Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-11-26

in the work Of the organization. For
many days the situation in Lawrence
was tense, with outbreaks of violence
constantly agitating the public mind.
Jan. 20 seven sticks of dynamite were
found by the police in houses and shops
in the Italian quarter Suspicion
against the strikers was directed at
once. and six persons, Italians and
Syrians, were arrested. Ettor was in
formed by Colonel E. Leroy Sweetser
of his grave responsibility in the mat
ter. Ettor Immediately told the strik-
ers that none of their people had any
thing to do with the dynamite and
charged that the mill owners had plant
ed it to prejudice the cause of the
strikers. Subsequent investigation re-
suited in the conviction of a Lawrence
school commissioner for planting the
dynamite. Later business men and
American Wooden company, were in
dicted for conspiracy to plant dyna-
mite in Lawrence. Trial Of these cases
is pending This development served
to intensity the bitterness Of the con-
flict and Lawrence was at fever heat. "A
CONFERENCES FAIL.
Conferences to settle the strike had
failed, and the morning of Jan. 20 an
organized street parade and demon
stration by the strikers occurred. It
was preceded by rioting before sun
rise in which the street cars were
pelted with chunks of ice and other
missiles and persons forcibly prevent
ed from going to work in the mills.
After the parade Ettor and Giovannitti
addressed the strikers in Lawrence
common, where they are alleged to
have urged the strikers to acts of VIC
lence. That evening the streets near
the mills were damned with the idle
millworkers. Soldiers and police were
ordered to clear the streets. The spirit
of the hour was dangerous one. The
people sullenly responded to the or
ders of the police and Kissed them.
Many blocks of ice were thrown at
the officers of the law. Policemen's
clubs, in retaliation, were welded over
the backs of recaIcitrant strikers, when
suddenly shooting began and Anna Lo-
piZzo fell lifeless in the street. Other
riots followed the next day and that
midnight Ettor and Giovannitti were
arrested, charged with being accessor-
/ les before the fact to the Lopizzo muir
der. Later Caruso was arrested, charg-
/ ed with Salvatore Scuito, as one of
the principals to the crime as an &C.
tual participant in the fatal riot
The arrest of Ettor and Giovannitti
famed to fury the fame of feeling
among the agitated foreigners and con-
ditions were even more dangerous.
Threats were made of general strike,
organizations throughout the country
and in other lands protesting against
the action OF the authorities. Ettor and
Giovannitti pleaded not guilty Jan. 81,
but were held to the grand jury with
out bail and locked up in the Lawrence
jail until Feb. 9, when. after a hear
ing, they were held to the grand jury
and later indicted. The strike contin-
ued under the leadership now Of w. d.
Haywood until March II, when the
cause of the workers was victorious
and the strike was officially declared
of. The workers gained increases in
pay ranging from seven to 10 per cent
and concessions in working conditions.
THREAT OF WORLD STRIKE.
Indictment Of the strike leaders and
Caruso brought about an organized
worldwide effort to raise a defense
fund and workers from many coun-
tries responded. Threats of a general
world strike in protest against the ac-
ton again were made, and since the
beginning of the trial Lawrence has
been flooded with circulars denouncing
the agents of the courts and the con-
ditions of the case. Threats to storm