The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-11-26
NOT GUILTY IS
THE VERDICT
Jury In Case Against Strike Lead
ers Reports
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and charged that the mill owners ha
planted 1t to prejudice the cause of IN
strikers. Subsequent investigation re
suited IN the conviction of a Lawrenc
school commissioner for planting III,
dynamite. Later business men ana
William NJ. Wood President OF tn,
American Wooden Company, werc in.
dicted for conspiracy 10 plant dyna.
mite In Lawrence. Trial Of these cases
is pending. This development served
to intensity tho bitterness OF the con-
| 'iict and Lawrence was at fever heat
Girl is Shot Down.
Conferences to settle the strike ba
failed, and on the morning Of January
- nm organized street parade and
demonstration by the strikers occurred
It was preceded by rioting before sun
rise in which the street cars We're
pclted with chunks of ice and other
missiles and persons forcibly prevented
rom going To work in the mills. After
the parade Ettor and Giovannitti adj
dressed the strikers in Lawrence Com
mon, where they are ALLEGED To have
urged the strikers to acts of violence.
That evening the streets near the mills
we're damned with the idle mil'work-
ers. Soldiers and police were ordered
to clear the streets. The spirit of the
hour was dangerous one. The recDlo
s'illenly responded to the orders Of the
police and Kissed them. Many blocks
~ ice were thrown at the officers of
The law. Policemcn's clubs. in re-
taliation, were welded over the backs
u recalcitrant strikers when suddenly !
shooting began and Anna Lopizzo fej, |
iieless in the street. Other riots soi-
owed the next day and that midnight |
tttor and Giovannitti were arrested
'harged with being accessories before
he fact To the Lopizzo murder Later
Iaruso was arrested, charged with
salvatore Scuito, as one of the princi-
'als to the crime rs an actual partic.
pant i'm the fatal riot.
Arrests Intensity Feeling.
The arrest of Ettor and Giovannitti
aimed to fury the flame o. feeling
mong the agitatcd foreigners an6 con-
ltions were even more dangerous.
'hrea;s were made of a general
ike, organizations throughout the
and in other lands protesting !,
gdinst the action of the authorities.
ttor and Giovannitti pleaded no.
unity on January II. but were hello to
he grand jury without bail and locked
p IN the Lawrence Jail until February
when after hearing, they were :
cid to the grand jury and later in
cted The strike continued under the
adership now OF w. ID. Haywood until
arch II. when the cause of the work.
$ was victorious and the strike was
fcially declared off. The workers
lined increases in pay ranging from "
ven to fifteen per cent. and conces- g
1ns in working conditions. =
ldictment Of the strike leaders and
'ruso brought about an organized W
'rld-wide effort To raise a defense
nd and workers from many coun- a.
rs responded. Threat of a general =
rid strike in protest against TIE ac- u
N again were made, and since the -
of the trial Lawrence has vi
Ell flooded with circulars denouncinr h'
agents of the courts and the con- CO
lens of the case.
Protest Strike Precedes Case.
Threats to storm the Jail have beer ia
de anu feeling has run riot up to III
very close Of the case. When tn. LIZ
Al began a twenty-four hour strike Wa
protest was responded to by fifty OF
usand workers in mills throughout III
" England. he
he case. after severaI doIsvs u,,r I'LL
ually taken up early in October +,
Superior Court Of Essex County
ore Justice Joseph j.. Quinn. IF III
IS to get Jury exhausted panel on
zoe vcniremen and another delay tn,
IL October II followed. When taken wi
again jury was procured within sta
days and the Commonwealth be- fui
the presentation of testimony Oc- =
IF l6. District Attorney Henry C. n
viii had charge of the case for tn,
j. +. = Mahoney. for
'r. w. Scott Peters, for Giovanni
James II. Sisk. for Caruso. while
rgc T. Rocwer, Jr.. ard Fred II
re rs advisory counsel. conducted
defense