The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-05-08
RIOTING BY HUNS AND POLES.
They Close n Great steel Plant and At
tack the MaChiniStS.

Chicago May IA serious strike oc-
CURED this morning AZ thu Illinois Steel
Company's plant. Twelve hundred men
threw down their tools and walked out
The strike resulted frosn a demand ny
fAe furnace men for an increase Of wages.
The company refused 10 grant the raise.
The strike closed TWO blast furnaces. two
others were undergoing repairs and the
remaining four were al once smut dow n
until the conclusion OF the strike, fse
company deciding Eslat II was unwise TO
attempt to run until the matter was sell
fled Tra5s action of the company threw
about Asa men out of work. none re
naming in the yards except the watch
men and IHachguIsis.
The strikers were at first disposed TO he
orderly and peaceahle, hut later affairs
took on an ugly aspect, and IL was found
necessary 10 can on the police TO drive
them out Shortly before o'clock to-
night crowd numbering about l,5e men
forced their way past the watchmen Al
one OF the gates, and proceeded To take
possession Of the company's property
They marched flrst to where some OF the
lab0ring men were still al work, and CON-
PEELED them TO quit work Not much
trouble was experienced with the labor
ers, bat when the strikers reached The
machine shops. where about 10 machin
lists ara employed. they mel with differ
ent reception. The machinists have a
scale Of their own, and the fight Of the
other men made no particular difference
10 them. and they refused either TO quit
or to allow themselves 10 be driven out
of the yards. The strikers. who, for the
Z most part. were Poles and Huns. made
several attempts 10 persuade the machin-
lists 10 leave their work but finding them-
selves unsuccessful. they began an at
tack on the machine shop with stones
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find. The ulaChinlsts, for the most
part. stood their ground and gave the
strikers as good as they sent The fight
was growing warm aud broken heads aad
bloody nases We're growing very common
when the police arrived They were under
the command OF Capt Jenkins, who at
once made a charge or the mob with his
handful Of officers. The strikers at first
refused 10 give ground and the police used
their clubs freely. This did not have the
desired effect and Capt. jenkins ordered
his men TO draw their revolvers and FIRE
over their heads. As soon as this was
done the mob broke and fed wildly from
the premises Of the company The fight
only lasted a few minutes and there was
10 more riotiug.
Twenty-eight men who we're leaders IN
the attack on the works were arrested
and locked up charged with rfoting. They
are all Poles and Bohemians. During the
riot in the yards four men were painfully
Injured. Policeman Leinecker was hnwlth
a coupling pin and had his head badly cut
with a brick.
Hudson. y. y. May There was riot
ing today la the brick yard OF Walsh
Bros. seven miles above the city. and the
sheriff OF Columbia county was called
upon TO queil the disturbance. Last even
ing the body Of James Mcclure. a deck
hand on brick barge loading a. WALSH
Bros dock. was found In tho river. 1t "a
believed that Mcclure was thrown into
che water by the infuriated Italians. all of
whom We're drunk yesterday and de-
rnanded an increase OF wages.