Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-10
CLERGYMEN WILL
PROBE GARMENT
WORKERS STRIKE
Action Is Taken at
Conference of Min
listers 7 oday.
BISHOP LINES SILENeES
SOCIALISTIC MINISTER
Bids Rev. Bouck White "Stick
to Subject When He
Rises to Speak.

Alta conference of ministers held
today in the parish house of Trinity
Church in Rector street a committee
of three was appointed to investigate
the local strike of garment workers,
and to place the facts before the va
rious congregations OF the city.
A proposal to raise contribution
TO the strike fund was objected 70,
and in Its stead it was agreed to
admin ste~ to the physical needs of
those out of employment pending
the Investigation.
The Rev. Bouck White. eurate
of the Holy Trinity Church, of Brook
lyn, after announcing that he came
to this city to talk from a Socialistic
viewpoint, was requested by Bishop
Edwin S. Lines, of the Episcopal do
cese, to desist. During the course of
Mr. Whites remarks, Bishop Lines
told him Dluntly to "get down to the
subject at hand"
When Mr.. White took the stand he
first explained his arrest in Brooklyn
last week on charge. of disorderly
conduct. This. he said. was brought
about by his sympathy for the
strikers. He stated that he was
paroIed, and would be tried this
afternoon He explained that he was
going to talk from a Socialist view
point, and started his remarks by
telling his hearers that he WIS a
Harvard University graduate, and
was author Of two books, Daniel
Drew" study of the psychology of
Wall Street, and "The Call of the
Carpenter, the Life of Christ as
Workman
Spoke with Giovanitti.
IL was after telling that he re-
Gently addressed an audience in Bos-
ton from the same platform with
'Giovanitti, the leader of a strike in
that city. and while relating the
hardships which striking laborsrs
we're subjected osthat his remarks
were construed by Bishop lines to-
be Socialistic, and he was requested
to discuss the matter 1t hand.
He explained that the reason SO
many strikers were not citizens Of
the United States was because of the
too stringent naturalization laws, and
strenuously denounced the police of
New York city and Brooklyn because
of their sympathy with the employ
ers.
Jonathan F. Day, superintendent of
the Labor Temple, of New York, at
tackled the police of that city. He
said that on January % he was ar
rested when on the picket lines be-
cause he refused to tell the police
who he was, and that when arraigned
in night court was Immediately lib
Grated,
He said that he had taken the mat
ter of his arrest up with the police
commissioner and Mayor Gaynor, but
that nothing had ever come of his
charges.
The Rev Bismark Coltorti told of
the suffering in the families of gar
ment workers, and said that many
times. when there was contagious
disease in a household. the fact was
withheld from the health authorities
for fear that members of the family
would be prevented from bringing
work to their homes. In that way,
he said, disease was spread broad
cast throughout the country.
Bernard Abrams was another
speaker, and his remarks were along
similar lines.
willing to Arbitrate.
Following Mr.. Abrams. the Rev.
Robert Scott Inglis, of the Third
Presbyterian Church. suggested ar
bitration as a means of. settling the
differences, and when this question
was put to Mr. Abrams, he replied
that the strikers were willing to arbi-
trate with the manufacturers, but not
with the contractors.
The Rev. w. I. Dawson followed
with the declaration that it was nee
essary first to create sufficient public
interest in the strike, and his motion
to appoint a committee of three to
compile undisputable facts on both
sides and have the ministers lay them
before their congregations was car
ried and the following were named:
The Rev. NJ j. Johnson, of Trinity
Episcopal Church; the Rev, w. !.
Dawson, of the First Presbyterian
Church. and the Rev, G.. p. Dough
erty, of st. Paufs M. e, Church. An
0LHcT meeting u tiic SiOi eJ '~'A -
held Friday at the parish house.
The Rev. John J. Moment brought
up the question of raising funds for
the strikers. pending the investiga-
tion by the committee of three. and
the Rev. Dr. Inglis suggested that It
would not be proper for the clergy to
take the part of either side until the
merits Of both sides had been gone
into thoroughly. He suggested that
1.-THE physical needs" of the strikers
be administered to, but that nothing
should be done for the strike fund.
This suggestion met with the appro-
val of the conference.
The Rev. DR.. Stubblebine asked II
the Catholic clergy had been invited
to attend the conference, and when
informed by the secretary that they
had not been because a directory OF
the Catholic clergy was not at hand.
he suggested that an invitation be
tended to the next meeting.
Samuel Levine. who denounced the
attitude of the church toward the
strike situation was severely ar
raigned by several of the clergymen
after the meeting. The clergymen
that If Mr.. Levine did moi