The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-31
Ettor Charged With Being an Access
sory to the Murder Of Anna
La Piazza, Killed Dur
ing the Trouble.
MILL OWNERS SCHEME
They Believe That the Strike VIII
Collapse Il the Guiding Spirits
Can be Kept In
Jail.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Servfce.1
LAWRENCE, Mass, Jan. S1.-
Sullenly defiant over the arrest Of
their leader Joseph j. Ettor, national
organizer of the Industrial Workers
OF the World, and his chief lieutenant,
Arturo NJ. Giovanniti, editor of
New York Italian newspaper, who are
held without bail on charges OF 'tac-
cessory to the murder Of Anna In
riazza,'' striker, hit by spent bull
let Monday night during fight be-
tween the police and strikers, most Of
the striking textile workers are today
awaiting instructions regarding their
tuture course.
Despite the fact that neither Of the
men arrested was anywhere near
where the woman was killed and that
they have a dozen persons ready to
e We bail, the authorities had the men
in close confinement. They are to be
arraigned In court during the day and
their attorneys win demand that they
be admitted to bail. This will be op
posed by the city officials and the rep
= sentatives Of the mill owners who
| have insisted that II they could get
rttor and his lieutenant behind the
bars, the strike would collapse. II
Ettor is not released, the attorneys
will institute habeas corpus proceed.
ings.
Tlae strikers cont end that Mrs La
Piazza was killed by d bullet from a
revolver held by either a police or
militia officer. They turned out in
large numbers for her funeral today,
The autohrities permitting the strik-
ers to march behind the body, provid-
ing the cortege would take the most
direct route to the cemetery.
4 The feeling against the troops was
very bitter today and 1t would take
very little to cause an outbreak which
4 would cost many lives.
Following the lead Of their officers,
the soldiers are severe in handling
ali citizens. Pedestrians are held up,
questioned and searched at will by the
armed soldiers.
The soldiers deny that they bay
oneted John Ran1i, the youth who died
yesterday, despite the testimony of
dozen of his companions who say
ihey saw him bayoneted by militia
man. There was danger today that
the stationary firemen OF Lawrence.
!, numbering 100, may strike. They
: have demanded Is per cent increase
In wages These men are affiliated
:, With the American Federation of La
: FOR and if they quit the mills, electric
? light and trolley stations may have to
close down.
!, Maybe conditions in Russia are
:, worse than in Lawrence, but doubt
y it." said Joseph ]. Ettor, strike leader,
: as he sat in his cell here today where
he was held as accessory to the muir
y der of Anna La Piazza, hit by a stray
! bullet Monday night.
Some foolish, misguided man fired
6 a pistol into the ground. The bullet
y hit stone and glanced into the
u crowd. | was not near the scene and
u do not know the man who fired ths
shot This is trumped up charge
. The fact of the matter is that the
n mill employers want to get me out O
v the way.
u "The employers have been foolini
~ these poor, underfed, underpaid, I'm
" dereducated textile workers for man.
years They thought they were 81
~ much putty and that they could moult
u them into pigs ear if they wante'
. to- They know that they can't foo
me, buy me or sidetrack me. by an
n OF their usual games, and SO they hay
locked me UP to get me out of th
way.
When l came to Lawrence fror
au New York the day after the worker
struck, because they could not lig
81 and accept a cut of % cents wee
in their pay, was warned that tn
ne employers would get me- and | hav
expected it ever since.
M They sent private detective
nv office and tried to plant six stick
of dynamite in my desk. There wei
IL too many people around SO they plan
ed it in the store next door. 1t We
ik such bungling job that they did nj
dare arrest ME then, but that WE
?' their object. Now they have trumpe
iv- UP this murder charge.
'If L am kept in jail some one eli
go will lead this strike and these dow
en- trodden people will win this strike d
Wn spite the Russian methods of the Ell
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