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Show MEN ID WOU ARE mm WITH CLUBS Workinmen at ion City, 111., Resent Prayers Put Up by the Dowieites. ZION l'l"v. HI., April 29. Rtotlnf started fiere lat- lliis afternoon when employe em-ploye of Independent manufacturing conoerna attacked Broup of 200 zion men ami women at a prayer mcctinsr. Both men and women were beaten with cluba :hh) blackjacked and v number were aerloualy Injured. The flajbt came a climax n( n week of trouble between umployeea of the Independent In-dependent concerns, which recently have begun operations here, and the chureh people, formerly followers of John Alexander Alex-ander Dowle. As a protest against ibe use of tobacco i employees .if the manufacturing company, com-pany, the Vollva people have beep ha'v-iiiK ha'v-iiiK prayer meetings In ine plants twiee :i da;. Bidet i;oa Itad Just called the ae ond meeting when a .-'-ore of men ran Oht 'r Ihf plant Tore dOSTO or leaped Over the bain Which bad beefl erected around the prayer meeting and drove the Zionists fr-in iliat part of town. Immediately after the tight at the prayer meeting. Wilbur Olen Vollva ordered or-dered the la ice alarm bell mnjr and more than 1000 men gathered at the auditorium to discuss plana for resisting further at-tacka at-tacka by employees of Independent com-pontes, com-pontes, who filled thi Btreeti tonight and threatened lo " lut. "il the town." A second clash between the church people nd the Independents was predicted. Vollva Vo-llva urcd his followers t. protect their women Hinl children from the "tObaCCO- smoking curse " Older F. M Royal ami Joseph Hinbop were the most BerlOUSljt injur"! at the prayer meeting tight Both were beaten until the were nearly nnconsclmi and it is thought Bishop's skull was fractured. More than a (bird of the 160 Zlon women wom-en in attendance ai th meeting were beaten, bruised or trampled during the rush bj the employees of the Independents. Independ-ents. Although K'dev Royal and number num-ber of bis men resisted! they were outnumbered out-numbered '"i finally swept from the plat, form. At the close of meeting tonight Overseer Vollva ordered hi followers to reassemble t 8 ::n o'elot k lp the morning morn-ing t. resume srvices in the front yard nf b factory, whose employees offend by using tobacco. "T would rather loose ,-4 huudred men than be defeated In thla fight.' sold Vo-ik-h. "it la battle to the finish amj i am determined to win Two Xi.mit-s. Isaac Mill And John Thorpe, were arrested after tonight's riot-Lng riot-Lng and later afero released on bond. Tl e declaration of Vollva that be would resume his met mi; caused l new body of special deputies to be sworn In. |