East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, February 26, 1912, EVENING EDITION, Page PAGE SIX, Image 6

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DATLY EAST OTCEGONIAK PENDLETON, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2V 1012.
PAGE SIX.
STRIKERS
REACH
LIMIT OF ENDURANCE
(Continued from pnse -Hi.)
will be allowed to
that the outrage
nass unnoticed.
This is what happened:
Three weeks ago otho strike com
mittee resolved that, while men and
women could live on free soup or
-vcn starve, rather than submit to
the salary out. averaging 12 cents a
week, the children must not and
should not suffer the pangs of hun
ger. For seven weeks now thousands of
the strikers have been dependent for
life necessities upon the union or the
charities of .yn-.pathelio unionolsts
the cnar.trj over. It was a severe
strain upon the resources of the re
lief committee. When the children
began to feel the pinch of want and
it was decided to send them away
hundreds of sympathisers in New
York, Philadelphia and many other
Ities volunteered to care for them
until normal conditions could be es
tablished. Each Saturday the strike commit
tee has been sending little ones out of
town. The mill agents, assisted by
the civil and military authorities,
their requesting simply amounting to
order, frowned on this plan. The
hope of the millowners is that the
strikers will return under the old
conditions w hen the strikers have had
enough free soup. This is common
talk among them. They ordered May
or Scanlan and Marshal SuUivan to
frustrate the child relief plan. A
week ago. an attempt, partially "suc
cessful, was made to keep the little
ones in Lawrence, the police then
contending that the children's par
ents had not consented to allow the
strike committee to send them away.
Saturday this happened: Fifty rag
ged boys and girls each wearing a
tag, were escorted to the depot. Tick
ets were purchased for Philadelphia
or Providence. Fifty mothers, sis
ters and brothers of the children
were on the station platform, or in
the waiting room to see them off.
The train backed into the depot
then quickly a squad of policemen.
clubs drawn, menacingly swooped
down on the party.
You cannot leave town. Get out
of here and go home," the officers
commanded. A member of the strike
committee assured the police that
every child wore a tag upon which
was written the authorization of the
parents.
"That makes no difference," said
the police. "The whole batch of you
i have got to go back."
Some of the mothers started with
their children for the train. The
police shoved them back. And, then
came the soldiers. Stalwart Amor'
can men, in uniforms, carrying rifles
with glistening bayonets drawn, clubs
with lead butts, in their belts, de
scended in majestic military splen
dor upon the pathetic panic stricken
huddle of women and children, rein
forcing the 50 policemen already
present.
The soldiers drew up between the
children and the train. The police
baited The women. If they were
taunting them into violence they
could not have done better. They
were insulting in their language.
"Get out of here you , you
." they shouted brandishing their
clubs. Some of the children began
to cry. One little girl, frightened
half out of her wits, screamed:
"Mamma! Mamma! Don't let them
hurt me.'
KesMing Vonic Ileaten.
Some of the women ran into the
streets, dragging tlcir little ones.
Others, undaunted, stood their
ground. These the police finally
seized. When the women resisted
they were beaten and their clothing
torn. A truck in the street was com
mandeered and backed up to the sta
tion platform. Into this improvised
patrol wagon eight struggling, in
jured women, ten trembling boys and
girls, and five men were bundled
and thus carted off to the police sta
tion like dangerous criminals.
Despite these outrages, the strike
leaders have continually counselled
peace, obedience to law and even sub
mission to unreasonable demands, of
the police and militia rather than
resistance which might lead to vio
lence. Strikers peaceably picketing were
arrested to the number of 10 for "in
citing to riot."
Buffeted between the savage per
secution of the officials and in hun-
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Ar-cA nt nispa suffering with hun
ger, this polyglot mass of humanity,
representing no less than SS races or
of them of hot
Latin blood, maintained patience to
a degree that has won the admiration
i..k.. !. pnnntrv over and has
made desperate strikebreakers who
rely upon violence to uiscreun
Th.- r Rtill brave, still un-
yielding and even confident of ulti
mate victory.
t nlice court Saturday afternoon
. .. ... nn.i rn mother were
'..ntv of assaulting officers,
Il'UIIU .
