The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1913-02-07
THEY'RE BATTING MEN AT REkII'0U
Framing Up Plot.


Failing that, they are there IA
frame a case against the strikers.
Every move the deputies make
bears out this contention.
The United States deputy mar
shhis We're Withdrawn a month ago.
because, In the opinion Of the fed
eral authorities, they we're no
longer need in Renton. The mar.
shals took no sides. They protect-
cd property. maintained order, and
were impersonally friendly Witt
everybody 10 the town.
They kept the strIke-breakcr on
me eompany's property, fearind
thst " they were allowed to roaA
the town there might be clashes be.
tween them and the strikers. And
all the time the federal offeerv
we're on the Job Renton was al
quiet as a ehsutsuqua meeting.
Then came Roberts and his
armed bullies swaggering in TO takq
the place OF Uncle Sans men Rob
erts Illegally declared "marshaw
law.
And now the strike-breakers ara
no longer confined on the cort
panys property. but are sent iptd
the town by the deputies, usuaily
singly, 10 taunt the strikers. They
are al pains to take the roundabout
route past the strikers picket shau
iy. Two deputies follow, hoping Ia
catch the pickets in some act Of
| violence or coercion.
Trying TO Start Trouble.
Or they are sent TO a barber shou
much patronizsd by strikers. or fo
the postoffice.
/ When picket ventures 10 uss
| moral suasion on them their reply
IS. invariably: None ow your pict.
uresque and highly vitupcrativa
business or words TO the sand
gen raj effect.
/ Following the phoney shooting
affair OF Wednesday night. when
J. II. Carlisle, "a strike-breaker, fired
/ I'VE shots az strikers and was arr
rested by Deputy City Marshal
for carrying a gun, the force OF spes
cial deputies under Roberts has
been Increased by two. The depu.
ties patroled the streets last night,
strutting and bullying and showing
citizens. women among then, oft
the sidewalk Among those TO suf-
| fer this indignity were John adams,
president Of the local union. and
/ three friends. all of them over 60,
Put Through Third Degree"
Martin Sterbank, striker and q
foreigner, was taken from his homo
yesterday 70 the bulpen and put
| through the third degree" by Rob-
erts, who tried to make Sterbank
| admit he was in the crowd at the
time OF the Carlisle shooting fake.
Sterbank offered to prove an alibi,
and Roberts let him go.
The deputies entered a house at
Talbot and took an oyercoat which,
report had IL, had been burned by
pOwderflash from a revolver In
the hands Of a striker Wednesday,
/ night. Roberts is trying to prove"
that Carlisle is not the only one
who used a gun.
It's pretty hard to keep your
temper when the deputies insult
you at every turn" said Walter
Reed, the financial secretary of the
local union, today, but the boys
have themselves well In hand. Yes.
terday ! was talking with a strike.
breaker In friendly way, trying to
show him why ii was wrong for
him to work in the mines when we
were on strike, and he was meet.
ing my arguments In the same way,
when a deputy came up and said to
/ the striker: 1 won't let that guy
/ hurt you. You go where you like
and do what YOU please And to
me he said: Move on, you. or I'll
give you a taste of the bullpen'
II is a known fact that every one
of the 400 strike-breakers at the
mines is armed. Who supplied the
weapons Not a single striker of
the number who have been arrest.
ed since the strike began six
months ago has been found with q
gun.
imposition on Renton.
"For seven years" said City Mar
shsl Joseph Edwards, "I've been
able to keep order In Renton. and
II left alone, | could do so now,
and my two deputies know most Of
the miners personally, as many oy
them have lived here for years, and
raised families.
Roberts and his men aren't
needed. The presence ard the
methods Of these outsiders are an
irritation TO the community"