The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-19
Declare Barre Italians Who Are
Caring For Lawrence Youngsters
DURING COURSE OF STRIKE
Party of Children Arrived in Barre Satur-
day and Were Soon Sent to the So
liciting Families-Statement
Was Issued To-day.

Incensed at what they claim to be /,
misleading statement in a Boston Sun
day paper yesterday, members of the
Italian committee in this city, WHO have
had charge of the Lawrence children since
their arrival in Barre, and who are Se.
sponsible for their welfare while here
yehemently expressed their protests to a
representative of The Times this morn.
ing. Messrs. A. Broggi and T, Rossi whu
went to Lawrence after the children
stoutly denied that they had to plead
and beg before their young charges were
allowed to come to Barre. Angelo Sayei-
nelli and Mrs. Biazzia Chiappone, who
also came to Barre with the children, re.
iterated. these statements. According TO
members of the committee, the Lawrence
families gladly welcomed the arrival of
the Barre men and that no difficulty WAS
experienced in obtaining children with
the full consent of their parents.
Members of the committee have pre-
pared the following statement in reply
to the supposed statement Of Col. Sweet
ser, in charge of the militia at Law
renee, and newspapers which, they assert,
have distorted the truth: "The Italian
committee in answer to the statement
of Col. Sweetser of Lawrence, desires 20
state that the children taken from the
families OF the Lawrence strikers came
voluntarily TO Barre and with che full
consent of their parents, who were glad
to be relieved of their burden. Naturally
Col. Sweetser is speaking in behalf of
the Lawrence capitalists, as he knows
that without their children the working
men can better fight their battle. Con-
cerning the matter of forbidding other
shipments OF children from there. ii will
be necessary to pass laws similar 10
those in force in Russia, and these do
not exist in the United States as yet
tSignedl Guilio Miami
For Italian committee.
Copies of the agreement which accom-
panies the departure OF each Lawrence
child were exhibited this morning. In
each agreement, the Italian committee
promises to properly feed and warmly
shelter the children during their stay in
Barre and TO see that each child Of school
age is sent to the public schools. II is
further guaranteed that none of the chill
dren shall be forced to do manual labor
of any kind and that their return TO
Lawrence is subject to the call of the
parents. To preclude the possibility of
any child being lost. a tag bearing ths
identity of the wearer is sewed TO the
young ones clothing. Tonight, the chill
dren will assemble at the Socialist hall
on Granite street, where each win be
supplied with a badge on which is writ
ten the words, Lawrence boy" or Law.
renee girl"
In speaking Of the matter to. day,
members OF the local committee said
they had been pressed with petitions for
more children by local families. English
speaking people have asked that English
speaking children from the Massachu-
setts city be also brought to Barre dur
ing the strike According to the com
mittee members, all OF the contingent
Of children arriving Saturday are entire
" happy and pleased with their new