The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-11-03
COMPARES CHICAGO POLICE
WITH THOSE OF RUSSIA
tCoatinued From PaE. one1


since the inception of the strike Of
garment workers. II occurred at the
plant of A. Lott q Co. at West Ohio
and Bickerdike-sts. Before the police
arrived the strikers broke all the win
dows In the large building occupied
by the clothing manufacturers, drove
strike-breakers out carried a large
number OF sewing machines into the
streets and destroyed them.
The strikers and their followers put
up desperate fight for time Many
were knocked down with the dubbed
revolvers OF the police and not a few
were trampled on during the lighting.
Bleeding heads and faces were numer.
Gus.
Strike pickets gained entrance to
the Lott tailoring establishment as
mob of strikers approached the build
Ing. Some OF the employees OF the
sisted In pulling machines from the
floors and otherwise damaging the
plant. Men and women were hurting
stones and bricks through the win
dows of the factory when Healy and
his squad OF policemen arrived.
The inspector experienced difficulty
In getting together the disorganized
policemen who had borne the brunt Of
the early fighting. When he had done
so. however, the policemen charged
through the mob, knocking down all
in their way. Many Of the rioters fed
when they saw the policemen draw
revolvers. Others remained firm and
hurled clubs and stones at the officers.
A number OF women were arrested,
but most OF these were released after
they had been taken to a police sta
ton.
Possible termination OF the strike
of garment workers, which has kept
most OF the manufacturing sections OF
the city In turmoil for nearly a month,
was forecasted here today with the
announcement that the state board OF
arbitration would again intervene.
The members OF the board met today
with leaders Of the striking workers,
who are now said TO number $4,000,
and with their employers, in the hope
OF reaching an agreement. ------.-
Women and girls from aristocratic
homes walk arm In arm with the for
eign girls, picketing the disturbed dis
trict. Many OF these girls left the
shops TO follow their aristocratic
American cousins to the union meet.
ing halls. where they enrolled their
names beside those who went out on
the original call.
over 800 policemen are guarding
the establishments now involved in
the strike. At each Of the big firms
located In the loop district, are four
mounted policemen, making a total
OF 60 mounted 'cossacks" guarding the
strike-bound manufacturers.
Many OF the society women have
donned the plain, worn clothes Of the
foreign working girls and that has
made Il dificult for the police to dis
tinguish them. II was fine" joke
to maui the working girls when they
walked too near the domains OF big
business" but when. as sometimes was
the case, their clubs landed on the
head or shoulders of society woman,
then that was a different matter, In
the policeman's eyes.
mo decent woman with any SYM
pathy for poor, ignorant, oppressed
working girls can stand idly by and
watch the brutal treatment accorded
the striking girls by the policemen.
said Mrs. Robins. Their behavior In
many instances has been as outrage
Gus as that OF the Russian Cossacks
from which many Of the girls fed but
a few short months ago."
The strikers are holding out for the
CLOSED shop" and living wages, and
until that is granted, say they will
not 20 back to work. 1t is only by
the closed shop, they insist, that they
can get and keep living wages. AS
soon as we make over 81 a day the
firm cuts our rate. We have to stay
on the 81 mark" say the men. Girls
are lucky II they average S. week"