Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1919 — STATE NEWS ITEMS [ARTICLE]

STATE NEWS ITEMS

The Doings of Hoosierdom Reported by Wire. z STATE TROOPS QUIT HAMMOND Four Companies of Militia Withdrawn From Strike Duty at Standard Steel Car Company’s Plant—Some to Stay Until After Labor Day. Hammond, Aug. 29. —With the strikers of the Standard Steel Car company settled down to a quiet and peaceful hold-out for their demands for increased wages, shorter hours, recognition of the union and better working conditions, four of the eleven companies of state militia which were rushed here during the recent rioting, were ordered withdrawn. There are no indications of further trouble. No signs of a settlement of the strike, which involves 2,<#00 workers, are in evidence as yet. .AdJut. eu. B. 11. Smith, in charge of the men, ordered the units from Gary, Fort Wayne, Elkhart and Goshen to pack equipment and prepare for withdrawal. They left Hammond at ten o’clock in the morning. The other seven companies will be kept in the strike zone until after the Labor day celebration, guarding against a possible demonstration by the strikers on that day.