.1 .in th Bidewalks and disor
aerly conduct, because they had re
sisted the efforts or me jk-
. ... nhll.lren from their arms
The cases of seven women and one
man were postponed, me -"
dren who were arrested were sent to
rnr ornhans. ineir
the city '
in 15 vears
ages n '.nabswiU and
women, '" . -
Mrs. Agnes Whecklner arrested for
intimidating operatives
or nt the city hospit-
aTbeing TTe Vior bruises and the
mauling8 they ot at the hands of city
nollce when a score of biutcoau
Sroke6 up a crowd of women and men
. . . mnnv. The iwo
w'wdUme mothers within a
month. .. ,ini
Simon jvnt-uci. -
. ,....iv,in who was one
worker oi ru.. .
ob ructlng the Vldewalk at the sta
obstrucung pollce Ser.
tion. ns . - ,..rtm
ceant Monahan ana v.no """''
geaiu jm for arresting
testimony and reason ii
him was: . .ol atllh .
The man looked u .
born, am! wasn't moving fast enough
t0Kneben;had a ticket to Philadelphia
wch he showed to Man1ut
the policeman refused to let him go
into the station to take M" train.
Special Justice Howell, who acted
in allthe cases. Justified his action In
sendmg 10 children to the city poor
frm ttv citing section one.chapter
Tof the acts of 1909. which head,
that the authorities shall step in and
lake charge .of. any child nd. 1J
'and the parents snan L
w,S neglect by reason of orphanage
neelect. crime, cruelty, inay J
drunkenness or other vice of the par-
tnts." ,.
. Questions put by Justice Rowel
brought out the fact that not one of
X parent- arrested had ever been
n court before. The one mother who
was fined 5 for assaulting an officer
was Jennie Lewis, who as stopped
bv Patrolman McCann
rW to board the train at North
.ith her 4-year-old daughter
TZr arms Policeman Mc
Cann testified that when he pushed
ST." woman from the train and tried
to take the child irom .
man "hit and scraicneu
"tried to bite"him.
Protest IN.rw.nlcd to ConRri.
.v,nt a congressional
Being inioin.cu - - -investigation
will be made. Charles
Troutmann, William Haywood and
wmum Tales of the strike commit
tee Xd a strenuous protest against
the city and state authorities to Chair
the city " "... , loiinr com-
man Wilson, of me
mlttee and to Bepr " -.
. .in With the proiei.
. " ,0n,iBHt that the con
sent an u.-- t. maAa
cresslonal investigation uo -- -gressioiui
coder's also took
Umlna"; for legaj I action to
Aamaee ajsalnst the city ox
T.awrence for Interference with . tw
Lawrence Hurtles of those
personal - f onstHutlonal
arrestea hi '""""" ---, ., v
!rintees. A consuuan" "...
Sorrow with their legal adv.s-
Prs to advice what actio.. ... -- ----
en against the city for personal in
. j t tho nollce.
luries lninuicu "i -
jui.c. irhixa are the
This is Lawrence. ,.
methods of the clvn anu -
wealth officials, guardians of con tl-
tutlonai riBin", ---- - .
ni...,.i.. a rharee wnicn eve. v..,
"""" itPlv. This un-
warranted and outrageous assault up
and eniiaren u
r ., length to which these men
will go to break a strike and prevent
the unionizing oi emp.u" -7
. r-oar-Vipd the end of their
tether, life being impossible at thu
old wages. , ,
.umi.P'h-eolnir congressional
Investigation is made of the events of
the past seven weeks in liw . e....-,
..ti u violation of almost every
constitutional right of the people who
compose the striking element.
th start of this industrial
war the whole effort by the army of
private detectives, the ponce ana
11, 1 .. ,mi na iinscruDUlous city and
state officers, has been to precipitate
tn rlisrred t the BiriKe leuu-
VIUIVIK-H "
era It Is notorious thai aynamue
i,i in three niaces Dy uewt'
,nrirlnir for the mill agents.
nrw v, cvr.loHives were found, the
police announced that me
were planning dynamite outrages. The
plant" has been fully exposed and
-hr.m the nollce finally ar-
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rested as the "planter" w out on im...
rtacnlto oil statements 10 tne cum.n'j.
it,'. tnt U that strikers have ' been
peaceably disposed from the start and
ir.ionn hv individuals haa been
traced to the daring of boy rowdies
,.. .v, .iriiinrs who were ultched up-
n v. tvio nnllen or militia. It must
1.0 nrif.rxnnd that the town is not
under martial law. The l&uu state
.nr.. ore merely nresent to assist
the civil authorities. The right of
free speech and assemblage has been
denied. Habeas corpus was nuspend
strike leaders Joseph
Ettor and this assistant, arrested as
o.nri;i to the murder or Anna
t ahni ilnn In the street
Th.r was testimony by several
witnesses thatEttor was a mile from
il. f th. kllllne. Two wltness-
L 1 1 U OI.'- I"J -' ' "
es said they saw a police officer fchoot
the woman, one Identifying tne po-
ii..n ond there was successiui re
buttal in court of the testimony of
......of Hotontlvea that E,ttor nau
ha utrllters to commit violence
Ettor Is still in Jail, held without ball,
for the murder of one of his country
women and a striker.
