The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-05
HEARING ABOUT
BRUTAL TACTICS
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Hills at wages OF from 30 TO so a
week was fully told before the com
mittee by the children themselves
All of them left school for the mills
Just as soon as they reached the legal
working age of IA.
LENA Contitta, a member of the
Philadelphia COMMITTEES which went
to Lawrence for the children, describ.
ed the conflict at the station. She
told of securing the consent OF par
ents to take the children away and
of taking them to the station.
II took the children and lined them
up two by two in order TO get them
through the station door," said the
girl. The children went before me,
and when / got to the door saw a
terrible, struggling mass. just don't
know how it happened. 1t was all
confusion, but remember that after
wards the children were thrown in
the patrol wagons The police would
not allow me to go to the police sta
ton. went to our lawyer but we
could not get the case up before the
next Tuesday.
When I came out ! was stepping
over four or five little children. In
mediately three. or four policemen
grabbed me and threw me all over the
place. They dragged ME along the
ground to get me away from the
crowd. But went back.
u just couldn't see women and
children brutally handled that way
II didn't care whether | was murder.
ed that night.
How many women did you see
that time?" asked Henry.
Il saw a whole wagon load OF wo.
men and children whom had been talk.
en- away?" Lena answered. II
saw one young woman who had moth
/ ing to do with the strike, dubbed
over the back by a policeman.
Il tried to get back to the crowd
three or four times and finally they
arrested me. / was taken t the sta
ton house where women and children
were crowded in the cells
Did the police show any warrant ??
asked Henry.
mo. They just fell on the crowd
when they came on the station plat.
form"
/ The witness said that she had not
seen any one hurt by the police but
that there was SO much confusion she
couldn't tell much about what went
ION.
| "One man." she explained later,
was arrested for trying to send his
own children out of Lawrence"
She said that detectives had visited
the homes of children who we're about
to leave Lawrence and had threaten.
ed to arrest the children and place
1 them in public institutions
Representative Berger read tele
gram received by Samuel Lipson
the strike leader. who testified yes
lterday. 1t read:
The last outrage by the state po
lice has been committed on Italian
women. Mrs. Reganoylan was beaten
and thrown down the Jail stairs. Mrs
Harry Bazah was taken from jail to
Mrs. Frances Bajah. The committee
will collect evidence.
(SigneO
''HAYWOOD.'
| Berger told the committee that two
of the women sent for to tell how they
We're beaten by the police would be
unable to come from Lawrence. One
lis still in the hospital, he said, and
the other has been forbidden to leave
her home by her physician.
While Miss Comitta was testifying
Mrs. Taft, wife OF the president, en-
tered the room and took q place Oh
THE platform with the committee
She watched the witnesses closely
and listened intently to the testimony
Samuel Knebel of Philadelphia de
clared that when he reached Law
renee the streets were filled with
soldiers, police and detectives. Or
the day he planned to take the chill
Idren from Lawrence, he said, Marsha
Sullivan personally told him:
! Those children will not leave
Lawrence"
4 He described dramatically ths
scene at the Lawrence station. AS
/ it progressed he grew so excited thai
he finally leaped from the witness
chair and gesticulating wildly ex
claimed:
When we entered the station we
saw the two lines of police. Just as
we entered the door, the police be
gan their bloody work. Children ant
their parents began to pass through
the lines and then the police fell up
on them.
They tore children from theil
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