The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-09-12
SAYLESV|LLE RIOTS
SPUR MED|ATORS IN
EFFORTS FOR PEACE
1900 Guardsmen Called Out in
Rhode Island Storm Gen.
ter of Strife
WAGE FIGHT IN CEMETERY
Police in Woonsocket Forced to
Use Tear Gas to Dispense
Mob Of 1000
WAGE FIGHT IN Cemetery
nv The Associated Press)

by The Associated Press)
Increasing violence which brought
out all National Guardsmen in Rhode
Island and resulted in the injury Of
20 within the last 48 hours spurred
the textile mediation board Wednes-
day in its efforts to break the dead
lock between the workers and en-
ployers.
Two men, shot and critically
wounded by Rhode Island National
Guardsmen on strike duty at the
Sayles Finishing company as crowd
of nearly 1000 pickets and strike
sympathizers rushed the state troops,
were added to the casualties Wednes-
day afternoon.
The shooting occurred when .
crowd Of 1900 made q rush for Is Ma
tional Guardsmen in the Moshassuck
cemetery. for three days the scene OF
violent clashes between police Or
troopers guarding the plant and strike
sympathizers.
Crowd Defies Guardsmen
The guardsmen ordered the crowd
back, but it continued to advance.
They hurled gas bombs, but still the
crowd came on. Warning shots were
fired and then, as the crowd con-
tinued to advance, the guardsmen FIR
ed.
One guardsman was struck on the
head and apparently knocked down
by a thrown rock. He had to be help
ed from the scene and given first aid:
Police in Woonsocket, r. l., used
tear gas to disperse crowd Of 1000
gathered in front Of mill there.
Guardsmen established all night pa
trolls in Bristol, r. l., to prevent
threatened mass picketing at one
plant.
Governor Green's call for all the
National Guardsmen in the state to
report for strike duty was answered
by 1000 troopers.
The strike scene In other states had
an ominous look. National guards
men stood watch over mills In Maine,
Connecticut and Mississippi. Three
additional units eonverged on Gas
tonia, N. c., bringing to l,700 the
states total number Of guardsmen on
duty.
While the textile mediation board
assembled in Washington, trying to
find some basis for peace, union lead
ers dug in for q long SIEGE"
German Makes Statement
Francis German, national strike
leader, declared, peace IS denied us.
and we must face management on the
field Of conflict" Labor's offer for
the mediation board to arbttrate ex-
pired at 8 p. m. Tuesday.
The gunfire in Saylesville was the
fist in Rhode Island since the strike
began. It followed night Of violence
and bloodshed, eliminating In run
ming fight IN cemetery.
The troops were wearied from the
o,1slaughts Of $500 mob armed
with sticks and stones.
The sheriff Of Chambers county,
Ala, deputized TOO guards to surround
five Alabama plants.
Francis J. German, national strike
leader, appealed to President Roose-
welt to advise governors who have
ordered troops out In the strike to
use fairness in their activity.
Board Makes New Effort
The mediation board assembled TOR
another effort to find some basis for
peace after the manufacturers had re-
jected the labor proposal for arbitra-
ton.
Union leaders planned to issue new
orders to the strikers, estimated now
at 100000.
AS the labor offer for the mediation
board to arbitrate the dispute expired
at 6 p. m, Tuesday, German issued
this statement:
I'VE have sought the way Of peace
from the beginning-from long before
the strike. Peace Is denied to US and
we must face management on the
field OF oonflict-we with folded
arms: they with paid thugs, militia,
machine guns and gas"
The strikers were encouraged by .
statement from william Green, presi-
dent Of the American Federation Of
Labor, that sufficient pledges Of or
ganizers and money had been received
from other international unions to
meet the present needs Of the united
textile workers Ia financing their