The constitution was violated when
h. nilcfl seized ' Ettor's baggage,
a suitcase to get a lot
of papers, "but securing nothing they
could use- against him. Cruel and
unusual punishment 1 U been meted
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Fendlcton, Oregon.
Contractor and Builder of all kinds of Concrete Work.
"'""irVf-'inT
out to strikers who came up in police
court, one man charged with carrying
concealed weapons being sent to the
workhouse, although! only a closed
Jack-knife was tound on him. Many
arrests have been made without war
rant, and in many instances bail has
been excessive. rractlcnlly every
free institution has been corrupted.
MARRIES "OX CASH BASIS."
Justice of Peace Semis nn Advertise
nieiit to "Eilglbles."
Clay City, Ind. George E. Law,
of Brazil, Justice of the Peace, who
has a reputation for the large num
her of marrinees he has rjerformed.
has adopted the "follow up system"
of. advertising his business by man.
Ellglbles In Clay and adjoining coun
ties are receiving invitations to tisc
his "matrimonial parlors," and their
advantages are duly set out in care
fully written letters in which the
h'stiee exolalns his Qualifications to
perform marriages, and advises the
reclnients thnt he transacts business
rxn a "ctrtntlv rush basis" and Is
ready to answer calls day or night,
mnnno Mrcv NOW
JOBLESS IX CHICAGO
Snrinefield. Ill Declaring tWat
ctnto cnntrol has eliminated dishon
esty in private empdoyment agencies,
Secretary Davis Hops or tne winum
fa emnlovment commission made
hi thirtpenth annual report. The re
port says there are lOo.OOO men In
Chicago at all times who want work
but cannot find employment. In ad
dition to the unemployed who want
work, the report says, there are 90,-
000 who failed to register to seek
employment.
Calling attention to economic con
ditions, the report declares there "Is
wen nigh universal demand that wo
men be granted equal privileges with
men in the enactment and adminis
tration of law, basing their right to
equal participation in public affairs
upon economic as well as political
grounds."
During the last year 60 000 men
and women found employment in
184 different occupations without fi
nancial outlay on their part and at
a cost to the state of 71 cents per
capita. Since the first offices were
opened In Chicago in 1889, so the re
port says, there were 604.4 89 applica
tions for employment and 611,381 ap
plications for help, of which 520,191
secured employment.
lAlf.!lTKIl SI ES FATHER
eor i'ot or cold hi: rorxu
Westminster, Md. A suit between
Mrs. Kosalla Hare and her father,
John L. Calp, over a pot of gold
found on Mr. Calp's farm is now on
trial
While with his grandson, Clarence
Harmon, digging un n stump. Mr
Cuin ! ruck ft ir'.nss lar containing
$1,500 in gold colna.v Mrs. Hare, who
win nicklm blackberries near Dy, as
sisted In counting the go d and carry
ing it to Mr. Calp n house.
The gold was said to be the prop
erty of Joseph Hare, who owned the
farm prior to Its purchase by Mr.
Calp, Shortly before the death of Mr.
Hare, in 1891. he disposed of two
mortgages and withdrew from the
bank a sum approximating $4500 in
gold, for which his administrators
made a fruitless search in all the
hnnli. nenrhv ami In Pennsylvania.
The administrators of Mr. Hare sued
for the money. Tho case was ettlea
by tho payment of $1200.
In 1910 Mrs. Hare, who is in no
u-nv rplnted to the late Josenh Hare.
sued her father, claiming the entire
sum an hers, because she ana ner son
had been present and assisted in tne
finding. Mr. Calp's defense Is that
he alone found the money, that it
was on his farm and that his settle
ment with tho Hare estate secured to
him whatever title the heirs may
have had in the find.
ncurncM Cannot Be Cured
hr loenl api'lleatmn, nej cuu,v.
(lie dlKenm-U portion of the ear. lucre la
only ime war to cure deatneia. and that
by eo!,t I tutlonai remedies, nearness is
immrd tv an Innaaieu connmou 01 iu
mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube.
When this tube Is Inflamed jou dsts
rumbling sound or Imperfect bearing, snd
Wncn II IB euureiy trnwu. u. -
rcsult, and unless the Inflammation can
be mken nut and thle tube restored to Its
normal condition, bearing will be destroy
ed forever; nine canes out of ten are caus
ed b t'atarrli. which la nothing but an
Inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
anr cane of Deafness csused by catarrh
that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh
Cure. Send for circulars free.
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Hold br DruKKlats. 73c.
Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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