The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-04-06

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relief fund and the defense of prisoners 4Le .M
We were sending children of strikers to sym R%9 HY
strike Some of the groups of children large ~ 81
and attracted good of attention and sympathy. WA
One day when a group to be sent away, ne NEs0S'
militia formed Gordon around the depot and the
the train big buey would lay ms nana on
child would ant its mother wOa l between
captive There was turmoil IN . tho children
policemen and the fighting women hey seopet t e
One morning the picket Syrian who belonged to the
strikers fife and drum corps was stabbed hnsn tn 'nS OaA
Not only the police used against the strikers but
police from the state police and the state militia had
been called in These organized used the mills as their bar
racks. .ee;.o,+ 90 tho mon and
fought as WELL morning after the strikers had been nched
eman in the middle of the bridge stripped his uniform pants
about to throw him in the icy river wnen ohr
We appealed Victor Berger for Investigation
of the Lawrence strike and through this s P of h
House, Washington D. c. When got news Of this the Genera
all boys girls of One of them was
whose hair had been caught in machine and her scalp
her head These child workers from the mills were abe
picture working conditions and their home life and we 1e
others We're striking Lawrence and adjacent
Margaret Sanger who award became famous Tor h cam
paign with the children Washington
nm the day of their arrival there the boys girls before
in the interests Of the F. called witness and
the strike and its leaders Suddenly childish voice rang
old abitch You're telling god.damn ned l h,u
who had interrupted Gompers The chairman
of the raped with his gave and looking ern
young man. will not be tolerated here Do
ITS the only kind language answered the boy land
a-goin that lie about and get with W
This incident is not reported in Gompe Seventy Years of LIE
and Labor.
newspaper the hearing remarked that here was
old and the IN the d hsar s was taking
the hearing they decided send down Washington to
help. children had told everything about conditions in
the mills to being compelled 10 buy drinking water .4
Berger had responded requests of the 1WW On previous
had citizenship they IWW Han
ford lost his job as result of Bergers investigation
newspapers staff in Lawrence to
the strike Many Of them were Of the usual type one told me that
Yakima, order the ancgarete law and to make good
story that he could SELL
Gertrude Marvin reporting for the Boston American She
interview and it. When the finished
thought she had something good her but the managing
editor remarked, as he threw it in the wastebaske
"That big two-isted thug has it all you'll"
Lawrence doing publicity work for the strike Later she
I sent out about the strike w So thoroughly appreciated BY the
subscribing the United Press that these sent hundreds
letters posted all the walls of the United Press New York
The managing editor of the Boston American finally to
Lawrence and asked Gertrude Marvin to arrange interview with
made mistake in throwing that story.
brought the platform The of the two said
Tomorrow morning picket line. All boy
home Sleep Only girl picket line tomorrow morning.
companion big belly, got big belly
beat l want to speak to all here"
had said Then she spoke herself panve ng
all that
the picket line.
The in full many pregnant
Horrible relate the little Italian organized
the pcket and another Bertha Grouse
rby beaten by the police that they
babies and nearly died themselves.
Later of brought in night
the of Jim Thompson LWW
in the steel strike When he opened the door
Several shots fired Thompson
the
He had Commissions the head
hat found his
by the Lawrence police discover the cup they probably
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