The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-05-24
BRICKBATS
GREET CARPENTERS
ARR|V|NCF0R WORK
Common Laborers Hold Picket
Lines As Skilled Trades.
men Appear on lob
II STRIKERS ARE ARRESTED
10 Held in Jail Without Charge;
One Sentenced For Strik-
ing Officer
II STRIKERS ARE ARRESTED

Two skilled laborers were injured
by flying brickbats and II striking
common laborers were placed under
arrest Wednesday forenoon when
rioting developed as the Lundoff-
Bicknell company attempted to re-
sumo building operations on the
North Dakota state capitol building.
P. Hartwick. 40. $40 First St., and
Joe Guthrie. 48, 622 Tenth ST., suffer-
ed minor scalp wounds as pickets
hurled bricks and other missiles at
truck bearing a load Of carpenters,
which attempted to break through the
picket lines in an effort to get to the
capitol project to resume work.
Steve Heidi, one of the men arrest
ed, pleaded guilty to charge of as
sault and battery short time later
before Edward s. Allen. police magis-
trate. He was fined 500 and costs
and sentenced to 30 days in the county
Jail. He struck Deputy Sheriff A. H.
Helgeson, who was in charge Of
squad of special deputies on duty at
the project.
Ten others we're held without charge
pending investigation. Among them
was Adam Voight, official of the Bis
marck unit of the International Hod-
carriers, Builders and Common Lab
orers Union.
Company Officials Move
Lundoff- Bicknell officials late Tues.
day night reached decision to resume
operations Wednesday morning. Con-
struction has been at a standstin since
May is, when more than 80 common
laborers walked off the Job in strike
for 80 cents an hour and better work.
ing conditions
Resolutions adopted by skilled
,craetamen employed on the job, in
ciicating that they were willing to re-
sumo work under existing contracts
and scoring common laborers for their
part in the strike, were said to have
influenced the contractors to attempt
to resume operations. The skilled
laborers, in another resolution, con-
demned two state officials high in,
public life" for encouraging the COM
mon laborers in their strike. {:
It is understood that the contrac-,
tors asked the Burleigh county sher-,
ifs staff for protection of life and
property and three men were depu-
tized to assist the peace officers. In
the absence of Sheriff J. L. Kelley, who
is In South Dakota, Deputy Sheriff
A. H. Helgeson took charge of at
fairs.
City police, under Chief c. j. Mar
tineson, were assigned to patrol the
property OF the Wachter Brothers
Transfer company, which firm Is ir
charge of unloading stone for the
capitol from freight cars and trans
porting materials to Capitol Hill.
Asked for Protection
It is understood that Helgeson, il,
an effort to secure National Guard
aid in protecting life and property,
communicated with Governor Will
liam LANCER, who was at Minot, late
Tuesday night.
It is understood that LANCER left
for Bismarck by automobile inmedi-
ately and conferred with contractors
and police officials shortly after 2 a.
m. Wednesday.
The question of using National
Guardsmen for protection was dis.
cussed, it was learned, but action on
such move was deferred on the
ground the guardsmen should be used
only in the event civil authorities
could not handle the situation.
Acting Adjutant General Herman A.
Brocopp said he had received no or
ders from the governor to interfere In
the trouble.
Governor LANCER Wednesday fore
noon said he had taken no action in
the matter.
IS Pickets On Duty
About IS pickets assembled at Cap
itol Hill Wednesday morning to pre-
vent any efforts of skilled laborers
to get through to the project. They
were armed with clubs and bags of
bricks, according to witnesses.
Trucks carrying few skilled
workers were successful In breaking
through picket lines but other groups
were inundated and failed. Some
office equipment was allowed through
the lines, under protection of the
sheriff's force, but most trucks were
kept from the project.
BY early afternoon. however, trucks
carrying cement to the project were
getting through regularly. One truck
driver is said to have been struck with
a club by one Of the pickets but he
was not hurt seriously.
Lundoff- officials ordered
all men coming through the pick
lines to refrain from striking bac
at pickets.
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