The Alaska citizen., 1912-03-25

committee To send fifty children from this city to outside towns, where they would be cared for. Eight women. five men and ten children were arrested and rushed Co the police station
 The interference by the police and militia has added to the gravity of the situation IL follows the action of the military authorities last week when they announced the strikers would be kept, wherever possible from sending their children out of town. The strike leaders have open ly charged tha, this action was taken al the hehest of the mill own CTS. who know that if the children are kept here and forced to suffer their parents will give up the strug- gle IL was also known bv the mill owners. the strike leaders con tend, that if the children had plenty and were safely housed, where their every want could be met. the par ents would get along somehow on the small strike fund available.
 The children who were innocently responsible for today's trouble were brought 10 the railroad station to be placed aboard the I'll train. They were to be taken 10 Philadel- phia and Providence, via Boston. Ap- plications for them had been filed more than week ago and a spec ial ear for their transfer had been provided.
 Militia Out Against Children.
 Shortly before 6 o'clock Marshal Sullivan ordered out the police re. serves and at the head of fifty of the sturdiest members of his force marched to the station. A few minutes later the two companies of militia. their belts filled with ball cartridges and their pieces ready for action, put in all appearance. Sul- liyan then pressed into service a big two-horse covered truck for use as a patrol wagon and backed it up against the station entrance.
 When the strikers appeared with their children the marshal demand ed why the children were to be sent away. Few of the women could un- I'pc i-l oil plainly frightened by the display of force. Sullivan finally ordered a number of the men, women and chill dren 10 go home. Those who re fused were gathered up. hustled into the wagon and driven to the police station
 While this was going on under or ders from the mayor police and sol diers were gathering in ten strike pickets who had taken positions at the edge of the Common and were asking the men and women who were going to work to join the strike. Charges of melting to riot were lodged against them and they were locked up.
 Not child was permitted to leave Lawrence and Marshal Sullivan re fused to make any explanation of his action. The police and soldiers, acting directly under orders, sep arated the parents and the children and forced the latter away from the station. When parents resisted, arrests were made.
 Women Beaten
 The militia in addition to their rifles, were armed with clubs which they used freely on all of the male strikers. In many instances where women threw themselves in front of the men to protect them no discrim- ination was shown and the women were beaten. A number of women had their clothing badly torn when they were driven back by the police after they had tried to rejoin their children
 The children, their mothers and fathers had been seated in the big waiting room. Five minutes before the train pulled in Sullivan blew a signal on his whistle. Twenty five policemen, who had been lounging near the door, suddenly rushed across the room. Seizing the child, ren, they hustled them through door onto Essex street. Then they barred the door.
 The frantic mothers and fathers swept out through another door and tried to get to their children. But the militiamen and additional police were ranged along the street and blocked the way. A fight followed and some of the men and women managed to reach their children but no sooner had they gathered them into their arms than they were placed under arrest and hustled tc the station house.
 Before the women were lodged ir the station many of them had sev erely scratched policemen and one of them, Policeman Moore, had his head split open with stone whicf womap piclred nm and hit hin