A GREAT STRIKE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13103, 17 June 1913, Page 3

A GREAT STRIKE.

In Paterson, New Jersey, twenty-flve thousand men. women and children have been thrown out of work for almost two months because of the strike that has been going on m the silk mills. This strike has involved the spectacle of two great labor organisations warring, one against the other, namely, the American Federation of Labor and the Industrial Workers of the World. The fight has been an extremely bitter one between the mill-owners and the workers, charges of violence have been made against the workers and charges of using unnecessary, and Improper force have been made by- the workers against the police The situation Is In striking contrast to other recent great labor disputes, for example that of the railway engineers and the railroads and of the railway toremen and the roads, both of which were settled satisfactorily through arbitration and without one man being thrown out of -work for a single hour. Paterson, on the. -contrary, has been the scene of great demonstrations. At the funeral of an Innocent man, totally unconcerned In the strike, who was shot to death during a street disturbance by a private detective more than four thousand of the strikers, marched In procession, wearing red ribbons or red carnations, which they threw Into the grave of the victim. The American Federation of Labor h& attempted intervention for the purpose of bringing about a settlement of the strike and of organising the workers under the Federation plan. This means the forming of unions on the basis of trade lines, for example/ aU weavers m one union, etc while the Industrial Workers of the World are, following here, as always, their basic plan of organising by lndusif\v Thus tney caU out In thl* strike all the people employed m the mills Involved without regard to their special work. Already In Paterson wages to the amount of almost 2,000,000d01. have been lost through Idleness.