Republican farmer., 1919-10-10
GEN. WOOD RUSHES 1900 FEDERAL TROOPS TO
 PREVENT: DISORDERS
r FEDERAL AID WAS
 FOUND NECESSARY Troops With Steel Helmets Control City-Assem-
 blages Forbidden.


 me of the United States Steel Cor Doration's greatest plants. affected for more than two weeks by the strike in the steel industry, today was under military control of approximately Hq p9puBuWoo 'sL9!pIos Ie.tepe1 OOH Major General Leonard Wood, com mandant of the central department of the army. Five hundred more lroos.a fresh from riot duty at Omaha, Neb., were on their way here early today.
 The call for federal troops was made by James p. Goodrich, gov ernor of Indiana, after thousands of strikers paraded and held mass meet ings after being forbidden by their mayor, the police and approximate 300 state rnilitiamen stationed at Gary.
 The course of the strike here has been marked by little violence With the reports during the last week that strikers in increasing numbers were resuming their old places in the steel mills, however, the attitude of pickets, whose numbers also increas- ed became threatening and for time it seemed as if a serious clash would be unavoidable.
 With the parade yesterday, accord ing to a statement by Gov. Goodrich, the situation became so threatening that it was deemed advisable to ask for federal troops. The governor acted on the advice of Mayor Hodges of Gary and Harry B. Smith, state ad- jutant general, he said. Both off, cials expressed alarm at the atti- tude of the ten thousand strikers in Gary and said they feared that the small number of state troops station ed there was insufficient to cope with the situation," read the goyer- nor's statement.
 Upon the arrival of the federal sol diers, and the issuance of procIa- nation by General Wood proclaiming military control, the state militia were ordered in Indiana Harbor and East Chicago, Ind, where Governor Goodrich declared martial law
 The approximately 1,800 men under Major General Wood are regarded as sufficient to enforce his decision that no public meetings Or no assemblages be held, forbidding parades and dem onstrations against the authorities. Carrying of weapons by persons other than the police, military authorities troops and members of the city gov ernment was also forbidden.
 Following the action of several score men wearing the uniform of the United States in leading the parade against orders of the mayor and pol ice yesterday General Woods procla- nation ordered that "A1l men in the uniform of the United States, whether in the service of the United States or otherwise who are not part of the United States armed forces on duty within the city limits will be exam ined, and those who are in the ser vice of the United States will be at tached to an organization on duty in the city limits and continued on duty during the present disturbance.'
 Arrests made by the military forces will be handed over to the civilian officers and tried in courts of law in stead of by court martial
 The military rule will be patterned after that put into effect at Omaha, the officers said, or like that in the occupied portions of Germany, where many of the federal soldiers here recently saw service. The military rule will be directed mainly through the regularly constituted authori- ties.
 Immediately upon their arrival here the soldiers began patrolling and early today Gary showed no indications of disorder.
 The troops wore steel helmets. Am pie reserve forces were on hand, it was stated, to check almost any out break. Four one pounder guns and d machine gun detachment were among the force. The usual infantry equip ment and reserve supplies made up the strength of the command, it was said.
 Picketing by strikers at the various plants will not be stopped, Captain Charles Bolte, officer Of the day, said early today. It was not intended to interfere with the general course of the strike except in so far as disorder and destruction of property were concerned
 The federal troops here are from the Fourth and Sixth overseas divi- sions.
 A number of steel plants in the Pittsburgh district which were fore ed to shut down two weeks ago when the strike of steel workers was ini- tiated, are operating again today, ac- cording to reports from company sources. Some of the mills are oper- ating full time, the company's repre- sentatives said, while others which had been down started working in part.
 The companies claim that their ef- forts to reopen the plants yesterday met with success and that many men returned to work
 Union leaders termed the efforts of the employers to start operations "failure,' and they declare that the mills reported to have resumed work Monday have vsry few men on the job.
 Latest figures from union head quarters, as of October 6, indicate that 367,50O steel workers are on strike in the United States. This is an increase of $500 compared with the figures issued shortly after the strike started.