The Detroit times., 1909-12-04
AND THEIR.
! CHILDREN Ev|CTEO
| FROM HOME
Company Adopts Drastic Measures
Because Workmen Refused To Ac-
cept Wage Cut-0ficial Inquiry
Halts Merciless Invaders.
Times Correspondent Spends Night
in Strikers nome-Family
Waited To Be Put in Street.
BY. w. c. SHEPHERD.

LUDLOW, Mass. Dec 4-'iR
b great. mysterious Ludlow Mauufactur
n Ing associates. SO Cleycrly organize
that IL escapes having to tell the StHt
N of Massachusetts how much money
II makes year. WAS going 90 etirl
20 more families from tneir hOm
81 which belong 10 the company. heCauac
the employees would not submit Ca a
q reduction in their wages They haa
ts been getting about Sll a week
* In order To see how cruel a sIglt
f the state OF Massachusetts WoGld
4 tolerate, | spent the night before the
fateful eviction day In the house that
Peter Janik calls his home
On the frozen road outside Tie
house, were piles ot household eoo3s
which had been removed from strik-
X ers' homes by the CyictorS tt0
days Sparks rose from
stoves which strikers had fired %
keep them warm while they guarded
their goods. --
Up and down the dark streets passed
the ding .foImS 81 P'nkerton detectAes
and special policemen. always IN pairs
swinging long clubs. Reporters were
not allowed out there, because tlN
company owns fve-siXths OF the town
of Ludlow and the streets are marked
Private; Dangerous"
Cannot live On Less Money.
We sat about the stove, nine OF us
in the small room.
why do you strike? Why don /,
you so back TO wark - | asked Ia-
mix
I'VE cannot live on less money than
got, he answered Il get 81 a
week Now they want TO glye me
So
A tiny cry sounded through The
door leading 10 another room u Wls
the voice OF little Baby Hudak just
one day old We heard the soft com
forting tones of the bed-ridden neither
and the harsher voice of neigabCr
woman who was acting as nurse
"Will they put her out too asked
Mrs. Janik in-polieh
No one could answer Only Few
days before two negro evictors had
carried a sick baby. cradle and AT.
into the cold streets while scove
OF guardsmen stood bv 10 shell
them.
And so we talked ana thought and
spent an evening of gloom and dread.
Bedtime came about 10 oclocE
At 6-o'closk I'VE said good -morr
ing.gs
well today ] guess we go~ s,l
Janik
The little wife was quiet bgt A.r
face WAS drawn a. n she had pas.s
sleepless night Breakfast Wa
bread, coffee cheese and sausd-'.
After. the meal we all went into tle
bedroom except Mrs. Janik
She was sweeping the kitchen ju-t
as II she intended 10 remain in the
house. the rest of her life soon she
brought her broom into the bedroom
We moved our chairs while sa7
fount every grain OF dust on the boa7t
foors~
Eight Policemen IN Lead.
Here they come man shout.
ed who entered from outdoors
We ran to the windows Up the
road came "A strange and hardened
band. Eight policemen led: behind
them came 50 men. carrying clubs
and Behind them were about 20 more.
3 who were 20 do the actual work of
moving
Behind them all at great dis
tanec. came the reporters and camera
men. nom the company hates: their
stories have been too bitter
The evictors turned of at nearby
corner and went 20 a house some t'o.
tance from the road We saw tae
policemen knock at the door womei
came running out. carrying thc'r
babies: men came out bare-headsd
they we're experiencing what We await
ed.
, We saw the detcctivcs-it is truo
that they were the toughest iookMa
lot of men | have ever seen in orc
body-enter the house. The moves
followed them. ana before long bci-.
chairs tables anu chinaware were
piled I'm the streets We saw the white
lace curtains torn from the window
one n time. Helpless the women
and men and children stood abour
as their homes We're broken up
Suddenly two policemen came up.
and We saw them place their hand
ON two OF the toughloo.inc dotcc
tives. We learned later that both "
these men were fugitive from 1-
tice.
Then tho parade started for Guy
house Mrs Janik hurrirdlg pulled
box ont from under ihc bod and took
from n warm clothes for the baby UI
for little Michael 2l2 years ulI
There were tears in her cycs as -he
(. put n bonnet on the baby LiUl,
Michael who had foupd his last sna
r,cr's- straw hat. under the bed pHt
~ on, but none of us could even smi'e
nj him. His mother took Il on aud
put on a warmer hat She took ''o
baby In her arm and drew shawl
about herself and &C. then she seato,t
herself on the edge of The bed '9
await the knock az the door
About his time saw the band OF
syicters stop Richard Atkins. tho
-hief.. gazed az the house "a minnie.