The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-03-10
SARATOGA COUNTY
SCENE OF WAR
OF LABOR
Paper Makers Fight With the
Strike Breakers
SEVERAL PERSONS INJURED
Charged That Strikers Exploded Dy-
Mantle Under Bridge to lniure
Strike Breakers

Troy, March l0.-The international
Paper company strike continues to
assume serious aspect and the def
mite statement was made last night
that all the plants of the company In
the state would be tied up, Company
l., Second regiment, n. g., -. Y, of
Saratoga, was ordered to Corinth
yesterday afternoon to guard proper
u and Company X of Glens Falls,
while it has not yet been assembled
has been ordered to be in readiness
either to reinforce Company l. at
Coz NTH or to enter upon a tour of ac-
tive duty at Glens Falls or Fort Ed
ward
Nearly 1900 men are already out in
this vicinity-6O0 at Corinth, 500 at
Glens Falls and over 200 at South
Glens Falls.
Fully equipped for action, Company
/. left Saratoga for Corinth about
p. m. Before their departure sixty
rounds of ammunition was distribu-
ted to each man, with orders however
not to fire upon strikers except in
case of necessity, No attempt was
made to take along the several hun
dred strike-breakers who were in
Saratoga. According to the plans of
the county officers and paper com
pany officials, it was stated, the non
union men would be kept at Saratoga
until the troops have established a
picket around the village of Corinth
There was no disorder when the
militiamen sent from Saratoga march
ed into Corinth late in the afternoon.
The troops went Immediately to the
mills OF the international Paper COM
pany.
Major Seldom W. Mott OF Glens
Falls was last night ordered TO go to
Corinth and ACT in conjunction with
the captain of Company l. in hand
ling the situation
Ten armed strikebreakers were
last night brought into Corinth by
the international Paper company in
the express car of regular passen
ger train, guarded by detail from
Company l.. They were met by a
crowd of citizens and Intercepted as
to whether they were non-union men
OF not. Some stated they were de.
tectiyes and those who claimed to be
detectives drew reyolvers. There
upon, at the instigation of Policeman
Brown of COrinth, the strangers were
placed under arrest, taken to the Jail
and searched. Revolvers, knives. ra
zors and clubs were found in theiI
possession.
The prisoners were given foul
hours in which to leave town and
they agreed, Il liberated, to lose nc
time in getting out OF the vicinity
They were driven to Saratoga and es
corted to the outskirts of that place
by a guard of soldiers. They were
then given their liberty and that wal
the last seen Of them.
All hotels in Corinth and vicinit,
have agreed to close their bars night
~ at TO p m. Last night the situa
ton was comparatively quiet at Cor
NTH, but there is n general belief tina
any attempt to import strikebreaker
on large scale will be bitterly re
sented and viii provoke much trou
bic
Twice yesterday afternoon accord
ing to dispatch from Corinth dyna
mite cartridges were exploded u1de
a railroed bridge over which strike
breakers must mass to enter Corinth
The damage was slight owing {
scanty knowledge of how to handl
dynamite and last night the damag
had been repaired and the bridge wa
under guard by militia Company !
Second regiment, is stationed at tn
mills to suppress disorder in cas-
strikers or sympathizers resist an a
tempt to smuggle in non-union me
under cover of darkness.
Several small parties of strik,
breakers have been dispatched fror
Saratoga to the mills at South Glen
Falls but none were brought to Co
NTH last night and the main body {
strike-breakers is still held there &c
orders.