Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-03-05
SEE SETTLEMENT OF
TEXTILE MILL STRIKE
Woonsocket Falls Plant Sci.
ties Dispute and Will Re.
open Tomorrow.
tBy Associated prcss.i

PROVIDENCE. II. l.. March Am.
nouncement was made today by the
management OF the woonsockc ct Fall,
Mills ut woonsoeket. II. l., tina. thu
strike in that plant which began
three weeks ago. has been settled
by compromise. The mill. which
employs 156 hands In tho mrnutac-
ture of plush. will reopen Monday
morning.
This IS the second plant IN the
Blackstone Valley 10 make peace with
the strikers. Earlier In the week the
Acme Finishing Company in Paw
tucket had agreed TO cancel It's notice
of nifty four hour week and 20
per cent wage reduction. Accord
ing TO today'f announcement. the
Woosocket Falls Mills VIII retain the
forty-cight- hour week and the work
crs will accept wage reduction Of
from TO 10 per cent.
VIII Rcncw Activity.
Tonight. beth James VI. Dick. or
Eanizer OF the Amalgama;ed Textile
Workers. who Is heading the strike
forces in the Pawtucket Valley. and
Thomas r. Mcmahon. PRECEDENT Of
the United Textile Workers. general
of the Blackstone Valley strikers. de-
clarcd that Monday morning would
see renewed activity in all sections
Of the Rhode Island textile area. \
policy OF intensified picketing" was
announced to the strikers ut mass
meetings throughout the day and
Mr.. Mcmahon stated that one Black
stone Valley mill. which he did not
name. would see mass rickcting."
In the Pawtucket Valley. where
the Hope Company's mill at Hope was
reopened Thursday, and pickcts We're
later driven from the vicinity OF the
plant by cavnlrym-n and machine
summers, strikers will test their
picketing rights ito the limit" or
Ganizer Dick announced. Monday IS
the time set for the test \ ruling
has been made by Deputy Sheriff
Nathan Colvin. OF Providence County,
and Major Samuel y. Hall. command
ing the troops In the Pawtuctet VAL
ley, that only former employees OF
the Hope Mills may picket that plant.
Have Right To Picket Plant.
Regardless OF what the authorities
cay, we have n right to peacefully
picket plants and TO stop those ar"
going TO work on any public hirh-
way or any public approach to n
mill and morally persuade them not
10 enter the plant" said Mr.. Dick
in published statement eff the
authorities care to make test case
OF II before the highest tribunal in
the United States We are prepared
to go with legal advisers and fight
the case to a finish"
The State Board OF Mediation and
Cancellation. which failed emily in
the week to induce mill owners and
strikers to submit their differences
&c arbitration, re-entcred the situa-
ton today. At the close of meet
ing lasting two hours and half.
1t was announced that the board had
renewed attempts nj arbitration.
Failing In this effort, the statement
continued, the board would take other
measures "of grear interest to the
public" No intimation was given OF
The nature OF the proposed steps.
and Labor Commissioner George II.
Webb, spokesman for the hoard. de
ciared the meeting had not consider
ed testing in the courts it's mower
10 compel presentation OF mill pro
duction figures.
Minor disorders were reported to-
day at Arkwrisht. IN the Pawtucket
Valley. Vincent di Cristororo a
attacking an operative on his way To
work He was held In $500 bail for
trial March II.