The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-19
By CLARINA NICHOLSON

| WILKES BARRE, Pa, (By MaiD.
The officials of the American
Federation of Labor have openly
come out as strikebreakers, and to-
gether with the bosses, cops, courts
and press are fighting and trying to
smash the National Textile Workers
Union in the anthracite region.
Five hundred strikers of 2 mills
in Plymouth and Wilkes Barre, or
ganized under the leadership of the
National Textile Workers Union,
have forcibly been prevented by
police from meeting with their or
ganizer, Clarina Nicholson, and
other speakers from the n. T. w. U.
On April 18th, at a meeting of 500
strikers at Stravinsky Hall, AZ Ferry
Street, Plymouth, the entire police
force, including Chief of Police
Hosie, of Plymouth, escorted into
the hall and protected Mary Kel-
leher, organizer of the United Tex
tile Workers Union, VIM. ]. Krem-
belbein and Bernard Calhoun, inter
national organizers of the A. F. of
L. When the N. T. W. U. organizer,
Clarina Nicholson arrived at the hall
at $50, after picketing the Ply
mouth mill, she was told by the
chief of police, that he had orders
not to let her in the hall; one of
the cops present stating: "You know
the United Mine Workers officials
run this city and we have had our
orders"
"You Won't Live Long"
When organizer Nicholson tried
TO push her way by the police Off
GERS into the hall to attend her own
meeting, she was arrested, charged
with "unlawfully attempting to en-
ter a peaceful meeting, disorderly
conduct, and refusal to dispense
when told by an officer" At the
time of her arrest, Anthony Ricci,
member of the N. T. w. U. who had
done picket duty during the strike,
and spoken at several of the previ-
Gus meetings, was also arrested and
charged with disorderly conduct and
refusal to disperse. Michael Zaldo-
kas, reporter for the Lithuanian
papers, 'Iaisve" and 'Vilnis," and
organizer for the American Lith-
uanian Workers Society, was also
arrested on the same charges. At a
hearing before Squire Evans of Ply
mouth, Ricci and Zaldokas were
found guilty and are on bail. The
case against Clarina Nicholson was
dismissed by Squire Evans who said:
81 order you out of Plymouth. Don't
you ever dare come into this city
again. If you do, you won't live
long,"
Next day, at a secret Strike Com
mittee meeting the entire Strike
Committee voted to demand Clarina
Michelson's admission to a meeting
called by the U. T. w. U. that after
noon at the Polish Alliance Hall,
West Main ST., Plymouth, and to de-
mand that A. F. of L. and U. 7. w.
U. officials debate with National
Textile Workers Union organizers.
AT this Polish Alliance Hall meet
ing, Strike Committee members were
refused the floor and several were
threatened with arrest by the large
police force in attendance. When
Nicholson arrived at the building
with members of the Strike Com
mittee she was thrown downstairs
by the cops at the top of the first
flight of steps and again ordered
to leave town by Chief of Police
Hosie.
Wants Them in Jail.
Stravinsky Hall, at az Ferry ST.,
Plymouth, where the N.T.W.U. was
to hold its usual meeting at $50,
was patrolled by 8 cops. No strikers
were permitted to enter. Again
Clarina Nicholson and Anthony
Ricci were arrested but We're not
able to learn until the next day that
the charge against them was incit-
ing to riot. Zaldokas, in charge of
local International Labor Defense
work, who tried to get information
about the arrests at the police sta
lons was arrested inside the police