Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-01-16

der was given to fix hayonets and
| then to charge. In the charge half a
dozen backs were pierced by the bay
onets and 4 Syrian boy received q
wound which may cause his death.
While the militia and police werz
busying themselves with quelling the
mob outside these mills, a crowd oil
| half 4 Hundred workers in the lower
Pacific mill left the machines n which
| they had been at work and started on
| Il rampage through the plant. They
| forced other operatives to leave their
work and had started our to do con
siderable damage when the police en-
| tered the mill and placed IS Of them
under arrest. Handcuffed together
they were taken to the police station
and there were placed in cells With the
others that had been previously ar
rested,
Meanwhile the crowd that had gone
over to the Prospect mills was caus-
| ing 2 disturbance there that rvalled
that at the lower Pacific. They at
| tempted To rush into the mill. but re-
turned after a brief resistance to the
police officers, who had drawn their
clubs. One man in the crowd refused
TO give way and he was arrested.
This inftlriated the crowd and they
made a fresh attack on the gates and
office door, but again they were driv-
en- back. A number of the strikers
were knocked down and trampled up
on in this last storming. but none re-
ceived serious hurts.
The mau arrested, VincenZo Lama
rata, proved to be walking arsenal.
It was he who was sentenced To two
wears in the police court, later in the
day.
Minor disturbances occurred at sew
eral other mills during the day, but
none was serious. That at the Airing
ton cotton mills. which is in Methuen,
lust across the line from this city,
threatened for a time to become sefi-
Gus. About $50 men who had struck.
Friday, returned to work, TODAY, and
biaing their time, took up their reg
ulaf duties. Late in the forenoon
however. they started TO damage prop
! erty and intimidate the other work.
ers. but the police Were in sufficient
numbers to suppress the rioting With
out great trouble.
An attack by mill strikers when the
officials have been unable to understand
was that, late this afternoon, on the
paper mill in the outskirts of the city
, of the Champion International Co. Here
| a crowd of several hundred battered
down the doors and were about to start
on a general sweep of destruction, APP
parently, when the police reserves whicf
had been rushed to the scene, appeared
They made quick time in getting away
There is no strike on at the Champion
mill and that company is paving its mer
on the 56-hour basis, it is said.
The fact that the Lawrence City nal
had actually been stormer by the strik
had actually been stormed by the striS.
daring attack by the strikers, and tht
| men of Battery C We're rushed to the
spot. They met with some resistance
| but when explanations were made it de
veloped that meeting had been arrang
ed by the strike leaders to take place a
City hall, this afternoon, but, this morn
| ing, the common council refused TO ALLOW
permission to them TO use the hall /
was TO be used as barracks for the
out-of-town policemen. it was said. Thu
strikers clamored vanly for admission
| for more than an hour. and the police
say that attempts were made to pusl
through the doors. This was about TO b,
accomplished, it is claimed, when the ar
tilerymen arrived on the scene, armed
with the axehandles which had beer
their weapons during the day. The strik
ers were driven away from the City hal
and the situation was explained to them
One arrest was made.
| AT the conference between Mayor Scan
lon and Leader Ettor and others, tn,
mayor agreed to give up the use of thu
| City hall as a barracks and turned /
| over to the strikers for meetings. TIL.
policemen will be quartered in othe
places.
One of the impromptu demands mad
/ by the strikers at the conference witt
| the mayor was that he use his efforts t,
have the mill owners shut down all TIL
| affected mills for two or three days.
was reasoned that with all the mills clos
| ed down there would be no incentive t.
| the strikers to maintain picket duty am
| therefore greatly decrease possibilities D
| disorder The mayor said he would com
| municate with the agents on this an,
| the other points and endeavor to arrang
l a joint conference of some kind as sool
as possible. The possibility of bringin,
the agents and operatives together, n
| cautioned them, was very slight.
| No official statement either from tn
| strikers or from the mill magnates coul
be secured, today or tonight. as to hoy
many persons were on strike, how man,
| forced out and how many were at worl
| in the several mills
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THE MORNING EVENTS.
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