Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-05-03

Wilmording and East Pittsburgh were
dispatched to the scene, but were
forced TO fight their way to the sides
of the other deputies who were grad
ually being forced further back into
the plant. After a fierce battle which
ragged 70. several minutes. the mob was
forced back out of the gates and final
ly compelled to run for shelter before
the hot fire of the deputies.
constabulary to Scene
REPORTS received here tonight said
that two companies of state constabu-
larry which have been on strike duty at
Wilkes Barre had been ordered to
Braddock and would arrive tomorrow
morning.
The movement started early In the
dav when procession was organized
by Westinghouse Electric and Manu-
featuring strikers at East Pittsburgh
to continue their efforts to bring out
the Workmen in the other factories of
the Turtle Creek and Monongahela fac
tories to enforce their demand for an
eight hour day. They had been defeat
ed in similar attempt and the march
ers were angry when they set out
Pickets which had been stationed at
a number OF Braddock factories had
been worsted in encounters with work
men as the men We're going to
work, and the plants of the AM
erican Steel and Wire Co, United
States Steel Corporation subsidiary
and number of other plants had
been shut down as Il protection to the
employees the management announced
When the news brought to the march
ing throng that the factories would
have none of them, the route was
changed and they stormed the build
ings Of the Sterling Steel Foundry Co..
whose employees have been working
eight hours a day for some time. The
workmen were driven out and much
damage done. This success was quickly
followed by attacks on other factories
in the neighborhood, the marchers con-
tinuine their work of destruction at
every place where the men refused to
join them.
1000 in Mob Destroy Property
BY noon the crowd had swelled to a
mob of 1000 persons, many of whom
were visibly intoxicated.
Meeting no resistance, they marched
to Hawkins station, where they at
tackled the plant of the Nicholson
Chain Co.. employing ESQ men.
The frenzied mob swept through the
plant, driving men from their machines
and knocking down all who stood up
in their way. Twenty or more work.
men were injured before they were fl
nally driven out. The mob then turned
its attention to the destruction of prop
erty.
From the chain works the mob moved
on the Swissville Foundry of the
Pittsburgh Lamp Brass and Glass
Co. nearby. where $50 men. women
and boys were at work. Everything
possible was broken after the workers
had been chased away.
Shouting and hooting the rioters
next appeared at the 18th street en-
trance to the Edgar Thomson works.
For a time the strikers contented
themselves with a demonstration in
which they called upon workmen in
side the wall to come out and join
them.
This continued for perhaps half an hou,
when a man rushed out from the moi
and, pointing his revolver toward the en-
trance fired as he ran. There was nc
response A few minutes later the firing
from the mob became almost general.
After the street in front Of the entrance
was cleared, members Of the mob reas-
sembled in alleys while leaders harangued
them in foreign tongues. The guards
strengthened their lines and prepared to
escort such of the 5000 or 1000 workmer
in the mill who desired to go home al
the end of the days work, but the moi
did not disturb them as they passed out
nor did it interfere with the night force
which appeared for work.