New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-16
v. D. HAYWOOD HELD
FOR LAWRENCE STRIKE
|. W. w. Organizer Arrested in
Boston After Advocating a
Worldwide Strike.
WANTS IT CALLED AT ONCE
Proposed Movement He Advo-
Gates as a Protest to Arrest
and Trial of Ettor and His
Two Alleged Accomplices.

and Trial of Ettor and His
Two Alleged Accomplices.
Boston. Sept. 15.-William u. Hay
wood, of Denver. general organizer OF
the Industrial Workers Of the World
was arrested here to-day on caplas
warrant issued as the result of an in
dictmcnt by the Essex County Graho
| Jury. charging him with conspiracy IN
connection with the great strike oil tex
tile workers i'm Lawrence last winter
He was released in $1,000 bonds
The exact nature of the conspiracy
with which Haywood is charged was
not mentioned in the Indictment. just
before his arrest Haywood, in address
ing a mass meeting of 1900 persons
on Boston Common. had sounded can
for general strike Of New England
work ers--it will be nationwide move
ment. he said--as n protest against the
arrest. imprisonment and trial OF Ell
tor. Giovannitti and Caruso Ih'se
three Industrial Workers OF the worm
leaders who were active during the
Lawrence strike. are charged with com
plcitv to murder in connection VIII"
the shooting of a striker Anna LoPlZzo'
during a riot in Lawrence last January
Al to-dav's meeting banners were
displaved calling for the release Oh '''e
three leaders. and Haywood was cheele"
when he cried:
We will open the jail doors or ''o'
| the mill gates
Advised Immediate Strike
7, urging general strike. the
| sneaker declared it would pronap'S
a fact bv the end Of the coming "eeN'
| and that il would surely come peio''
| september 80. the date set for the ne
ginning Of the leaders trials. lie al
vised the assembled workers to oes'"
| the strike tomorrow.
If you leave your bench's 10 '"o'
row YOU will make no mistake he
said ANY time between now ana
| September 80 will do. but the sooner
| the better. II YOU go out '"-ih''ro"
YOU will be the forerunners' the van
guard Of a great movement Tor iIee-
dom HAYWOOD declared that such
strike. as a movement Of general pro-
test. would save lives, just as ala that
/ great movement OF sympathy ana sup
port which resulted In the vindicatlon
I Of Mover. Pettibone and myself.
The Indictment on which HAYWOOD
was arrested was returned 10y the rs
/ sex County Grand Jury several months
ago. and although the state police made
preDarations 10 arrest him when IL
WAS announced that he would come
/ into the state to-day, no interference
/ with the mass meeting was attempted.
! The Industrial Workers Of the World
organizer held an impromptu reccp-
| ton on the Common, delivered his
I speech and then hurried away through
the crowd 10 one Of the Common exits,
where officers Of the state police met
him and took him in an automobile to
the police station. There the charge
against him was read, and he was or
dered TO appear before the Superior
Criminal Court Of Essex County, at
Lawrence. tomorrow morning.
Bail was furnished by Fred H.
Moore. an attorney. OF Los Angeles
who accompanied Haywood to the po-
lice station. Mr.. Moore has been en-
gagged to defend Ettor, Giovannitti and
Caruso at their trial.
Lawrence, Mass, Sept. l5.--The iLdict-
ment upon which William y. Haywood
was arrested in Boston to-day charges
conspiracy 10 iutimidatc in connection
with an alleged cudeavor TO conduct the
textile strike Of last winter unlawfullv."
according 10 District Attorney Henry &.
htwill Tho District Attorney said to-
night the Indictment was returned By the
Essex County Grand Jury At the April
sitting, but was kept secret Vt the time
a cap!as warrant was issued. but this
was never served Haywood having left
the state Another capias warrant was
issued September by Chief Justic"
| Aiken of the Massachusetts Supreme
| Court. and # was upon this warrant that
HAYWOOD was arrested in Boston to-day.
HAYWOOD came here tonight 10 be In
readiness FOR appearance in court to-
morrow He held long conferences with
local labor leaders regarding the situa-
ton in the textile mills here and in
other New England mill centres. when
asked about his statement in his Boston
speech as 10 an immediate general strike
he replied that 1t was possible there
would be general strike during the
coming week, but that IL would not be
called tomorrow probably Later he
| said there might be no strike at all He
declined 10 amplify the latter statement
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