The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1912-10-02
mob VIOLENCE REIGNS
ORDERED OUTATAUGUs-
ia ON ACCOUNT OR STRIKE.
-Four Companies Held in Readiness.
- Strike-Breakers Attacked and
Poofor, 1>v hnA
Beaten by Mob.

Beaten by Mob.
Upon instructions OF the governor,
the Adjutant General has issued An
order to Major Levy, Of Augusta, to
order out tour companies Of the Ea-
tional Guard, to be held subject TO
direct orders from Mayor Barrett.
Capt. Thad Jowttt has taken the
call and is now assem- mbling the man
OF the four companies at the armory.
where they will be on duty. Any Ess
OF the troops on the streets or on
cars will be only upon the order Of
Mayor Barrett, according to a dis
patch received by The News and Cou-
rier yesterday morning at A. m.
The mob failed to show up at the
Third Street car barn, though a squad
OF policemen from the special detail
were there waiting for them, and are
still on duty at the barn. The crowd
at the power plant began to dis
perse half an hour or more ago and
at o'clock only a small portion Of
them were floating around in the
vicinity.
A strong police guard is on duty
around the power house and will re-
main there unless removed and re-
placed with militia by the mayor.
Following the adoption OF a reeo-
luton providing for a sympathetic
strike at monster labor meeting
held by Augusta Federation Of
T1sdes at the court house, attended
by quite 1000 laboring men, crowd
O.: union sympathizers attacked the
non-union men at the power house
at 1880 o'clock Thursday night. A
man named Cason has been badly
beaten, and five men, who have besn
taken away in an automobile to b
put ON the next train and driven from
town.
S. I. Furrow and G. W. Peger oa
New York, strikebreakers, were less
set;ously beaten. They are now at
police barracks and say they are will
ling to leave the city. The names
of the others could not be ascertain
ed.
At is minutes to IL the mayor or-
dered the fire department to tao
power plant with instructions to DIS
perse the mob with water. At the
same time a report was mate to po-
lice headquarters that q mop was
moving to the Third street car barn,
where it Is understood 20-odd strike
breakers are quartered. A squad or
policemen have been ordered out and
are on their way to that barn now.
The resolution adopted at the la
bct meeting at the court house pledH-
ed the 16 affiliated organizations Oh
the federation Of trades to q symps-
thetic strike upon the call of the
leader of the striking car men. Lea
Cornelius, national organizer o1
the carmen's association, after tho
meeting made the statement to 4
newspaper man that he would csN
for a general sympathetic strike "if
he felt in necessary, but, he said,
1--WE intend to maintain the organiza-
ticn."
At 1890 Thursday morning May
o. Thomas Barrett called Gov. Brown
ty long distance phone and asked for
a. inn: cate order :or IA Go;rs,
WIN 70 purpose OF 1ecll. 1G A.
susta u er martial law.
Just before o'clock Wednesday
afternoon one Of the cars on the belt
line was attacked by m3o on FiH-
teenth street and the conducto. 4
man by the name of Kelly-ope OF
the men brought here by the CON-
pany in the past few days-was ser.
iously beaten. Twenty men were ar
rested and taken to police barracks.
Prior to that q conductor was be-
labored on May avenue by a crowd
of women.