Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-05
FEAR TROUBLE IN /
GARMENT STRIKE
Leaders Denounce Miss Flynn
and Blame |. w. w. for
Disorder.

The situation in the garment work.
ers' strike today is just as compile
Gated as it has been for the past
week All efforts on the part of the
leaders to have the hands return to
work on the preferential shop plan
being refused. The strikers are stub-s
bornly insisting that they will not re-
turn to work except to closed shop,
and in their stand they are being en-
couraged, it is said, by organizers
from the l. w. w, who are working
the men and women up to such a
pitch that the leaders are having con-,
siderable difficulty in handling them
and fear trouble.
The strike leaders are emphatic in
declaring that they had nothing to1do.
with the appearance of Elizabeth
Gurley Flynn. the national organizer
of the I. w. W. in this city last night
Miss Flynn, who was arrested last
week for addressing the striking silks
workers in Paterson, came to this
city last night to address the gar
ment workers at the new Union Hall.
Broome and Morton streets. but was
prevented by the police of the Fourth
precinct. acting under strict orders
from Captain VogeL The latter is of
the opinion that the outbreak early
Monday morning in which severals
shots were exchanged by the policel
and the strikers, and in which seven
arrests were made, was due to the
intervention of organizers from the
|. w. w.
Being warned in the afternoon that
Miss Flynn was going to make an at
tempt to address the strikers, Captain
Vogel Immediately notified M. d.
Lippel, manager of the hall, that UNI
der no conditions would Miss Flynn
be permitted to speak. Miss Flynn
arrived at the hall, where large
crowd had gathered, shortly before
o'clock, accompanied by several male
organizers of the l. w, w. mo sooner
had she entered the hall than the
Fourth precinct auto patrol arrived
with the reserves of twenty men and
Painclothesmen kaas and Cort
They at once dispersed the crowd and
Miss Flynn. after short consulta-
ton with her followers, decided 10
leave the place.
her denunciation of her treatment at
the hands of the police, and especially
of what she termed the high handed
methods" of Captain Vogel After
leaving the hall. Miss Flynn and her
party held a meeting at the Socialist
headquarters where It was decided TO
protest to Mayor Haussling and TO
try and obtain his permission to hold
a meeting Friday night
A report from a committee when
has been investigating the strike was
received by the members of the Pro-
gressive County Committee at its
monthly meeting last night. The con-
clusions arrived at by the committee
were as follows:N
That men and women should not be-
permitted to compete for work below
the living wage and minimum wage
is. therefore, recommended
Sub-contracting and home work
should be abolished.
There shoull be a stricter enforce-
ment of the factory laws.
A mothers pension bill, similar to
the Minnesota law, should be enacted.
For the protection of the public all
garments should carry a label show
ing whether they have been made in
the home or in the factory.
On behalf of the |. w W., DR.,
Frank A. Caruso, of So Sixth avenue,
this morning appeared before Mayor,
Haussling and asked whether or not
future meetings might be held with
out police interference. DR.. Caruso
said that his appearance was not in
| the nature of d protest, but was
merely the result of a desire for in
| formation.
Mayor Haussling replied that, in his
opinion, Captain Vogel had erred in
breaking up last nights meeting, but
offered no other criticism of the lat
ter's action, which he believes to have
been the result of mistake. The
MAYOR added that the |. w. w. might
hold as many meetings, to which the
police were admitted. as they desired.
provided always that they were con-.
Quoted in an orderly manner. In case
of riot, he said, the police would have
fun authority to stop the meeting
and dispense the audience. He cons
cluded with the remark that he was
| in favor of free speech and always
| had been. +.
AS a result of the interview. meet
ing will be held Friday evening by
the I. w. W. in New Union Hall, corr
ner of Broome and Mercer streets.