The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1919-10-09
GOVERNOR CALLS
FOR MARTIAL LAW
UNITED STATES TROOPS REACH
GARY.
No Violence During Day But Pa
rade Comes in spite of order
to Contrary.

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declared within a radius OF five mile.
from East Chicago, Ind, tonight BY
Adjutant General Smith, acting un.
der authority of Gov. James Good.
rich, Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood com.
mander of the central division of the
United States army, arrived at Gary
nearby, with 1000 overseas regulars
of the Fourth division to prevent
trouble as result of a tense situa-
ton in the steel strike region.
No violence occurred today, the
only outbreak taking place Saturday
night before state troops were sent
to the field. But a large parade oil
strikers, including 200 former. SOL
diers in uniform in spite OF an order
against parades and meetings, was
held today, preliminary to meeting
of strikers in a park at Gary.
Speakers at the mass meeting,
some of whom were in soldiers uni
forms, announced meeting of for
mer service men for tomorrow to
consider plans for the release of one
of our men" held in custody. 1t also
was announced that a mass meeting
would be held tomorrow in Gary
hail.
Steel plants throughout the dis
trict continued to operate today vary
ing forces of men at work. AS on
previous days plant officials claimed
that many additional men had re-
ported for work, but strike leaders
asserted that only few unskilled
workers had gone back.
After an investigation following the
arrest of negro on charge of car
rying weapon, G. E. Huber, assist
ant postmaster at Gary, declared to-
day that many firearms were reach
ing negroes at Gary through the
mails. He expressed the belief that
postoffice authorities'could not refuse
delivery of the arms after they once
had been placed in the mail.
The federal troops sent to Gary to
night were dispatched in motor
trucks by General Wood immediate
ly after he had received request
for aid from Governor Goodrich. Gen
Deral Wood announced that he would
assume personal command of the
trops.
On arrival of the federal troops the
state units We're withdrawn from Gary
and concentrated in Indiana harbor
and East Chicago.
Mai. Gen. Leonard Wood, comman-
der of the central department of the
United States army, tonight took
charge of the Indiana steel cities Of
Gary, Indiana Harbor and East
Chicago with 1000 overseas veterans
of the Fourth division and with can
non, machine guns and rifles and de-
clared martial law in Gary while Ad-
jutant General Smith with thous-
and state troops declared martial law
in the other two steel centers. No SOL
diers' uniforms may be worn in Gary
by civilians under the generals or
ders.
No disorder preceded the action OF
the military today, but the troop
movements were brought about by a
parade without permit of 1000 strik-
ers from the steel mills in Gary, led
by large number of former soldiers
in uniform, and a mass meeting in
a Gary park, where speakers de-
manded the release of strikers ar
rested after a riot on Saturday and
the withdrawal of troops sent by Gov
ernor Goodrich of Indiana, at the re-
quest of city officers.
This was the first action by feder-
al troops since the steel strike start
ed on September %. 1t came unex-
pectedly as there had been compare
lively little disorder in any of the
cities, but the movement was rapid.
No sooner had Mayor Hodges of
Gary asked Governor Goodrich for
troops after the mass meeting had
been held in violation of his orders,
and in defiance of the 800 state
troops on duty in Gary than the gov
eynor repeated the request to Gener-
al Wood at Chicago. In five hours
the regulars at Fort Sheridan had
been loaded in trucks and transport
ed so miles to Gary. They had barely
unlimbered themselves from the long
ride before General Wood issued his
order for martial law.
The order provided that no public
meeting or assemblies might be held
"in any street, park or other portion
of the city" However, it specially ex-
empted from this provision churches
theaters, motion picture houses and
lecture rooms.
The order set forth that all men in
the uniform of the United States army
in the city would be brought to mill,
tary headquarters Immediately. If in
vestigation developed that a particu,
lar man was "a part Of the armed
forced of the nation" the order add.
ed, he would be placed under the
command OF the military authorities
| in the city for duty. If however, the
man was out of the service, the order
stated he would he held "pendins