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Hellraisers Journal – Saturday June 28, 1913
New York, New York – Frederick Boyd Issues Financial Report on Paterson Pageant
From The New York Times of June 25, 1913:
DEFICIT OF $1,996 FROM STRIKE SHOW
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Instead of Making Rumored $6,000 Profit,
Paterson I.W.W. Lost by Pageant at Garden.
———-MANY LOANS STILL UNPAID
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But All Who Cannot Afford Loss Got Their Money
-Good Seats Sold for Almost Nothing.
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Despite the statements, made after the Paterson strike pageant in Madison Square Garden, that it would net $6,000 to the strike fund, the Executive Committee of the strike announced yesterday that when all expenses were paid there would be a deficit of $1,996.45.
The greater part of this is due to sympathizers who advanced money to help the show, but the committee says that the loans still unpaid were furnished by people in comfortable circumstances who could afford the loss, while the loans from actual strikers had been paid back already.
Frederick Sumner Boyd, Chairman of the Executive Committee, had a conference yesterday with Miss Jessie Ashley, a lawyer, of 27 Cedar Street, who was Treasurer of the Entertainment Committee, and others, and a statement of the receipts and expenditures was prepared to show the Paterson strikers where all the money went to. The Socialist Party has nothing to do with the Industrial Workers of the World, but individual Socialists are members of the I. W. W., and Miss Ashley is one of these.
In discussing yesterday’s criticisms of the managers of the pageant and the questions which had been asked as to what had become of the rumored $6,000 profit, she said it was outrageous to hint that there had been dishonesty on the part of the strike leaders, unless figures could be produced to show that there had been irregularities.
Frederick Sumner Boyd, after the conference in Miss Ashley office, said for the committee:
“Miss Ashley was the first treasurer of the pageant, but becoming tied up with other duties, Mrs. Florence Wise of the Women’s Trades Union League took her place. At first it looked as if the pageant would be a source of profit, when the expenses began to pile up, and we were uncertain of a paying audience, we began to be afraid of a breakdown. At one time we had practically decided to abandon the pageant, but as we had made contracts and had incurred expenses we should have to meet in any case, we decided to pull the entertainment through.
“We had to raise $3,000 for expenses, so we called a meeting of the entire committee and of five delegates of the New York silk strikers. We told them the entertainment could not be brought off-but the delegates insisted that it must be. It was decided to raise the $3,000, and within twenty-four hours John Steiger brought in $1,600 and Miss Mabel Dodge collected $600. About $1,000 more was raised from various sources. Then we went ahead.”
Boyd then went on to explain the deficit, he said that neither Haywood, Reed, Miss Dodge, or others associated with them directly had anything to do with handling the money, except to sell a few tickets.….
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SOURCES
Quote BBH Weave Cloth Bayonets, ISR p538, Mar 1912
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/isr/v12n09-mar-1912-ISR-gog-Corn.pdf
The New York Times
(New York, New York)
-June 25, 1913
https://www.newspapers.com/image/26040660/
IMAGE
Scene from Paterson Pageant, NY Tb p4, June 8, 1913
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1913-06-08/ed-1/seq-4/
See also:
Newark Evening Star
(Newark, New Jersey)
-June 26, 1913
(Speech which landed F. Boyd in jail.)
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn91064011/1913-06-26/ed-1/seq-3/
Frederick Boyd, Paterson IWW, Grand Forks ND Eve Tx p10, Oct 20, 1913
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042373/1913-10-20/ed-1/seq-10/
Pageant of the Paterson Strike, Madison Square Garden,
Saturday, June 7th, 8.30 P.M
-by F. Boyd
https://archive.org/details/pageantofpaterso00unse/page/n4/mode/1up?view=theater
Mabel Dodge (1879-1962)
https://spartacus-educational.com/USAdodge.htm
Jessie Ashley (1861–1919)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Ashley
Tag: Paterson Silk Strike of 1913
https://weneverforget.org/tag/paterson-silk-strike-of-1913/
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