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Show 75,000 QuitAs Protest ' To Lie Lynching Butto, Mont., Aug. 7. Dissension In the I. W. W. organization here is browing today with conservative members of tho Industrial Workers miners' union demanding to know how tho organization can pay $500 dally strike benefits when the money from dues and donations Is far less than that amount. The conservatives conserva-tives want to know who Is supporting support-ing the organization. Chicago, Aug. 7. Sentiment Is growing for a general strike of I. W. W., according to William D. Haywood, Hay-wood, general treasurer and secretary secre-tary of tho organization, who today declared that harvest hands In South Dakota have been called out and that 85 per cent of the lumber tndustry ln tho northwest Is tied up as a result re-sult of walkouts. Haywood refused to stato how many would be affected In case of a general strike, but said that moro than 75,000 are out now. "I havo received telegrams from all parts of tho country Indorsing a general strike In retaliation of the 1 lynching of Frank Little," saidHay-wood. saidHay-wood. Haywood declared that a general strlko could be accomplished by tho separate branches of the I. W. W. striking Individually. "There Is no board or Individual powerful enough to call a general strike, ho declared. Haywood laughed at suggestions of a "civil war." "There Is no possibility of It." ho Bald. "Tho situation today is only a transient phase of the labor movement. move-ment. It Is only a part of the Indus-, trial revolution which has boen going go-ing on for millions of years. "Conditions will Improve as a result re-sult of what wo aro doing." As Haywood was talking a telegram tele-gram arrived from Boston, declaring that the Marine Transport Workers of Boston "Indorse a general strike to forco relinquishment of despot-Ism despot-Ism of Arizona mine owners and favored fav-ored a nationwide protest against tho lynching of Frank Llttlo." |
