The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-13
Strikers Battle
Troops at Mill
BY CARL REEVE
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hours to clear the Cemetery. Hun
dreds of gas bombs were set of
during the night. Seven known Ma
tional Guardsmen are in the hos
pital and at least 30 more suffered
enough injury to go off duty.
The strikers tore up cobblestopeS
from the streets, used bricks and
stones and sticks.
Strikers hurled the vomit gas
bombs time after time back into
the ranks Of the gusrdsmen, The
troops dubbed viciously. They soon
attached bayonets and advanced on
the strikers with bayonets ready to
strike. The hands of number Of
strikers were severely burned from
the gas bombs which they hurled
back at the troops.
Many Strikers Wounded
James Dolan, a striker, received a
fractured skull from a troopers
club. Included among those shot
were a 73-year old woman, Mrs.
Leonie Gussart, shot in both legs.
Deputy sheriffS used both shot guns
and riot guns in the early evening
firing, wounding many.
The Guardsmen rode into the
strike area on their artillery Gals
sons. This morning trucks brought
them rifle ammunition. They
used barbed wire for entangle-
ments around the mill and last
night sent up many illuminating
flares trying to search out the
strikers in the darkness. They
also used anti aircraft search
lights. This afternoon an air
plane was lowering over the pick
cts.
The published list of injured, set
at so, is undoubtedly far too low,
as many injured were not treated
at hospitals. Although it is re-
ported in the press that the troops
were told not to fire, it is con-
firrned fact that the troopers fired
several volleys from their rifles in
the heavy fighting in the cemetery
Strikers Taunt Troopers
This afternoon the strikers were
standing several thousand strong at
the deadline set by the troopers and
haunting the National Guards for
their attack on the workers.
do you want us to work for
two dollars a week?" I heard one
striker ask the guardsmen, who
stood club in hand, in heavy line
across Lonsdale Ave. Another de-
clared, You wouldn't shoot that
gun at us, would you?" When are
they going to call out the Boy
Scouts?" was a frequent slogan.
Undoubtedly many of the young
guardsmen, who are themselves mil
workers, do not relish their job anc
look actually sick. They are very
young boys from Providence, from
workers homes. The strikers WERE
appealing to them not to do the
work of the mill owners. "Yol
have to come out here and shoe
us down so that Sayles can make
more money! one striker told thu
guardsmen.
Town Supports Strike
The population of the town 1;
Solidly behind the strikers, anc
there is great indignation at the
use of the troops to break the strike
and keep the mill running The
Sayles Company claimed TOO in.
side the mill yesterday. They claim
500 inside today. The Sayles mil
workers are virtual prisoners in the
mill.
At 10 o'clock last night the
strikers counter attacked from three
different sides, as tombstones were
scattered in the cemetery. The
troops were beaten back.
At midnight the guardsmer
again charged down Lonsdale Ave-
nue.. A rain of rocks halted them
1t was not until 7 O'Clock this
morning that the strikers were
finally forced back and the dead.
lines set up.
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Joseph Sylvia, U. T. w. leader
arrived on the scene at ten last
night. He went inside the guards
mems lines and conferred with the
head Of the troops, General Dean
for an hour. Sylvia refused tc
state what had been said. The
guardsmen all had steel helmets
riot guns, rifles, gas bombs, gren-
AIDES, and clubs. Their headquar-
tiers are inside the mill gates
Horace Riviere, in a statement tc
Governor Green, blamed the
trouble on "a gang of hoodlums.' -
This is the U. T. W. leaders char
acterization of heroic strikers
Riviere said there was no objection
to militia.
1t was reported in the Boston
press that U. T. w. President Nc