Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-10-01
Numerous Clashes with Police. Several Injured--Et.
tor Trial Opens at Saem--Jury Not Yet Sc.
cured--SympathetiC Demonstration at Lynn
Causes Another Disturbance.
R1oTiNG AT LAWRENCE.

Lawrence, Mass. sept. 3O--A Dem
onstraton strike against the imprison.
ment # labor leaders, the first of IL
Kind IN thus country. occurred here
today.
After hand to hand clashes between
rioters and police, from the opening
of the textile mill gates III the morn
ing, until fhe closing at night. til,
Demonstration" was declared of BY
the Industrial Workers of the World
The strike was called for "A hours
beginning this morning, in protest
against the Imprisonment of Joseph
j. Etter. Arturo Giovannitti and Jo-
seph Garuso, whose trial in eonnec-
ton with the death of Anna Lopizzo
opened in Salem. today. Seven thou
sand of the 10000 operatives in the
cotton and wooden mills here obeyed
the call, forcing out others through
intimidation or lack of work because
OF closing down of departments. Then,
at a mass meeting, late this after
noon, the workers were told to go
back to work. tomorrow morning.
ready to come out again at the call
OF the Industrial Workers. if the lead
ers are not satisfied with the pro-
sress of the trial at Salem. The
worst of the lieting occurred at the
opening of the mill gates, this morn
ing. Pickets armed with revolvers.
knives, sfedge hammers, iron bolts
and other weapons attempted to stop
operatives from going into the mills.
When the police tried to maintain or
Ger the piekets struggled with them
desperately. Swinging their clubs
with effect the blue coats drove back
the crowds. a score OF arrests were
made, many of the prisoners having
cracked heads while there were num-
bers of others who escaped through
the crowd to their homes with bleed
ing heads and bruised faces.
Men. women and children on their
way to work were held up and as
saulted by strikers or sympathizers.
But one hospital ease was reported,
that of an operative who was thrown
headlong from a street ear and knock
ed unconscious. He was later dis
charged. No policeman was wounded
and no shots were fired
The decision Of the Industrial
Workers leaders to call off the strike
was made public at q mass meeting
attended by 5000 persons in vacant
lot. this afternoon. Miss elizabeth
Gurley Flynn, one of the organizers.
told the gathering that the strike was
ended and that all should return to
work, tomorrow. Miss Flynn told them
they We're to hold themselves in readi-
ness for another call to be sent out
by the Industrial Workers of the
World. If Ettor Giovannitti and
cafuso are not given justice" said
Miss Flynn, you must demonstrata
your solidarity again, so prepare
yourselves for another holiday soon"
No vote was taken at the meeting
ON the matter of formally ending the
strike. Archie Adamson, who presid-
ed, said afterward that the usual vote
was dispensed with because it was
the strikers might insist upon remain
ing out and thus create trouble.
In court the cases of about dozen
persons arrested in the morning dis
turbanoe were disposed Of They were
largely assault matters and We're set
tied with SIS, $40 or SIS fines. In one
case man tHdIStu NilH RdffNlIS a
concealed weapon was fined SO and
given three months in Jail. The officials
of the Industrial Workers followed
with interest the progress of the trial
at Salem, but made no comment. 1t
was announced ut headquarters that a
vote would be taken. tomorrow by the
textile unions OF Lowell ON the matter
of striking in the big cotton mills
there and that similar action would
be taken at other New England mill
centcrs during the present week The
Industrial Workers are sending cir
culars throughout the country it was
learned. asking individual mill opera
tives whether they are ready to go
out on a general strike as a protest
against the trial of Ettor and Gioyan-
nitti IF it is not conducted properly"
Many nationalities figuring in the
strike, were represented at the mass
meeting, where addresses We're made
in nine tongues. There were speakers
in English, Syrian, Lithurian, German,
italian. French, Armenian. Russian
and Portuguese
The days rioting, which continued
at intervals all the morning, after the
first violence at the, opening of the
mills, ana which broke out again at
the noon hour, flashed out once more
al closing time. tonight. At the corr
ner of Essex and Union streets a
crowd of striking Italian operatives
and sympathizers met a crowd of Po-
fish operatives coming from one OF
the mills. The two bodies at once came
to blows, but squad of police leap-
ed into the midst of the tumult With
drawn clubs and after few moments
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