New Britain herald., 1915-05-18
Commissioner Woods of New York Says
 That the GunWoman Has Arrived She Receives from $5 to $7.50 Day-She Works Only When There Is Strike on of Women
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assault her until she is inside the vestibule of her home. She may even wait for her to come out the next day.
 "We have proof that women are taken to other cities when there are strikes on. We have macs and dates, but just now We cannot give these out, because it might prejudice the cases when they came up in court. We don't want to run the risk of these women being paid, to get out of town rather than give their testimony. Because it is our intention to make it imp ossible for the gunwonan to do violence, just as we'll as for the gunman. One is as bad as the other. Both have to go."
 Miss Rose Young who is we'll known as ma agaZine writer and suffrage worker, was arrested during the shirt waist strike about two years ago for picketing. When she was told that the commissioner had said that there were gunwomen in that strike. she said: ''If there was anybody who could be called gunwoman in that strike ] certainly did not see her. What vio- lence was done was the other way around.
 Called "Scabs.'
 Why, the day we were arrested.
 what do you suppose the charge made
 against the girls was? That they had
 slapped anybody even. let alone in
 turing anybody? Not at all. It was
 that they had called 'scabs' at the
 strike breakers. I was impressed all
 the time with the self-contro1 which
 the girls showed and with the instruc- tions given them constantly to be care
 full, lest there should be viilence which
 would hurt their cause.
 Tt seems a strange thing that if
 these gunwomen have been operating
 it is just being discovered. Of course,
 if the commissioner says he has the
 proof I can scarcely say he hasn't.
 But if were asked offhand what I thought of a statement that gunwom el1 were hired in strikes and if T were not told who said it I would say that it sounded to me very much like trunnped-up story and part of the general scheme to discredit labor" If there are desperate characters mixed up in strikts-and she is of the opinion there are-they are not on the side of the strikers, according to Mrs. Inez Milholland Boissevain.
 I've seen ruffians in strikes, she said, when asked what sl.c thought in regard to gunW ome en, "but they were not women and they were not working for the union. They were working for the employers. Once visited strike breaking agency and talked to q couple of men, who were brothers. They told me that they didn't like the ! work, but they had to make 8. living some way, and they could make 2 good one as strike breakers. They said they worked with riff-raff the scum of the earth.
 'sOf course, I won't contradict the commissioner in his statements. How can [? don't know what he knows. I only know what I know. And that Is 1 that I have always been impressed with the control shown by women when on strike. I have wondered sometimes how they could show so much restraint when they saw woIn- en 'scabbing on them. I wouldn't have blamed them if they had shown violence, but I would have deprecat- ed it, because I do not believe that ] violence avails anything.
 Question for Commissioner Woods. There is one thing I'd like to ask the police commissioner. Leaving aside the fact that it is matter of common belief that employers use i violence when there is labor trouble on. it has been proved that gunnen were taken to Colorado and to Roose-