The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-10-02
MOB VIOLENCE REIGNS
TROOPS ORDERED oUTATAUGUs'
IA on ACCOUNT OR STRIKE.
-Four Companies Held in Readiness.
- strike-Breakers Attacked and
Beaten by Mob.

Upon instructions Of the governor,
the Adiutaat General has issued an
order to Major Levy; Of Augusta, to
order out four companies OF the Ma
t!cnai Guard, to be held subject to
direct orders from Mayor Barrett.
Capt. Thad Jowitt has taken the
call and is now assembling the men
OF the four companies at the armory,
where they will be on duty. Any use
OF the troops on the streets or on
cars will be only upon the order Of
Mayer Barrett, according to a dis
patch received by The News and Cou-
rier yesterday morning at 2 a. m.
The mob failed to show up at the
Third Street car barn, though 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
Derse 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 reso-
luton providing for sympathetic
strike at monster labor meeting
held by Augusta Federation Of
T1ades at the court house, attended
by quite 1000 laborfng men, q 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 been
taken away in an automobile to be
put on the next train and driven from
town.
S. !. Furrow and G. W. Peger Of
New York, strikebreakers, were less
setiously 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 the
power plant with instructions to DIS
perse the mob with water. At the
same time a report was mate to po-
lice headquarters that MOB was
moving to the Third street car barn,
where it is understood 20-odd strike
breakers are quartered. A squad OF
policemen have beer ordered out and
are on their way to that barn now.
The resolution adopted at the Ia
bc1 meeting at the court house pledg-
ed the 16 affiliated organizations Oh
the federation Of trades to sympa-
thetic strike upon the call OF the
leader of the striking car men. Lea
Cornelius, a national organizer OF
tie carmen's association, after the
meeting made the statement to q
newspaper man that he would call
for a general sympathetic strike 'fr
he felt In necessary" but, he said,
1--WE intend to maintain the organiza-
ticn."
At 1890 Thursday morning May
or Thomas Barrett called Gov. Brown
ty long distance phone and asked for
a. i1.a.: r'ate order Cor IA s:o,r.s,
w.,:l t'r purpose Of de:lL. .e Al.
zusta l,eer martial Law.
Just before o'clock Wednesday
afternoon one Of the cars on the belt
line was attacked by Md on Fiji
teenth street and the conductor. a
man by the name OF Kelly Of
the men brought here by the COM
pany in the past few days-was SCI.
iou.ly beaten. Twenty mel were ar
rested and taken to police barracks.
Prior to that a conductor was be-
labored on May avenue by q crowd
OF women.