Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-04-14

q
port Of a lecture delivered by the
editor Of THE Golden Age" relig-
lous paper, in Carnegie Hall, Pitts
burg, TO the labor unions of that city
at the request Of the National Asso-
citation of Patternmakers:
At New Castle, Pennsylvania,
fifty miles north of the city of Pitts
burgh, in the fall of 1919, when the
steel strike was on, the workers in
the steel industry in New Castle found
that all the lawyers in the city of New
Castle had been engaged as deputies
and thus there was no possible oppor-
tunity for the workers in New Castle
to have the benefit of legal assist
ance In respect to the outrages that
were being perpetrated in that city
at that time. Men and women in the
city of New Castle were picked up
on the streets, they were taken from
their homes, they were beaten and
jailed by the hundreds. Homes were
broken into, property was damaged
and men were robbed and terrorized,
but they were promised immediate
freedom If they would return to their
work. Now who are the anarchists
unoci Sohuitions ike lndL III tfhS idhu
of America?
AT Monessen at the same time
(Monessen is city about forty miles
south of Pittsburgh old men and
women were beaten with clubs and
ridden down by horses, women and
children were jailed without food, men
we're locked up in cellars, homes were
searched and the entire city was ter
ror1zed; in the same city of Mones-
sen, at the same time, the wife of
railway worker was arrested by a
constable and released on $50 bail,
with instructions to report in Court
the following morning between $50
and $3.50. When she appeared the
next morning she was notified that the
case against her had been disposed of
and the fifty dollars had been forfeit
ed. This woman weighed one hundred
and eighteen pounds and was charged
with having defied the police of
Monessen with club.
AT Donora, thirty-fve miles south
OF Pittsburgh, negro strike breakers
shot white strikers without provoca-
ton.
AT Clarion, twenty miles south of
Pittsburgh, after permission had been
given to hold union labor meeting,
state troopers rode down the assem-
bly,; men and women were arrested,
beaten up and jailed, and some were
beaten while in Jail; friends who
came to provide bail we're also ar
rested; workers who stopped to read
a notice on a bulletin board were
attacked by state troopers, who used
their clubs, breaking the scalp Of one
of the workers.
AT WOODLAND, nineteen miles west
Of Pittsburgh, private detectives of
the steel company arrested newcom-
ers beat, kicked, and fined them, and
sent them back on the train. 1t hap
pened that the sufferers in this case
were two boys who had gone there to
visit a cousin. The kicking, punching,
and beating was done in the home Of
the village burgess, answering to the
office of mayor.
At McKeesport, fifteen miles east
of Pittsburgh, attorneys and steno-
graphers We're forbidden to secure
affidavits and were ordered from
town.
At Duquesne, twelve miles south
east of Pittsburgh, on Sunday, in
the following spring, May 9th, 1920,
an attempt was made to test out the
Constitution of the State of Pennsyl-
yania, both of which provide that the
citizens have a right in peaceable
manner to assemble for their common
good. This attempt was made because
the Mayor of Duquesne, who was the
M 5ctr .ufr .,f 4 Al.
president of its natinoal banA, had
made the boast that Jesus Christ
could not speak in Duquesne under the
auspices of the American Federation
Of Labor" After four successive no
tices had been served on the Mayor a
week apart by registered mail telling
him of the time and place where the
test would be made, the six speakers
who gathered for the purpose were
arrested and Jailed before they could
finish sentence apiece. Seven spec
tators were arrested for disturbing
traffic, and newspaper man was
compelled to give up his camera and
plates. Another man was arrested
for taking a snap shot and one man
was ridden down by the state troop
ers who had been brought to the
scene. The magistrate who passed up
on the case, Judge Kennedy, imposed
a fine of $25 upon each of the speak
ers, stating in his opinion, at Is not
the cause of organized labor to which
the mayor objects; it is the discussion
of such subject"
At Braddock, ten miles southeast of
Pittsburgh, while the strike was on,
men and women were attacked in
church, and school children were rid
den down in the school-yard, and a
man chopping wood was dragged out
OF his cellar and arrested without
cause. while another man was dubbed
for walking slowly while counting the
money he had just received from
pay window.
At Homestead, seven miles east of
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