The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-03-06
LEADER
DETAILS BLOODY
:. WORK OF POLICE
WOMEN AND CHILDREN NAL.
TREATED sv BOTH MlLTTsAMEk
AN0 OFFICERS OF THE CITY.
Children Were Being Taken to Good
Homes by Church Worker When
Police lnterfered at Pathway station.
Woman Tells Of Experience.

Washington, March 5-Mrs. William
II; Taft, wife of the president, was
an interested listener today to tales
of alleged oppression and cruelty in
the Lawrence textile strike, which
We're told to the house rules commit
tee when it resumed its consideration
of The industrial struggle.
Before the first witness took the
stand, Representative Victor Berger
had read into the records a telegram
from William D. Haywood, one of the
strike leaders, tc the effect that two
women witness sought by Mr. Berger
could not come to Washington because
of Injuries sustained at the hands of
the police in the recent rioting.
Miss Tema Camitta, Philadelphia
vocal student and Sunday school
teacher, and a member of one of the
committees that sought to get the
children out of Lawrence, told of the
scenes at the railroad station in Law
renee. She related how she had en-
deavored to lead the children from the
station to the train.
Police Frightened Teacher.
"For some reason, the children got
out ahead of me-" she said, 'and in
stantly the women and children were
hurled into struggling mass by the
police. l was squeezed against the
wall of the waiting room and was ter
ribly frightened.
"The crowd in front of me was so
dense that could see little. called
out to the police, BE careful of the
children You're killing them Later
when / sought to accompany them to
the police station | was told that I'd
better stay away or I'd be dubbed,
too
Miss Camitta admitted that she saw
no clubbing of women or children in
the station, nor any injured after the
affray.
Il did see the police clubbing wo-
men in the patrol wagon" she said.
"The wagon was crowded and the po-
lice were thrusting the women about
with their clubs"
MiIitiamen Also Guilty.
The witness at this juncture refused
to advance an opinion as to how many
women were in the wagon, but said
she saw more than one woman beaten.
At 10 time, she said, had she observed
any oGtrages committed by militia
men.
1t was while Miss Camitta was tes-
tifying that Mrs. Taft arrived at the
com .nittee room. She appeared to take
great interest in the proceedings and
remained throughout the morning.
Miss Camitta told Of detectives ar
resting some of the parents of Law
renee for attempting to send their
children away
"In all cases where children were
to be taken to Philadelphia" she was
asked, did you have the parents con-
sent?"
TN every case"
"There was nothing in the nature
of kidnaping?'
Absolutely not, and We took every
to assure that the homes
intended for the children would afford
the Lest possible surroundings"
II think" she added, that the press
reports were enough to cause every
man to attempt to get children Of ten
der age out of Lawrence"
KnebeI WAS Witness.
Simon Knebel, another member of
the committee from Philadelphia and
organizer of the Industrial Workers of
the World, was the next witness.
"The sysytem of taking children
from strike towns is a system that
is going to prevail in this country in
the future in labor wars" said Kne-
bel
1T is imported from Europe, isn't
it?" asked Representative Hardwick.
"Well, it's been used in Europe"
said Knebel, but that's not the only
reason it should be tried here"
81 just wanted to know the fact"
said Mr. Hardwick.
We'll, it's good system" Knebel
continued.
Telling Of what happened at the
Lawrence depot, Knebel said:
Bloody Police Work.
1--WE grouped the children in file
OF two and started to send them out Of
the depot door. Then we saw two
lines of police. Just as we left the
door, the police started their bloody