The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-03-14
uTTE LABORERS HAVE RE-
COURSE TO THEM IN
NEW ORLEANS.
MEN KILLED AND SEVEN
WOUNDED.
osr All Negroes-The Purser of a Brit.
sh Ship Seriously Wounded-Police-
men Were on the Scene, But
Failed to Interfere.

New orleans, Mafcn lZ.-Ine thlch
be- ia the early morning was the veil
ehind which desperate white levee la
brers gathered and which they penetra-
d with winchester balls, aimed at the
lored non-union men at work at the
hips The attack was made at points
agaral miles apart just before the ar
val of the police and as a result there
he half dozen corpses and a dozen or
IN ttounded men. The police saw the
qttack but made no arrests, claiming
3bey we're too few to cope with the un-
expected outbreak.
The day before the mayor said all was
nuief and the governor saw no grounds
f3r lterferences, but today men are
denouncing both; the militia is in readi-
aess 10 move; an appeal to the federal
government has actually been made and
even the foreign consuls have decided
TO ioin in the move for peace at any
price
The causes which lead to the trouble
have been of long standing and grown
out Of the attempt of ship agents and
others interested to reduce rates. The
white screwmen claim that the cOlored
lnsn, who were given a share of the
work under an agreement, made secret
eats md violated the agreement in order
10 obtain more work and gradually
crowd the white men off.
The white associations then severed
all lies with the blacks and refused to
! w0lA with them or for the men who
euDloyed them. The white longshore-
men oined the screwmen in this. Since
tlou he steamship lines have been grad
Ualg going over to the negroes. Lately
tHe white screwmen quit work on the
/ lines still loyal to them, stating that
/ they would not work until the whole affair
4 WAS Strengthened out. Several more
4 lines hen took on negro labor from ne
,sity. The white union finally deter
lnipcd to retaliate upon the stevedores
BY Offering to reduce rates and deal with
ships direct. Ships in haste accepted
teyejores. The latter offered to pay
or. han the screwmen asked, but the
.r.vlnen refused to do business with
"a au. The agents offered to pay the
GREW nen their wages and place the
cvedores over them as superintendents,
h rr fle screwmen again declined. Then
j ae stavedores began importing colored
4 cr.wuen from Galveston and the whites,
/ euwug desperate, broke loose in riots
NAe dead are:
William Campbell, colored screwman
shot lo Phillips.
Iuiius Carrabee, shoemaker, shot in
fttas f Lions clothing store.
Irluown, shot in vicinity of the Crom'
well inc.
DuAoown negro, in same vicinity, moi
vel lI ntified.
InUuard Mallard, colored scaleman
i Shot oyer right eye.
! Ihe injured:
Jamas A. Balm. white. purser steam
4 ship Engineer, shot in head dangerous
Henry Brown, colored screwman, shot
4 five times, both arms and both legs; viii
recover.
Tim Preston, colored, shot seven times
nOtu legs and thigh and head; may re
cover
i Luis Cast, colored, employe sugar re
fnery, shot in hip; will recover.
Bill Williams, colored screwman, shoI
4 in the leg; will recover.
4 Frank Lighthall, colored, driver fol
A cement firm, shot in leg; not dangerous
Robert Brooks, white longshoreman
4 shot vs. tn winchester in right leg below
4Enep
i Two negroes, names unknown, jumped
81 into river and it is believed were drowned
New Orleans was today in a condition
H. cSaitement that can only be compared
" hat following the events of the at
8 upon the Parish prison on tha
morable 18th of March, 1891, whel
y body of citizens marched there ant
Mh0tc-'d lynched all of the men who wer
.VhargA 18th completely in the assassna