The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-05-13
THE COMMUNE IN CHICAGO.
Riotous Proceedings of the Foreign Labor
Element.

Element.
CHICAGO, May 1.-THE rioters arrested
yesterday are Bohemians, Poles, Ger
mans and Irishmen, two Irishmen out Of
dozen arrests. About one hundred men
employed in the Union Steel Company's
works at Bridgeport, as laborers, yester-
day demanded ten hours pay for eight
hours work. AS perfectly impossible
| for the foundry to work only eight hours
the demand was refused, but the manager
offered to raise the pay of the men from
S1.25 to s1.40 for ten hours. This offer
was refused, and the men at once walked
out of the works.
The North Side rolling mills shut down
yesterday for an indefinite period, and
about 900 men are out Of employment
The superintendent said that in all prob
ability the mills would not start up again
until the labor troubles were at an end.
The company could not give ten hours
pay for eight hours work, and to shut
down was the only course open. The
packing-house men have gained the
greater part of their demands. Some of
the employers pay nine and others ten
hours wages for eight hours work.
There was no effort to dispute their
! claims.
McCormick's Reaper Works opened
as usual this morning, fully one.half of
the workingmen returning to the factory
despite the intimidation and blood shed
ofyesterday afternoon. A special force of
police was on duty to protect the men on
their way to work, but their services were
apparently not required, as the Anarch-
lists and their followers of the day preced-
ing were not to be seen.
Threatening indications appeared in
many quarters of the city this morning.
A crowd of Bohemians, Poles and Ger
mans began to assemble on the prairie
in the southwestern portion of the city
this morning, but the police raided and
efectually scattered them without making
any arrests. These men then proceeded
to the southeast, forming column three
or four thousand strong. They directed
their march toward large glue factory
near the crossing of the river at 95th
street, with the intention Of closing down
the works.
A strong force of police collected and
arrested nine of the ringleaders and
overawed the crowd, which moved off
without making an attempt to rescue
their fellows. The size of the crowd
was such that the chief of police directed
a reinforcement of officers on duty in that
district. The knowledge that such q
large gathering was being kept together,
and apparently urged by the leaders to
acts of violence, has caused more thor
ough pretnrations to be taken to guard
against trouble. The commanders of
several State regiments have largely rein
forced the guards at the armories without
specific orders, but simply as precau-
tionary measure. a crowd of strikers
attempted an assault on the Milwaukee
and St. Paul shops at Western avenue
this forenoon, but were driven from the
scene by the police.
The lumber dealers to-day notified
their men that by unanimous decision
they rejected the mems demands for
eight hours work with ten hours pay.
The dealers reply is rather long and
detailed, and gives specific reasons why
the business vii not stand the additional
tax proposed. The substance of it is
that if the demands are submitted to the
wholesale lumber trade will be driven
from Chicago. The delegation of work
men deputed TO receive the reply listened
to its reading and Immediately repeated
their demand aud took their departure
with very bad grace. One of them,
named Schmidt, as he departed declared
that they would go to work on their own
terms or burn the yards. A policeman
was promtly called and Schmidt is under
arrest on the charge of disorderly con
duct. The secretary of the Exchange
will appear against him in the morning.
Ten thousand men are engaged in this
strike.
A riot began about 8 o'clock near the
corner of Morgan and 22d street. A
crowd of striking lumbermen and their
adherents made an assault on g body of
police in that vicinity. The police
charged the crowd repeatedly, and were
stoned and fred at by the rioters. In
the encounter Detective Michael Gran
ger was seriously, and probably, fatally.
injured by flying stone. Officer John
Strong was shot through the hand
Squads police were hurried to the scene
A number of rioters are reported shot.
but the casualties are not yet known.
The Ar6eiter Zsituny, German paper,
edited by Speis, Socialist, who was one
of the speakers who melted yesterdays
riot at McCormick's says:
"Workingmen! The hated police yes
terday murdered four of your brothers,
and wounded perhaps twenty-five more
at McCormick's Factory. Had your
brothers, who had nothing but stones 10
defend themselves with, been armed with
good weapons and u few dynamite bombs
none of the murderers would have escap-
ed his well.dcserved fate. AS it was,
only four of them policemen) were
wounded. That is sad. Yesterdays
massacre occurred that 10000 strikers in
this city might be filled with fear and
terror, and that the dissatisfied and
rebellious laborers might be driven back
under the yoke of slavery. Will this
end be accomplished? Has not mis-
calculation been made? The next few
days will answer this question. We will
not speculate on the course of events"