The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-15
MILITIA SENT BY TOSS TO
 QUELL RIOTERS Police Cells In Lawrence Are Crowded With
 Strikers With Fixed Bayonets Sol diers Charged on Crowd, Which Fled In All Direc- tions.
Special from United Press.)


 Boston, Jan. 15-Ffve companies of Massachusetts State Militia were or tered to proceed immediately to the scene of the Lawrence riots from Low ell and Haverhill, shortly after noon today. by special order of Governor Foss. The order followed consul tation between the. governor and Ad- jutant General Gardner W. Pearson, prompted by an appeal from Mayor SeanIon of Lawrence.
 Determined at all hazards of blood- shed to crush the rioters. Governor Foss summarily ordered three com of the 9th from Lowell, and one com pany of the 8th from Haverhill, to be rushed to Lawrence, prepared for any emergency.
 Lawrence. Mass, Jan. 15-Half a hundred striking mill operatives were injured, several policemen are sur fering from cuts and broken heads and police aid from Lynn, Lowell ana FaverhiIl asked. following dozen clashes between local strikers and three companies of state militia, who were compelled to charge the strik- ing operatives with fixed bayonete. They were ordered to charge with
 At, police Headquarters. the cells are crowded with hundred or more Ital- fans, Lfthuanians and Greeks, who went to the mills ostensfbly to worh when they opened at o'clock arm ed with revolvers. knives and razors- ton to 90 quietly to the six, or eight nail1s, start work and then. at sig nal. repeat their tactics of Friday. benches, stornned through the crowded rooms beseeching fellow workers to strike and smashing machinery.
 scan1on. who, at 6 o'clock. when crowds which gathered about the mill doors began tearing down fences and a ont the police ADesa1fe the aid of 100 specially sworn in deputies, the police were swept before tf1e- men and by precept, under Massachusetts law, ordered out Compa -ses F and L., or the state militia, and light field bat 1sry C. the latter being armed with
 With fixed bayonets. the three com to the aid of the police. Their ap> startled the disorderly inclined. who had gone into the workshop, and inn- rnediately confusion reigned
 Captains Donovan and Ranlett, of Companies F and L, respectively, or T,.3Ifs ana tI,ev were met with half a dozen scattered shots No one was hit. The rioters, for a. moment over awed by the uniformed soadiery. weapons and fled. AS they left the doors they were met by the police. most of the injuries occurred, some of the foreign strikers having. kept their Knives and clubs and putting up
 Frederick F. Flynn, an officer in the state constaoulary. was. slightly cut op his left cheek but followed by rushed d crowd that was being ex- horted to st~ nd their ground by one of the rinKleaderg at the foot of the
 FIvxn broke through ahead of his men. grappled with a giant Lithuan- ian and took from him loaded 38 the man to police headquarters. About the prisoners waist was a double row cartridge belt, filled with ball cartridgeg. In his pockets were looking knife. He was clapped into a cell, after being disarmeds and will be sumnarily dealt with.
 At sev eral of. the other mills sir1ai- lar scenes were being enacted be- tween strikers and other attachments 1 of police and militia.
 At the Arlington mills only two 1 men, as far as known, went to work l armed, with the intention of making l
 en eached te n doors theee ee tWo lGna men lsaped to their feet, fired over the | soldiers heaCs and tried to escape. | They were Iptured after a short 1
 The riots at other mills resulted in l smashed windows and numerous ar rests
 Excepting among the strikers, the | feeling here against Jose Etter, of | New York, and Guido Mazarelda, of | Lynn, professional organizers for the | Industrial Workers of the World and l leaders of the strikes in Pennsylvania, | Rhode Island and some western cit | les, is very bitter. Both men at | meetings. yesterday, urged the men | to seek not violence but to resist | violence at the extremist costs"
 At, II a. m, the str eets had been | cleared, except of knots of 10 or 12 | men scattered about the town.
 The town is practically under mar l tial law and comparative quiet was l restored before the noon hour, al- 1 though it was feared further disor- 1 dsrs would follow later