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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, September 09, 1913, Image 4

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nice young girls you would-not 66
that."
We stayed and watched for scabs
and saw one coming quite a distance
up the road, with his lunch inside his
coat. We ran to catchhira, but the
scab-ladies hollered and he ran off.
We went up the street to wait lor
him, but the auto followed us. We
took a lunch and threw it in the faces
of the two scabs, John Spreitzer and
Joseph Geshell. We jumped at them
and fought with them. One of them
said: "God damn you, I'll smash
your head in." One ran away and
the other went in the auto.
I caught the latter by the coat and
pulled so hard that I am sure I tored
it. Then they pulled one of the ladies
in the automobile and I pulled her
out. Then we went back of the au
tomobile and I lifted her up to pull
the shah's hnir hut the antn "went nff.
'" Three other ladies who had gone
to another corner to watch the scabs
were met by some deputies and they
took two or them to jail, but the
o'ther ran away and came to tell us
what had happened. We went and
asked a soldier, who was watching
about them and he said he would see.
He went in and sent another soldier
out who pulled his bayonet, put it in
front of him and came toward me,
touched me with it and thinking he
cut my coat, I looked, but seeing' he
had not I said: "Oh, it is not sharp."
.. We then went away and up the
street where we met two of the fat
test soldiers I ever saw and asked
them about the two ladies and told
them that if they did not get the
ladies out they could put us in too.
One said he had nothing to do with
it, and the other said he would see
.about it
Then they asked us why we were
Jfighting with the law. We told them
we were not fighting with the law,
but for our bread. He said something
about the governor and I told him
that if the governor was a Socialist
we would not have to fight this long.
We told them" that 'the working
men keep the capitalists up and if the
working men were not here they
would not be walkingaround. We
told them to look and see if the
miners were as fat as they were.
They did not like this, and said: "Do
you think you will win this fight?
We are not up here for you but to gt
put the strikers back to work." I $
said: "Do you think two or three
dozen scabs will break this strike, I
will be on the street till they win."
The officer said they would stay all
winter. We told them to stay more
if they wished, we would keep on. -
BAKERS KICK ON PROPOSED.
BENEVOLENT FUND IDEA
The Bakery Drivers' Union, Local
734, at their meeting held yesterday
afternoon formulated plans to pre
vent the Ward Bakery Benevolent
Fund idea from becoming a fact.
Several men from the three Ward
plants attended the meeting and voic
ed a protest against the scheme they
say their employers are trying to put
over.
Union leaders denounced the idea
as destructive to union labor. They
pointed to the fact that the Ward
bosses had excluded all union officials
from their meeting Saturday night.
It was- at this meeting the fund plan
was forced on the people.
President Hughes of the bakery
drivers, and other union leaders will
keep up the fight against it.
o o
STROUD TALKS ON TELEPHONES N
TO PROGRESSIVE CLUB
Harold D. Stroud, organizer of the
Telephone Users' Ass'n, addressed fj
the Progressive Club at the noonday
luncheon yesterday.
He told the members of all the
cnnrl that could he aCcnmnHfiheri ifSb
the telephone was handled properly j
here in nhfcasrn. He Tvrnveri tn them ?"
his contention that it would be pos-
sible to telephone for one cent a call.
The audience was .very jnuch, in
to -trvi in his speech and applauded
With enthusiasm. . - V
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