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Show CHILDREN OF ' STRlKERS Investigation in Lawrence Law-rence Is Started by the Government Boston, Feb. 27. The federal government gov-ernment Is to Investigate the action ot tho municipal authorltioB at Law renc in preventing tho exportation of strikers' children from the city. United States Dfstrfct Attorney French announced today that Attorney General Gen-eral WJckershnm has ordered hlra to determine whether the municipal authorities au-thorities of I-awronco had violated the Interstate commerce act by pro-venting pro-venting the railroad from carrying oiH Its contract with those who had arranged ar-ranged to send children out of tho state. Women Picket- Arrested, Lawrenco, Mass., Fob. 27. Flpo women pickets, said to have used persuasion per-suasion which approached violence to keep employes from going to work in tho textile mills, and one man, accused accus-ed of throwing popper In a policeman's police-man's eyes, were nrrestedjjtoday. The plan to oxport children to Philadelphia Phil-adelphia has been abandoned, it is understood, and, aside from the children chil-dren who are to be sent with a committee com-mittee of strikers to Washington tomorrow, to-morrow, thero may bo no littlo ones sent away in groups. City Marshal Sullivan Intimated he may prevent tho children going unless tho county court decides that he "In acting contrary to law. Indications are that the mills havo mado further gains in tho nnmber of operatives at work. It Is estimated there are now 1$,000 operatives at work, with 12,000 still on strike. co . DON'T MISS THE VAUDEVILLE BILL AT THE ORPHEUM THIS WEEK. |