Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1919 — ELEVEN COMPANIES OF STATE MILITIA AT HAMMOND. [ARTICLE]

ELEVEN COMPANIES OF STATE MILITIA AT HAMMOND.

j Eleven companies of state troops ; Wednesday night were ordered rno- . bilized for transportation to HamImond, where efforts to end a strike of the , employes of the Standard Steel Car company are said to have failed. The call for state troops was received Wednesday by Governor Goodrich from Sheriff Lew Barnes of .Lake county and Mayor Dan Brown of Hammond, who stated that they believed the situation would be 'beyond their control by Thursday morning. \ The troops arrived in Hammond at noon today. The companies ordered out include two from Indianapolis and one each from Fort Wayne, Shelbyville, Elkhart, Goshen, Attica, Gary, Union City and Newcastle. Later in the night-the Bloomington company was ordered to go to Hammond, making a force of eleven companies composed of approximately eight hundred men. The troops were instructed to take ample supplies of ammunition but no ba|yonets. Five hundred cots were secured from Fort Benjamin Harrison. Arrangements will be made for feeding the men in Hammond. Three companies Were mobilized last week, but because of the belief that the strike would be settled amicably, plans for sending the troops to Hammond were discontinued early this week.