The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-30
rv.nty.one Companies OF Infantry,
TWO Troops Of Cavalry, Two
Thousand Detectives and
Many Police.
70 PREVENT RIoT1NG
Zach Soldier Has Supply Of Ball
Cartridges and There Is oppor-
tunity for an Appalling
Outbreak.

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LAWRENCE. Mass, Jan. S0.-Thel
grim truth of the textile workers
strike was realized by all Lawrence
,oday when the state millitiamen,
their rifles loaded and with double
allowance of ball cartridges in their
webbed belts, patrolled every avenue
leading to the great mills section OF
the city. the business section and the
aristocratic resident section. The mill
owners demand for additional troops
IL soyeawe the strikers" was granted
bv Governor Foss, and all through the
night additional armed men arrived
until today a small army was on duty.
The soldiers were ordered to prevent
riotine at any cost. Last nights dem
onstration, which resulted in the ac-
cjdental killing of one woman a
striker--hit by a stray bullet, and in
which the police and strikers fought
band.to.hand, was responsible for this
order. For the present, It was stated.
martial law will not be declared, but
the manner in which pedestrians were
compelled to move on and the
streets and avenues kept clear. was
an evidence of what may be expected
II the authorities later decide to sus-
pend the civil law, in order that the
big mill owners may import strike.
breakers here to ruin their mills
TIE strike leaders ordered their
reople to obey the law carefully. A
binding snow storm Kept many off the
street and there was no trouble Of any
kind during the early hours. The
snow storm aided in keeping the
workers in their homes but also added
greatly to the suffering of the anem-
ployed. Thousands of the strikers are
without food and fuel 1t was feared
that there would be many deaths from
privation despite the efforts of the
strike leaders to care for the suffering
There were twenty-one companies
Of infantry and two troops of cavalry
on the ground today. In addition the
police force had been increased tc
200 men and the mill men had 2,00C
armed detectives" BY order oi
Colonel Leroy Swetzer, in command
Of the troops, all of the approaches
leading to the mill property We're
guarded by double line Of soldier.
with their pieces loaded with oal
cartridges. The order of the officer,
was that no persons were to be per
mitted 10 congregate near the mil
property, that no more parades o.
mass meetings were to be permitted
and upon any utterance by the strik'
leaders, which could be construed a
incendiary, to Jail them
The efforts of Governor Foss to en-,
the strike. 1t was said, will probabl,
prove futile. The strikers are sus
nscious of his good faith in the matte
because of his action in sending tn
most powerful force of militia used o.
strike duty in Massachusetts in recen
years to operate against them, slmu
1aneously with the Issuing Of an ope
letter to the mill owners, saying the
should at once restore the old wag
scale. paying Sc hours pay for the 5
hours work.
Strike Leader Ettor said today tina
the offer of the governor meant notl
ing" He asserted that the only wa
NE strike can be settled will be fo
the mill owners to deal directly wit
The officers of the union. Ettor con
mented bitterly on the arrest Of job
]. Breen, member of the school boar
and son OF former Mayor Breen, ft
planting" the dynamite, the findin
OF which was responsible for the SEN
Ing into the city Of the first reinforc
ments CT the militia. Breen was to |
alsaigned in court today, when he W;
expected to plead not guilty and giV
nail for examination later.
sBreen planted that dynamite
alscredit our cause" said Ettor, 'tar
the authorities have left nothing u
aone to give the impression outsit
that the strikers were ali foreit
porn anarchists who despised law al
order and would prefer violence
peaceful methods, Despite these met
ods We will win our strike as eve
inill here which is not entirely sh
DOWN, is operating at loss
Early today militiaman on qua
VINO said he saw twenty-five men Il
ing to cross the ice on the Merrim
river from Lawrence to the Uswo
mus fired a shot, The entire guard
mat point rushed to the scene.