haired. plainly dressed German girl she
is. with eyes that crinkle up merrily when
she smiles. in spite of all she has gone
through. and in spite of the fact that she
is one Of the jobless ones to-day.
Yes. I've no work now, and don't
suppose." she said. that ] can get
position now at the kind Of social work
have been doing. You see. went to
Little Falls as an employe Of the Fort
nightly Club there. 10 do tuberculosis ID
spection and other welfare work, ana
then when the strike began | simply
couldn't help going in with them. heart
and soul.
But there were no riots there. save me
ones melted and carried through oy the
hired thugs who acted as special police
I have heard about the weapons the
strikers had. They had no weapons
some Of the young boys got themselves
M with sticks and pieces Of tin tor
shields took the sticks away from
some Of these boys and afterward was
sorry | did, for the boys were badly
beaten ND by the thugs who were po1cin8
tho town: and he boys were doing MOTH
ing but holding a meeting in hail.
..Spch conditions, I've heard about
Lawrence Mass. during the strike there
and I tell you it was much worse in Lit
tie Falls.
WAGE Reduction Resented.
"-rbe Gftv-four-hour law is good thing,
80 do,,bt hut the employees of the Phoenix
Mills felt il hard on them. It's mostiy
niece work there. and when girl VINO
had been getting 81 in her weekly en-
velope found only 50 she didn't IKE the
law that kept her from working az many
ho,,,s as she could stand. The men with
b,e families. Who by working many hours
had earned $40 a week-they didn't ike 1t
when their earnings were reduceu' 81 '"'S
struck-two thousand Of them
81 tried 10 keep out Of 1t at nrst' out
7 couldn't for long. and one night went
ont and picketed with the girls. soon
after came my arrest-early IN the morn
ing. before / was up. ! was Kept all ua'
az the police court with the men prisoh-
there is no woman's department
tbere-and then | was put In the hei Nj
,ner County jail--in the cell where Ches-
Ter Gillette the murderer. was kept pe
fore ne was eleetrocuted.
.'Well. a cell where condemned muir.
dere, is kept isn't very nice place. II
,Yas filthy: the odor was dreaofui. lhey
h.~ougbt me some beans and hard ofeau
"a black tea in n ose thick dishes' All
,.,.l,od and couldn't eat. The bed had
,,o ebeets. I couldn't lie down. SAT III
nv chair with my things on ana "aiteu
,rbroe days and three nights sat up anu
waited and all the time my frienos were
,r,.i,,g IN find out where / was trying u
90, into communication with me.
A, tho end OF ten days Miss Schioss
&c released under 5000 bail, but soon
af,orward she was arrested, charged win
bold,ne meeting in park where, Dy 'ne
No. che hadn't been, and was Kept III
an ono dav. During that day what she
Sl,,,.,aa,e the browning outrage happened
,rt,..o doctors whom she knew came IN,
snd under pretence of merely conVersihg
with her examined her for her SANITY.
Miss sebloss was trained in the Ger
man uospital Of New York. after which
che became an inspector for the Board OF
Health During the shirtwaist strike she
t,1nai tho Girls picket and was arrested.
appearing in court, where she was ac-
Quilted under the name of Helen 'asle'
Castle being the English Tor SchioSs'