Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-02-26
MORE RIoTiNG, SUN
DA, AT LAWRENCE
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! we've now anxious to take them home
ard keep them The strike leaders re
| iterased, tonight the assertion that
none of the children We're taken away
without their parents consent.
Col. S~eetser. commanding the mill
! itary forces in the city, and Acting
City Marshal Sullivan, said, tonight,
that they stand ny their attitude not
10 ALLOW further expectations of emil
dren for legal as well as humanita-
rian reasons" Mayor Seanlon sup
! ports them III this attitude. although
| ii is said that members Of the city
| government are divided on the mat
ter.
Teday.s recurrence OF disorder de
veloped from several arrests which
| were made by the police following a
meeting of strikers at Paul Chabis
hall Joseph I<riss. said to be a
striker. refused to move along when
told to do SO by officers. and was ar
rested Two other men are alleged to
! have attempted To interfere with the
officers while making the arrest and
! they. too. were taken into custody
small crowd gathered, but the three
prisoners were taken away unmoest-
ed in the patrol wagon which had been
summoned.
Then the police ordered Nicola Santa
Cruce to move on. and when he, too. re-
fused he was arrested for obstructlng
the sidewalk Inspectors John j. l&ele-
her and Michael a. Byron and Patrol
man John J. Kelleher took him IN
: charge and started to take him to the
station house, about quarter of mile
away. TO escape the crowd they went
through a small alley TO the Common,
but there were met by a mob which inn
mediatey began to throw sticks anf
stones. while others beat the officers
from behind with clubs. The policemen
were forced TO draw revolvers and,
s55ia s, shower of missiles, made their
Way through the Common with theif
prisoner nearly to the station house.
Then the crowd thickened about them
and they found further progress impos-
sible and so angry did the mob appear
that help was shouted for
The assisting officers were unable TO
make their way through the crowd 10
the side of their distressed fellow-offi-
GERS and made n show of clubs, without
result. Then they used them and the
crowd thinned out before them, although
no one was seriously hurt, SO far as
could be learned There was a little
tusse to get the prisoner through ths
crowd, which had soon closed up and
a motor truck full of militamen has
tened to the scene. followed soon by
troop of cavalry. The prisoner was Il
nally tahen within the station house AMI
the militia then began the work of dis
persing the crowd, which was accom-
plshed without further trouble, although
very slowly.
Sunday had been quiet day up 10
late afternoon when the arrests began.
1t had been expected that the ministers
and priests would discuss in their ser
mons the matter of exporting the chill
dren of the strikers, but none did A
warm denunciation of the Industrial
Workers of the " orld, the organization
which controls the main bory of strik-
ers. came from Rev. James T. Riley.
pastor of St Marys Roman Catholic
church. however the priest declaring
that mo man or woman can be with the
Industrial Workers of the World and be
with God He said that the leaders OF
the strike have brought revolution AMI
war into Lawrence and that while wages
now anarchy.
Clashes between the police and militia
men and the strikers and their sympa
thIzers during the opening hours of the
mills, tomorrow morning, are regarded
as a possibility by the authorities. When
they learned, today. that leaders of the
Industria! Workers of the World at
today's meeting, had asked "every man,
woman and child of you TO come out
on the streets. tomorrow morning. and do
picket duty, they made additional prepa-
rations.
This call for piekets was coupled with
the call made, last night, upon all work
ers in every occupation in the city TO
throw up their work and join in a gen
eral sympathetic strike, tomorrow morn
ing. Therefore the police and militia
prepared themselves, tonight. TO suppress
any disturbances that may develop in
connection with the strikers expressed
intention to tie up the town. tomor-
row morning. All police officers-the To-
cal force has been more than doubled,
so that it now numbers nearly 250 men,
have been ordered to report for duty at
5 a. NJ, and the militia. which during
the past few days has confined itself TO
patrol duty in the mill district, except
on emergency calls, will be held subject
10 such calls, tomorrow morning.
While the fire of Industrial strife
shoulders and occasionally bursts out in
disorder. there is no headway being
made, 50 far as can be learned, toward
a settlement OF the strike The only
known effort being made to bring about
an agreement is in the hands of the spe-
cial eonciliation committee of the state
Legislature. With the strike nearly two
months old and an aggregate expense to
ea lived approaching 100000 the
o1d not in sight.
One Of the visitors to Lawrence, today,
was Senator Miles Poindexter of " ash
ington, who came expressly to make Il
first-hand investigation into conditions
in this city The senator said that
some friends of humanity had inter-
ested him in the situation, particularly
IN connection with the sending away Of
children. He made his inquiries quiet
ly about the city and his presence here
was not generally known. He left for
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