The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-23
TROOPS DRIVE
BACK STRIKERS
WITH TEAR GAS
Gen. De PREF Promises Aid
of Soldiers to All
Employers.
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back several yards, at which point.
after firing had ceased. the line
formed again as the jeering and
stone-throwing we're resumed.
Military Law Enforced
Strict martial law was enforced in
the strike area around the company
buildings, but Gen. DePrez made no
effort to enforce it in the downtown
business center. contenting himself
with a supervision of activities by
guardsmen who made the rounds in
police squad cars ana in trucks.
Meanwhile restaurants and gro
ceries opened and hotel dining
rooms resumed business that was
cut of yesterday when the strike
was IS per cent effective.
Family larders that were low were
being replenished this afternoon
and the downtown bulged with
shoppers with big boxes of food they
we're laying in, presumably in an
ticipation OF further difficulties in
commerce.
To arrange compromise in the
matter, and to end the strike that
the Chamber of Commerce says is
costing business men in the city
100000 day, Charles Richardson,
crack Department of Labor con-
ciliator who few here yesterday
from Washington, and T. N. Taylor,
representative of the State Fedora
ton of Labor vice president,
planned another conference today
with company officials.
Company Is Adamant
Since the very beginning of the
strike four months ago. Federal con-
ciliators have time and again failed
to bring about settlement
Even Mayor Beecher and Cham
Der of Commerce officials. alarmed
at the prospect of the strike
and its disastrous effects, were I'M
able to get company officials to-
gether Sunday in a frantic last
minute attempt for peace.
As National Guard units began
moving into the city last night. feel
ing was high against them and
against Gov. Paul V. McNutt for
declaring martial law.
Crowds of workers. who bad
walked out inc sympathy, mad ga
thered in downtown streets and at
the company plant and there was a
general tenseness that had its basis
in the obvious shortage of food and
the uncertainty of the duration of
the strike and its consequences as
they affected the family.
Fear Strike May Spread
There was some uneaSiness
among the more level-headed union
workers over reports that groups of
miners from bloody" Herrin, ILL.,
and Shelburne, Ind, we're on their
way to the city. bent on assisting
in the picketing.
There we're seemingly we'll
founded report that gas and water
would be turned off from all homes
and hospitals, and the union lead
ers were generally apprehensive
over reports that electric current
was being supplied the city from
outside plants. They, and utility
employers, thought it possible the
strike might spread to other cities
Into this situation strobe the
uniformed and armed National
Guardsmen, and took their station
at the Armory awaiting orders.
They had come for the express pur-
pose of preventing unlawful as
Their law was the law of the city.
and without their permission no
man could leave or enter the strike
area.
Workers Resent Occupation
The workers resented their occu-
patton of the city, called them
strike breakers. and assembled at a
school playground for a hasty in
dignation meeting all directed
against the guardSmen.
The crowd that remained all day
yesterday at the Columbian plant
was augmented during the twilight
and the private guards. mostly men
around 40, beefy and hard. stood
silently as the crowds jeered them.
Occasionally stone was thrown
pitched from the back of the
crowd and aimed to land on or near
guard. Once or twice the stone
throwers' aims were so good that a
guard would raise his shotgun and
aim it at the crowd. None shot.
Some times the stone broke plant
windows. and again the guards
threatened the crowd by aiming
at it.
Receive No Answers
You guys are worse than AL
Capone." some Infatuated worker
called from the tense crowd.
Don't insult Al Capone." wom-
an, white tempered. called. in what
she intended to be an insult more
scathing. The Al Capone angle
came in because it generally re-
ported that a Chicago detective
agency brought in the strike break
ers and arranged the guard over
them.
You Scabs. You dirty So-and-
SOS. I'll bet your mothers are
proud OF you, others would yell,
but they might as we'll have howled
at the Sphinx if it was an answer
they expected.
As It got dark. huge flood lights
fixed TO the top of the building
were turned on and glsred at the
crowd as though 10 stare it out of
countenance. The guards remained
motionleSs. except for occasionally
shifting their shotgunS from one
arm 10 another.
Here They Come
Then some one called: Here
they come"
And the National Guardsmen
marched up the street and took
their posts.
Other guardSmen marched 10 the