Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-07-19
LABOR's WAR on LABOR.
Strikers Who VIII Not Allow Other.
to Work.

HAMMOND. Ind, July l9.-Just before
the close of q stormy session the Hammond
branch of the A. X. L. last night decided
to return to work. The motion was car
ried by AZ to 81. The excitement is at a
righ point and trouble is expected Vice
PRESIDENT Haxell and Charles Merryweath-
er or the A. X. L. were arrested here on a
cnarge or fItfmidating the Monon en-
ployes. They viii be taken to Indianapolis
The soldiers stationed around the Monon
ana Erie depots and Adjutant Robbins
headquarters were in high fever of excite
ment last night over an attack by small
gang of depredators on a Monon telegraph
operator named J. J. Fry. and for a few
minutes the air was thick with orders from
the commanding officers
The depots, which are situated in the
heart Of the town, have been the lounginr
places for the rioters, and when the op-
orator left his office to walk across the
track he was pounced upon by half dozen
men, who threatened to kill him. The SOL
diers that were doing picket duty saw the
attack and called the miscreants to a halt
In the meantime the operator drew his re-
volVer, and placing it al the head of one of
the fellows held him until the guard ar
rived.
Another was caught in trying to get
through the lines. AT headquarters they
gave their names as Oscar Larson and Ar
thur Dishino. both of Moline. Ill. While
they were being booked several stones were
hurled AT a brakeman on the Monon. but
in the excitement the gang escaped The
arrested men were taken to Indianapolis.
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, July 12.-J. r.
Murray of Monon was given a hearing by
Judge Baker of the federal court yesterday
on the charge of contempt. The court con-
unued the case until next November. and
rala ad m hnn of In,
discussing the plea of Murray's attorneys
for their client, the court made use of the
following language:
Il have had occasion to say that any
body of men who have engaged in COM
bination to strike and to interfere with any
body else who goes to work. and denounce
him as scab, would be in contempt of
court; that request under such circum-
stances was the equivalent of a demand.
If, in the night time, some highwayman
would step up and say, Please give me
your purse; l will thank you to do it, not
withstanding the politeness of his language
i would understand il as threat. And SO
when member of a strike committee. with
an angry mob behind him of strikers
clothed with authority, should say to some
other man in the employ of the road,
Please. now, don't you think you ought to
come out?'' the court understands 1t as
threat. 1t is the highwayman's politeness
II means that they will make life misera bic
for him If he refuses; that they will do as
they did out here at Fontenal. break switch
locks and hurl innocent men to death.
That is what it means. They talk about
being peaceable. Every one that has any
sense at all knows that a strike would not
amount to anything unless they follow it
out by violence. They know that If they
would do what they have a right to do,
decently and orderly go about their bust
ness, and leave other employees alone a
strike would not amount to anything They
know it would absolutely fall
tails of police are obliged to watch exposed
points on the railroads here to prevent the
stoning of engines. At midnight a crowd
of men and boys hurled a volley of stones
into a switch engine of the Big Four in the
west end, knocking Switchman John T.
Riley senseless. The crowd then fled