Norwich bulletin., 1912-05-25
PUTNAM
MechanicsViIIe Strikers to Establish Picket Line Today-organizers of 1. w. w. Counsel No Surrender Policy Suit Brought for chiId's Death 30 Degrees on Friday.

Hope of completely tying up the plant of the French River Textile com pany at Mechanicsvllle was expressed by the employees who are out on strike. after their meeting in Foresters hall Friday afternoon. The meeting lasted more than two hours. Much enthusi- asm was developed by the speeches of Organizers Perry and Speilman, who are here directing the strike campaign. The only discordant note of the gath ering came from an over talkative weaver, who interrupted the proceed ings to some extent.
 The main outcome of the meeting was a decision to establish a picket line about the French River Textile company's plant and Mechanicsville. This plan will become effective this (Saturday) morning and will be main tained so long as operatives remain at work in the mill. MT. Perry said after the meeting that the strikers efforts to win their strike will be entirely peaceful No violence will be counte- nanced, nor is any looked for as the operatives who are out are respecta- ble and law abiding people, as one of the strikers stated.
 The picketing will be done, it was said by MT Perry, off the mill com pany's property, but it is to be made complete, The object of it, he said, was to show the bosses" that the strikers were organized and a unit in their demands.
 | No committee of conference has been appointed by the strikers. They say they are out until they win and will stay away from work until the 1 1ning system at the plant has been adjusted to their satisfaction. Organ 1 izer Perry expressed much confidence that the strike would be a success and gave the opinion that no operatives could be secured to take the strikers | places, as the class of textile workers | to which they belong are now organ l ized all through the mill districts oi l the country. The fellows who useJ to 'scab' jobs are doing it no more, 1 he said. They can't get skilled oper- l atives to take the strikers places"
 There Is to be no meeting of the dis gruntled operatives this afternoon, bu | there will be another gathering Sunda! afternoon in some hall to be secured before that time. The talk of organ ization will be continued The effect o what has been said by the speaker mentioned has resulted, one interested man said, in the securing of 40 can l w. since the strike commenced. Thes new members, in some instances, 1t claimed are working in Putnam mills
 At Mechanicsville, all was quiet an
 peaceful Friday. The strikers wer
 making no trouble of any kind. Be
 tween 35 and 40 of them who hay
 been staying at the French River in
 left during the day to return to thei
 homes in many sections of New Eng
 land or to come to boarding places 1
 Putnam to await the settlement of tn
 strike.
 Eight special deputies have bee
 sworn in for service at Mechanicsvill'
 The strikers say there will be no nee
 of their services. for they intend to no wrong. One of the strikers said
 We are not anarchists or dynamiter
 We are going to carry this strike o
 like white people, and we feel conf dent that we are going to win"