The Coal War
“There were rumors that carloads of strike-breakers were being taken into the Northeastern, and a party of strikers was told to do picket-duty. The union leaders were most strenuous that no man should be armed while on the picket-line, and on this occasion every member of the party had to submit to a search in the tent-colony before he set out for the mine. News of the disarming must have got to the gunmen; for while the men were parading up and down the road in front of the stockade, there appe...ared Schultz and his “death special” on one side, and a party of a dozen men on horseback on the other. They held up the pickets and marched them away—forty-eight workingmen driven eight or ten miles along a public highway, with armed horsemen in front and on each side, and an armored automobile with machine-guns in the rear! The procession came into the town of Pedro, which was swarming with strikers; but in spite of all the uproar, the prisoners were landed in jail; after which, under the personal escort of the sheriff, two carloads of strike-breakers were run into the mine.MoreLess
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