Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-15
Superintendent Hayden Asks
Mayor That Employees Be Al
lowed Freedom Of Town
GUARDS REMOVED TONIGHT
Hayden Says Men Want to Buy Cloth
ing, Shoes, Underwear, and other
Supplies, and Will Spend Money
Here if They Are Permitted-Mayor
Says Go Ahead.

SUPERINTENDENT c. S. Hayden, of the
porary charge of the mechanical de-
partment upon retirement of Master
Mechanic F'eeley, called on Mayor In
gledue this afternoon and made re-
quest that the men in the employ of
the company be allowed the perfect
freedom of the city, beginning at once,
and that the guards on duty on the
company's property be removed be-
ginning tonight.
The mayor replied that the freedom
of the city had been granted some
time ago, and the men had been free
to come and go at will The superin-
tendent replied that the men were
afraid to come off the company prop
erty. owing to the experiences others
had had in weeks past, or since the
strike has been on.
Men Have Money; Want to Spend 1t.
Supt. Hayden informed the
mayor that there was paid to the men
in the shops last night $4,000 in cash.
Now these men," said Mr.. Hayden.
want to come down town tonight and
spend their money. The probabilities
are that fully $4,000 will be placed in
the stores of Marshalltown this even
ing if the men are allowed to come
down town and are not molested. Ii
they find that they can not spend their
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else to spend it,
Mayor Does Not Look for Trouble.
Mayor Ingledue told Mn. Hayden
that he did not think there would be
any trouble unless the men got into the
saloons and got mixed up in brawls
Mr. Hayden said that if they went to
drinking and carousing he wanted
them taken care of by the police and
punished like any other offender He
wanted to know who these men were.
and would see that they didn't go back
to work for the company. 1t was the
law abiding men in the shops that he
wanted protected.
Men Need Clothing and Shoes.
1.-The men in the shops said Mr..
Hayden, about 175 in number, are in
need of clothing, underwear, shoes and
other furnishings and supplies, and
think most of their money will be
spent for these commodities. They
can't get them without going off the
company's property.
One Experience Today.
Mr.. Hayden said that what he was
trying to avoid was an experience OF
one Of the employees today. The man
had his eye injured, and was sent
down town to see the company's sur
geon He was met on the way, MI
Hayden said, by a crowd of men, who
told him he had either better get back
on the company's property or out OF
town. 1t was restraint Of personal
liberty such as this that the super
intendert wishes to overcome, and asks
the city's aid. Mr.. Hayden said that
the man had to go back and get an
officer to accompany him to doctor.
Men Go for Families.
MIR. Hayden said that two of the
men in the shops left yesterday for
their former homes, to get their fam
lilies, and bring them to this city. One
of the men, Mr.. Hayden said, had been
employed continuously for seventeen
wears for one concern before coming
here.
Mr.. Hayden is also authority for the
statement that two of the old employees
of the company returned to work Fri
day.
New Round House Foreman.
B. +. Cooper was today placed In
charge of the round house as day
foreman. Mr.. Cooper has had several
years experience as foreman, and
was for some time foreman of the
Denver & Rio Grande shops at Pueblo,
Col. He was also in the employ OF
railroad at Charming, N. M. Up to
short time ago Mr.. Cooper was en-
ployed in the Eldridge-Beebe garage
here as machinist. He is the man
who served in the army during the
Spanish American war, and who was
member of the rescue party that went
to exchange Spanish prisoners for
Capt, r. P. Hobson and party.