The Cairo bulletin., 1909-08-24
REINFORCEMENT SENT FOR
STATE CoNSTABULARY AT
SCHoENViLLE.
TWENTY-FIVE ARRESTS
Troopers Subject Strikers to Rlg'c
Search-Areui.,i "a Strikers
Homes-Jobs Gone and
Winter Coming.

Pittsburg. Aug. 23.-Thrte columns
of smoke tloatad lazily from the chm
news of the Pressed Steel Car Com
pany'g plant ia Schoenvile tonight,
These mute signals told better than
the official pronounciamentoes that
the striking employees of the car plant
had vet to wait a long time to wiz
their fight against the company otfi'
cials. for the plant was still in opera
tion despite the wild efforts of the
mobs to scare off the imported work
men during the past twentyfonr
hours.
Strikers Are AWed.
Tonight the strikers realized for
the first time that their Jobs were no
more, that the company could do
without them and that they no longer
We're wanted within the gates of the
car plant The women and children
of the strikers grasped the situation
as soon as the men, and the idea of
starvation and eyIcj:on with winter
coming on carsed wis of anguish
il many a strikers cottage,
Forty state police are on their way
here tonight to augmen; the company
Of mounted constabuiary now on duty
at the car plant Since last night'g
carnage these fearless cavalrymen
have eyinced desire to strike fear
. into the hearts Of the men who took
their comrades lives. The strikers
realize that the mounted troopers are
more than a match for them.
Jeers For troopers.
T~t all larine atha -4lav these troaf
ers have beer subjected to abuse
from house windows andb doors when
ever they chanced to pass strike
sympathi2ar'sQ home. In retaliation
not a striker or sympathizer left his
doorstep today but he was uphandfd
and searched. Beside the search the
troopers insisted or examining the
bodies Of the strikers AMI If they
bore bruises or traces of being club
bed, they were promptly arrested, as
the troopers considered such evidence
proof that the men nad participated
in last nights riotipg.
Twenty five Arrested.
Twenty-Five men were arrested and
put into box car iails by nightfall.
Men who resisted were manacled to
the troopers horses and dragged
through the streets TO the plant en-
trance. At noon the bells of the
Catholic cathedral r. McKee's Rocks
began tolling. This was kept up for
over two hours Then the bells were
ordered silenced by the state troop
ers, as It was pointed out that such a
demonstration at the present time
only agitated the strikers.
The strikers seemed awed and
gloomy toright at the extent of last
nights fatalities. The gloom over.
the little car company village is also
attributed to the fact that tomorrow
funeral has been planned for the
strikers who were the victims of last
nights rioting.
More Troops Coming.
The news that additional state con.
stahulary were on the way from
Wilkesbarre and would be in the
strike zone before morning, semed to
act as a quietus upon the strike
sympathizers who gathered in the
doorways during the evering and dis
cussed the situation.
meeting of the striking employees
Of the car plant scheduled for late
this afternoon was prevented by the
constabulary.
The anr ouncement was made late
today that the United States govern.
ment will heed the peonage charge
against the company to the extent of
making an Investigation of the ale
cations made by Albert Vans. who