The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-07-23
,R0T0uS TIMES IN
ABERDEEN. CAUSED
BY | ". W. H0B0ES
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WOMAN AS LEADER
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aberdeen, s. D.-Quite prevailedto-
day among the unemployed harvest
hands gathered in Aberdeen. and it
is believed that the trouble with the
l. w. w. leaders has passed. One of
the leaders as,sentenced to 10 days
In Jail this morning for speaking on
the streets and four others will be
tried tomorrow. The remainder of
the hoboes arrested have been re-
leased.
Aberdeen, S. D.-Aberdeen streets
resembled, for a few hours on Satur-
day evening, a London street at a
militant uprising, OF something
equally exciting, and the cause, at
the start, was q woman, too.
On Friday night Katy Solomon, a
notorious socialist and 1. w. w. agi-
tator, claiming to hail from-st. Louis,
addressed q crowd. of hoboes at the
jungles" in the outskirts of the city,
advising the men to refuse to work
in the harvest fields for less than SO
a day, and ito get $20iif they could"
At that time the announcement was
made that the l., ". w. orators would
hold forth on the streets OF Aber-
deem at. 2 O'Clock Saturday after
noon, despite the. mayors announce
ment to the 1. W.: w. leaders that
they would not be permitted to
speak.
Promptly at 2 o'clock Joseph
Carey, leader Of the T. w. w. con
tingent. appeared at the police sta
ton and asked Chief Anderson what
would happen If he attempted to
speak.
"Ill have to arrest you," the chief
replied. b
"oh. 1 won't mind that" Carey
answered. I've been arrested lots
of times" 4e
He hurried back to where a crowd
of 500 or 6OO@men had gathered,
mounted a box and began to speak.
Promptly "a policeman placed him
under arrest. The crowd protested,
but made no@xigorous attempt to
hold Carey, Carey's followers at
tempted to speAk, butsNere.s arrested
as soon as they began, until nine
men were behind the. bars.
Woman Also. Arrested.
Then Katy Solomon appeared and
commenced aSviolent. harangue,; and
she too vas arrested. The men did
not take kindly to her arrest, and
followed the policemen having her in
tcharge, threatening trouble, but
made no direct attack upon the po-
lice, who lodged KatySwith her COM
rades. &,
! The arrest of the. ten quelled the
speechmaking, but the crowd trans
! ferrea it's position to the police sta
ton and city Jail, a wooden structure,
and was kept in order. with diff
Iculty. Carey persisted in trying to
make speeches through the window
of the cell until the chief warned him
that further efforts in that line
would result unpleasantly.
At night the crowd again assembl-
ed in force at the police station. Word
came that 1000 reinforcements were
coming from Mitchell on a freight
train and several more efforts to
AAn1S,5 ueAAiAAdAly thirty
persons. including Katy, we're in
jail. AZ midnight, when the Mitchell
crowd did not arrive, the crowd dis
persed. Later in the night 300 or
400 men did arrive from Mitchell,
but the crowd had gone back to ""the
jungles," and all was peaceful, Re-
ports were circulated that W. w.
leaders. late Saturday night, sent
kilograms to Kansas City, Denver
and Minneapolis, reading: rThe fight
fsa on at Aberdeen. Send 200 rebels
at, once. Signed. w. d. King" The
lreinforcements, II they were sent for
have not arrived up to Sunday night.
Sunday night a large number OF
extra policemen were sworn in, and
1.-The men, numbering several hundred
IN all, were driven out OF town for a
ldi~stance,1of several miles, and were
warned not to return.
Objected to Wages offered.
The troublb sseemstto to- have origin
LATED over. asyeport that xhei Aberdeen
Commercial ciub had advised farm
efs. to NY BUT $2s6a6ya day. with
board and lodging feI harvest hands.
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