St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-05-08
ROUTED BY THE POLICE.
Broken Bones and Bruised
Bodies Result From the
Clash.
STRIKE EXTENDS TO JOLIET.
Michigan Miners Want Better
Pay--Mill Workers Win
Ohio Situation.

CflCAGO, May IA serious strike
occurred at the plant of the Illinois
Steel company in South Chicago this
morning, 1,200 men throwing down
their tools and walking out This
evening fight occurred in the COM
pany's yards, and it was found nee
essary to call in the police The
strikers for a time stood their ground
against the officers, but were soon
routed and driven from the premises.
The men most seriously hurt were:
Jack Shepherd, machinist, struck
on the head with hammer in the
hands of a striker; severe scalp
wound; rendered unconscious; will re-
cover
Edward Shaska, striker, thrown
out of machine shop by workmen;
body bruises.
Officer Leiendecker, hit with a
coupling pin; bad cut over right eye.
Officer Patrick McCauley, hit in
mouth with brick.
Twenty-eight men, who are said
to have been the leaders of the strik-
ers at the rioting, were arrested and
locked up at the South Chicago po-
lice station. They are
CHARGED WITH RIOTING.
They are all ignorant Hungarians,
Poles and Bohemians, according to
Vice President Forsy the, of the COM
pany. This spring the furnace men
signed scale of wages calling for
a rate of S2.10 per day. This scale
has been observed up to the present
time, but today the men demanded
that they be paid at the rate of last
year, which was somewhat higher
than the scale that they had signed
for this year. The company declared
that it could not pay anything ex-
cept the scale which had been agreed
to for this year, and the men walked
out, The strike closed two blast fur
naces, two others were undergoing
repairs, and the remaining four were
at once shut down until the conclu-
sion of the strike, the company con-
Guiding that it was unwise to attempt
to run unil the matter was seled. This
action of the company threw in all
about $500 men out Of work, none re-
manning i'm the yards except the
strikers were at first disposed to be
orderly and peaceable, but later af-
fairs took on an ugly aspect, and it
was found necessary to
CATr ON THE DOT TCE
to drive them out. Shortly before 6
o'clock tonight a crowd numbering
1900 men forced their way past the
watchmen at one of the gates and pro-
ceeded to take possession of the COM
pany's property. They marched first
to where some of the laboring men
were still at work, and either conf
pelled them to join their ranks or quit
work. Not much trouble was expert
eT ced with the laborers, but when the
strikers reached the machine shops,
where about 400 machinists were en-
ployed, they met with a different re-
ception. The machinists have a scale
CT their own, and the fight of the
other men made no particular differ
ence to them, and they refused either
to quit or to allow themselves to be
driven out of the yards. The strikers,
who for the most part were Poles and
Hungarians, made several attempts to
persuade the machirists to leave their
work. but finding them unsuccessful,
they began an attack upon the ma
chine shop with stones and such
weapons as they could pick up. The
machinists. for the most part, stood
their ground and gave the strikers as
good as they sent. The fight was
growing warm, and broken heads and
bloody noses were growing very COM
mon, when the police. who had been
summoned when the fight first began,
arrived. They were under the COM
mand of Capt Jenkins, who at once
made
CHARGE ON THE MOB
with his handful of officers. The strik-
ers at first refused to give ground, and
the police used their clubs freely. This
cid not have the desired effect, and
Capt Jenkins ordered his men to draw
their revolvers and fire over the heads
of the strikers. AS soon as this was
done the mob broke and fed wildly
from the premises of the company.
The fight lasted only few minutes,
and there was no more rioting One
of the minor officials of the company
did not exactly agree with the cause
of the strike as given by Mr.. For
Sythe. He said: 1.-The men who struck
were hired three weeks ago to take the
places of old employees, who were
being paid $2.10 a day and who would
not work for the schedule of 81. so which
was put into effect at that time. They
were hired on the contract system, and
had agreements for year. With the
SLIGO men on the furnaces are a num-
for $1.15 a day, and whose wages
were voluntarily raised from 81 a short
time ago. They are satisfied, but if
the furnace men quit they will have
nothing to do, and will be out of work,
although they should not be counted
among the strikers"
The men who agreed to work for
SLIGO asked the old scale which had
been paid the men whom they replaced.
1t was not granted, and they struck
The police officers all received bruises
and contusions more or less severe from
pieces of missiles thrown by the rioters.
Following named were injured: Fred
Brown, Michael Lotus, Patrick Mac +.
auley, John Ryan, John Mcnamara,
John O'Callahan, Anton Engle, Will
lam Kahl.