Show 7 GANG WAYlAYS AND ASSAULTS Two Strikers Lured From Room and Brutally Beaten in Business District o 1 WORK OF STRIKERS AND STRIKE SYMPATHIZERS f ATTACK OCCURS AFTER TROU TROUBLE f BLE OLE IS SETTLED BY MEET MEETING t ING THEIR DEMANDS l Twenty men strikers and strike sym t i made mad an ut It on tw two oj strikebreakers ker after raring luring them un from frona to t their room In the Savoy avoy hotel lat last 10 night The victims victim were W brutally beat beaten en and severely Bevard injured The two victims were Earl Eart 8 S and Albert Peck who came caine here recent recently ly Iy from Kansas Kan aa City to take the place of striking Iron workers on the Ce Cod mercial club building It required three thre J hours work on the part of Pollee Police hI ui geon goon Steele to attend the injuries ef of the pair after the assault which took pine at the corner of West Temple and See ond South streets streeta The police POllee an a try tr trIng ing now to learn the identity of or the tM themen themen men who WAo assailed them They deafer that at least twenty took pert part la In the Ute I t attack i iThe i iThe The attack was made after the strike had bad been settled the demands 3 of the strikers having been granted 1 Assault Premeditated The assault was premeditated and ancl Carting Garling and Peck were called from their rooms by a most moat Ingenious subterfuge Shortly after atter 10 a telephone j jm message m aage purporting to come from J 1 JP T TP P Chadron of the Minneapolis Steel f company was wu sent sont to the men at the Savoy The speaker said mid Ill d iJ I Come down to my office o I in the Dooly block at once on Oft something of Importance Importance Importance tance The men believed that transportation f had been secured for their return retura to JI Kansas City and they lost no time In t starting out They had no sooner i reached the corner comer however than they t were assailed from all nil sides aida M was wa attacked first and when Peck went T Tto to hl his rescue he also found himself elf in inthe Inthe inthe the hands of the enemy The men were C beaten unmercifully and when ren ran rendered bred dered almost senseless their assailants Weapons Were Wore Used UNd Z ZIt It ie Is 1 evident that t Uw dIa t pair were slogged lagged with weapons as aa the tM faces end nd heads hea of both were cut bruised and mashed ma until UI scarcely recognisable O According to the victims the It was one on ef SC the tile most molt cowardly imag haag imaginable f fInable They T had Juad left their rooms roo in inthe Inthe Y the belief beller that they were soon to meet I their employer and without any idea Idu of the deliberate plot to waylay them fJ The men had had no warning whatever p f of the impending attack They were j helpless in the hands of their assail assailants assailants U it ants who left them in a semiconscious clous if state in the Ute and fled for safety The police department assigned a ie 2 squad of men iDea to search for the assail assil assailants I ants but no arrests arresta were made It was wu remarked that the plotters iF selected two of the moat moet inoffensive of ot 1 the and aDd paid no atten attention ft lion tion to the leader Je der of the strikebreakers i f fers ers Daniel Wilcox who line has a reputation lion tion of being able lible to take care cue of him himself im t 4 self L c Work to Be Resumed F Work will be resumed on Monday morning on the UM Commercial club build building ing in Cactus Place The nonunion 1 men will not be there A force of union oj men will be on the Job and they tINy win wilt r rt get t per day da The work will be tat lit h t charge cha e of or E H II Dundas Dandas a local firm ana firmand rm 1 and will be rushed to completion Thua Tk k has ended the structural iron workers strike T Following the trouble on the ground Friday afternoon not a nonunion man lit showed up fer for work yesterday morning A conference was wu called at 11 el between W H Lehman Lohman the general contractor L 1 J Record general man manager manager fi ager for the Minneapolis Steel com coin company company t pany pony J E Munsey business agent t for iota forthe If the Structural Iron Workers The T e eon con conference f ference did not last long Mr Kr Record said that his company could not afford t l to be delayed in the work longer said and that it could not meet the demands of i the strikers and come out whole on the d t contract Mr Lehman Lohman declared that If J J the strike continued he would be un unable unable able to turn over the building at the f required time and that as matters were bi progressing ln it looked look as if every other Ji j union in the town would be involved He offered to relieve Mr Record of the th thI I contract and the matter was wag so ao ar ax arranged t ranged He then gave the contract to Mr Dundee Dundas who has all the necessary necy material where it can he be neatly lIy moved Itt to the grounds and it was wu arranged 1181 that work should start Monday morn mona morning 11 7 lug ing d The Minneapolis firm y v after afternoon noon made arrangements lUTan ement for If J the tile strikebreakers back to toKa Kansas Ka City r 1 |