Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-22
BEAVERS To
HOLD MEN
At MILL
EIsas Says Situation Is Under
Control-Mayor Confers
With Chief. S.

With strikers at the Fulton Bag
and Cotton Mills bitterly resentful of
police interference, Chief James L.
Beavers said Wednesday his men
would not be withdrawn.
Oscar Elsas, president of the mills,
asserted that all danger of any seri-
Gus trouble from the striking en-
ployes of the mill was passed He
said that number of employees who
were out Tuesday, when the attitude
of large number of strikers was
very threatening, had returned to
work Wednesday and that he expect
ed all disturbances to gradually sub
side.
A very odd fact in connection with
! the strike is that most of, the en-
| ployes who are out are women. 1t
| is rare when they predominant in
such a movement. Mr.. Elsas, who is
handling the situation with a firm
hand without even an intimation of
concession to the dissatisfied en-
ployes, said the women were out
through fear. He said that some of
the, women who had gone out were
afraid to return to work because of
threats from men who are leading the
strike.
Different Stories.
.ty-iIy tn1I Of
ditions out at the mill is quite diff
| ferent from the views expressed by
the mill owners. While the mill Off
Gals say they are only about 60 out
Wednesday, tho strikers claim that
there are about 500.
The employees assert that the dis
| content and final protest in the form
| of a strike is due to general bad and
will be no permanent settlement Of
| the differences until the mill authori-
ties assume a different attitude to
! their employees.
Fuller investigations into the COM
plants made by delegation to Mayor
James G.. Woodward Tuesday, when
| the strikers protested that the city
police were endeavoring to intimidate
them and urged the Mayor to see that
, they got a square deal and that the
extra policemen be Withdrawn from
the mill section, will be heard in Re-
corder Broyles' court Wednesday.
! Employees Arrested.
! Cases have been made against three
employees-R l.. Wood, W. e. Flem-
| ing and VIII Tumlin. They are
| charged with being disorderly around
the mill and were arrested on com
plant of Oscar Elsas.
Wood and Fleming were released
Tuesday with copies Of the charges
against them. Tumlin was still in
the station Wednesday. The com
mitteemen who called on Mayor
Woodward Tuesday said that these
men had done nothing. They de-
clared there was not disposition on
the part Of any one to do any vio-
lence. In the case of Wood they
said he had led in prayer at a public
meeting Of the strikers Monday after
noon and the next day was arrested.
The others, they said, were suspected
of being leaders.
Mayor Woodward conferred with
Police Chief Beavers after promising
the strikers committee to investigate
the police interference. Chief Beav-
ers assured Mayor Woodward that
the police would not interfere with
the strikers, but that they would pre-
serve order In the mill district just
as they would at Five Points.
Extra policemen have been as
signed to the village. though the num-
Der was reduced Wednesday. Nh.
Elsas said the presence or the police
men was all that was preventing
some of the strikers from resorting
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