The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-06-05
Two Strikers Shot to Death by
Guards at WilIys-0yer-
land Plant.
MAY USE FEDERAL SOLDIERS
Ohio Is Without National Guard and
Regulars Are Expected to Be Or
dered Out-Mob of $4,000 At
tack Street Cars Carrying
Workers


Columbus, o., June AT midnight
Mayor Schneider of Toledo wired Gov.
ernor Cox:
"Send troops Immediately to To-
ledo."
The mayor said that all available
deputy sheriffs had been sworn in, but
that he was unable to cope with the
situation
Charles e. Morris, secretary to the
governor, said Ohio Is without troops
and must request the federal govern
ment to lend soldiers. There are s.
600 federal troops at Camp Sherman,
awaiting discharge.
Mr.. Morris said the mayor told him
that rioters had driven him from his
home by threats and that he was I'M
der guard in his office at the city hall.
Two Strikers Killed.
Toledo, o., June 1.-Two men were
shot to death and two were seriously
wounded in a riot growing out of the
labor disturbances involving $4,000 en-
ployees of the Willys-Overland Auto
mobile company.
The victims, presumably idle en-
ployees of the company, were killed
by discharged soldiers who are guard
ing the plant.
The killing was the elimination of
three riots which resulted in injury to
c,+o r,&o
5000 idle workers attacked employees
leaving the factory.
Fire Into Crowd.
The killing occurred in front of a
fire station near the automobile plant,
where a discharged soldier guard, with
a woman companion, had sought
refuge from a threatening crowd.
The guard had been walking through
a residential district of employees OF
the automobile company and fed to
the fire station when a crowd Of men
hooted him and made menacing re-
marks. afN 8H AG'
Calls for assistance brought two
motortruck loads Of ex-soldier guards
from the automobile plant. When they
arrived at the station, one of them
fired pistol into the air. The guards
then fired their rifles and pistols into
the crowd.
5000 Storm Auto Plant.
Violence. started when a crowd of
idle workers stormed cars carrying
employees to the plant. smashed the
car windows with stones and bricks
and pulled workers into the streets,
where they were beaten.
The situation famed into a pitched
battle when idle workers numbering
5000, including many women, stormed
the entrances of the plant as the en-
ployees- were leaving, beat them with
clubs and felled them with a shower
Of stones and bricks.
Streets in front of the plant were
Uttered with missiles and broken
glass.
Ex-SoIdiers Beaten.
4 Two soldiers we're beaten into I'M
consciousness and a score of former
employees were injured.
Mayor Cornell Schneider, under
whose direction the former soldiers,
still wearing their uniform, are guard
ing the plant, issued statement that
no more violence would be tolerated
and that every one who starts trouble
will be dealt with forcibly and ID the
manner in which the occasion Ce-
mandS"
The former soldiers were armed
with rifles supplied at the direction of
the mayor. There are 500 Of them act
ing as emergency police.
The mayor warned those who have
no business at the plant to remain
away and forbade crowds congregat-
ing.
The seriously injured included Otto
Bulls of Battle Greek, Mich. dis
charged soldier, whose skull was frac-
tured.