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This is Brigadier-General John C. Speaks (1859-1945) Commander, Second Brigade, Ohio National Guard, and Major Robert D. Palmer, Adjutant-General, Ohio National Guard. The Youngstown Iron Sheet and Tube Company, based in Youngstown, Ohio, was one of the largest steel manufacturers in the world. On January 7, 1916, Sheet and Tube workers at the East Youngstown plant rioted during a strike over working conditions, which resulted in most of the town's business district being burned to the ground. The strike was quickly quelled by the arrival of 2,100 National Guard troops, under the command of Brigadier-General Speaks, but not before three people had died and 125 were injured. The arrival of the National Guard as well as offers of increased wages by the steel companies convinced most of the striking workers to return to their jobs. Within a week of the riots the mills were once again operating near full capacity. This photograph appears to have been taken taken at the Hazelton Railroad Yards on January 13, 1916, as the Fifth Regiment was leaving East Youngstown (later renamed Campbell, Ohio) by train. —Compiled: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]  

Other persons related to the strike:
Oscar R. Diser


Governor Frank B. Willis


and (presumably) T.P. Kearns

Thanks for fuller names, we'll update.

Haha nice

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Berkman

Other Bain/LOC photos related to the I. W. W. hunger strikers:

Helen Harris identified as "Helen of Troy": Berkman, who was accompanied by a girl known as "Helen of Troy," but who gave her name as Helen Harris, walked around town followed by a crowd of thousands. — Greensburg Daily Tribune, 1 June 1914 Her actual last name might be Goldblat(t): Alexander Berkman and Becky Edelson led 20 anarchists into a police station early today ... Helen Goldblat, known as "Helen of Troy;" her sister, Lillian; William Shatoff and Abraham Blecker. — The Day 9 November 1914 Helen Goldblatt, known as "Helen of Troy," and her sister Lillian, who completed week ago ten days' sentences in tile Workhouse — New York Times 27 November 1914 (Lillian might be Lillian Rubel.)

Thanks so much for connecting up the pictures, people, and event, and finding several sources that help identify Helen Harris/of Troy/Goldblatt (an oral history of the Anarchist movement spells it with two t's). We'll add information to the description when we update.

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