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Show DEPUTY SHERIFFS GUARDWORKS Portland Cement Co. Cautions. Manager Does Not Expect Troubla, but Wants to Be Secure. Some Hard Words Pacsed, and He Called Upon tho Sheriff for Asssitance. THREE deputy sheriffs went out to tho plant of the Portland Cement company last night to guard the property against possible depredations depreda-tions on the part of supposed sympathizers sympa-thizers with the striking cement workers, work-ers, whose zeal for the union, It was feared, might get tho better of their dlscrotldn. The works have been picketed pick-eted by tho union men ever since the strike was declared, last Wednesday, and while no violence has been offered to any of the men who have applied for work, there have been some hard words, and the management thought It best to be on the safe side In the matter mat-ter of having the property protected. "We do not anticipate any trouble whatever," said Manager L. M. Bailey of the Portland company last night. "But our own boys nre nil employed daj-s and we thought It best to have some one In authority about the place at night. While the strikers have displayed dis-played no disposition to do anything rash, some Irresponsible person might take advantage of the situation to cut a wlro, break a window or do spine similar depredation. The pickets have Interfered With non-union men very little, but there have been some quite vigorous threats against the Greeks who have been employed to load cement. ce-ment. Six new men were hired yesterday, yes-terday, making altogether about half the original force of forty, and we expect ex-pect to be running the works to their full capacity by the middle of the week." |