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?S! P" THE MY BOOK ',-' 5398 500 SO. PFJORIA) ST TEL. MONROE 353 Vol. 1, No. 129 ' r Chicago, Saturday, Feb. 24, 1912 ' One Cent CHILDREN .TORN FROM MOTHERS' ARMS-MOTHERS CLUBBED INTO SUBMISSION AT LAWRENCE Children To Be Kept 5n City by Force and Starved Until Textile ' , " 'Strikers Bend the Knee to Mill Owners. . and 'hums TTto-hf n( t-U i-f1i ers and five of the fathers were, arrested and placed in cells sep arate from their frightened, cowed children. -, l The cases have not come to' trial yet, and meantime wild an archy is abroad in this city an anarchy of martial law. Even the "right of free speech has been denied. Orders were issued from police headquarters early this forenoon that anyone who criticized the action of the police and soldiers was to be ar rested and thrown in jail imme diately. The trouble which reached its culmination today in this act which even Russian chronicles cannot surpass in cruelty and high-handed usurpation of the rights of a free people, began two weeks ago. The penniless textile strikers were sending their children out of the city to the homes of brother unionists in New York, Philadelphia and Vermont, where they would be cared for and receive decent food. Two weeks ago, Colonel Sweet zer, in charge of the militia, is- Washington; Feb. 24. A congressional investigation of, "'the latest Lawrence develop- - ment was made certain this afternoon. Chairman Wilson- of the house committee On la- bor, 'wired President Golden' of the textile workers' union for an official statement of to- day's atcion of the police. On receipt of it he will order his committee to investigate fully what he terms an "unwar- ranted assumption of author- ity" by the Lawrence police. Lawrence, Mass., Feb. 24. Fifty children were torn from their mothers' arms by armed militia and police to prevent the children being sent out of this strike-ridden, starving city, to day. When mothers tried to prevent their children being torn from them, soldiers and policemen, acting-under direct orders of their chiefs, clubber the defenseless women into submission. Ten of the little children were arrested, and thrown into jail with drunkards and vagabonds &f''