Show AMERICAS AMERICA'S STRANGEST MOB IS DISPERSING l Men and Women Whipped Business Men Friend Friend- Friendly Friend I Friendly ly Iy to Unions Driven Away Open i Shop Encouraged I I U n BI w ii If 1 PIX Special p Ial of ot The na ran Standard ner 1923 1323 1923 ON Ark Jan With 20 20 With the end of ot the week nook the strangest mob that ever eler assembled In America I dispersing In Arkansas Arkansas-a Arkansas a mob that sprang into existence 0 overnight and after exacting severe severo penalties went ont back whence hence it camo leaving state and city authorities pondering on its per per- personnel personnel and Its veiled warnings Calm prevails in Harrison Harrlson follow follow- followIng following following ing a storm that began Monday and elsted with Intermissions through through- throughout throughout throughout out the week eek One man was as lynched moro more than 30 were ere whipped and a score were deported or ad advised sed to I seek other abiding places Evidence that the outbreak was as a demonstration against the unIon forces which for tor two years ears have fought the tho Missouri and Northern Ar- Ar Arkansas Arkansas Ar Arkansas kansas railway was afforded in the th action toward merchant i who have hav carried accounts for tor the tile striking banished by the mob Those These today dl display play signs read read- readIng readIng log Ing We are aro for the open shop Mer Mer- Merchants Merchants Merchants chants who ho declined to acquiesce In Inthe inthe the demand demond of or the mob ale no longer In in Arkansas Activity began lost lest Monday when a amob amob mob of or great numbers which called its Ils organisation 1 he Committee or of 1000 entered Harrison Harrlson on a self self- Imposed lon or of o cleaning things up tip One of or th the first details was aS the inching of or E I C Gregor who ho had hai been ben a leader of or the striking shop shop- men on the railroad While no shoP shoP-I of- of offense offense fenee has been charged against Greg Greg- Gregor GregOr or tho the committee went ent to ills his home horn and and called loudly for himI him I Then trouble started Gregor ap- ap appeared ap appeared according to records V with Ith Rh al a pistol In his hand and sought to de- de defend de fend his home But nut he was as outnumbered outnumbered outnumbered I and as he ho ian lan from his 1119 horn homo in a hail hall of bullets he suffered wounds and soon was WIlS w- w overtaken overta Repol t I 1 I that a summary a-summary midnight court was as wa asheld held and the man was cond condemned on his own admission that he had been beena becia a member er ot or the forces leading the s a s strike I Dawn found his body from a railway rall trestle With that I knowledge came camo a 0 widespread ok awak- awakening ning the ening Into activity Ity throughout troubled zone ZOOS The only promise or of Inter was as afforded Monday Monda I when Governor McRae about to call cail out state tate troops In an effort to quell the disturbance the legislature Is in session and the tate state law prohibits the tho governor e 0 e the prerogative of calling ca out I Continued on J Jeo Two STRANGEST MOB MOBs is s BREAKING UP Continued From nom Page One the guard hen the tho la la- la malting body bodis is 11 meeting The legislature holds that power The Tho Outbreak followed t two tao 0 years of industrial turmoil The Missouri and Northern Arkansas was liS 5 tor for years II a well nigh bankrupt road rand for Cor a long time were Ire at lit variance with the management O eser working condi- condi conditions condi conditions Last July when the national s strike became effective the th entire working personnel walked out After a 0 suspension of ot nine months the tho road thirty da s ago attempted to restore service This attempt SC- SC according ac according cording to officials ot was tollo followed ad by I arlous demonstrations of resistance that culminated In the tile burning of at bridges and the destruction of ot I aIU able lalu-able alu- alu able property all along the line fl With the tho alleged outrages es against the road feeling among the r rand and others served by the tho road Is la said enid to hn hate aie e ro I grown n Into a 11 frenzied opposition opposition opposition I tion to the hopmen and other clans responsible for diminishing the actual operations I Union forces charge the mob na formed from the strike breakers and andi I all ail guards guard along the tho route of ot the tho thoI rall ay and that the entire e I was as tho the destruction of at organized la- la laI la labor I bor raced laced by the charges of ot union union- unionists IsIs that the state and town officials were ere members of ot the tho mob or at least cognizant I of Its th the oCr oCr- officials dais maintain a stoic silence Refugees met outside HarrIson Harrlson by byth bythe bythe th the correspondent bore bolo marks marls o of maltreatment One woman with her hor horI I body lacerated by the lash Insh of ot captors In the ob m-ob declared she she ho was sas the wife ot of a union trainman and had so told the committee whereupon she sho wa as gien the whipping and told never to toI I 1 Others told similar stories Details of ot the mob activities ma maneer mane no noer neer er be bl learned because leaders ot of the called Bo-called committee ha hae haie e met newspaper ne men mon at the train and de- de de declared dared there was only on side aide to tell and that thit all dispatches sent out tram from Harrison would could have to be bo censored by the press committee |