The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-11-03
CLuBvlV 1 IN
LIVELY R|o'1|''||NG.
Involved in Strike Demon.
STATIONS at Chicago.
STEWARD SERVES NOTICE

Chief Of Police Says He 10 Not I'm.
pressed by Their Visiting Cards and
viii Treat Them tho Same as a
Striker-Wonen Accuse Policemen
Of Brutality in Their Treatment Of
Garment Workers.
Chicago, Nov. Recommendations
by striking garment workers continue
Several hundred congregated at West
Jackson boulevard and South Green
street and claim to have secured many
recruits from workers going to work.
Fifteen persons were at work in
the small tailor shop of Cohen & Co.,
where hundred strikers appeared.
Many of the latter crowded into the
place and persuaded the entire force
: to join them. The mob then stoned
the building, breaking the windows,
not only of the shop, but of a cottage
adjacent.
A riot call was turned in and Law
renee Stazlowitz arrested, charged
with disorderly conduct and melting
riot.
Clubwomen and settlement workers,
who tried to conceal their identity,
were reported among the leaders.
A detail of police was sent to guard
the shops at Harrison and Sherman
streets, in the down town district,
word having been received that a
Outbreaks at Various Places.
Three outbreaks occurred at the
shops of Hart, Schaffner & Marx and
of Ederheimer & Stein on the North
west Side of the city. At Milwaukee
and West North avenues a mob of
800 stormed the Hart, Schaffner &
Marx building with bricks and stones,
breaking windows and hitting num-
Der of strikebreakers. The police
charged the crowds and made four ar.
rests. At Ederheimer & STEMS plant
another mob gathered and was dis
persed by the bluecoats. An hour later
the latter had to repeat the job at the
same place.
Chief of Police Steward declared
that clubwomen, settlement workers
and college girls, who have donned
the garb of workers, will be treated
exactly like any striker. Their en-
graved visiting cards, he declared, do
not impress him in the least.
II io IN h@ @F& Io
Of the society pickets to submit to
arrest in order to discredit the. police,
whom they accuse of brutality, by
proving their own innocence of In
fringing the law. 49, Il,
Young Girl Leads Strikers.
- Josie Mielewzki, fourteen-year-old
girl, led one of the most serious riots
when an attack was made on the
shops of Kuh, Nathan & Fischer. She
and several others were arrested.
The strikers had broken several
windows and conquered the guard
around the place when the police ar
rived. At the word charge" from the
police the girl is said to have shouted:
Get together, men! Charge the po-
! lice! Get the jump on 'em!" 49,.
The strikers responded to her call
and charged the bluecoats. The po-
| lice used their clubs and gradually
the mob scattered. Josie and a young
man named Frank Brex fought to the
last, continuing their resistance even
! In the patrol wagon.
The first serious injury of the strike
was suffered by Policeman Carroll
Johnson. He was stabbed and beaten
when. single handed, he sought to
dispense a mob of 800 who were
charging the shop of Fred Shau. He
was rescued by patrol wagon load of
his comrades, who succeeded in reach
ing him only after ten minutes hot
| xyorly with fhoir o1,,ho