Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-21
PASSA|C EXODUS
IS BEING ENACTED
Communism Issue Injected
in EmpIoyer-Worker
Fight There.
BY J. G. ROYLE.


P-\SSAIC, y. j.. June 21.-Fourteer
! hundred families have left Passait
since the disorders incident to the
strike of wooden mill workers. now II
its twenty. week. More are
pouring out daily and this city vii
not get them back or Others to replace
them for years.
The pinch of the strike is being fell
sharply. not only by the strikers ant
The mill owners. but by the banks
business houses and citizens gener
ally.
There are business men here who
feel that if the charges that the
united front committee. headed by Al
bert Weisbord. has received funds
from the Soviet organization in Mos
cow are true the situation is anala
gous TO that in England which caused
"A formal protest by the British for
eign office.
Towns Morale Damaged.
The morale OF the town has been
damaged to such an extent that II
will take long and strenuous efforts
to repair it. From a peaceful indus
trial center this city has changed into
what is almost an armed camp, where
tiny tots spit at any official repre-
sentative of law and order.
Vigilance committees are being
formed by those who have refused IL
join Weisbord and his united front
committee. They work all day and
take turns al night patrolling the
blocks whore they live to prevent their
homes from being bombed. n look
into the churches with their sparsely
fills pews Sunday revealed the reason
Why the spiritual leaders of the com
munity are worried. The workers
have ceased to attend church.
The effects have been felt in every
department OF industry. business and
trade. The pay roll of one of the mil
properties. aggregates 100000 a week
largest, aggregates S130, 900 week
-Four other companies average some
where near that figure. SO far there
has been lost in wages millions OF dol
lars which normally would have beer
spent in the town. Millions more
have been lost in the movement ir
OF raw materials and the movement
oIt of finished wooden goods,
These are few of the things the
strike has done to PasSaic. Business
men here declare that Passaic is pay
ing. through the stand against Weis
bord, his united front committee anC
the International Labor Defense, fol
the industrial safety of other sections
of the United States from Communism
and the Vaccinations OF the ThirC
International.
bill HaywOOd's Appeal.
These men cite as evidence a sen
sational appeal from William ID. Bia
Bid Haywood, now in Russia, fugi
tive from justice from the United
states. which is being circulated today
among the strikers. In this message
Haywood ties up the Passaic strike
with the movement which involved
Sacco and NanZetti and other Com
munists and SAYS:
Publicity is your strongest agency
agitations and demonstrations. There
will be strikes Of metal miners. lum
berjacks. oil workers. coal miners
agricultural workers. fishermen. tex
tile workers. the men on the range
the women and children in the cottor
mills. The work of the international
Labor Defense will he to protect the
victims Of capitalist injustice in these
coming struggles.
Mill owners say there is no doubt
that Weish0rd has been furnished with
money from Moscow. They are de
termined not to deal with him. Julius
Forstmann. head of the Forstmann &
HUFFMAN Mills, which normally EN-
ploy over 400 workers. said today
Rather Close Properties.
II would rather close up our crop
critics forever than deal with or come
to any conclusion whatever with Weis
bOrd'
The employers say the only pos
sible method of settling the strike is
for the workers to return. After thai
the arrangements are willing to sub
nit any questions at issue to an i'm
partial local body and abide by the
result.
Local men in touch with the situa
ton believe the mills would welcome
the entry Of American Federation oil
Labor officials into the negotiations
feeling sure that the determined
stand of President Green against com
munistic propaganda would assure g
peaceful and satisfactory solution.