Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1920 — CHILDREN OFFERED AS BAIL [ARTICLE]

CHILDREN OFFERED AS BAIL

Pueblo Strikers Seek Release of Wives After Mayor Is Beaten. Pueblo, Colo. —Children as surety for ball is something new in Colorado. Five women were among those arrested here following a riot in which Mayor Mike Studzlnskl was knocked down and severely beaten by striking steel workers. Husbands of the women made frantic attempts to obtain their release on bonds, saying they needed the women to “keep the home fires burning,” and one man, who could not raise the S2OO bond required, took his three little children to the police station and offered to leave them in custody as surety for his wife’s appearance in court. The offer was refused. Later the women were released on a cash bond of SI,OOO given by the strike committee. The rioting followed the attempt to reopen the Minnequa steel mills, closed since July. Austrian women stoned tiie workers who tried to enter, the plant.