The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-10-23
LAND REGULARS TO
PROTECT us. PIERS
"Shoot if Necessary" Comman'
der lnstructS the Troops.
STRIKE CAUSES CONGESTION
Soldiers to Handle Only Government
Bus!ness-Pamphlets Calling for
Uprising and Soviet Rule Are
Distributed.

soldiers of the regular army were
landed here from the transport George
Washington to attempt to end the con
gestion at the army piers in Brooklyn
caused by the longshoremen's strike.
The men are under orders ito shoot
If necessary" according to a state
ment made by Brig. Gen. Peter Davi-
son, chief of troop movement AT the
port of embarkation.
THE troops will aid in moving
transport or whatever else is neces-
sary," said General Dawson.
Denies Men Have Machine Guns.
General Shanks deprecated sena-
torlal rumors connected with the use
Of troops.
There are no machine guns with
these men," he said, land they are
not to be used as soldiers in the ordi-
nary sense of the term. There will be
no shooting or anything like that.
There are many foreigners among the
strikers and their possibly Limited UNI
derstanding Of the situation created
by these rumors may tend 10 make
matters mucn worse than need be"
Soviet Circulars Appear.
AS the soldiers were arriving the
police learned incendiaryy circulars
appealing for the establishment of a
workers government like a soviet re-
public of Russia" were being distrib-
uted to the strikers. The pamphlets
read in part:
ITO striking longshoremen A proc
lamation issued by the communist par
ty of America of Local Greater New
York.
Sixty thousand IongshOremen are
on strike against the bosses, the gov
eminent wage adjustment board and
the scab unionism of the American
Federation of Labor. Strike means
victory. Arbitration means defeat
Unite with the striking express
drivers, stevedores. freight handlers,
platform men and chauffeurs for one
big Industrial transport workers UNI
ion.
"The government will send soldiers
to take your places. Some already are
doing the dirty work and $4,000 are
on the way. How can you expect
square deal from the bosses govern
ment? The government will place sol
ders at the piers with rifles aud ma
chine guns to shoot you down.
"The only way to get rid Of the
lf.sl q,
workers government like the soviet
republic of Russia"
Soldiers Landed at 1oboken.
The soldiers were landed AT do
boken and Immediately transferred &c
Governors island preliminary 20 duty
at the army piers in Brooklyn. They
comprised two battalions of the 18th
regular infantry, first division, whic&
was first in France and first in the
fighting. Many had overseas chevrons
and wound stripes.
The troops were in command of Coz
Jeffe NJ. Cullison, who commanded tina
Goth infantry of the first division IL
France and received several Geeora-
tons He was greeted at the pier by
Brigadier General Dawson, who. when
asked if NOR troops were coming, sad
that member Of the 18th regiment at
Camps Upton and Merritt, near By,
would be brought here if necessary.
Troops in Civilian Attire.
The soldiers were QUILTED with cl-
villain working attire. Asked whether
the soldiers would carry arms when
working, Maj. Gen. David c. Shanks,
commanding the port of embarkatio1
said:
IF necessary an armed guard will
be placed with them, but 1t is imyos-
sible for msn to work and caHey a
rife"
General Shanks added that no SOL
diers would work at commercial piers
or do anything other than strictly gov
eminent work.
Baker Refuses to Delay.
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