The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-30

Il UnlLeQ fTGSS IcdSSu W. oS'A NNSS'l l
LAWRENCE, Mass, Sept. 3d.
Rioting as serious as any which oc-
CURED during the great textile strike
of last winter, broke out here today
shortly before 6 a. m. AS result or
clashes between police and Ettor pro-
test strikers dozens are in the hospital
with broken heads and the police sta
ton is crowded with prisoners, includ-
ing men and women. Few OF the
prisoners are free from bruises and
cuts.
During the most serious rioting at
Essex and Union streets, when a.
squad of municipal and state police
charged crowd of 1000, squad OF
newspaper men who were following
the charging line of the police. were
set upon by the officers and only by
quick dodging and running were they
saved from clubbing.
A Boston Traveller photographer,
4 who was not as quick as the others
in lodging, was dubbed to the ground
and his camera kicked to pieces by the
.linfuriated police. AS the newspaper
reporters were chased down a side
street they expostulated, only to be
told .they had no business there.
Long before daylight aud despite
unseasonably cold weather, picket
line of 1000 or more surrounded the
Wood, Washington and Aver mills
AS dawn broke and the first early
J, workers began to straggle towards
these three mills, the rioting began
, Desperate after their clubbing of yes,
terday. the strickers roughed workers
who refused to turn pack, Immed
lately the state and city police were
/ rushed to half dozen different
, points in automobiles and other We
hicles which had been pressed into
service. The appearance of the po
!. lice was the signal for desperate
a fighting. Swinging night sticks ane
a wagon tongues the police battered the
!. strikers back toward Common street
Every minute some one dropped, beat
en- insensble and occasionally
: policeman would fall to the street
: badly wounded. From all points thu
= crowds converged into one grea
] mass at Essex and Union streets, ant
= stretched to Common street in th'
: heart of the foreign quarters. For ter
: minutes or longer, at this point, tn
pitched battle ragged. Then the Grove
slowly gave way before them, tn
double line Of police turned on do7
: en- newspaper men who were directl
u =, sod hu tho Snd6Qr
ness of the attack on them, the re
porters and camera men barely ha
time to turn and flee. Several wer
J badly mauled and handled, but non
a were struck with club
Y The police then turned back to thei
" work of driving the strikers ava
II from the mill district. 1t was 8 o'cloe
70 before a semblance of order was r.
: stored.
a. The Trial Starts.
n SALEM, Mass, Sept, 30.-The Etc
le and Gioyannitti case, which has a
"a tracted worldwide attention, may las
but few days.
1t is known that District Attorne
:, Atwill feels that the grand jury place
". a very heavy burden on MIN, Wheh
:, forced him TO attempt to convict tt
- - men Of murder as assessories.
- - "Wait and see,' said Atwill toda
y. y 81 shall present the evidence to tt
~ court and the court will pass on i
no merits"
= After eight months in prison, 10
~ ! eph ]. Ettor and Alturo Giovanni
~ we're iubilant today as they were ia
en- to court for trial before Jud'
John B. Quinn
They had eaten hearty breakfas
in their cells and had held a loI
q I conference with their chief attorne
,st Fred Moore, of Los Angeles, Cal
err Moore, leader of the free spec
ISL fights in California. came here at t
tie last minute as advisory counsel
in the defense.
on 1--WE will win this case" said Moe
all as the trial opened. why a conv
hit. ton of Ettor and Giovannitti wol
ain be a conviction of the right of fl
ssi- speech in ehis country. 1t would
the the first judicial approval Of constr
tive crime.