The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1910-11-10
WOMEN INSIST ON RIGHT
TO PARADE THE STREETS

Chicago, Nov. 4.-Mayor Busse, X
was learned today. will be asked for
permit to allow parade Of 10000
persons as a demonstration by strik-
They expect that the permit will be
refused. in which case another applica-
ton will be made just before the i'm
pending election.
Chief of Police Steward declared to-
day that club women settlement work.
ers 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.
"The police have exercised great re-
straint in handling the crowds" he
declared. land will continue to do so.
but the society women and social work.
ers who hope to intimidate the police
are on the wrong track II they are dis
orderly they will be arrested"
1t Is said to be one OF the purposes
| Of the society pickets to submit to ar
rest in order to discredit the police,
whom they accuse of brutality, by
proving their own innocence Of infring-
ing upon the law.
Demonstrations Go On.
Demonstrations by striking garment
workers were resumed today. Several
hundred Of them congregated at West
street and claim to have gained many
recruits from workers on their way
to the days toll.
Policemen were present and main
tanned order during the early hours.
The Green street crowd, with its SYM
pathizers, next moved to a shop at
514 West Madison st. Club women and
settlement workers who did their best
to conceal their identity, were reported
among the leaders. A special detail of
police was sent to guard the shops
at Harrison and Sherman streets in the
downtown district, word having been
received that demonstration was con-
templated at that point.
Fifteen persons Were at work in the
small tailor shop Of Cohen & Co., at
1929 North Ashland ave-, when 100
strikers appeared. Many crowded into
the place and persuaded the entire
force to join them. The mob tnen stoned
the building, breaking the windows. A
riot call was turned in and one man
was arrested, charged with disorderly
conduct and melting a riot.
Three Outbreaks Ono Place.
Three outbreaks occurred at the
shops Of Hart Schafiner & Marx. and
of Ederheimer q Stein on the north
west side OF the city. A mob OF 800
stormed the Hart Schaffner & Marx
building with bricks and stones, break
ing windows and hitting a number of
strike breakers. Police charged the
crowd and made four arrests.
At Ederheimer & STEMS plant, 2021
North Robey ST., another mob gathered
and was dispersed by the bluecoats.
Women Encounter Police.
Mounted police charged threatening
mobs of striking garment workers and
made numerous arrests In three sec
tions OF Chicago yesterday only to be
dumfOunded when met by obdurate
groups of well known club women and
society women who produced engraved
calling cards at police stations In lieu
Of bail bonds. It was a new experience
for the police and plainly confused
them.
A score Of the women champions of
the garment work rs who faced the
rioting were taken into custody. They
were Immediately released. however.
when their Identities became known to
the police. One of them was injured
when struck by a policeman's club,
but her name did not become known,
as she was hurriedly placed In an am
bulance and taken to her home
Most OF the women OF prominence
involved In the demonstration were
CARRIED as working girls. and for this
reason the police could NOT distinguish
them from strikers until after arrests
had been made