The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-07-17
RIOT IN CLEVELAND.
Two Factories closed by Angry strik-
.rs-The flhIrF go strike Ended.

Details of the serious outbreak in Cleve-
land, Ohio, resulting from strike of 5000
men employed in some of the rolling mills,
are given in dispatches as follows:
Large lodes of the strikers were astir at
an early hour this morning, and by o'clock
fully 900 men, armed with clubs and revolt
vers, met in the Fourteenth ward, and lis
tened for an hour to speeches by Karl Palka,
agent for the Anarchists committee i'll
this country. About 10 o'clock a procession
was formed and the information went from
man to man that they were going to march
to the city and drive out the men who were
working in the different manufacturing estab-
lishments controlled by the Chishoms. The
strikers reached the II. i. Nail company
works at about II o'clock. They made rush
for the works and drove out the w0rkmen
who, to the number of $50, fed from the
building.
The strikers then proceeded to the Chisholm
Shovel works, but their coming had been an
ticpated, and the laborers had been sent
home and the doors locked. A short distance
five story brick factory of the Union
Steel Screw works. Fayette Brown,
president of tho company, had heard
that the strikers intended to visit the works
and in the morning applied for police protec-
ton. Two policemen we're detailed to protect
the works, as the strike had not been
considered at all dangerous. When the
strikers reached the works they found all
the doors shut AMI barricaded. Beside
the men and BOYS employed at the
works there are in the neighborhood of n
hundred girls When the body of strikers
drew up in front OF tine building the greatest
Consideration prevailed, rs threats had been
made to destroy the ediiice if the men did not
quit work. Fayette Brown and several men
stood near one of the doors, and when several
of the strikers demanded admittance it was
refused.
In an instant the character of the process
sion changed into an angry mob. A fence
was torn to pieces and in a moment the door
| leading into the works was battered down
and the strikers began to swarm into the
| building. Fayette Brown stood right in
| the way of the strikers, and they made
savage onslaught on him. He was
struck with club, knocked down and
| while down repeatedly struck and kicked If
! it had not been for the cXcrtions Of several OF
the strikers themselves he would have been
! killed. He was taken to carriage and
| driven to his residence!
The mob then swarmed through the build
ing the men and boys who were at work
! leaving their places and jumping through
| windows and making their exit i'll the best
manner they could Tho girls were all told
to leave, and We're permitted to pass out
through the door. Three of the girls
tainted, and had to be carried to resi-
dences of citizens living near. one man
who refused 20 leave the bUding was
knocked down with n club and ba1ly hurt.
| He was thrown downstairs and had to be
carried to his hone. After every person had
been driven from the place the strikers re-
turned to the Fourteenth ward and dis
| pcrsed.
When the fact became known that Fayette
| Brown. who is one Of the most prominent
men in the city. had been so roughly handled,
| the greatest i'll lignation was expressed against
| Mayor Gardner for not giving the company
| better police protection The mayor,
however, immediately called meeting
OF The police board. at which it was Diet r.
mined to stop the violence of the strikers az
any cost SmlhniJhrS battery was instructed
to hold itself in readiness to he called upon at
a moments notice. The Cleveland Grays
began drilling in their armory, and were put
under private instruction from the mayor
After lasting eigh5 days the strike of the
conductors AMI drivers on the Western
Division Street railway in Chicago has come
TO an end in virtual victory or the strikers
The strike originated in the discharge by
the railway company of sixteen men who had
been members OF "A committee which had sue
ces,fully petItioned the company for the re
dress of certain grievances The employees be-
lieved that the men We're dis harEel because OF
their having served on the committee, and in
sisted that they should either be taken back
or given a cuanCe to answer any charge:
there might be against them The company
declined to do either and the conductors anC
drivers, some ! 800 in all. struck.