SOLDIERS DISPERSING CROWDS AT LAWRENCE, MASS. DURING THE GREAT TEXTILE STRIKE OF LAST YEAR, IN WHICH THE INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD FIRST APPEARED IN THE EASTERN STATES AS A VITAL FORCE IN THE LEADERSHIP OF LABOR, PARTICULARLY UNSKILLED LABOR OF FOREIGN ORIGIN THE POWER OF PATHOS IN A STRIKE ANTONIO VISCHIO, WHO WAS KILLED DURING A RIOT IN PATERSON, WAS NOT A STRIKER, BUT THE LEADERS OF THE I. W. W. USED HIS FUNERAL TO MAKE A REMARKABLE DEMONSTRATION OF THE STRIKING SILK WEAVERS, TWELVE THOUSAND OPERATIVES FOLLOWING THE HEARSE THROUGH THE CITY STREETS FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: THE PRINCIPAL LEADERS OF THE I. W. W. MR. PATRICK J. QUINLAN, MR. CARLO TRESCA, MISS ELIZABETH GURLEY FLYNN, MR. that it had got money from members of not get it. It has no accumulated surplus to conduct strikes, nor can it levy on its members for large amounts, but it succeeds, nevertheless, in carrying on large operations and in paying its way as it goes, out of spontaneous contributions. The Paterson strike alone has cost at least $35,000, but the money has come in small gifts by working people, from collections at mass meetings, from benefit performances, and from occasional checks from well-to-do sympathizers. strike committee MR. ARTURO GIOVANNITTI A LEADER OF THE I. W. W. IN LAWRENCE At Lawrence, Mass., the received from outside sources an average of more than a thousand dollars a day. Some days the contributions ran as high as three thousand dollars. The money came from labor unions, meetings of sympathy, Socialist clubs, and all sorts of unexpected sources. The I. W. W. can work in this way because it is not really an organization. It is a revolution. It has the mere skeleton of a framework on which to build. It consists chiefly in a small nucleus of agitators. It breaks out here and there, where industrial OUR STRENGTH LIES IN THE OVERWHELM MR. WILLIAM D. HAYWOOD AND MR. JOSEPH J. ETTOR, WHO SAY: "WE HAVE A NEW KIND OF VIOLENCE, THE HAVOC WE RAISE WITH MONEY BY LAYING DOWN OUR TOOLS. ING POWER OF NUMBERS" and at Paterson, N. J., where the four biggest I. W. W. strikes in the eastern states have taken place, the strikes had really begun before the I. W. W. took an active part in them. Lawrence, in warning other cities against the I. W. W., admitted that that organization did not take charge until the strike had already progressed three days. The leaders of the 1. W. W. say that there is so much discontent with the hard conditions of life in all the big industrial Mine Owners' Association. It grew up in bitter antagonism. The twenty-four men who met in Chicago in 1904 and there solemnly launched the movement had all been connected with prolonged labor troubles. They had been through war and their weapons were those of war. In their constitution's preamble they said: The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no |