New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-06
!. W. W. WOMAN
DEFIES PATERSON
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn to
Turn Injunction Weapon
Against City.

Paterson may say what it wishes.
but it has not seen the last of Eliza
beth Gurley Flynn, not If Miss Flynn
knows it. More than that, she pur-
poses to speak in Paterson and as
serts she will do it, Chief Bimson. the
police and fire departments to the con
trary notwithstanding.
"These people over in Paterson have
been strong on talking for law and
order" she declared yesterday. That
is fine, but it is not consistent with
their acts. Now | propose they shall
have taste of law and order and
will speak in Paterson and so will my
associates. How? If necessary we
will ask the courts to enjoin Mr.. BIN
son, the gentlemanly Mayor, who is
SO SOLICITORS for the working people,
and the rest.
The injunction has been the weapon
% the manufacturers and good people
like Paterson's sanity Mayor in grind
ing down labor and tying up those
who would help them. Now, If neces-
sary, we will give them some Of their
own medicine. We are advised that
an injunction will lie against these
gentlemen and We purpose 10 try 1t
out. II is possible that we may not
get one-barely possible-but | doubt
1t. No one would be foolish enough
10 make so clear a demonstration Of
the fact that there is one law for the
rich and powerful and another for the
poor
Paterson is worse than Marietta,
for in Marietta they at least have the
decency to cover up the fact that Of
fccrs Of the law are in rank defiance
of il.
Not even in Georgia would chief
Of police tell you when you ask about
your constitutional rights, You have
the rights, but we have the power.
or 10 boast openly that the law will be
outraged.
81 can tell you something else. We
won't be fools enough TO sue Paterson
for anything that may be done TO us.
Not for a minute. Paterson is not re-
sponSible for the illegal acts of its
servants, things done outside of the
requirements Of their places. Not
much, and that red herring will not
throw US of the trail.
u
get around to il are those who have
anything to do with the illegal arrest
4 Of myself and others and the trespass
| on our rights. We will start with dear
/ little Mr. Fordyce. the Mayor, and 20
right down the line to the newest cor
/ that had a finger in the thing. If any
] Of these have a dollar we'll get II.
And we won't ask jersey Jury for IT,
/ either There is more than one way
10 skin a cat. and the sooner these
! Jersey jays get wise 10 that the better
/ off they will be.
"Why, those people over in Paterson
/ these so-called good citizens. are the
/ biggest fools in the world. Friday
I night, II we had been permitted 10
/ talk, perhaps 1000 persons would have
/ heard US and o few thousand more
know that we had been in town. But
what did they do7 Why, they billed
! US in such a way that more than TO-
/ 600 saw US and had a bit Of the ex-
/ element before we were run out Of
/ town. Everybody in Paterson knows
| about il, and they have done more 20
agitate by that act than we could in a
month. besides advertising their dear
old town and its officers as law-break-
ers Lovely, isn't II?
Legal action II will come, all
right But won't il be a scream IL the
aisorderly, criminal, undesirable l. v.
W. agitators have 10 go to law TO pro,
tect themselves against the law-abid-
ing. desirable and eminently respect
able Messrs. Fordyce, Bimson & Co." ?