The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-03-07
Dramatic Are Tales
Told of Textile Strike

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chusetts upon which you acted in this
matter?"
Il did not
did you order the police to Jail the
Il left that to the man who had
police experience
DETAILS OF OPERATION.
Captain John j Sullivan, acting
chief marshal of Lawrence. was called
an the next witness and told of details
Of the police operation during the
strike
Captain Sullivan described several
street riots and declared that his men
were instructed to arr carefully. He
was asked about the stabping of an
| Italian boy.
Soldiers were going across trestle
| bridge he said, when this boy rush
/ ed at one of them. A second soldier
| prodded him with a bayonet. No re-
this case"
/ What was the boy ATTEMPTING tor
asked Representative Dalzell
No one knew what was in the boys
mind, but the supposition is he intend
ed to push the soldier through the
| trestle.'
What happened to the boy?"
/
| covered
He told of one morning when the
strikers had planned to form an end
less chain parade locking arms to pre-
vent persons who wished 10 go to work
from reaching the mills
Drove PEOPLE. FROM CARS.
Late in the day the strikers began
pulling the troIiey9 of cars all along
the line. The cars were stoned people
driven out and notornlen and oonduc-
tors frightened of saw one man
pick up two chunks OK ice and hurl
them. | put him under arrest and was
pelted with ice. One officer came to
my assistance. I held up my club and
threatened any man who came near.
| An Armenian, who struck me in the
head. was the only man | hit"
RE described other demonstrations
wherein people paraoed the streets
singing la MarseiIlaise'F and other
songs in foreign tongues.
Gould you locate the leaders men
or women who led assaults?" asked
representative Wilson of Illinois
There were no leaders In the
streets, said the captain. THE in
structiohs of leaders were made in
meetings
The crowds We're usually led by
women and children in their arms
other women carried Rags. On the
nrst morning Ettor, the strike leader.
was about the mills giving orders but
, wen me demonstrations took place he
always disappeared
AN OFFICER KILLED
Describing the killing of officer
; said: '''An : IN van
The man who killed the woman wa :
: me man who killed Officer Benot we
Is kn9 Nv mat man and we will get him.
y mas peen testified here that Officer
: Eenoit killed the woman. officer Re-
mott carried a 80 caliare revolver end
was killed with 80 calibre revolver .
mind?" -
Il shouldn't tell you that: it would
defeat the end of Justice
was he stroller?"
We think he was, and the woman
! Killed was striker. / think the shoot :
lhS started as pure devilment to raise
) trouble and that there was no inten
ton TO kill anybody. The police did
. not shoot"
Captain Sullivan also told of another
: ofhcer who was STABBED during the
. same outbreak. Another method of
the strikers to arouse trouble. he said,
( was the concerted plan of the strikers
III hooking through the stores, passing
IN and out without BUYING anvthins.
q They had our store -keeners io a
state of terror and business was prac-
tlcaHy at standstill,' he said.
captain Sullivan recounted to the
. committee several instances In which
ne said children Were sent ont OF
: Lawrence by the strikers without the
consent or even the knowledge of their
: parents. He said two children were
picked up on the street and sent h
t Barre, Vt. In another case two child
rem sent from Lawrence were found
wandering on the street in New York
notified the strike committee anc
!. mad 1t published that no children
would be permitted to leave Lawrence
without the written consent of theil
PARENTS
Chairman Henry read to the witnes.
copy of a statement attributed r.
him, az follows:
There will be no more children
leaving Lawrence unless We are salts
ned that the police cannot stop theil
} going. l will use all the resources Of
the law and the courts to stop this
making show of the children on the
streets to collect money for any pur.
pose l Will not hesitate to use al
force, power and authority possess o.
may summon to my aid"
After examining the statement
printed in Lawrence papers, Captain
= Sullivan said;
NOT HIS STATEMENT.
I That is not my statement"
I Well. what did you say?''
Il called in the reporters and asked
| them to publish broadcast that w,
would permit no children, to leav,
: Lawrence without full consent. 1 talk
: cd to the reporters and they wrot,
their statements. 1 made no writer
: order in the matter .
Women pickets who refused to ODE,
u the police were in jail on the day o.