The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-26
Club Strikers and Knock Fleeing Women Down
with Well Aimed Blow Because They
Were Singing
ONE MAN WAS SHOT THROUGH THE BACK
Senator Poindexter Says it Appears That Slavery
Has Been Re-estabshed in These
Free United States

as many different ways as there wers
police
Another charge and retreat was
carried on for seven blocks along
Essex street During this time the
women. men and children continued
singing. After each savage attack by
the police they would reform without
apparent leadership and as If they had
forgotten completely that they were
the object of attack they would calm
ly and without disorder continue their
march up Essex street singing al
ways singing patriotic and national
airs.
United States Senator Miles Poin-
dexter arrived In Lawrence yesterday
morning and without disclosing his
identity made thorough personal In
vestigation into recent happenings
and conditions.
The senator spent Sunday getting
hard first-hand facts. He went to the
soup kitchen where $500 striking
workmen were being fed. He went to
| lnG jail anu lSdlLGu .llOA llS dSpOly
| sheriff that seven women We're detain-
ed with no charge against them. He
saw and talked with half dozen wo-
men who were seized and mailled and
beaten by the police while peacefully
standing on station platform walt
! ing for train He talked with ten
year old girl whose eye was black
and blue and who bore other evil
dences of the rough handling by the
J police. He went to tenement where
seventeen people live in three rooms
and where he saw hungry women and
/ thin, peaked babies with no food and
4 no money to buy it, He went to re-
| lief headquarters and examined the
card catalogue of mill employees who
are dependent on charity-hundreds
| of them He saw the wage record
seven dollars week, the average
wage.
Three of the seven people held at
1 the Jail without legal warrants Sena-
tor Poindexter found had nursing
babies with them. The senator ask
ed to see the commitment papers, but
was refused He asked to see the pris-
oners and was refused. He was told
that this is In accord with the treat
ment of Ettor, the strike leader, VINO
also is held without anything but the
shallowest pretext Of law and In
whose case the court has refused a
writ of habeas corpus or bail
1t was admitted by the deputy sher-
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the arrested women tainted when she
reached the Jail Another woman.
with child, was dubbed and mauled
by the police and SO injured that she
is now In the city hospital where ac-
cess to her is refused to her friends
or relatives. on the ground that she
is still technically in the custody OF
the police Her condition is said to
be critical.
Senator Poindexter believes that
the country Is entitled to information
in regard to wages and living condl-
tions in this strike region. as both
have a close relation to the tariff
Slavery Re.established.
LAWRENCE, Mass, f'eD. 2o.-Atter
, personal investigation into the action
, of the authorities in arresting women
, who were sending their children to
other cities to be cared for, United
States Senator Miles Poindexter, OF
Washington, prepared the following
? signed statement for the United Press:
,i[By United States Senator Miles Poin-
=, dexter.
It is evidently ? campaign OF starva-
;, tion OF women and children. The mill
owners, backed up, strange to say, by
the police, the militia. the prosecuting
attorney and the local judges. are
J. making a concentration camp of Law
q renee. The only parallels | know OF
were the Spanish concentration camps
/ In Cuba and Kitchener's Boer cam
paign in which the British empire ex
tinguished the liberty Of people by
Y starving their women and children
g The manner in which the order was
e carried out in Lawrence, through
It handling of women and children
Q throwing them struggling into jail, all
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