The sun., 1919-02-08
STRIKERS DENOUNCE'
|. W. W. IN PASSAIC.
Woman Leads in Shouting to
Silence Radical Who Tries
to Speak.
ROUNDUP BY POLICE
Two Deportations Made as
Leaders Are Distributing
Literature.

A police roundup yesterday OF I. W. w.
leaders in Passaic. ". j.. and the de-
portation OF two from the city turned
the growing strike OF textile workers
from a danger point. the police now be-
lieve.
Few Of the Passaic strikers have
shown an inclination TO follow the rad
ical leaders who went into the city
Tuesday to seize the management OF the
strike. a mass meeting held in the
First ward park yesterday morning gave
the l. w. W. leaders their final answer
Ten thousand workers gathered to hear
representatives OF the United Textile
Workers of America and the American
Federation of Labor. When a delegate
Of the I. W. W. forced his way to the
front and attempted to sneak there were
shouts OF opposition. and Miss Lillian
Stewart. a woman striker. shouted:
I'VE don't want YOU I. W. w. You
robbed us OF the last strike"
!. w. W. Leader Flees.
The wouldbe speaker Adoiph Lessis
Withdrew under protest. With him went
about 500 of the spectators. From there
I.essig went TO a room at A Dayton ave-
nue. and he had been there only about
two hours before detectives under Capt
Benjamin Turner raided the place.
They found about $50 strikers in the
room signing I. W. w. membership
blanks and collecting radical literature
for distribution. Lessig vanished almost
at tho time the police entered. lr
charge of the enrollments was Edward
Rankin. who said he lived in New York.
and Samuel Kraiger OF New Brunswick.
y. ]. Rankin was taken TO the Erie sta
ton and put on board r. train in charge
OF a conductor. who promised not TO let
him of until they got under the Hudson
River Kraiger was shipped back to
New Brunswick.
Police Commit ssloner Kehoe said that
he will deport any other I. w. w. agi-
tators who appear in Passaic on the
ground that the strikers do not want
their aid. This attitude Of the workers
WAS confirmed al melting Of labor dele
gates after the meeting In the park
failed TO rcach a decision. The latter
gathering was in Naciac Hall.
After considerable discussion It was
voted 20 appoint a central committee of
strikers 10 form n local union to he
known as the Passaic Wool Workers
Industrial Union. The conduct Of the
SlIlhe Will rest IN lIllS DOOy dIteE rdtlU-
cation b. the mass OF workers at an
other public meeting 10 be held to-day,
Matthias Pluhar was made temporary
chairman Of the new body.
500 More Join strike.
Eight hundred more workers joined
the strike Yesterday from the Garfield
Textile Mills. the American Cigar Com
pany and the Long Handkerchief Com
pany Ta!rty employees .. the New
York Betting and Packing Company also
went out, demanding forty-four hour
week. The spread Of the strike 10 the
new industries was sald. to bA due TO- the
general unrest pervad!ns the c::y. 2y
similar extension OF sympathy" IL
is feared b. the police that the number
OF unemployed will Increase steadily
within the next few days
-Four hundred out OF 500 girls en-.
ployed al the American Cigar Company
went out, demanding a forty-four hour
week and an increase OF % cents a hum
'red cigars handled. The handkerchief
! workers want a wage increase r':ar!ns
from 30 10 100 per cent. Their den.a nds
vii! % formally presented 20 the uwncys
on Monday
TIC wool manufacturers. through j
Frank Andres, secretary OF the Indus.
TRIAL Council at Passaic, issued a state
ment announcing their Willingness TO
submit the questions a. issue TO the War
Labor Board They charge the workers
with bad faith for not serving them