The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-13
STRIKE BREAKERS
GIVEN A BEATING
Earl CARING and John Peck
Roughly Handled by Cow
ardly Mob.
THEIR WOUNDS DRESSED
AT EMERGENCY HOSPITAL
Victims Declare That Members
of Union Comprised Attack
Ing Party.

Violence has come as an aftermath
of the settlement Of the strike of the
iron workers on the Commercial cluo
Earl CARING. 1915 Campbell street,
Kansas City, and John Peck, also or
Kansas City, strike breakers, were de-
coyod to a dark corner Saturday night
bv between twenty-five and thirty men
and severely beaten. CARING was
Knocked senseless and then kicked
as he Law in the street. lie
has a half dozen cuts on his head,
bruised checlibone and an eye almost
closed bv n huge welt above it. HIS
right hand is also broken.
Peck. although almost stunned by
blow from a pair Of brass knucks be-
tween the eyes, fought back hercelY
lie put one of his assailants down, be-
fore thcv ran away in fright at
woman s screams. His nose is broken.
Both Peck and CARING insist that
their assailauts were members OF the
Iron Workers union. They declare that
although they do not know the meu by
name, they know them as uulonlsts
spd assert that they can identify five
or six of them.
CARING and Peck were on their way
to the Doolv building, III answer to
"fake' telephone message telling
them to go ththcr to get transPorta-
tou out of town. As they had re-
fused TO work on the Commercial club
building in opposition TO the union,
they thought that the Minneapolis Steel
company, which brought them from
Kansas City 90 take the places of the
uniouistS. had decided to return them
TO their homes.
Cowudly Attack.
As thcv reached the corner Of Sec
ond South and West Temple streets
crowd of men swarned around them
from out of the darkness in front or
Frost Bros clothing store, - West
Second South street.
CARING went down from 4 blow from
n club. which cut his head from the
crown almost TO the napc Of his neck.
At the same time Peck received a
blow between the eyes which almost
for an inch in each direction in n star
shaped cut.
CARING, lying prone on the sidewalk,
was made the object of bootheels. He
tTiod TO rise. but Was beaten down
again. until he dropped senseless.
Peck, in the meantime, was putting
up n game fight, lie had put one of
his assailsnts TO the pavement with
u right-arm punch and was starting
after other heads. when woman s
scream from the opposite corner sent
the attacking party fying in all dircc
tions through the darkness.
But the work of Singing had been
done thoroughly. 1t had been done
quickly, too. for DIR. s. G. Paul, who
saw the beginning of the assault, saw
only the heels Of the fugitives when
he returned from rushing across the
street TO telephone 10 the police.
Taken to Hospital.
Jailcr Wilkinson was pressed into
service as a patrol wagon driver, as
the regular wagon was absent on an
other nun. He rushed the patrol to
the scene and picked mp CARING and
Peck and DR.. Paul. The injured men
were taken TO the emergency hospital.
in the city prison. where their hurts
We're dressed by DR., +. B. Steele, the
police surgeon. and Dr.. Paul.
.'We had no idea any such thing as
tins was going to happen" CARING
said as the doctor stitched up a six
inch cat in his head "Wo had gone
off the job. The union certainly had
no grievance against MS for taking Jobs
of its members. We were preparing 10
go back TO Kansas City. It was that
that took us toward the Dooly build
ing, where the Minneapolis Steel com
pany has its headquarters. We sup
posed that the company was going to
furnish us with transportation. 7 have
worked AL over the country and +
never got such a raw deal as tbis-bc
ing sluggcd after YOU have quit a lob
10 help out union men.
We never would have come TO Salt
Lake City If we had known conditions
They did not tell us all of II. We
supposed that we would be allowed to
JOIN the union here. They wouldn Z
let us JOIN III Kansas City because the
membership was full.'
After their injuries were dressed Gar.
ling and Peck were kept in the hos.
pital ward for the night. The noIico
started out immediately TO try 70 RIM
down the men who did the Singing.
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