Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-03-13
Police Start
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Riot In Akron
by eeora e E. carnaIn

| AKFcn, w., Mar. l3.-(SpeClal) -
Up to the present time there has been
no trouble on the part of the strikers.
Friday night the police took it upon
themselves to start something. The
strikers were marching peacefully
past the B. F. Goodrich Cos plant
when the police crossed the street and
demanded that they cross the street
and march there, which was against
the city ordinance and human rights.
They replied, saying that they were
on the right side of the street. NJ A.
Durso, an Italian organizer, was TAX
en- out of the ranks and taken to jail
where he was charged with disorderly
conduct. A short time after Sheriff
Ferguson pranced around yelling:
Wade into them, men, if you want
to hold your jobs. They are nothing
but cattle!" III.
With that, the police and yellow
rfbboned deputies Waded into the
strikers, clubbing them numerically:
Miss Milly Hartley was struck across
the face by policeman. bruising her
face and cutting her forehead just
above the right eye. There were seven
other arrests during the time of bat
tie. After about a half hours struggle
the strikers fell back and returned to
their homes, leaving our yellow-rib-
boned friends to nurse their swollen
heads.
Deputy Hits Sheriff.
Sheriff Ferguson was standing near
one of his deputies while the struggle
was at its height and the deputy was
swinging his club with all his might,
when he swung at a. striker, and,
missing him, the club hit Sheriff Fer
guson in the face, knocking out sew
eral teeth and smashed his nose.
Police Plan More Brutality.
On Saturday, March 8, the strikers
marched to the Goodrich plant again
but they did not get there without
trouble, as the police were on their
way to meet them. The police and
deputies were marching on both sides
Of the street. They had no intention
of getting the strikers between the
lines of bluecoated, yellowbacked
ours, and beating them to submission,
but the strikers were just as wise as
the cops. The strikers responded to
the assault of the police and a rust
ling battle took place which lasted
only few minutes. The strikers then
returned to the hall where a mass
meeting was held to discuss matters
of shop cimmittees.
More Join Union.
Four hundred men and women who
had sfaid in the shops during the fore
part of the strike signed up on the
l. W. W.. books since the first assault
by the police was made. Frank Mid
ney has been doing good work since
he was Let out of HE'LL. Miss Matilda
Rabinowitz. the young woman from
Little Falls, N. Y, has been speaking
to the women and has been of great
assistance to the speakers who are
with the strikers. Mrs M. Provey, the
Joan of Arc of the strike, is on the
| job from morning until night, and
never gets tired. -
Organizer George Speed, who has
full charge of the situation here, says
that the strike is better than WON,
since the police started their little
fracas.
Jack White, of Santiago fame, ar.
rived in town and has been promenad-
ing in all parades and speaking in the
halls.
This strike. does not consist OF
Americans only, but of Servians. Syr.
ians, Slavs, Poles, Hungarians, Rou
manians, Italians, Greeks, and Jews
and thov all stand f0Oofhnr