Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1912-07-26
The Capitalist Interests ARRIVED
Against Ettor and Giovannittf. al &

persecution of Ettor and Gioyannitti
Z are the biggest and most powerful in
tn the country. There are In Lawrence
4 twonty-two large wooden and cotton
mill corporations. All Of them are
named In the indictments as having
been offended against, and all Of them
are DESTROYS Of the death or punish.
nent Of the two incarcerated Lawrence
strike leaders. All are owned by DOW
'erful New England and Wall Street
railroad and textile interests. E. !, s5S
VT 4 The biggest corporation in Law.
renee is the American Wooden CO. The
American Wooden Co. does about is
OF the worsted and wooden manufactur-
ing Of the United States. It has a
capitM stock 81 100000 900 on which
it always pays per cent dividends.
The American Wooden. Co. owns thirty
four mills, most Of them being located
in New England. The Wood Mills, To-
Gated in Lawrence, are the biggest
-worsted mills In the world. They are
1900 feet long, 300 feet wide and con
tain 10000 square feet of floor space.
It 10 estimated that the Lawrence mills
Of the American Wooden Co employees
$500 persons, or a little less than
one-half Of the entire number of tex
tile workers employed in the city. The.
American Wooden Company's offices
are in Boston. s@S + tae, '.s53l$ 3.
Next in rank, are the Arlington
Mills owned by the Whitman inter
ests, so called after the president and
principal stockholders, and with Off
ces in New York. Whitman is cred
tied in inside circles with being the
father Of Schedul X. His corpora,
ton is capitalized at $s,OOO,OO It's
annual output reaches. the total value
Of $15,00O,00O. Its dividends were 6
per cent from 1877 to 1903, 8 per cent
from 1908 to 1912. In 1905 the Whit
man interests also declared stock
dividend Of SO 1-3 per cent. It's mills
n Lawrence employ over 5000 opera
tives. 54j i.s, 4 .$$ L A.
The Pacific Mills, the Third Corpo-
ration Of note, has a capital stock Of
100000, and a surplus of $6,24S,279..
4 It's average yearly return in dividends
1 is 1870 per. cent This corporation is
erecting new mills whose length and
capacity is said to exceed those of the
largest American Wooden co. s. mills.
This company nufactures cotton
! and worsted dress goods It is one Of
the best known and most successful
corporations in the United States; and
employs some 5000 workers. It's legal
advisor is James R. Dunbar. t3.
5fsa Dunbar is a former, judge who gave
53up an honorable position for the more
lucrative practice of corporation law.
In conjunction with Reginald Foster
of Boston he represents the Boston and
Albany railroads, which together with
4 the Boston and Maine railroad and
New Haven and Hartford railroad, are
owned by the J. P. Morgan interests
4 5Amory "a. Lawrence a director in the
Pacific mills, is also a. director in the:
Boston and Maine ana other New Eng
land railroads; and, III addition, is; a
trustee of Harvard college, Morgan's
alma mater. Il N ;g 55.3< \. Il, Il
Dunbar in addition to acting, as legal.
advisor for the Pacific mills and the
Morgan railroad interests, IS also at
4 torney-at.law for the textile manu-
facturers$ association at Lowell, Mass.
During the first general strike at Law
renee, Dunbar declared he would go
/ the limit to; secure the electro cution Of
Ettor and Gioyannitti. AT his own re-
4 quest he was appointed by the attor-.
I ney-generaI Of N assac husets. the
states counsel in the accounting pro
ceedings Of the Lawrence strike now
going on before q Mast -in-C hancery,
fl a Boston court. The appearance Of
So eminent a lawyer In such apparent
!. ~ insignificant case Is noteWorth He
j is present as the representative Of the
New; England textile and railroad in
terests, who are intent on the suppress
4 sion Of the laibo mo ement. s55
\ a Ringing Proc laInatIor 81
connection with the Lawrence
strike eight WORKING men have been
I indicted Il for censpiracy They are.
| respectively: p atwood, VIM.
b. Trautman, Vim Yates, Ettor Gain Il ii.
/ nj, Thos. Halliday dmund Rossonio,
Jas. r. Thomps on and Guido Major
rolf. Each and ever one Bof these men a
are q. credit to the working class whom II ,l,nI
n they SO creditably repre- sented. 70
know the work Of these men is TO know
the nature 81 the conspricay they are ire
alleged to have conc octed |. Everyone ne
Of them abored in the open. in full f1l
~, ~. q !, II f,. - work.