The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-03-05
TWO PLANTS HAVE
MADE PEACE WITH
THEIR employees
Noonsocket Falls Mill, Employ
ing $50 Hands, viii Re
open on Monday.
WILL RETAIN 48-HOUR
WEEK WITH LOWER WAGE
Renewed Attempts at Arbitra-
tion Will Be Made by State
Board of Mediation.
tey rhs Assoelated Pres.l

NPRoVTDENCE. r.. T., March Am
buncement was made today by the
engagement OF the woonsocket Falls
Mills at Woonsocket, r. J., that tho
srike in that plant, which began three
weeks ago. has been settled by COM
Promise. The mill, which employs $50
hands in the manufacture Of plush will
reopen Monday morning.
This is the second plant in the
blackstone valley to make peace with
the strikers. Earlier in the week the
Acme Finishing company III Paw
tuclSet had agreed to cancel its notiee
OF 54-hour week and a 20 per cent
wage reduction According to today's
announcement, the Woonsocl1et Falls
mills VIII retain the 4S-hour week, and
the workers will accept a wage reduc-
ton of from 6 to 10 per cent.
Tonight both James M. Dick, orga-
nizer of the Amalgamated Textile
Workers, who is heading the strike
forces IN the Pawtucket valley. and
Thomas T.. Mcmahon, president Of the
United Textile Workers, general of the
Blackston valley strikers. declared
that Monday morning would see re-
newed activity In all sections of the
Rhode Island textile area. "A policy of
intensified piciSeting' was announced
TO the strikers at mass meetings.
throughout the day and Mr.. McMa
lion stated shat sne Blackstone valley
niu, which he did not name, vould see
mass picketing"
In the Pawtuclxet valley, where the
Hope company's mill at Hope was re-
mpened Thursday and pickets We're
hter driven from the vicinity of the
llsnt by cavelrymen and machine
sunneys, strikers will test their picket
ing rights ITO the limit" Organizer
Dick announced. Monday is the time
set for the test. A ruling has been
made by Deputy Sheriff Colvin of
Providence county. and Major Sam
usl A. Hall, commanding the troops
in the PawtuclSet valley, that only for
mer employees Of the Hope mills may
picket that plant.
'eRegardless of what the authorities
say we have right to peacefully
picket plants and stop those VINO are
going 10 work on any public highway
or any public approach 10 mill and
morally persuade them not to enter
the plant" said Mr.. Dick IN published
statement. 'If the authorities care to
make a test case of It before the high
est tribunal in the United States we
are prepared to so with legal advisers
and fight the case TO a finish"
The state board OF mediation and
Cancellation. which failed early in the
week to induce mill owners and strik-
erS to submit their differences 10 arbi-
tration, re-entered the situation to-
day. At the CLOSE OF a meeting lasting
two hours and half, it was an
nounced that the board had renewed
attempts at arbitration. Failing in
this effort, the statement continued,
the board would take other measures
.'of great interest to the public" No
intimation was given OF the nature of
tho proposed steps. and Labor Com
missioner George II. Webb, spokesman
for the board, declared the meeting
had not considered testing in the
courts its power 70 compel production
of mn production figures.
Minor disorders were reported today
at Arlrwright, in the Pawtucket valley.
A picket was arrested, charged with
attacking an operative on his way to
work. He was held in $500 bail for.
trial.