Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1916 — Wage Demands By Laborers Bring Strike Riot. [ARTICLE]

Wage Demands By Laborers Bring Strike Riot.

Demands for 25c an hour wages for common laborers is the basis of strike now on in East Youngstown at the plants of the Republic Iron and f Steel Go. At the two plants 3,600 men are on the strike, and both mills employing about 12,000 men are practically idle. Nineteen persons were shot, four probably fatally, eight business buildings of the Youngstown sheet and tube company were burned and a mob of 6,000 people battled with the private police at the plant early Friday evening as the day shift at the mills in East Youngstown left work. Looting followed the attacks on the business houses and all the liquor in one saloon was passed among the mob. Sheriff Umpstead requested that state troops be sent to the scene. His message to Governor Willis said “Lives are being taken, and jb& are helpless trying to cope with the situation.” - ■ - - The fire companies which attempted to check the flames were beaten off by the mob. East Youngstown, which has a population og 10,006, is the scene of wild disorder.