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Show TOtfMM MfHilllf MfOTIK II! fPPfK SEVEN DEAD, FIFTY HURT, BOSIilBU Six Thousand Soldiers Now on Guard Duty in the Trouble-Vexec! Massachusetts City. Governor Assumes Con trol of Situation; Electrical Elec-trical Workers Threaten Threat-en Sympathy Strike. HELENA, Mont., Sept. 11. Iu his address here tonight, referring to the Boston trouble, President "Wilson said. "I want to say this, that a strike of the policemen of p. great city, leaving that city at tlie mercy of an army of thugs, is a crime I against civilization. In my judgment judg-ment the obligation of a policern.in is as sacred as the obligation of a soldier. He is a public servant, i net a private employee, and the whole honor and safety of the community com-munity is in Ills haryis. He has no right to prefer any private advantage advan-tage to the public safety. I hope that that lesson will be burned in so that it will never again be forgotten for-gotten because the pride of America Amer-ica is that it can exercise self-control." BOSTON. S,-pt. 11. The death roll in lawlessness following the calling 0f Boston's police strike Tuesday reached five tonight when Henry Groat. -0 years old. was shot and killed during a raid by state guardsmen on a dioe :;:uo iu the Jamaica Plain section. Two o titer men were wounded in The raid. LABOR UNION MEETS TO DISCUSS STRIKE. The central labor union, which tne- tonight to consider ths ndvisabili'.y of calling a funeral strike iu sympn thy with the Boston police, adjourned without takin;: definite action. A se cret poll .was taken and those ai'fiiiate j unions which have not yet voted separately sep-arately on the question of i:uin on: i in sympathy were ordered to vote soon as possible and report to ike central cen-tral labor union committee which y'n-i y'n-i empowered to take any action deemed ; necessary. The sixth and sewnih deaths prow inp out of strike disturbances oecurreu late tonight when Kichard V. Recalls, a striking policeman who wa shot this morning, succumbed to his wounds, end Robert La tlie, who was shot last nij:ht, died :it a hospital. About fifty persons n:v being trenicu in hospitals for ir.jur.vs received iu riots. Mayor Peters, in a sla:.e:nent tonight, pledged Ins ''loyal, earnest and complete com-plete support ' to iLe govenior. GAMBLING raid RESULTS IN DEATH. The shooting tonight, occurred ai'ic:1 some of the players and spectators had refused to leave the gambling phuv . J They were ordered m move on. ;:nd ; when they l'tuled to budge The gu;i.rd f men fired. With Governor Coolide as cam mamkr-in-ehici of the state's forces, in complete charge of the situation, the i city tonight took on a warlike aPerir-Sance. aPerir-Sance. Six machine iiuns were mounted at police headquarters and troopers, i wearing ''tin hat?,'1 by order of Ad jutant General fStven-i, patroh-d iV-.streets. iV-.streets. The order followed in jury vi several soldiers by flying missiles. Meanwhile 'shopkeepers, supplement ni police and military protection by nvans of their own, barricaded tiie win dows of their places of business as if to withstand a sict:e. Boards were nailed iu front-of tl lass to protee; it from the assault of bands nt' hoed lums who have been reaming streets. A fijJit to the finish beiwen th constituted authorities of stale and ciiy (Coutiuucd on Page 2, CoTuuui 3.) Wi DEI D, FIFTY HURT, BDSTOPi TOLL (Continued From Page One.) and the1 labor unions was indicated by developments in the policemen's strike today. While Governor Coolidge was exercising his authority as commander-in-chief of the state forces to take command of the measures for protection protec-tion of the city, Mayor Peters was making it plain to labor loaders who visited city hall that the policemen 's union would not be recognized. The labor men were firm in their insistence that the police be permiited to affiliate with the American Federation Federa-tion of Labor and offered to guarantee guaran-tee that the police never would be called out on a sympathetic strike. The possibility of a strike of carmen, telephone and electrical workers and industrial employees was serious. What gave the authorities the greatest cause for anxiety, however, was the danger that the firemen might join in the movement. It was recognized that this would place the city in the gravest peril. A ray of hope was seen in tho declaration of the president of the Firemen's union that he would not take the responsibility responsibili-ty for a strike unlcss authorized by the American Federation 'of Labor. Governor Coolidge, in taking personal charge of the policing of the city, pointed out that his obligation under the constitution compelled him to tako this step, in view of the fact that the entire state guard had been called out for police duty. He directed Police Commissioner Curtis to obey only such orders as came from him and asked for the cooperation of the public. Leo Emery, a member of the state guard on duty in the Roxbury section, was beaten by a crowd of toughs and removed re-moved unconscious to a hospital. The hospital treated many cases of broken heads, while a far greater number num-ber nursed their wounds in private. Throughout the city, the state puard did patrol duty over regular beats at street junctions, directed traffic and kept the crowds moving. They carried guna with fixed bayonets. In addition, the volunteer vol-unteer police, made up of private citizens from all walks of life, continued to render ren-der exce'lent service. 6000 TROOPS HAVE BEEN MOBILIZED. The six regiments of state guards, totaling to-taling between 5v00 and 6100 men, now are mobilized. A request that regular army troops be prepared to respond to a call for emergency emer-gency duty here was wired to Secretary of War Baker by Governor Coolidge to- day. The governor previously had made a similar request of the secretary of the navy. Governor Coolidge this afternoon, by proclamation, took over complete control of the situation surrounding the police strike and use of military forces in Boston. Bos-ton. The governor said he took this action ac-tion In his capacity as comma nder-in-chlef of the military forces of the state, all of which have been called out. ELECTRICAL WORKERS DECLARE FOR STRIKE. Announcement that the electrical workers work-ers of the city had instructed their delegate dele-gate to the central labor union to declare de-clare in favor of a strike in sympathy with the police was made at a meeting of the executive committee of the central cen-tral body this afternoon. After a two-hour discussion with labor leaders of the possibility of a general strike In support of the police, Mayor Peters this afternoon said that "everyone "every-one present expressed a desire to avert a general strike." It was learned that the labor leaders proposed that if the police affiliation with the American Federation of Labor was recognized, the federation would bind itself it-self never to call on the police union for sympathetic strike action. "WASHINGTON, Sept. 11. The war department de-partment is prepared to meet any request for federal troops to assist in maintaining order in Boston, although Secretary Baker late today had not- received any telegram from Governor Coolidge. No instructions in-structions have been sent to Major-General Clarence R. Edwards. |