The Paterson Strike by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 19, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 32.

The Paterson Strike

By Editor

The long strike in Paterson, New Jersey, lasting for five months, closed by the defeat of the workers; they go back to the mills at their old pay and hours. It is said that there has been a loss in wages since February 25 of $5,600,000; the city of Paterson is out about $50,000 spent for extra police protection; and manufacturers estimate their loss at $1,000,000, and admit that it will take years for the silk city to regain its prestige as a manufacturing center. Hundreds of merchants, doctors, lawyers, bankers, and small capitalists, who have faced ruin during this industrial war, when sixty per cent of the working population was not earning a dollar, are trying to recoup their losses. The real cure of the trouble, seemingly, those that kept it boiling to the very last minute, have been the I. W. W.'s. The I. W. W. leaders have now left the city, it is said. Haywood, the chief, is reported as "very sick." Surely there are better ways of settling troubles than such as this.