The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-09-10

March Back
Unmolested

Rain and sober second thought had
q quietirg influence on tho Standard
district over night. If thoughts of re-
venge are being harbored among the
men who engaged in the rloting yester-
day morning near the Lyndora hotel,
they made no demonstration of 1t this
morning.
Hammond police and Standard guards.
together with a number OF volunteers.
were in readiness at an early hour for
any emergency. None Of the strikers
appeared on the streets as the time
approached for the workznen TO march
70 the plant. In q drizzling rain the
officers took their posts and waited. The
body of workmen appeared on Highland
st. and continued their march eastward
TO Columbia ave. then on TO the gates
Of the plant.
Far down the street past Morton ave,
on Columbia ave. few men stepped
out on the pavement and stood watch
ing the workmen as they crossed the
street. Then they disappeared. Chief
Malo of the Standard guards had been
Informed early in the morning that the
men would remain in their homes. In
spite of rumored threats which had been
making the rounds Tuesday evening. the
police did not expect trouble this morn
ing, but did not intend to be caught
mapping.
No trouble IS anticipated tomorrow
morning, but it has come to the ears OF
tbs police that following the burial OF
their comrades. the more radical of the
aliens have said that they were going
To even up the score with the Hammond
police Whether this is merely one Of
the string of wild rumors which have
been aaoat cannot be verified. but the
officers viii take no chances.
public funeral will be held tomo--
row morning at o'clock. The bodies
of the three dead strikers will be taken
from the Burns undertaking parlors to
st Mary's church in East Hammond.
where the services will be held. The
strikers viii march in a body to the GEM
etery from the church.
John watzo. one of Chief Nalo's
guards. missing yesterday on account of
sickness. called at the police station
today with his wife and four children.
Watzo claimed that Mike Yukhas, Mrs.
Stuckowski and Mrs. Rosvich called at
him home yesterday and threatened 70
kill hAn and his family unless they got
out of their home. Frightened to death.
they left and wandered around all night.
The couple and their children were ring
ing wet when they appeared at the sta
ton and said they had not eaten since
yesterday.
To prove that the strikers story that
they did not fire at the police IS false.
the police point out that Frank Mass,
one of the injured strikers. was shot by
a striker. He was in. the crowd back
OF the police and the bullet which hit
Mass came from in front Of them. As
the police only fred one way to the
south, it is clear. they say, that Mass
was shot by one of his own men.
Investigation has disclosed h a t
George Rosko. one Of the slain strikers
whose identity was not definitely estab-
lished until evening. was not one of the
agitators as had been suspected at first.
He resided a 135 Company house and
had been employed at the Standard plant
for a number Of years He was a Rus
sian Pole and not Hungarian as had
been reported. Hungarians of the
Standard district insist that not one Of
their number was concerned in the rto-.