Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-16
.CONSTABULARY
SCATTER STRIKERS.
AT First Signs Of Riot Troops I'm
der Orders to Ride Into
Crowds and to Shoot.
STREETS FULL OF. IDLE MEN.
Every Approach to Pressed Steel Car
Co.'S Plant Mt NIcilces Rocks,
Pa, Strictly Pickctcd.

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PittsburE, July 1s.-street cars, yes
hicles and pedestrians are being held
UP today by steel strikers in the viciil-
.ity OF the Pressed Steel Car company :
plant at McKees Rocks. where there.
has been much disorder and some
3bloodshed during the last two days;
Every approach to the big plant Is
guarded by the men and every one Is
compelled to satisfy the strikers thasi
they arc not seeking employment.
with the coming OF daylight rioting
ceased.
BY 9 o'clock, however, the streets
again took OH lively aspect, the strlk-
lers in an ugly mood gathering around
the mill entrances No violence was
offered and the state police took VI
positions at their end of the town. AT
the first. sign of rioting the troops are
under orders to ride into the crowds
and to shoot. At $3.50 O'clock the
groups OF idle workmen had increased
to such an extent that an order was
given to clear the streets. The con-
stabulary IN squads OF 10 scattered the
strikers Some resistance was offered
at the time but later, when 1T was PC
lieved all was we'll, the troopers Wer.
showered with bricks. Several or i, me
policemen We're slightly hurt. l,i lse
numbel, injured as a result of the dis.
orders late last night and today viii
total close to so Several men have
bullet wounds but the nlaJority sus-
tanned bruises and cuts when the con-
stabularyl rode into the crowd
AT one time nearly 900 men, wo-
men and children gathered at a large
gate of. the works. Stones were thrown
into the stockade and then the for.
eigners opened fire upon the police in
side. Suddenly rho big gates swung
back and rs troopers. firing their car
Dimes In the air, rode into the mob at
full speed For "a while the air was
filled with the screams and curses or
the strikers and their sympathiHers
while the crack of the guns spread ter
ror. The mob was driven a half mile
from the plant and probably 80 per-
I sons were Injured, some Of them SER
|Stously. 1t was learned today tina bJ
Kegs OF beer and a large quantity OF
! whisky were brought ] into the mill set
Element during the night but today $
squads OF constabulary searched tins
district in an effort. to locate It. !. !.
monster mass meeting attended by
over 10000 strikers and sSlnpathiSers
was held today on the historic Indian
mound NfcKees Rocks. The author
|sities maintained a strict wat CHI over
the meeting to prevent the making OF
speeches that might further excite tbs
strikers.
SHOPS "oPEN;;. MEN UT.
Wheeling w. Va. July 16.-At !:
o'clock last night the scale Of the
tin plate workers employed by the
American Sheet & Tin Plate company
expired and 500 men employed at the
local plant of the company Quit worl
on an open shop order OF the com CON
pany. 5s
QUIT All, MIDNIGHT.
Eastliverpool, Ohio. July 16.-En
| ployes of the tin department OF thu
Chester plant of the American ana
| Steel Plate company quit work at mid
| night last night.