Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1911 — RIOTS IN GRAND RAPIDS [ARTICLE]

RIOTS IN GRAND RAPIDS

Union Furniture Workers Attack Men Leaving Work at Two Plants.

Grand Rapids, Mich., April 21.—Serious rioting occurred here when union furniture strikers attacked men who were leaving work in the Imperial and Gunn company’s plants. Two arrests were made.

During the riots the police reserves were called out and clubs were freely used. Stones and clubs were used by the strikers in their attack. Two non-union employes were badly battered and removed to the hospital. As a result of the rioting the police guard about the factories has been doubled.