Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1899 — LABOR WAR AT LAPEL, IND. [ARTICLE]

LABOR WAR AT LAPEL, IND.

Union and Non-union Men Walk the streets Heavily Armed. Union and non-union men walk thestreets of Lapel, Ind., armed to the teeth and carrying guns and revolvers without any pretense of concealing them. Several days ago the workmen in the two flintglass factories at that point organized and the management in turn locked them out. Since then the entire community has engendered a bitter feeling against unionism. The union men held a conferencesad were attacked by a mob of citizens. The hotel was riddled with bullets. Notices have been received by several union sympathizers that their places would be blown to pieces if they did not join in’thehostile movement against the unionist*. Sheriff Moore and deputies have’practically established military government. Carl Tasi, 45, and son, George, 19, Norfolk, Va., convicted of circulating spurlou* half dollars. Pat Sweeney, Cincinnati, attempted to eject an unknown man from a theater. Sweeney was shot and seriously wounded. The paper beard mills of McEwan brothers, at Whippany, N. J., were damaged $65,000 by an incendiary fire. John Zigouras, a Greek, was found guilty of killing a'fellow countryman in New York. He will be electrocuted. J. F. Householder and Theodore King, both of Cambridge, Ohio, wfere killed by • train, Cumberland, Md.