Show STRIKERS STRIKERS' RIOTS RIOTS' COMPEL GOMPEL COTTON MillS HILLS TO CLOSE Troops Called Out Thirty Thousand Operatives Are Now Idle LA LAWRENCE W ENCE Mass Jan 1 15 Disorders ders Jers before the gates tes of t the e great textile textile tex tex- tile mills HIs HIs' of lof L Lawrence became so frequent fre fre- q quent and quent-and n nand and men menacing ch today that two companies of militia were called caned from t the e armory to assist the p. p police i in Controlling controlling Con con- oI trolling the turbulent foreign forel i s iJ T e tJ m s W was wag B so o great th that F seven of the J p were were shut shut down Several shots into theair the air fired by the police and some arrests arrest's were made mad A dozen of or o moro morn o operatives w were re in in- jUl d but none none seriously I It is estimated that nearly han hands ls are idle half balf of whom who 1 are aro ro actually ac ac- ac- ac on strike and arid tho the others forced d dout out omit by bv the s stopping op n of the n machinery The Time trouble which wb be began an last ast Friday rida when a mob stormed several of the mills miUs and i injured d es and and property prop erty are duo toa to a general reduction in wa wages S yielded the manufacturers tur rs say by the tho cut in the tho working time from fr m six fifty to four fifty hours bours a week by bya a 3 new state law establish establishments ments meats where women and children are employed Tho The mills closed ar are the Wood Ayer and Washington controlled by bl the time American Woolen company and ein- ein the tho cotton mills of tho Arlington ou Everett Ecret Pemberton corpor corporation tion and the mills Oms of the tho Lawrence Law Law- rence renee Duck uck company Pany employing employing- ill mor more s 's Other woolen and coU cotton n mills the employees of which a aggregate r tc are lu running on a sl small mahl scale May Force A All to Close It was wall believed that practically every mill i in Lawrence would be forced force to d close se The Thi trouble today be began an with an attempt attempt at tempt b bv by the strikers rs to rush the tho doors at tho ho Wood worsted d mills and the Prospect woolen mills Time The attempts at both places were repulsed by In the police who u used rl d tb their ir clubs freely and made several arrests The strikers raided a train of coal coa cars tars and bombarded the time windows oi of one one mill mm with chunks of coal injuring ng six operatives thes Tho The police then charged ed the J mob b and fired into the thc air but the shots hot did not scare the I Ci cis cis and orders given hen to turn on the water in the mill hose hoe At this thi time two companies of or militia u under tinder Captain Randlett were ordered out I Captain orders to the thc crowd to disperse dispense were not obeyed immediately im immediately mediately l and he he be tb the men to charge e with bayonets set Iu lii In the charge many of the tho bayonets were ere pressed ed against t the tho o crowd but the militiamen were careful not to inflict woun wounds e. e Two Tw rioters were cre hurt burt but I not seriously Artillery Quells Crowd Battery C. C li light ht artillery was x as ordered or or- dered ered out half an hour J I later ter The Thin gung Jun of the battery batten were t unlimbered whereupon von the crowd di disperse J. J I A Additional dit police wore requested from front I Lowell owell Salem and nod else else- who where re I who vho th time the police say 83 was one of the most nt n the tho crowd was arrested charged with ns m sault gault He lie carried a 1 revolver ro anu and m two thirty cartridges a n long dirk irk knife and a J. stiletto About thirty Oth other f arrests arrests ar nr ar- ar rests rest were made |