The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-03
GARBAGE Piles
ARE A MENACE
Teamsters Strike May Result
in Serious Epidemic and
Precautions Are Be-
ing Taken.
BRUTALITY OF POLICE
BRUTALITY OF POLICE

Worst Open Shop City In the coun-
try May be the Scene
of Considerable
Violence.
UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
INDIANAPOI rs, Ind, Dec. 3.-With
no prospect of settlement OF the
strike of 5000 teamsters here in
sight today, it was feared that should
the conflict between employers and
the men continue much longer the
health of the city would be seriously
menaced.
+, Garbage has not bean collected from
the city since Saturday. All lead ng
I hotels situated within a radius of a
! few blocks of the centre OF the city
| have refuse piled high in the courts
at the rear of tbs buildings. City
Sanitarian Morgan has warned all cit
izens to cover garbage which has col
! lected at private residences with lime.
AS a result of the shooting yesterday,
resulting in the daath of one man
and the wounding Of four others,
strike leaders were bitter today in
denunciation Of city officials and the
protective committee of the employ
ers. indianapolis has probably naver
before seen such display of armed
force since Camp Morton was estab-
lished here during the civil war.
i The alleged brutality of the police
q and the arming of 5000 strike break
ers, employers and clerks with police
power to shoot, caused the central
labor union to call upon Senator'S
Kern and Shivley of Indiana to de-
! mand, congressional Investigation OF
the strike. The feeling aroused by
released strike breakers who yester-
Gay killed one man and injured four
others, caused Attorney Clausson to
issue his warning to employers.
, Calls from employers for police
protection for their wagons are today
telephoned to the employers associa.
ton, and ths employers telephone the
police where to go.
Riot squads of police on motor cars
respond to these calls, each pol ce-
man carrying openly sawed off shot
gun. Riot clubs are also carried by
the policemen.
Non-union wagons today moved un
. der this protection, besides mounted
and foot police of from two to nine
strikebreakers, all carrying Winches
ters or big revolvers and displaying
|, a special policemans" badge which
carried with 1t the police powe,
, to shoot.
! Surrounding the Taggart bak cry
, the O'Connor wholesale grocery, tbs
Polk Sanitary Milk Co., and othel
large employers plants, were from
ten to thirty armed private guards OF
: strike breakers similarly equiEpe.
/ AS a warning to the general pub
/. lie not to gather in crowds, mounted
c police rode over side walks, perilous
/ ly near women and children.
! Sixty mounted business men ant
a militia cavalrymen are also held eacl
a day for moral effect"
G Mayor Wallace has proclaimed tha
, any parade Of the strik RS would be
d treated as a riot. Three hundred spe
i cial police have been hired by TIL,
Ill oIr, pic@ Al
squad quadrupled.
Indianapolis, the home of Davi;
9 Parry, has long been known anon!
r union men as the worst open shol
o city in the country" today said Cal
l. Wyatt, organizer of the American
T. Federation of Labor, with which tn
t teamsters are allied when we de
d termined to organize the working me-
J. of Indianapolis. we We're warn I'd tha
it could not be done, that the hi
manufacturers and employers woul
use every means to defeat us"
Federal Mediation.
DENVER, Colo, Dec. 3.-Secretar
, Of Labor Wilson at 11:15 this morn
ing announced that he had ordere
J. B. Densmore, solicitor of the depar
a ment to proceed to lndianapoli
n forthwith to investigate the Indian
. apolis strike situation. The secre
v tary himself will remain in Colorad
i pending further developments in th
miners strike situation Densmor
s will attempt to act as mediator a
y Indianapolis.
n The request of the Indianapoli
n strikers for mediator was forward
d ed to the secretary from Washingto
!. today and he immediately TELEGRAPH