New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-04-09
CRISIS IN STRIKE TODAY
Fioht Big Mills Will Resume
Operation at PaSSaic.
OWNERS FEEL CONFIDENT
leaders Assert That Workers
Are Well in Hand and Will
Not Yield.
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,.,ssir y. J.. April s-Ursatsfactory
.t.ronces between strikers, mill owners
- ,p;or leaders held here to-day are no.
,,.,,,d "a indicate q strike crisis The big
~. ,.rI come tomorrow. when eight out
- the nine mills. two Of which have been
.,o,sd for two weeks. viii resume opera
zion n the men return TO work tho strike
- s.oren. if they heed the counsels Of the
,,rslA leaders the situation created by the
IAN owners will but intensity their strained
.,,stions with the idle operatives.
The mill owners are going ahead on the
.,.,ce that the long rest the workers have
"a and the influence Of the reopening ot
-. dundee Textile Works and the Garfield
vdsted Spinning Company. which have
I'm closed for the last two weeks VIII
en- the tide Of sentiment in favor q
...o.ehIe submission 70 conditions
The declarations Of the strike leaders
.,-,.ever that the mer are well IN hand
and will never submit received some con
e.,,,,,on to-day. A delegation Of strikers
conferred with Fritz Kick. superintendent
- the Forstmann & Huffman mills, m
Garfield. and reiterated their demand for
=; N o. per cent increase and also recog-
ui,;or of the union. Both demands were
81. denied. These mills. the scene Of the
-ioting If last week. will open with the
o,,.rs tomorrow. but they will do so un-
der 2 guard Of go deputies who VIII be on
hand 10 ouell on the instant all attempts
70 create q disturbance
50 far the efforts Of the socialists 10
co,onel the acceptance Of Haywood lead
.rsbin have failed signaly. Another at
,or,nt was made yesterday, when a COM
r,l,tos Of the Socialist party OF fassalc
vsrt 10 Boris Reinstein. the organizer OF
the Detroit Independent Workers Of the
World. and tried to have him cooperate
with the union leader Relnstein again re-
fused 10 have anything 10 do with Hay
wood.
James Flynn. Of the Chicago Industrial
Workers of the World, said tonight that
HAYWOOD was now in Chicago and Woul"
arrive here in a few days. He said the
mill owners were opposed TO Haywood 5
leadership not because they feared ne
would preach violence. but for the very ree-
son that he did not. They recognized
FLYNN said that perfect inactivity was
mich more to be feared than armed oppo-
sition and that Iaywood's programme was
one OF education rather than Generalization
The Industrial Workers of the World,
headed by Reinstein, will parade through
the city tomorrow morning, and the iocst
authorities arc on the alert for signs Of
trouble.
uackcnsack y. J., April (SpeciaD. 49,
The Mems Club Of the Unitarian Church at
11ackeDsack in resolution have expressed
their svmpathv for the Garfield wool!en
mill strikers They Criticise the acton OK
Justice +. NJ johnson, of Hackensack, VINO
held court in the mill of the Forstmann aHc
huffman Company during the riot on FIJI
dav. when several strikers were committed
Ia Jail
Seweu Ford. author Of the shorty Nc
Cabe" stories, a member Of the Mems Gnu"
denounced the action of the deputies for Or
dering girls TO take from their Wa's's
badges containing the words 1--WE are stlf-
ing for bread" He also criticised SherHt
Couklin and Under Sheriff Heath for pro-
bibiting free speech among the strikers
What right has Justice Johnson got 10
20 10 mill and hold court I'm the ONCE 81
the millovncrs?" asked Sowell Ford. liz
goes there 10 do as the millowners want
with his back against tabor. il looks WroiS
II the best WHY should strikers be de-
rrived of their liberty and prohibited from
free snocch? ] am out Of sympathy WIN
the deputies when they seek to incte Vi'-
lcnce bv their own conduct. but believe
tbov can do good in cndcavoring to NAM
tain order"