The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-10-24
MOTHER JONES URGES
MEN TO VIOLENCE
Col. Mapes Says Situation in Gary Is
Serious and Orders Troops to
Shoot Rioters.

CHICAGO, Oct. "a. - Making the
hrst public appeal for violence since
the steel strike started in the Calumet
region and declaring herself a Bolshe-
Vlst, Mother Jones stirred to enthu-
slasm some twelve hundred strikers and
thelr wives in Turner hall, Gary, Ind,
yesterday following the refusal of the
authorities to permit her to speak in
East Side park.
So this is Gary said Mother Jones,
who was cheered for five minutes.
We'll, We're going to change the
name and we re going to take over the
steel works and we're going to run
them for Uncle Sam It's the damned
gang OF robbers and their political
thieves that will start the American
revolution and it won t stop until
every last one of them is gone.
III be 80 years old the first of
May, but by God if / have to, / II take
W guns and shoot hell out of 'em. For
every scab in the mills there is a wom-
an that reared him. Women, the des-
tiny of the workingman is in your
hands Clear hell of every damned
scab you can lay hold on. We IL hang
the bioodhounds to the telegraph poles
Go out and picket
Mother Jones then lectured the SOL
dlers on guard in the hall. "You went
abroad to clean up the kaiser.o she
said, land the bones of $4,000 of your
buddies lie bleaching on the battlefields
OF France. Ny God, amt you men
enough to come over and help us get
the kaisers at home? Wen have an
army as big as you RS and you II be
with us and we II lick hell out of 'em.
we III give Gary, Morgan, and the gang
OF bloodsuckers free pass to hell or
Heaven
God Almighty never made man
that could stop woman from talk
ing, she continued You can arrest
me, but I'll be free. / can raise more
hell in Jail than out. If Bolshevists is
what | understand it to be, then IN a
Bolshevlst from the bottom of my feet
to the top of my head. All the world s
history never produced more brutal
and savage time than this, and Mr.. Sol
der, m ready to prove my statement
that we've got to change or this ma
ton will perish. This is the century of
| the WORKER
Colonel w. s. Mapes, commanding
the troops in Gary, said to newspaper
men:
We are now entering the most crit
lcal period of the strike. The men are
getting desperate because they see the
strike is breaking up. They are trying
| out new stunts. Last night they sur
rounded three houses on the outskirts
and threw bricks through the windows.
They do this to terrorize the wives and
children of men who work in the mills.
| The strikers have also taken to ston-
| ing our automobiles so that we have
abandoned the use of civilian automo-
biles entirely in making our raids and
are using military machines.
| We are equipping our soldiers with
i the regular riot guns which shoot buck
shot. We have ordered our soldiers to
fire on rioters. The situation is grow
/ ing very serious.''
As result of the dangerous change
in the attitude of the men Shaving
away from the mills, the federal forces,
!, which were weakened by the recent
| withdrawal of troops. will be brought
back to their former strength as soon
i as possible.