The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1896-08-05
|TNDER MILITIA GUARD.
....ts Of Cleveland, o., Patrolled
bv National Guardsmen.
In SOLDIERS AND POLICE KEPT BUSY
Deserving the Peae. Between the
t,,k.d.Out Union and the Nom
Union Men "A Big Sympa-
,hstie Strike Imminent

Things Look Threatening.
nrvIAND, o., Aug. 3-When the
Lsis,le blew at the Brown hoist works
4 begin work, l5O men walked into
I. shops. They were protected by
Il, companies of militia, comprising
,mDanies +, l.. A and B, of the Fifth
..ineut. 0. n. G., under command of
sut Col Whitney. All day men Of
! police force were also on guard. A
,ye crowd of union men gathered
1out the works when the non-union
N went to work. but no violence was
f.red
The soldiers and police kept the
|DlOu men moving and would not let
bsm stand in one place for more than
few minutes at a time. AS people
.me down town they wondered at
NJ unusual spectacle of soldiers pa.
,diug the sidewalks in remote parts
the city. Soldiers were patroling
downtown section as far west as
ear street, east, within a few blocks
the city limits. In fact, they were
guard wherever il was surmised
at trouble was liable to occur.
At g:.5 a. IN. Director of Police Alb
Nd after a conference with Mayor
eKisson and the officers of the Fifth
gnent, ordered another company OF
ta, making five in all, to the
uvn works. The director said that
had received private information
hIch satisfied him that the condition
affairs was more serious than APP
ared on the surface.
crowd Of union men gathered at
corner Of Hamilton and Belden
teets al nine a. m. and when ordered
disperse refused to do so. A squad
police marched on the crowd and
rested three men. They gave their
ines az Charles Sunel, s2 Edgar
beet; James llulen, 81 Brookline
Feet, and Michael Mock, 1868 Pleasant
Feet They were taken to the Sec
precinct station and charged with
Ihting the sidewalk ordinances. A
crowd followed the patrol wagon
more arrests were threatened.
VERY man belonged to the locked
action, or the non-unionist crowd.
the Brown hoist works every one
med TO realize that before the sun
ni down something would occur,
ch would doubtless increase the
business Of the situation.
unday, Grand Master Machinist
onnell arrived from Chicago to take
prge OF the men who are engaged in
lockout, He said that he realized
the situation was serious.
rumor was current on the streets
nday to the effect that some union
, we're carrying revolvers in belts
Apped around their waists. A num-
Of other ineendiary rumors were
ng circulated.
% effort will be made to induce all
90 men Of the city to enter upon a
Ee out of sympathy with the
Wn men. ?. j. Mundie, of the Ii.
nall works, announced that his men
not be drawn into such action.
'm Wagner 4 Williams Men ou..
lSvELASD, o., Aug. 3. 3.-Ncarly 100
al 1.-THE employees of Van Wagner
illams hardware manufacturers,
'ne Brown hosting work, inau-
d'ea what promises to be great
pl'netc strike of all the union
"a The city, by going out. They
'ineo their intention of going to
wy nall and asking Mayor McKis-
.iat The non-union men be dis
~ II The mayor refuses this, we
arm ourselves and compel the
upl0nlsts to give up their guns"
a leader
aen The Van Wagoner & Williams
sarted for the city hall, they first
ea stCity Foundry No. !, on Ham
street The police, under Lieut..
npsOn, dispersed the men, and
gov together again at the Kilby
aiae.urlng Go. mill No. 9, on the
,,and a & Pittsburgh track near
lu'On street. The men in Kilby
Sala they were willing and anx-
won the Van Wagner e. Will
@eh as soon as the men in
40 | did. Then the crowd
.ueu to Kilby No. /, at the
y VI Vourtland and Lake streets.
s'l,','ee ~, was sent to this shop and
As' oy the foreman. lie told the
,uat he had two or three impor.
~'ces OF work in the mill which
sau'ea to finish, and asked the
.''ee not to induce the men to
y until this work was done. This
4s'eea to, but the men in the mill
'asy would quit as soon as or
" Oy the Central Labor union.