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...wage increase and negotiation of other questions. Six weeks ago, with nothing more settled, the union struck. To outsiders it looked as if the union had picked Auto-Lite to open its drive to capture the whole motor industry. The company continued operating, hired other workmen. Wrathful strikers picketed in vain. Charging many cases of violence, the company got an injunction restraining the union from posting more than 25 pickets at its gates. Even so. workers had to fight their way in and out of the shop, morning and evening. Strikers were arrested for breaking the picketing injunction. Tension grew...
...special officers to protect the market district, start trucks moving. "Get the 'specials.' Let the blue coats go." yelled 5.000 rioters. From clubs and lengths of pipe the "specials" got a fierce drubbing. Every ambulance in Minneapolis was summoned to carry off the injured. A lusty striker with a baseball bat stepped up behind C. Arthur Lyman, graduate of Hotchkiss and Williams, onetime Guardsman and Wartime artillery officer, now vice president of American Ball Co. The striker swung his bat and Special Officer Lyman went down on the cobblestones with a crushed skull, never to rise again...
...swung at him with his fist. For all his 70 years Messenger Parker dodged nimbly, doubled up his fists, prepared for battle. A policeman arrested the striker...
There have been several strikers arrested in the last few days and friends of the strikers charge that the police have been arresting strikers instead of seabs who were the guilty parties. A. S. Coolidge '15, lecturer on Chemistry, has provided bail for several of these strikers. There have been conflicting stories about the arrests. It was learned from the Liberal Club that the strike breakers have been stabbing the strikers and that in one case a striker was almost mortally wounded...
...women & children. Early one morning last week at Northampton. Pa. a State car rolled up to the D & D Shirt Co. factory and out stepped Pennsylvania's First Lady, clad in a red corduroy coat, red hat. Pinned on Airs. Pinchot's coat was a streamer labeled: STRIKER. At the head of a cheerful crowd of factory girls she marched round & round the D & D plant, out of which the girls had walked several weeks ago because of low wages (3? an hour for cutters) and "immoral conditions." At a meeting from which men were barred, Mrs. Pinchot...