Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-06
TROOPS POLICING
SWEPT GARY
-Four Companies Of State Militia
Rushed to Steel Town,
Following Outbreak
MAY CALL FOR REGULARS

e uuTy. ttu.. oct, W. StHlc troops W
day patroled the avenues leading to steel
plants and PARTS of the city where dis
orders were liable to develop, four com.
panie$ having been brought here late
last night from Indiana Harbor and
East Chicago, Ind, where twelve com
pnnies weft quartcred. after rioting was
resumed here by strike sympathiaers.
Late at night hundreds of strikers be-
gan to congregatc before the gates of the
United States Steel Corporation plant
and the mill of the American Sheet and
Tinplate Company. Police aud special
deputies claShed with the crowd of
strikers, and many bricks md stones
were thrown. Finally the situation be
came so threatening that Mayor viii
liam F. Hodcs called on kdjutant Gen
eral Harry Il. Smith, of Indiana, who
Is in command Of the troops ordered into
the district by Governor Goodrich, when
rioting broke out Saturday uight. to
send several companies. as he believed
affairs had got beyond control Of the
police.
Preacher Leads Troops
While the. troops were on the way
here in street cars the police succeeded
In dispensing the crowds after using
their clubs freely and making more than
dozen arrests. Major Laudcn NJ.
Hartman. pastor Of the Second Pres
byterian Church in Indianapolis, who
is in command of the battalion scnt
here. reported to Major Hodges. and
after a brief conference the guardsmcu
I,.. ,t,,l i,tu bpr
it was believed disorders might occur
A foreman for the United States Steel
Corporation was shot and seriously in e
iured early this morning while standing
In his own doorway 1t was not known
whether the shot was purposely fired
or whether the wound resulted from a
stray bullet, although two shots were
fred at several members of the citizen
police, when they drove crowd from
the ueighborhood of the foreman $ home.
No one was hit. however.
Adjutant General Smith today said
he Intended to preserve order in Gary,
Indiana IIarbor and East Chicago, Ind,
even if he had to call out every unit
of state troops and then request fed
crai troops. which he said Secretary of
War Baker had promised to send, if it
became necessary. 49,.
Chicago. Oct. 6.-CBy \. p
Clashes between strike sympathizcrs and
the police and special deputies during
the last thirty six hours did not deter
Heads of steel mills from attempting
to start additional plants today. Com
iiany officials said they had assurance
that large numberse of men would re
turn to work and that many plants
would resume operations.
Unipn leaders incrrased their picket
lines early today in an effort to pre-
vent descrtions. and said they looked
for na material reduction in their ranks.
John Fitzpatrick. chairman of the ma
tiona committee conducting the strike,
who planned to Leave for Washington
tonight to confer with heads of the
American Federation of Labor, said
many members were being taken into
the union every day.
At Waukegan. H.. additional depu-
ties were put on duty early today. where
officials of the American Steel and Wire
Company. announced that hundreds of
men would return to work