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NOMK, AT-AWKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1010.
NO. 18-13.
YOUNGSTOWN, .Ohio, Jan. 8.—
The worst open lighting which has
occurred in the history of the Am
erican labor movement since Jhe
fighting in Colorado, took place here
Friday following the strike which
s began two weeks ago at the Rcpub
licas Steel Co's mill at East Youngs
town and at the Youngstown Sheet
and Tube Co’s plant at Youngstown.
The men demanded 25c an hour
and have been receiving 19 1-2
/ cents.
The company offered to compro
mise the demands with a conces
son of 22 cents which the strikers
rejected.
The fighting began when scabs
were imported Friday morning. The
strikers gathered about East Young
town bridge and jeered, it is held
at the work of the company retain
ers, armed with guns who shot,
they allege, in the air to scare the
•> strikers. The strikers contend that
they fired at them and some pt the
strikers, contend the guards, in turn
returned the gunshot flre. The
guards then fired volley after volley
into the strikers, and a number of
persons fell including two women
strikers who worked in the plant.
The strikers ran some distance ami
then reformed and-attacked the
company’s building housing the em
ployment bureau and ten small
warehouses, battering down the gun
men's opposition.
The maddened crowd then burned
eigtheen saloons which, it was held
had been furnishing or trying to
furnish scabs, and the two remain
ing saloons in the vicinity were to
tally destroyed. Many shops were
ransacked by the mob which in
creased in size, some being reported
to be by this time quite drunk.
The fire which started from the
burning saloons destroyed eigtheen
blocks and did over a million dol
lars damages in personal property
as well. Along the East Youngs
town side the rioters cut the East
Younstown hose making the Youngs
town fire department helpless until
two o’clock Saturday morning, the
trouble having started on Friday.
On Saturday morning the citizens
of Youngstown organized and at
tacked the strikers who had by this
time greatly diminished in numbers
and departed in various directions,
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and the streets were cleared. The
Youngstown lire department then
repaired the damaged hose and at
tacked the burning buildings.
In the first volley one striker was
killed, but forty were so seriously
injured that some of them will die
*wo women badly wounded, will it
is said have a hard struggle to live.
Operations have been entirely sus
pended; three hundred clerks were
marooned in the plant until militia
arrived, but they kept the fires m
the furnaces going.
Mayor Cunningham and Sherifl
Umstead were helpless. General
Speaker called out the militia,
twenty two hundred doing duty re
sponding. Two companies have been
sent to Struthers across the Wa
honing river from Youngstown
where rioting is feared.
Citizens in dread of an attack
ihave placed dynamite under the
bridge and thr aten to blow up the
bridge should the strikers attempt
to cross. >
The Amercan Federaton of Labor
officials are leading the strikers.
It is belieVed that the strikers
will accept the company's
compromise offer. While the
violence of the the strikers is
the subject of bittef denunciation
in all the papers, the demand is
made that private gunmen be abol
ished. The gunmen, experienced in
this kind of work, heve been im
ported from firms supplying them
and have been in many other troub
les of the kind.
YOf%GSTOWN, Jan. 9.—A sum
mary of the injury following the
rioting shows that two are dead and
twenty injured in the hospital who
may die. * ,
Hundreds received minor • injur
ies. Sixty have been arrested,
charged mostly with carrying con
coaled weapons. Militia are con
trolling the situation. Foreign in
fluence is hinted at as causing the
strike, the strikers blame the
guards for firing into a peaceful
and orderly assemblage. There
where only two hundred at the
bridge when the guards deliberat
ely fired at them.
GET THE NEWS RIGHT. BEAD
THE WORKER.
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WASHINGTON, D. C... Jan. 8.—
Secretary Garrison had a heart to
heart talk with,.the House Commit
tee on Military affairs, and It is jto.
be made use of for preparationist
propaganda.
Garrison said that universal mill-,
tary service ,was a , sound prty^plf,
of democratic government j he ..de
clared that it had been established
as such with the revolution. He
further declared that the only ade
quate basis of military policy is
that resting upon compulsory service
which would affect all alike.
He told the committee that he
did not thinh that such a militarist
system affected the people at all.
Neither Germany ndr France, in his
estimation, would be warring today,
he stated, unless they were favor
able to the war. The civil laws
would always control the military
laws and the civil power the mili
tary power and there was no danger
to be apprehended lp America frprn
the establishment of a military
caste as in some other countries.
Chairman Walsh Wonts two hund
red good copies of the report to be
published. It falls in with his own
ideas exactly and he is prepared ,to
back Garrison id his effort to force
conscription throughout the United
States.
Garrison was not cross examined
A his statement was lengthy, and
not at any time interrupted. *
SCARCITY OF STEAMERS
/WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 7-8—
One of the stormiest debates that
has ever been recorded "was that to
day when the senate discussed tli«
scarcity of ships. Some blamed the
British black list, others the Ger
man submarines.
It is announced that the democrats
will retain the tarffi on sugar.
. Military Interference in the Phil-1
llpines is greatly deprecated.
