Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-08-13
/. WV. WILL DISREGARD
POLICE ORDERS
RIOT FOLLOWS LAST NIGHTS Meeting
IN SALT LAKE, and The INDUSTRIAL
WORKERS SECRETARY ANNOUNCES
THAT ANOTHER MEETING WILL Be
HELD TONIGHT.

Salt Lake City, Utah, Aug. lJ.--fA
tensive preparations are being MADE
by the Salt Lake police today to pre-
vent further clashes with Industrial
Workers of the World
1t is thought that all of the six who
received bullet wounds last night viii
recover, although Fred j. Clifford is IN
a serious condition and may lose his
legs
Scarlet, secretary of local No. 69.
Industrial Workers of the World. an
nounced officially at noon TO-DAY that
the Industrial Workers would attempt
to hold street meetings tonight in the
face of the police order prohibiting
them to do so.
"The issue is not flags. but pork.
chops,' said Scarlett. You can hang
flags all over your house and starve 10
death. They cannot prevent us en-
joying the right of free speech ir be-
half of the laborer.
Four bystanders were shot serious
ly and three others less seriously
wounded in riot on East Second
South street last night when a spe'
cial policeman waved an American
flag in the face of an Industrial Work
er of the World orator. Thousands OF
people gathered at the scene or the
shooting, and it was necessary to call
out the fire department to dispense
the crowd. None OF the injured VIII
die
The Industrial Worker of the World
orator had been talking on the street
for some time and had just uttered
the words, 81 am not one of those
who stand for this so-called law and
order" when Axel Steele, former
deputy sheriff, waved flag in his
face and proclaimed his defense OF
the law. At the same moment sew
eral shots were fired and four by
standers fell seriously wounded, while
three others received minor injuries.
The shooting was done by members
of the Industrial Workers OF the
World, four of whom were arrested
charged with melting riot. Before
the police and fire departments fin
ally succeeded in clearing the street,
however. more than a score of arrests
had been made.
| When the police attempted to clear
the streets after the shooting, the In
dustrial Workers of the World ora
tors refused to leave their stands. and
urged on by the listeners, began call
ing for free speech" which they con
tnued until they were driven from
the street by several streams of water
from fire hose. The police were more
than an hour in restoring order.
Chief of Police B. F. Grant an
nounced that he would not permit the
Industrial Workers of the World to
again hold meetings on the street here
and said that he had issued orders to
arrest any member of the order who
attempted to do so. During the riot
several members of the Industrial
Workers of the World were heard
to call to their comrades to shoot the
police, but all such were quickly dis
armed and taken to the police station.
1t was said that several of the men
arrested tonight would be charged
with attempted murder.
The seriously injured are:
Herman Kehl. aged %, clerk for
telephone company, bones of left foot
shattered
Michael Schotti, aged so, black
smith, right leg fractured by shot.
F. J. Cliff, aged As, bartender, right
leg fractured near hip; probably will
lose leg.
T. d. Price, aged As, clerk; second
finger of right hand shot off.