Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1919 — CALL MADE TO GOVERNOR [ARTICLE]

CALL MADE TO GOVERNOR

FOR TROOPS OF STATE MILITIA TO QUELL HAMMOND RIOTS. Following riotous demonstrations today, which the city police were unable to control, Sheriff Lew Barnes of Lake county, wired Gov. Goodrich at noon to hold companies of militia in readiness to come to Hammond to take change of the threatening situation. News of the determination of the authorities to send for troops (had . salutary effect, and conferences are 'being held tonight to prevent a recurrence of rioting. (Standard Steel Car company strikers defied the federal courts here today after injunctions against picketing had been granted. In trying to force a passage through the mob Officer Thomas F. Flanagan was shot by a rioter. He caught the man, but the crowd rescued him. Capt. George Hanlon was 'hit over the head with a club and badly hurt. Officer Henry Hesterman was struck with a rubber hose filled with shot and had his nose broken. The big touring car in which Maj. George Vincett, the works - manager, was being driven to the plant was wrecked, and John Morse, his chauffeur, was hit "with a brickThreats were made (by the strikers that they would fix certain officers if they had to ldli a dozen men to do it. Hundreds of foreign born women proved the most dangerous of the rioters. Their entrance into the strike is due to the fact that East Hammond grocers, who had been providing food on credit to the strikers, shut off supplies. One woman with four children reported to the police that they had nothing to eat. Strikers refused to let anyone enter the gates, and have barricaded some of the streets so that all passageway is impeded. Even girl stenographers were not permitted to enter the plant this morning. Many of the men are armed with revolvers and clubs,, and the women have clubs, umbrellas and red pepper which they use with r tellingeffect. In making two arrelts Of- strikers this morning the police could only do so by drawing their revolvers.