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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1912
Page
9
Continued from Page Eight recounts threats by police and militia as workers push for livelihood and industrial freedom. A speaker blames capitalists for attempts to dynamite Lawrence, arguing such violence harms workers and their families in the struggle for freedom.
A massive labor march filled Boston streets as tens of thousands demanded liberty for Ettor and Giovannitti. led by a 14 year old boy and Pearl McGill, marchers from Boston and surrounding cities paraded from Castle Square to the Common with banners, bands, and petitions raising funds for the defense.
An old fashioned advertisement touts Syrup of Figs as the ideal laxative for children and adults. It claims to cleanse sluggish liver and bowels, relieve biliousness and feverishness, and promote a well, happy child within hours without griping. The product name is Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna by California Fig Syrup Co.
Pasquale Maruszzi, 30, of 134 Prince Street, was arrested after a tense disturbance as a North End parade deviated from its permit route. Officers halted the march when handbills urged quashing Ettor and Giovannitti indictments. Maruszzi was charged with distributing handbills without a permit and released on bail. Giuseppi Ricci, 60, was treated for scalp wounds at the Relief Hospital.
Union 811 I S A met yesterday to review working conditions affecting members. A special committee was appointed to seek an adjustment of the situation.
I W W leader William D. Haywood smuggled into Boston from Providence and attempted to escape after his speech. He was arrested with bail commissioner Connolly and bondsman Moore, booked at Station 16, and set to appear in Lawrence Superior Court next morning.
William D. Haywood says his arrest for conspiracy was prearranged to avoid riots. He left New York at midnight, traveled via Providence, arrived in Boston, and entered the Common to address the crowd with I. W. W. and Socialist leaders surrounding him.
Lawrence Sept 15 William D Haywood general organizer of the Industrial Workers of the World is indicted for conspiracy to intimidate in connection with an alleged effort to conduct last winter's textile strike unlawfully. The Essex county grand jury returned the indictment in April but kept it secret before Haywood was arrested in Boston on a Massachusetts Supreme Court capias warrant. The April grand jury also returned a dozen indictments related to the Lawrence strike including Joseph Ettor and Arturo Giovannitti charged as accessories to the murder of Anna Lopizzo during the riot on Jan 29.
Ex president James De Bell of the Boston Cigar Makers Union hails the parade as an epoch-making day signaling a new civil liberty era. Attorney Thomas Connolly praises Massachusetts labor progress as a power shift toward justice, while organizer Edward Blochlinger highlights worker-family presence and a demand for Etter’s freedom and fair wages.
The mysterious man in the brown coat remains at large while Ettor Nitti and Caruso await trial in Essex county jail. Only one indicted person, John J. Breen, has gone to court for the Lawrence strike dynamite case. District Attorney Pelletier’s Suffolk investigation added indictments against several, including William M. Wood of the American Woolen Company for alleged dynamite instigation.
Haywood traveled from Boston to Lawrence for a Superior Court hearing slated for tomorrow morning. The city swelled with 2000 local mill workers arriving by special trains for a Boston protest meeting where he urged a coming general strike. He later said the strike might occur before week’s end, or perhaps not at all. He met with attorney John P. S. Mahoney and regional union leaders to discuss conditions in Lawrence mills and other New England textile centers.
An advertisement touts Danderine for instant hair beautification. It claims cleansing, scalp refreshment, dandruff removal, and stronger growth with a 25 cent bottle, urging use on small strands for a luxuriant effect.
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