The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-10
RESTORE TENT COLONY DESPITE
FALLING OF STRIKE, RELIEF LEADERS
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the officers of the law they con-
troll to interview them.
"The raid on the Workers Inter
national Relief tent colony Friday
night followed a bloody attack on
the mass picketing demonstration
, which was organized at meeting
on the tent colony and union head
quarters grounds in the evening.
"At The meeting mill owners pro-
vocateurs tried to start trouble by
throwing eggs at Vera Bush, union
organizer, and at Fred Beal eggs
and stones were thrown. The meet
ing however passed off quietly other
wise, and the demonstrators started
down towards the Loray mill to call
on the strikebreakers to come out.
Such demonstrations on previous
nights last week have already
drawn many of the strikebreakers
out of the mills, and enlisted them
in the ranks of the union.
Deputies Attack Strikers.
The demonstration Friday night
was met by a crowd of deputies in
more than usual ugly mood. They
dubbed the workers, choked the
women and girl strikers, and kicked
the children around. The demonstra-
ton was brutally broken up, and the
strikers went back to the tent col
ony. After nine o'clock the strikers
guards cleared the grounds, as is
usual, and everything was perfectly
quiet. ->
"a little later, an automobile load
ed with police, in charge of Police
Chief Adlerholt drove right into the
tent colony, the officers dismounted
| and began to bully the guards. A
/ couple of them seized one man and
! attempted to tear his rifle away
/ from him. AS though this was a
signal, the other deputies and police
started firing right into the tents.
Women and children fled into the
! tents when the first struggle start
ed. The deputies charged among the
tents, firing recklessly, and when
the confusion was over, four of them
were wounded.
Striker First to Fall.
"The striker, Harrison, was the
first to fall, and when he dropped
wounded by bullets in the arm and
leg, deputies held him to the ground
and he was carried away with the
other wounded.
st is impossible to tell, because
ell the prisoners are held incom-
municado, whether the deputies
were shot by other deputies in the
reckless firing, whether they were
shot by agent provocateurs of the
mill companies in the tent colony
or whether they were shot by strik-
ers in self defense.
Came Without Warrants.
"The police and deputies had no
search warrants. When they first
attacked the tent colony guards,
warrants were demanded Of them
Policeman Gilbert cursed the strik-
ers, and declared, we don't need
no god damned warrants
"After the wounded were removed
Major Bullwinkle. the attorney for
the Manville-Jenckes Co., came into
the tent colony with a posse of forty
deputy sheriffs (mill company
thugs) and without warrants began
to arrest strikers and beat some Of
them up. Clarence Miller was
beaten almost to a pulp. Women
were terrifically beaten and guns
were flourished.
Start Wrecking Tents.
"After most of the arrests were
made, during yesterday and today
the deputies surrounded the head
quarters of the National Textile
Workers Union, and new small
building near the tent colony, and
permitted no one to go in They
blocked entrance to the tent head
quarters of the Workers Interna-
tional Relief, also near the head
, quarters. They have charged 1e-
peatedly through the tent colony
destroying the tents and driving all
the strikers families out to lie on
{ the open ground in the midst Of a
terrible rain storm. Arrests con.
tinue. Caroline Drew, relief worker
was arrested yesterday while on her
, way to consult Attorney Unison, re-
tanned by the l. L. D.
, "The strikers have been without
, food now for three days, because Of
the smashing of the relief work.
Will Renew Relief.
"The Workers International Re
lief is determined to reopen tn
colony and get food for these strik
ers without delay. The Internationa
Labor Defense has an attorney OF
the ground, and will use every meth
cd to get in to see the strikers ant
break the incommunicado policy.
"The National Textile Workers
Union was never more in the con
fidence of the workers Of this sec
ton than now. Sentiment for thu