Abstract

Trial By Fire

This was the third, and as it turned out to be, the last night, of rioting in the electric-company strike. It was not, from the first, a strike like any other the city had ever had. At the least, 157 at the most, 400 strikers were actually involved. Yet crowds of 10,000 here, 5,000 there, several thousand at another spot, turned out on each night not only to encourage the small bands of pickets vocally, but actually to battle with the police and the defenders of the company's property. Tear gas had just been hurled, and the fat man said it was just like horseradish. People near him laughed, and encouraged, he elaborated, "They should serve wienies with their sharp horseradish. Hey, cop, give us some wienies next time with that horseradish."