Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-10-20
Then get out"
What for? I'm just talking TO this

Y What for? I'm just talking 70 this
man"
will you go?"
Say. you can't load that cargo
this way" the man began threaten
] ingly. And you can't make me CO.
! At which. Emerson seized him by the
/ collar and quickly disproved the asser
/ ton. TO the great delight OF the fish
| ermen. He thrust him out into the
/ street.
! I'm union man, and you can't load
that ship with 'scabs.'" The stranger
swore as he skunk off
! The first actual violence, however.
7 occurred when the fishermen knocked
off for the noon hour. Boyd called up
the police department. then summoned
Big George. 1t was with considerable
difficulty that the nonunion crew
fought its way back to resume work
at / o'clock.
During the afternoon the strikers
made several attempts to enter the
dock shed, and 1t required firm
stand by the guards to restrain them.
The next morning found the non
union men out In such force that they
were divided into night and day
crew, half of them being sent back to
tains of freight the work went for
ward faster than ever. But in time
the city awoke to the realization that
serious conflict was in progress.
The handful of fishermen. outnum-
bered twenty TO one and guarded only
by thin line Of pickets. became a
center of general interest
1t was on the fourth day that Boyd
espied the man in the gray suit among
the strikers and pointed him out TO
his three companions. Clyde and Fra
ser having Joined him and George In a
spirit of curiosity.
Late in the afternoon. without a
moments warning. the strikers rushed
in body, bearing down the guards
like reeds
Emerson and his companions found
themselves carried away before the on
slaught like chips in the surf. then
sucked into maelstrom where the
succeeded in keeping his footing and
eventually fought his way to a backing
of Grated machinery, where he stopped
and ripped cleat loose Then. laying
about him with this weapon. he clear
ed a space.
At the first alarm the fishermen had
armed themselves with bale hooks and
bludgeons and for a time worked havoc
among their assailants.
Seeing Clyde in helpless condition.
Emerson shouted:
Come on. I'll help you aboard the
ship" He found a hardwood club be-
meath his feet and with it cleared a
pathway for Clyde and himself, He
suddenly spied the man In the gray
suit, who had climbed upon one Of
the freight piles, whence he was scan
ming the crowd. The man recognized
Emerson and pointed him out. The
dext instant Boyd saw him approach
ing, followed by several others. Then,
though Boyd fell back farther, the
others rushed In and he found himself
hard beset. What happened thereafter
neither he nor Alton Clyde, who was
half dazed to begin with, ever clearly
remembered
Before he had recognized the person
al nature OF the assault Emerson found
himself engaged in furious hand to
hand struggle Then a sudden black
ness swallowed him up, after which he
found himself upon his knees, his arms
loosely encircling pair Of legs. AS
he struggled upward something smote
him In the side with sickening force,
and he went to his knees again.
He could only raise his shoulder and
fling an arm weakly above his head in
anticipation Of the crushing blow he
thought was coming But it did not
descend. Instead he heard a gunshot.
weight sank across his calves.
Then, with final effort, he pulled
himself free and staggered to his feet,
his head rocking, his knees sagging.
He saw mans figure facing him and
lunged at it to bring up in the arms of
"Fingerless' Fraser"
ASoyo auhhcu duu Ucutiu tie DOuy Oh
man stretched face downward on
the floor. Beyond the fellow in the
gray suit was disappearing into the
crowd. Then he saw a CLEAN Of blue
metal in Fraser's heads.
Give me that gunw he painted.
Il may need it myself, and l amt
got but the one here. Let's get Clyde
out OF this"
Fraser lifted the young clubman,
who was baddled In a formless heap
as II he had fallen from a great height,
and together the two dragged him to-
ward the Bedford Castle.
That night under glazing headlines
the evening papers told the story, re-
porting one fisherman fatally hurt, one
striker dead Of gunshot wound and
many others injured. M