Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1909 — STRIKERS FIRE ON IMPORTED MEN [ARTICLE]

STRIKERS FIRE ON IMPORTED MEN

Driven Back by Bollets of the State Constabulary. CHARGES AGAINST SHERIFF Alleged That Officer# Beat Back Men Who Wanted to Quit Work With Clubs—This Is Denied and Btatement Is Made to Effect That Law Force Is Simply Trying to Protect Private Property. Pittsburg, Aug. 20. —Three thousand strikers lined the banks of the Ohio river and the men in the crowd fired more than one hundred shots from pis tola when the Pressed Steel Car company at McKee’s Rocks landed fifty more imported men. A detail of ten troopers of the state constabulary held the strikers in check. Sensational charges are being made by strike leaders, concerning alleged actions of the deputy sheriffs and the state constabulary. The strikers say that they have witnessed the efforts of the imported workingmen to pass the guards stationed at the gates of the car plant and have seen the imported men, w T ho wanted to quit work beaten back by clubs. The sheriff stated that his deputies were at the plant for no other purpose than to protect property, the rules and regulations of the constabulary preventing his men from doing anything but protect property and prevent disorder.