The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-03
10000 PICKET
In REPLY TO
LYNCH THREAT
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teh picket lines and arrested: Rubin
Pier, general picket captain; Kurese-
witch, Lithuanian organizer; Joe Cal
a, member of the Lawrence Strikers
Defense Committee; Cavallaro and
Chulada, picket captains. All were
railroaded to trial with
out jury and no witnesses this morn
ing and sentence on charges OF
disorderly conduct and violation of
the city ordinance deferred to No
vember to give the officials
chance to investigate for deportation.
Pier is now out on $500 bail and
Kuresevitch is out on $500. The 9TH
ers were held on $500 bail.
The Lawrence Daily Eagle, the only
local morning paper, carries a big
streamer on it's front page on the
statement by Peter Carr, who is the
police commissioner, alderman and
member of the Citizens Committee.
This statement was made yesterday
at the Carr campaign rally and says
that strike settlement is near be-
cause dfinit program is bling drawn
up which will open the way to an
agreement. The statement also says
that one side has already agreed upon
the plan, but that the second side was
yet to be heard from and that he is
unable to divulge further details.
Today when William White, for
mer Mayor and candidate for Mayor
now spoke before the meeting ofthe
City Council and proposed meet
ing in the arrnory of the Council,
mill employers, A. F. of L. and citi-
zens committee to plan the strike
settlement, Carr took the floor and
repeated his statment Of yesterday,
and added that the plan which he
cannot divulge now is of such nature
% force the workers to accept and
Therefore Whites plan cannot be
considered.
LAWRENCE, Mass, Oct. 30.-The
United Textile Workers Union lead
ers. the American Federation of
Labor central body leaders here, and
the police came down in full force
Thursday morning to try and take
over control of the 200 men and
women who were picketing the Ar
lington mill, in the midst Of heavy
rain
President Watt OF the Lawrence
Central Labor Union "a. F. L. called
the q, T. w. picket captain out of
The line as soon as the pickets booed
and jeered at one scab who went in.
Watt led the captain to the police
officer present, the three held a con-
ference, and the captain came back
shame faced and calling the pickets
together, notified them that they
could sing if they wanted to, but
must not 300" The pickets yelled
back, go to hell We're here to stop
the scabs!"
Then a crowd of detectives came
down on Martha Stone, the United
Front Rank and File Strike Com
mittee picket captain at the Airing
ton, and one of them pointed his
finger at her and made a loud speech
denouncing her as 9The National
Textile Workers Union girl" The A
F. L. leaders then told Stone, "You
can stay here If you don't make any
trouble" The crowd of pickets laughed.
Stone usually leads the line and al
ways leads the singing, she is always
there, and the big cheeses of the
U. T. W. seldom get up early enough
to picket at the Arlington.
what do we care, she picketsl" a
couple of U. T. W. girls answered the
detective and left him talking to
himself.
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Maynard Workers Resent Being
Put ON Lawrence Work
MAYNARD, Mass Nov. There Is
great dissatisfaction here at the at
tempt to force employees of the ASA
bett Mills Of the American Wooden
Co. to finish work sent here from
the struck mills in Lawrence. They
have been shipping warps cut out
of the looms in Lawrence. Wednes-
day the loom fixers simply refused to
put them in and let the warps lie