The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1910-11-03
GARMENT WORKERS
RENEW OUTBREAKS
Police Fight Mob Of Strikers at
Chicago.
STONES HURLED AT SHOPS
One Thousand More Employees Walk
Out from Various Tailoring Es-
tablishments--soelsty Women
Offered Aid as Pickets.

chicago, Nov. 2.-POliceman Ed
ward Engelmeyer was injured and six
men and seventeen-year-old girl
were arrested in riot of striking
garment workers in front OF Tieson
& Co.'S tailor shop in West Division
street. y eh
Bricks We're thrown by the crowd,
which numbered over thousand men
and women, and windows in the first
ftoor of the tailoring plant and In sd-
jacent dwellings were shattered.
HurI Stones at Building.
Strikers appeared In front OF the
Tieson plant and at a signal are said
TO have thrown stones at the build.
ing. Many of the windows on the flrst
floor were broken and a large plato
glass window in the front OF an I'D.
Joining store was shattered, causing
excitement among patrons of the
place. A wagonload OF police arrived
when the riot was at its height.
The demonstration was not quelled
for more than half an hour and the
neighborhood was thrown into excite
ment ..s
Mobs Storm Shops.
Another mob visited the shop OF
John F. Johnson, 1929 Gault court, and
after an attempt to persuade the work
men to leave stoned the building, but
fed before the police arrived.
A short time later the men reas.
sembled at the Barney Carlson fac
tory, 1890 Gault court, and repre-.
sentative was invited in by Mr.. Carl
son to talk to the workmen. The In
vitation was accepted, but after the
representative of the union men had
met with failure in his effort to get
the strike breakers to leave their
work the building was stoned and the
mob MAS dispersed by The 4pUlfcs
Police Drive Into Crowds.
Another riot occurred In Market
street. near Adams, when a band of
500 strikers invaded the loop district.
Mounted policemen, caring not where
they drove. spurred their horses upon
the sidewalk and into the crowd. The
action was greeted with Kisses from
crowds thronging the street and in
windows.
For time a clash between the
workers and the uniformed men was
imminent, but the appearance of more
policemen on foot, who forced the
marchers to dispense, prevented more
serious trouble.
While the police were battling with
the paraders, 1000 more workers
walked out In the various shops in
the loop district and Joined the ranks
OF the union. The walkout, however.
had been expected, and before the
strikers could form in line to parade
the streets squad OF policemen, sum-
moned by riot call. dispersed them.
TaiIors Sign Agreements.
A dozen tailoring establishments
signed union agreements Workers
who had quit at the strike order re-
turned to these shops.
Becoming desperate at the progress
of the strike. officials OF the firm of
Hart. Schaffner & Marx, whose shops
are practically closed as the result OF
the general walkout, are said to have
appealed TO Sheriff Strassheim for aid.
They requested, II is declared, that
the sheriff swear in the employees now
in their shops as deputies and permit
them to carry revolvers and "billies"
Fifty prominent society women are
said 10 have offered their assistance
in picketing and doing other aid work
in the strike. following a meeting In
the headquarters of the Womens
Trade Union league.