The HouKeHad tfie Pleasure of
hearing . Gilson . Gardiner denounce
Germany in a vest undiplomatic
manner. He attacked the notion
of placing an embargo on arms and
ammunition, declared that Ger
many had built up a war machine
With which to dominate the world
and the supporters of the embargo
were willing to turn nations which
had not a militarist code'of ethics
to the tnercles of sudh wanton pre
paration for destruction.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 7-8—1
While Lansing says nothing, it Is I
reported that a crisis following the'
sinking of the PersTahas- developed ■
in, met submarine .negotiations. It
is stated that the cabinet has made
up its mind to demand safety of
travel.
WASHINGTON, D. C. Jan. 7-8.—
Bitter attacks were made on the
pork barrel by Frear today. The
opposition to preparedness is
growing although there is a rallying
of proparationlst sentiment this af
ternoon. There is danger in the
opposition to the Wilson plans as
the ( leaders may Realize that the
only way to forestall such opposi
tion is by a war.: • *» >
RUSSIANS SHELL BULGARS’
BLACK SEA STRONGHOLD
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LONDON, Jan. 8.—Russian battle
ships shelled all day yesterday the
fiulgar Black Sea port o’f Varna.
BERLIN, Jan. 8.—The statement
is given out that the Russians have
been repulsed in their Bukowlna
and Galician, offensive.
BARIS, Jan. 8.—German now j
fifteen inch guns killed six behind j
the Allies' west lines, and wounded !
many residents on the outskirts oi
Paris.
ROME, Jan. 8.—Six classes of re
servists have now been called t>
lio colors.
LONDON, Jan. 8.—Clara Zethm
uid other Gorman socialists who
lavo been advocating poi.ee have
)scn arrested in Berlin.
LONDON, Jan. 9.—The Union
LiCbor Congress has practically ac
cepted conscription by a slight ma
jority. The measure’s endorsement
las been fought bitterly.
LONDON, Jan. 8.—Bombard
ments only aro reported from the
western front today;
MINISTER OF WAR CHINA
FREY TO AN ASSASSIN
PEKING, Jan. 9.—Yuan Kee Su!
who resigned his position us Mi
nister of war when Yuan accepted
the crown was assassinated by men
who are supposed to have been in
the pay of the usurping emperor.
This man was originally appoint
ed by Sun Yat Sen and was said to
be of undeviating republican prin
ciples while his influence witli the
army was enormous.
It is believed that he was put out
of the way in order that he might
not affect the army’s loyalty against
Yuan.
Yuan is reported to very ill this
afternoon.
CITY BATH HOUSE.
Moonlight Spring Water. (Bull
ing Hot).
M. O. SOiiBERG,
BOTH SIDES MAKING
CLAIM TO CZERNOWITZ
LONDON, Jan. 9.—A Petrograd
dispatch claims possession of Czer
nowitz add Berlin dispatch denies
it.
BERLIN, Jan. 9.—It is denied
that the Russians have captured
Czernowltz but the lighting is ex
ceedingly bitter with slight German
reverses. ,
LONDON, Jan. 9.—The .Teutons
are fighting desperately to prevent
the breaking of their Galician lines
thus endangering the lines north
ward.
The Teutons are somewhat panic
stricken apparently by the Russian
onslaught for reports Indicate that
orders witholding the advance on
Salonika were received, and troops
rushed to Galicia Instead.
LONDON. Jan. 8.—A Zeppelin
was wrecked near Namur, having
'got caught in some wires.
LONDON, Jan. 9.—The resign
ing laborites from the cabinet state
that they favor conscription. It Is
believed that the Commons will
rush the bill despite the labor op
position.
PARIS, Jan. 9.—An Italian Bteam
Br encountered a mine In the 'Adri
atic and two hundred Montenegrin*
returning from America were
drowned.
PETROGRAD, Jan. 9.—The Teu
tons are offering heavy resistance to
the Russian advance and today While
defending an outpost on the Buho
wlna border two regiments were
destroyed before the survivors sur
rendered. ,
YUAN SHI KAI IS REPORTED
TO HAVE QUIT HIS POSITION
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 8.—It Is
stated here that with revolt every
where around him and disaffection
manifesting Itself even in his own
palace, Yuan Shi Kai has .condi
tionally abdicated .from ,hls mo
narchshlp -arid will retire to private
life. The 'revolutionary movement
will persist until the' possibility ot
of any such a despot every arising
again in- China Is out of the ques
tion.
TOKIO, Jan. 8.—It is stated here
that Yuan Shi Kui did not quit as
reported, but that he has been
stricken with paralysis following
apoplexy; others declare that Yuan
resigned his position as emperor cn
condition of that certain terms will
be observed.
CANTON, Jan. 8.—This place Is
in' everything but .in name, in the
hands of the rebels against Yuan
Shi Kal. The place is peaceful, but
the announcement that Yuan hife
been stricken down In his jalace
has caused a very noisy demonstra
tion. Nanking is said to be in the
hands of the revolutionists and the
rebellion is wide spread.
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