The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-10
LABOR RIOT AT CHICAGO.
POLICE FORCED TO USE THEIR
CLUBS ON STRIKERS.

Man Imported to Take the Vacant
Places Attacked by Mob-Iwo Of
+na Leaders of the Strikers Arrested.
several Heads Cracked by the Po-
lice.
Cg1cAeo, May "A bloody collision be-
+reen police and 200 striking iron workers
from the worlds fair ground, supported by
= crowd Of sympathizers, occurred to-day
ar Grand Crossing. A score or two Of scalp
wounds we're inflicted by the policemen's
cluhs and the excitement for time was in
+orse The riot was due to the importation
~ men from New York, Pittsburg and Bal
timore to take the place Of the strikers,
who were employed on the manufacturers
hpiding by the Edgemoor Bridge and
Construction Company, One hundred Of
the imported men who came in on the Bal
timore and Ohio road were interviewed
and induced to join the strikers. A car
load from New York over the Erie, how~
aver. we're rushed past the strikers into the
worlds fair grounds. Three carloads
r,ore on the Fort Wayne road
turned a deaf ear TO the strikers.
While the Pittsburg contingent on the Fort
Vevne road was waiting for a switch
engine a mob around their train quickly
swelled till fully 900 men were jeering and
threatening those aboard. A general rush
for the newcomers was made just as Ins
spector Hunt, with two patrol wagons full
Of police, dashed up and charged into the
mob. John J. Flynn and Edward Wilco&
two of the leaders Of the strikers, were aF-
rested.
NO FATAL INJURIES.
Inspector Hunt in person commanded the
police. None Of the wounded strikers suf-
fered injuries which will be permanent
The imported workmen were badly fright
ened at their temporary predcament. but
escaped with whole skins. When the mob
was driven back a switch engineer,
whose reluctance to couple on
had given the strikers an advantage
was induced to couple the train and the
new men under heavy police escort, and
amid the curses of the crowd, were taken to
the worlds fair grounds. The two arrested
strikers were carted off In a patrol wagon
They were subsequently released on bonds,
pending a hearing next Saturday. The
strikers are angry and desperate and the
police look for further trouble.
BEGINNING OF THE TROUBLE.
The iron workers strike began little
over a week ago, when the men demanded a
minimum rate of 40 cents per hour. This
demand was generally refused, although it
was granted In the case of a few mer at
work on the administration build
ing. All during last week there
was nothing done on the niueteen
great arches that are to span the manu-
facturers' building. Four of them are in
place, but work on the fifteen others has re-
mained just as the strikers left'them. The
placing of the giant iron trusses is slow
work, and there is an enormous amount to
be done on the rest of the building when
they are all in place.
WORK FAR BEHIND.
The manufacturers building is the largest
sf the exposition structures and as yet is the
most backward in construction. Nearly
everything depends upon the iron work now,
and if that is much delayed the building, it
is said, cannot be completed next October,
as required.
Later it developed that the New York
delegation was in hearty sympathy with the
strikers, as they resolved not to go to work.
Many Of the Edgemoor companys strikers
have secured work with other contractors.
Two more carloads of men are expected to-
Elorrow morning from Cincinnati and an
other from Pittsburg. Police will receive
4nd escort them to the grounds Every
thing is quiet tonight, but more trouble
may occur tomorrow.