Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-22
LYNN'S WAR.
The Strike Breakers Being
Protected by the Police.
While Strikers and Friends Hiss
Them at Every Appearance.
Ten Firms Agree to Stand by Boot and
Shoe Workers.

| Lynn, Mass, Jan. A.-One of the
most important phases of the strike, to-
day. was the action of 10 shoe manufac-
turers using the union stamp, compris-
| ing all concerns where the Knights OF
Labor cutters are now on strike, who
met, this afternoon, and decided to en-
ploy only members of the Boot and
Shoe Workers Union. They have an
agreement with the union and declared
that they would bind themselves to nc
other contract
No such disorderly scenes were wit
messed on the streets, tonight, as We're
enacted. last night, when the strike
| breakers were escorted from the facto-
ries to their headquarters in Lasters
hall. The crowds on the streets were
| fully as large, but the police had their
clubs handy, tonight, and the angry
mob was forced to be content with hurl-
| ing jibes and imprecations at the new
corners Unsteady of attempting personal
violence.
In the police court, Wednesday
morning, Levi r. Bracket, John Har-
rington, VIM. Stone, Frank Brennan,
and Warren S. Tucker, arrested, Tues
| day night, in the fracas On Andrew S
street, were charged with rioting and
waived examination, pleaded not
| guilty. BY agreement with counsel
| the five cases were continued to
Saturday for hearing, each man being
| held in $500. w. H. Nilen vail Defend
| them
! The heavy rain kept the crowd down,
| Wednesday morning, when the Boot
and Shoe Workers Union cutters were
| taken into the factories. Two more
stamp shops were supplied, Wednes-
day. with Il new cutting force. The
Watson Shoe Co. with eight men and
G. w. Herrick & Co., with four, We're
taken to the factory in a carriage This
makes six of the 10 factories where
strike is on now in operation.
| The police Wednesday, had to go to
come of the boarding houses where the
imported cutters lodge to escort them
to Lasters' hall, fearing repetition of
| the scenes of Tuesday night. There was
large force of police on duty.
| After breakfast in the hall served by
the Boot and Shoe Workers Union, the
men were divided into groups for the
| different factories and sent out under
escort. When the men went into the
| Watson shop on Broad street, there
was trifiing demonstration from
operatives on the adjoining factories,
| but nothing more than jeering. Har-
ney Bros. received 10 men, Walton &
| Logan II, w. II. futile & Co. six and
ID. A. Donovan &, Co. il. Others went
in with the old workmen and passed
the packers without trouble. The first
break in the ranks OF the Knights of
Labor cutters came during the night
when the Boot and Shoe Workers
| Union organized a cutters assembly
with a membership made up of the men
brought here to take the strikers
| places There are 40 members of this
union and of the number four are
| Knights of Labor men who have de-
serted Cutters Assembly, 1862. They
have not been assigned to work yet
| however.
| OF the men assigned to the Watson
Shoe company factory the Knights of
| Labor induced one to remain out and
another Boot and Shoeworkers' Union
cutter after entering the factory left
his work and went out to join the
| Knights of Labor men.
| Mayor Eastman. Wednesday morn
| ing, issued a proclamation in view of
| the disturbance of Tuesday night in
tended to prevent further roting
This proclamation calls on the police
to enforce to the letter the city or
, dinances against lettering on the
streets and calls upon all good citi-
zens to refrain from congregating in
the factory district and to refrain from
| any demonstration.
| nrdnr of
on escort duty will be equipped with
| horses and go on duty at P M. to
| keep the streets about the factories
where strikes are clear from crowds
| The stock filters are planning to in
augurate sympathetic strike, having
already organized in the Knights of
| Labor. The Nicholson company fac
| tory where the stitchers and cutters
are both out are shut down, Wednes-
| day morning, unable to run until
! working force is supplied.
| The board of health learned, Wednes-
| day, that some of the cutters brought
| here by the Boot and Shoeworkers' Union
are from Rochester, n. Y, where they
| had been employed in factory where
smallpox had developed. This factory
| had been closed because the firm was I'M
| able to get help to work there during the
scare. City Physician Holbrook. Wednes-
| day morning. visited the Strike factories
| and asked the proprietors TO cooperate
with him in adopting all possible pre-
cautions to guard against any spread of
the disease. The city vaccination sta if
will visit these factories and begin work,
Wednesday afternoon. on the arms of the
imported workmen who cannot show signs
of recent successful vaccination. Ell
News of the danger of smallpox from
the presence of men from the infected
cities was received by the Knights of La
Dor Cutters Assembly. Wednesday morn
ing. The executive board considered the
situation at once and will communicate
with the board of health and ask that
the city appeal to the courts for an in
junction to restrain the Boot and Shoe
workers Union from bringing into Lynn
men from smallpox infected districts In
case the board of health IS not inclined
to take this step, the knights of Labor
plan to take the matter into the courts
for themselves and ask for the necessary
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