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Show MURRAY IS AT Feeling Against Ik . Foreigners. Hard Work to Keep the People From Acting Rashly. Only tho Assuranco of Consideration From the Smelters Has Averted Violence, "While no clash occurred yesterday between citizens of Murray and the Greek and Austrian laborers who, on account of the heinous crimes recently perpetrated have been marked for banishment, there la without question a state of feeling existing in the Binelter suburb which would requlro but little to 'develop Into serious trouble. , The subject was discussed by the citizens yesterday with as intense feeling as at any time since the brutal assault was made upon Mrs. Schwan, the crime which set the people fairly wild with Indignation and drove them to the almost al-most unanimous decision that the undesirable unde-sirable element must leave the city If not peaceably, then by force. People Hard to Restrain. , "I must admit that it is requiring hard work to keep our people from doing do-ing something rash," said Mayor Strat-ton Strat-ton In discussing the situation last night. "It is only the assurance we are giving them that measures will be sorely taken to accomplish the desired end peaceably thnt Is keeping them down. And we are perfectly sincere in giving the assurance that something will be accomplished. We believe that measures can and will be brought to bear upon the smelter managements that will convince them that It is to their Interests as well as ours, to employ em-ploy a less dangerous class of labor. The community will simply put up with It no longer. Ordinarily It would not be fair to inflict the penally for the crimes of a few upon their neighbors of the same nationality, but we have seen here so much of shielding criminals crimi-nals by this class of people It is so nearly Impossible to apprehend one guilty of the most dastardly of crimes, simply because of the protection afforded him by his fellows that we can no longer make a distinction between be-tween the good and the bad. They all must co." Scandinavians Suggested. In reply to a question in regard to the kind of labor with which It was proposed to supplant the Greeks and Austrians, the Mayor-said that the plan was to secure Scandinavian emigrants, as they land In New York. These, he declares, will be more dependable than the labor which Is now employed, and, if necessary, the smelters could well afford to pay them better wages, as they become accustomed to the work. This phase of the question will be taken up with the smelter managers at the mass meeting to be held in Murray Monday night, and It is believed that some satisfactory arrangement will result. re-sult. "The citizens of Murray would very promptly take action which would settle the matter for all time were we not assured that the smelters can be prevailed upon to co-operate with us' In getting rid of the undesirable element,' ele-ment,' said a prominent business man. "The information we have received that the Greek3 and A-ustrians are arming themselves generally Is sufllcient to bring the crisis. "We have become heartily tired of being compelled to watch our homes every moment in fear of an attack upon our women by some brute, who. If he escapes in the first Instance In-stance Is sure of protection from the law by his fellow countrymen." Greeks Less Troublesome. Of the 9D0 smelter employees in Murray Mur-ray about 700 are Greeks and Austrians and fifty are Italians. Very few of the Greeks have families, but they are said to be less troublesome than the Austrians. |