New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-29
HOTHOUSE BERRIES FOR
WOLF At |. ". v. DOOR
POrterhOuSe Steak and MuSh-
rooms Also Reported to
Have SOIaCed Leaders.
WHILE STRIKERS STARVED
Philadelphia Manufacturers In
vestigate-Haywood Says
Threatened Tie-up Ex-
plains Charges.
lBy Telegraph 10 The Tribune J

Philadelphia. May Exchanges that
Haywood, Ettor. Trautman and other
leaders Of the Industrial Workers OF
the World lived on dollhouse strawber-
/ ries at 81 - a box and on porterhouse
steak and mushrooms while engaged in
leading labor troubles and encouraging
strikers 10 persist TO the starvation
point are made by investigators in the
employ Of textile manufacturers here
who are preparing to combat a strike
which may be called at any moment
by the I. W. W.
The report of the investigators. only
! brief portions Of which have been made
public, says that Haywood. Ettor and
other leaders Of the /. w. w. have
| lived ION the very best that money can
obtain" while their followers were lit
orally starving 10 death and thinking
that the leaders Of the movement are
sharing their hardships with them
II developed tonight that the detec-
tives had been working for months 20
get at the facts relative 10 the ambi-
! tions Of the Industrial Workers ot
the World, which the report sums UP as
simply an easy manner for the leaders
of the movement 10 make living"
Haywood's answer 10 the report OF
his extravagances and those Of his as
| sociates is that he purposes 10 organize
the textile world of Philadelphia He
started his effort tonight by addressing
meeting in the Kensington Labor Ly-
ceum after he had dined sumptuously.
The manufacturers investigators
started their work during the Lawrence
| (Mass.) strike. The report deals with
the early stages Of that strike. and
! tells how Ettor one morning for
his breakfast demanded straw berries
which at the time were selling in Bos-
ton for 81 % a box. He got the straw
berries, according 10 the report and
almost Immediately afterward spoke
before meeting Of strikers and dur
| ing his address declared he had just
! breakfasted in the home of one Of his
| comrades, whore the wolf was peerine
| in at the window
Another portion Of the report deals
with a dinner at the Needham House
| in Lawrence, participated in by the
! ]. w. W. leaders. The report says the
leaders ordered porterhouse steak and
mushrooms and that they were such
! connoisseurs of good food that wher
the steak was brought in they de-
clared it To be sirloin and said the
mushrooms were Of the canned variety
| The food was ordered back 10 the
kitchen and other food substituted
When Haywood first reached Law.
! renee. according to the investigators,
| he was given a blow out" in Boehm :
cafe Five other Industrial Workers of
the World leaders attended, and the
check came TO $42. the report says.
| other instances along the same lines
are cited as having taken place, not
| only in Lawrence, but in Paterson and
in Philadelphia where Haywood some
/ times dimes at a Chestnut street hotel
which serves a medium priced table
d'h6te dinner. Haywood seldom takes
! the dinner.
The report is TO be printed in Yiddish,
Italian and English, and is to be cir
cuated in the sections where the In
dustrial Workers of the World leaders
are seeking recruits.