Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-09-26
SHERIFF ASKS lOWDEN
FOR TROOPS: SWEAR
IN 200 DEPUTIES
DICKSON ON SCENE
ADJUTANT GENERAL DECIDES
SOLDIERS ARE NOT NEEDED
AFTER MAKING INSPECTION o.
MILLS - FOREMAN ATTACKED
By MOB.

Chicago, Sept "a call for state
troops To quell disturbances at Wan
kegan H., was the most important
development of the steel strike in the
Chicago district today.
Sheriff Elmer Green. following rio
ing in Waukekan. sent " request e
Governor Lowden for troops but after
Adjutant General Dickson had made q
personal inspection of conditions II
was decided that the situation aid not
warrant the calling Of troops. .{and a.
a compromise il was decided 10
swear in 200 special deputy sherins ~
maintain order John McShane, FORE
man for the American Steel and Wire
Company. while riding home in an
automobile was attacked by a Gro" Il
OF strikers and their sympathizers.
who threw stones at his car
Later William Sackman. Rel
Cross worker. also was attacked b.
mob Several shots were fired dur
ing the tight, but nobody was injured.
Four thousand men were said to bn
at work at the South Chicago pl2rt
OF the Illinois Steel Company today,
where the actual manufacture OF stcal
was begun for the first time since the
beginning OF the strike slab mill. n
universal plate mill and six furnaces
were reported to be in operation
At the plant Of the Interstate Iron
and Steel Company in South CHICAGO
two furnaces We're said To be IN Oper
alton and the company officials
claimed to have 80 ner cent of heir
normal force at work.
The first shots in the South Chi
cago district We're fired today when
four unidentified men attacked
workman Of the Illinois Steel Con-
pany who refused to obey the strike
order. He escaped by Intervention of
policemen, who fired several sho!s at
the workers assalants.
AT Gary, Ind. between 2.CH0 and
4,C00 men were reported at work Ia
Corporation 1t was said that the SLAP
mill. a number of furnaces and many
coke ovens We're in operation. al
though this statement was denied by
union leaders.
Company officials declared the plant
is now operating at about - per cent
OF its capacity
One hundred and ten switchmea
employed by tn Elgin. Joliet and Fas'.
ern Railway owned by the company.
were reported to have been laid off
Chief of Police w A. Forbus is
searching for the men responsible To-.
the distribution of a quantity OF
w w. literature last night.
The strike situation at Indiana Har.
Dor and East Chicago, Ind, was re.
ported unchanged,
Machnist Beaten at Joliet.
Jolie, H., Sept. 26-The only local
disorder In the steel strike occurred
this morning, when William Edwards.
a machinist, returning from work in
the Illinois Steel Company plant. was
severely beaten. Martin Wolan. 4
striker, held by police as the assaiI.
ant, says two men on a MOTORCYCLE
were responsible for the assault.
Otherwise the strike situation is un
changed, with none of the mills ~
tempting to operate.
Fight for Free Speech.
Pittsburgh SPIT 26 Interest in the
steel strike situation in the Pittsburgh
district today centered about the fight
Of the union for the right of free
speech and free assemblage" in Allie
gheny County, a question which has
been prominent here for many months
and which was brought to head BY
the walkOut OF steel workers. Accord
ing to union representatives. author
ties of certain cities and towns it
the county have refused to grant per
mits for the holding of mass meetings
and have sanctioned the breaking ur
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