The Detroit times., 1916-08-11
Striking Cigarmakers
Storm Hamtramck
Plant In Force
FIREMAN is
SERIOUSLY HURT
Detroit Police Refuse
To Aid Local
Authorities

Mob law rcigned In Hamtramck.
ThTsday night when striking cigar.
makers. men ana girls, from he
Wayne cigar Manufacturing Cos
plant attacked the building with
stones, bricks and whatever mis-.
..lcs came convenient TO the hand.
III" mob numbered about 900. and
above ihe crash OF windows and the
roar OF maddened men, shots sud
denly rang out The HamtramCk
police force, numbering % men. re-
infutcod By eight deputies from the
.herir ONCE. closed with the riot
crs. and then followed scene OF
b'ood~hod and disorder such a the
peaceful villagers had never before
known.
Fighting against enormous odds
the little fore, OF officers would
probably have been eventually oblit.
Grated had 10 not been for rhe in
;crycntiou OF The llamtramck fire
department Commanded BY Chief
Martin Bishop. the ladies rushed
90 the assistance Of the ieopardiz,d
Ulcers and, turning two 40 pres
sure streams on he struggling. nm
reasoning mass. forced them 20 flee
FOR cover
The frcmon used their hose win
good effect on many that had harr'
.ntod themselves IN nearby build
ms and were hurting missiles irom
'hra" vantage points.
MANY ho's were fred by both NJ"
t.fi.,rs and IN" police The latter
hot into the air while the bullets
Of rho rioters II any selected per
SECULAR targets. went wide of their
mark I'm The darkness Several
persons vcr" hurt. however. and
hen The uo's. and srok" ~. battle
ceased &c WIS found 'tat. r'marla
aic as 4, may snou there were no
e.teli'i,s. though Lieut. Anthony
HdHm. az he 'r depar mcnt, mas
Ito ra tnr r.. GH ol being truck or
fho head with broken bottle EiW
vaa removed 10 his home with a
fractured Kali
Fireman : Griffin was ~ % iHipr.
"a Nwong The police moro or less
rIo's', hur' were S,-at Na Bsr.
'i0r,r and patrolmon Peter Seo''
cgvG.l Redmond aud WILTON C'iuc
Georg. CONNER a villas, 'rrf'c
WIS coming from q council G,.''a"
vn,1 N" was struck on tie rp.Hc
WITH a brick lie is b,'i.sal 10
o, seriously injured Tr.rrrn ~
tho rioters worr placed under ar
rest Three OF these arc women
altogether. - have been arrested
within two days Nll viii appear for
trial before Justice IIitchiDs. Friday
Tho cigar plant a two-story brick
building. was practically ruined a.
p Schroeder president OF the vi
lace. saws the situation was prac't
e1.ly under control by the Ham
tramck authorities until agitators ar
rived from Detroit fresh from a
mass meeting when the trouble
assumed a serious aspect aid was
asked from the Detroit and tho
Highland Park police departments
Sup, Gillespie replied that he nced-
Cd all available men 10 curb rioters
around the cigar factories within
tho city limits. and Chief Seymour
of Highland Park. declined 10 rem
der assistance. The Hamtramck
authorities realized that the Detroit
department Is taxed 10 the limit of
lts service. hut they consider Sey-
mour's refusal as m unneighborly
act
Street riots again took place IN
The district around Grandy.ave and
Theodore. 81. Thursday night Hurry
calls were sent 10 headquarters. but
serious trouble was averted. Eight
men were arrested None OF the
striking girls were implicated In
Thursday nights riot. II Is stated
The rioters were husbands ~ the