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Smash Bar, Mirror, Glasses, Etc., and Pour Beer Into the Gutter
Chicago, March 9.—(AP)—Police, armed with hatchets, raided a near northside saloon last night and wrecked it after the manner made famous by Carrie Nation.
In spite of the fact that the establishment had obtained an injunction against police interference, the raiders smashed the bar, smashing the mirror, glasses and other equipment and then, emptied beer into the gutters.
Slaying Follows U. S. Raids on Chicago “Bad Lands.” Deportations Asked.
CHICAGO, February 24. —As immigration inspectors prepared deportation proceedings against a dozen aliens taken in raids on “Little Italy” and planned to renew their round-up next week, a man, identified as Baldelli, the Eagle, was found shot to death in an alley today.
He was the forty-first victim of gang warfare in recent years.
The man had been shot and apparently carried to the spot in an automobile. In his clothing was found a notice that his application to be a policeman had been filed.
Friday marked a week’s anniversary of the battle begun by the International Tailoring Company to break the Amalgamated Clothing Workers’ Union and establish “open shop” under the scab label of the United Garment Workers. And a lively anniversary it was.
With every one of the 800 strikers standing out solid, the strikers’ spirit is better than ever. The firm thought that about 80 per cent would stay, but not one remained, only about 25 scabs furnished by the scab agency of the United Garment crew are on hand, and not one solitary garment has been made by them. They are too busy thinking how they are going to get back home with a whole skin.