Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-19
MANUFACTURERS PLAN TO RE.
OPEN PLANTS UNDER PRO.
LECTION.
SUPERVISORS APPOINT
1000 SPECIAL DEPUTIES
Factory Managers Claim Majority of
Strikers Desire to Return to Work
But Have Been lntinidated BY
Threats Of Notwithstanding of
Plants in Few Days Indicted.

Waterloo, Aug. l9.-The board OF
supervisors AT 3:25 D. m. yesterday au-
thorized the sheriff TO appoint 1000 or
more deputies IL necessary for the
maintenance of order and the protec-
ton of life and property. This action
was taken after the members had been
recorded as unanimously in favor of all
measures necessary to public welfare.
Appointment Of deputies to the sher-
if of Black Hawk county in number
sufficient to assure protection OF
property and life" was asked of the
board of supervisors at a meeting spe-
Cially called on behalf OF the owners
Of factories whose men are on strike.
J. r. Johnson. manager of the wat
erloo Gasolene En- ne Company and
president OF the Waterloo Manufactur-
ers' Association, was spokesman. There
were about 100 others present, repre-
sentatives from other industrial plants
and others interested in business con-
shutting the assembly.
J. &. Johnson Presents Request.
The plea was brought to the county
board, Mr.. Johnson said, because the
manufacturers had no other place in
which to seek assistance other than
federal authorities, and. he continued,
they did not wish to ask Intervention
from that source because the sheriff
had been trying to do his duty.
Mr.. Johnson promised the board
that, with ample protection, the fac
tories would be opened in a few days
He charged that large proportion OF
the men on strike went out thru fear
and intimidation, that they had been
told if they did not go cut when their
fellows did the undertaken would
take them OUT
He charged the strikes were part OF
an endeavor to unionize Waterloo.
starting with the agitation in the Ratn
plant and teamsters strike, and that
the local unrest was part OF nation
wide plan for labor to control all in
dustry.
Opposed to Arbitration.
Manufacturers Of Waterloo, he said,
were aginst arbitration and would
continue to be against it for the rea-
son that the question whether they
would remain in business or go out OF
business was not a question whlch
could be arbitrated, and the imposition
of the principle Of collective bargain
ing would be a hardship. He claimed
he showed books of the company with
which he is connected to the strikers
committee. proving to them the small
profits made. The question Of wages
he said, was not fit subject for ar
bitration. He urged that his company
had filled the timber near the plant
with tractors solely to keep its men
employed. since there was no sale for
the output and rather than discharge
the men and to close down they piled
up overproduction.
Fear For Lives Of Men.
He charged that workmen had been
pulled from cars and assaulted and
that there had been violence from the
beginning of the strike, and violence
was now on the increase. He said he
had called attention OF the chief Of po-
lice to the situation, that the chief had
gone to the source of trouble, read
city ordinance and advised the men to
conduct themselves with propriety but
that ase soon as he had left the trouo,
le started again. IF the county board
does not grant protection" he said, Il
fear there will be loss Of life"
Charges Against Abbey.
He charged that A. G. Abbey, or
ganizer, while in Minneapolis, was an