Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-19
Join With Citizens Against
Industrial Workers
at Seattle.
HEADQUARTERS FIRED
Furniture and Literature Are
Thrown Into the Streets
and Match Applied.

Seattle, Wash, July 1e.-Deelarlng
the condition of riot and tumult"
which prevailed last night was in sim.
minent danger of renewal" Mayor
cotterill proclaimed his assumption of
control of the city police today, closed
the saloons and ordered suspension OF
publication OF the Seattle Times, un.
less proofs of all editions are submit
| ted to him.
Managing Editor Blethen Of the
| Times charges the mayor with respon-
sibllity for the riots in permitting the
"display of the red flag and the spread
of anarchistic principles" on the
streets during the festival.
| Seattle, Wash, July 19.-While Off
GERS of the Pacific reserve feet of the
United States navy were dancing at
an army and navy ball in the state
armory late last night and early to-
| day several hundred of their sailors
and marines were marching through
the streets denouncing the Industrial
Workers of the World and the red flag.
sacking and burning the socialists and
| Industrial Workers headquarters and
in their haste, demolishing Dernier
mission meeting room before learn
| ing that they had mistaken the place.
The city headquarters of the mod
crate socialists and the radical So
cialists we're sacked and books and
furniture carried into the street and
burned A socialist news stand on
principal street corner was demol-
ished and big meeting room Of the
Industrial Workers of the World In
the southern part of the city was
stripped of it's belongings, which were
thrown from a second story window
and burned in the street below.
POLICE KEEP HANDS OFF.
The police offered not the slightest
resistance to the rioters. Some of the
officers said all the forces we're busy
handling the Golden Potlatch (Seat-
ties annual celebration) crowds and
no reserves were available to cope
with the rioters.
The hat bands of the cruisers
Charleston, Colorado and California
we're most numerous among the sail
ors A few uniformed members of the
Washington naval militia joined with
the naval men. Citizens made up most
of the mob.
DANIELS MAKES SPEECH.
A report was widely circulated today
that Secretary of the Navy Daniels, in
a speech at the Rainier club, had taken
the Industrial Workers of the World
as his subject to make a speech on.
Those who heard the address Of the
secretary say ii was exceedingly mod
crate, carrying no reference to any
local trouble nor did it mention the
Industrial Workers.
Rioting begaL after dark. At first
only dozen sailors were engaged, but
later the number rose to probably three
hundred. Crowds continued marching
the streets until after midnight, wav-
ing American flags and yelling de-
fiance at the Industrial Workers.
Damage to Peniel mission, broken
into by mistake. was not great. Social
list leaders estimated their losses at
$500 in books and furniture and the
Industrial Workers $1,000.
Inc sailors VINO LED the mob did
not appear to be in a very ugly mood
and no one was seriously injured, al
though several we're slightly hurt in
fist fights.
The only man arrested was Walter
Thurberg, an Industrial Worker, who
knocked down a fire department cap
} tain when the latter displayed amuse.
! ment while viewing the wreckage in
; front of the socialists hall. The pro.
vost guard from the flagship West Viz
ginia rounded up all the sailors and
early today not a sailor was on the
: streets.
When the furniture thrown out of
the Industrial Workers meeting place
at West Lake and Olive was burned
the flames mounted dangerously near
frame hotel. Guests clambered down
fire escapes in night attire. while sail
ors roamed through the halls shouting
= gleefully, think the building was used
! as a lodging house by Industrial
t Workers.