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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, February 26, 1912, Image 2

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least 50 shots-were fired by the
police. -
It was here that Carmelo Milaz
a striker, was shot in the back,
as he fled from the scene. And it
was here' that the police arrest
ed three men, in an alleyway
from which Milaz could not pos
sibly have been shot, and charged
them with his attempted murder.
The police say that one of the
three men, Salvatore, Bruno, had
a revolver in his hand when they
arrested them. The three men
could not be interviewed. They
were beaten into insensibility by
the police.
The sound of the revolvers of
the police acted as a bugle call to
the strikers.
They began to flock to Com
mon street. In a little while 10,
000 people, the majority of them
women, had gathered there.
The strikers made no attenipt
at violence. Some one of them
began to sing the Star Spangle
banner. The whole crowd took
up the song, and swung into pro
cession. The parade swung down a side
street from Common toward Es
sex, the main business thorough
fare. None was disorderly. They re
sembled, more than anything, a
great crowd turned out to cele
brate some gala day.
Dow.n Essex street, keeping to
one side so as not to block the
traffic, and still singing patriotic
airs, the strikers swung The po
lice followed them in their auto
mobiles, but seemed af- ' to
obey the command of a .ilia
officer to "go in and break 'em
up."
At Jackson street, 75 members
of the Metropolitan state police,
gray-uniformed and swinging
heavy wagon spokes, were standing-
As the strikers procession
neared Jackson, the officers of the
state police drew their men up
into a flying wedge, and ordered
them to charge.
The impact of the 75 armed po
lice against the head of the pro
cession was awful, and then the
work of club"bing began.
Men, and women, and little
children felt the weight of the
wagon spokes. They could be
seen to fall down on the street,
and to rise again, bljeeding from
their wounds.
And still the procession surged
on, singing, -always singing
patriotic airs.
One hundred more police were
rushed to reinforce the Metro
politan squad.
Both squads drew off a block,
and once more formed into flying
wedges, and charged on the strik
ers. The orders of their officers
could be tfeard high above the
singing of the strikers:
"Get the men anywhere
strike the women about the hips
and arms."
Strikers were falling on the
street unconscious. Their wom
en were being frightfully beaten
about the breasts and hips.
And still they oered no re
sistance. Patrol wagons were backed up.
Whenever a man or woman fell

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