INFURIATED WORKERS.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14343, 1 May 1912, Page 9

INFURIATED WORKERS.

TROUBLE IN ZION CITY

DOWIEITES ATTACKED WITH CLUBS.

United Props Aesociation-~By Electric Telegraph—Copyright(Received April 30th, 9.35 p.m.) NEW YORK, April 30. Tho employees of tho independent manufacturing concerns at Zion City, Illinois, attacked a group of three hundred mon and women engaged in a prayer meeting, and clubbed them. Many were .seriously injured. 111-feoling has dovelopod for weeks past, in consequence of the establishment of independent concerns in the midst of tho Dowieites, who sought to keep tho city to themselves. As a protest against employees using tobacco, the Zionists have been holding prayer meetings in the factories,"thus infuriating tho workers.