People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1895 — Union Men Fight with Pick Handles. [ARTICLE]

Union Men Fight with Pick Handles.

Marquette, Mich., April 30.—The opening of navigation here yesterday was the signal for a fierce and decisive contest between the local ore trimmers and outsiders brought down from lshpeming and Negaunee by the three men who say they have contracts with the Vessel Owners’ association to trim boats here. The Pontiac arrived light for ore at 6:50 p. m. and twenty minutes later the riot was on. Sheriff Broad had sworn in ten of the newcomers and armed them with baseball bats. . The union men loosened the handles of their picks. The crash of clubs upon skulls filled the air for a few minutes, and the imported men took to their heels and run. The Marquette Rifles have been permitted to leave the armory, a detail of eight men being kept on guard there, however.