Arizona republican., 1919-12-24
WOMEN TICKETS STONE WORKERS AT STEEL MILL; R|OT |S RESULT Austrians Assault Men Who
 Resume Work Against
 Order of Union Pueblo Mayor Hurt Executive Is One of Mob's Many Victims-Twelve
 Leaders Arrested
Pueblo Mayor Hurt

PUEBLO, Colo. Dec. 23.-The first violence in connection with the strike of steel workers employed at the Min nequa plant here occurred today when Austrian women pickets started throwing stones at steel workers who had refused to obey the union orders to continue thes trike and had gone back to work
 Mayor Mike Strudinski was one of the victims of the mob's roughness and suffered many bruises and scratches when he was knocked to 2 he ground and severely pummeled by the enraged women. Sawed-off shotguns wers carried by the police reserves, who had been summoned by a riot call from -he steel works, but no shots were fired Nevertheless, the officers were com pelled to use their riot clubs frequentls- and with much force to subdue some of the rioters. While trouble was started by women pickets, large number of men were involved before the police arrived on the scene.
 Arrest Even Dozen
 A dozen arrests were made by. the rolice, and those arrested will be held on charges of melting riots and prob ably will be turned over to the staie courts tomorrow morning for trial.
 It was not until the police had about worn themselves out with exert;on in yielding their clubs that the sawed d-oIr SnOISunS were IIdSneQ upon the CFOWQ. This had a subduing effect and the mob soon dispersed Among the ar rests are five women They were held under S200 bond each by the police. Shortly after the arrests, the strike committee, which has been directing the strike since 1t was called Septem- Der 22, called on the chief of police and asked the privilege of furnishing bond They offered a check Tor SI,00O to insure the appearance of the five women in police court tomorrow morning. The police chief refused to accept the check. The committee then withdrew and later appeared with s1,O00 in cash and the five women were released late tonight.
 The five women were Of foreign birth and the husband of one appeared at the station shortly after his wife's imprisonment and offered to leave his three small children with the police as bail for the wife.
 The injuries received by MT Stud zinski. who. as president of the Pueblo council, is also commissioner of safety are not of serious nature. When the patrol wagon was loaded with rioters for its first trip to the police station, crowds of men and women swarmed about it, striving to prevenr the cars progress. It was with treme difficulty that the police " able to get the prisoners away from the mob. While the wagon anu prisoners was on it's way to the s7- tion, another fight started and nor arrests were made.
 The police commandeered an auto mobile near by and started a second load of rioters to jail. After sending the second load of prisoners away, the number of policme officers on the scene was cut down to four, while the mob had increased in size and the four officers were in a precarious position But the anger of the mob did not break loose again until the return of the police patrol. when rioters surgeo around the machine, threatening tC prevent its further approach. It was then that the shotguns were produced by the officers and trained on the rioters with quieting effect.
 No further trouble has been expert enced tonight but the police are pre- pairing for any outbreak that may Oc- cur in connection with the early night shift coming on duty at midnight and with the change of shifts at o'clock tomorrow morning.