Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-05-08
STEEL WORKERS RIOT.
Chicago Police Have a Hot Bat
 tie With Strikers.
SEVERAL MEN WERE BADLY HURT.


 Thc strikers Tried to Drive the NachinIsts.
 Who Had No Complaint, Out of Their
 Shops - Coatnakers Win a Battle In
 PhiIadeIphia-ThsN NIiners' Strike.
 CHICAGO, May S.-A serious strike oc- crrred at the plant of the Illinois Stoel company in South Chicago. I,2O0 men throwing down their tools and walking out. Later a fight occurred in the com. pany's yards, and it was found necessary to call on the police. The strikers for a timo stood their ground against the off, cers, but were soon defeated and driven from the premises.
 The mon most seriously hurt were Jack sheppard. n nachinist, struck on the head by hammer in tho hands of Q strik- CT, soVere scalp wounds rendered uncon- scious, will recover; Edward Shaks, strik- | or, thrown out of the machine shop by wOrkmen. body bruised; Officer V. Lien deCkor, hit with q coupling pin, bad cut | over right eye; Officer Patrick MeCauley, hit In mouth with brick.
 Twenty men, who are said to have been leaders of the strikers at the riotine, wCro arrested and locked up at tho South Chicago police station. They are charged with riOting. They arc all ignorant Huns Poles and Bohemians.
 The strike closed two blast furnaces. Two others were undergoing repairs and the remaining four wero at once shut down until the conclusion of the strike the company concluding that it was un- wiso to attempt to run until the matter was settled. This action or the company throw in all about ! 500 4lien out of work nons remaining in the yards except the watchmen and the anachinists The strik- CTS were at first disposed to be orderly and pCaceable but later affairs took on an ugly aspect, and it was found necessary to call on the police to drive them out
 shortly before 6 o'clock crowd num- berlng about l, loO' men forced their way past the watohmen at ono of the gates and proceeded to take possession of the company's property. They marched first to whcIo lot of labOring men were still at work, and either compelled them to | join tAeir ranks or quit work. Not much trouble was experienced with | tlro iIhorcrs, but when the strikers reach- od the machine shop, whoro about 100 machinists were employed, they met with | a different reception. Tho maChinists have a scale of their own, and the fight of the | other men mado DO particular difference 1 to them, and they refused either to quit l or to allow themselves to be driven out of ] the yards.
 The Police Charged the Mob. The strikers, who for the most part ! wore composed of Huns and Poles. made ! several attempts to persuade the nachin- i ists to leave their work, but finding thcm- 1 selves unsuccessful they began an attack ! upon tho machine shop with stones and such things as they could pick Gp. The maChinists for the most part stood their .l .l they sent.
 Inc fight was growing warne, and bro 1 ken heads and bloody noses were growing very common when the police, who had l seen summoned when the fight first be- ] gan. arrived.
 They wero under tho command of Cap l tain Jenkins who at 'onCe made a charge on tho mob with his handful of officers. The strikers at first refused to give ground, , and the police usod their clubs freely. This did not hIvo the desired effect, and 1 Captain Jenkins ordered his men to draw l their rovOlvers and fired over tho heads oi , tho strikers As soon as this was done the ! mob broke and fled wildly from tho prem. . ises of tho company.
 One of the minor officials of the com. ! pany did not exactly agree with the cause 1 of the strike as given hy MT. ForSythe. He said: Tho men who struck were hired three weeks ago to take the places oi old employees, who were being paid g. 1C day and who would not work for the schedule of Sl.G0 which was put into of, feet at that time.
 1 They were hired on the contract sys } tenn and had agreements for year With tho SLIGO men on tho furnaces are a mum.
 bor of day laburerS who arc working fol Sl, l5 day and whose wages wcro volun ! tarily raised from 6 a short time ago
 They arc satisfied. but if the furnace men quit they will have nothing to dc and will bc out of work. although they should not be counted among the strikers 1 The mon who agreed to work for Sl 6C asked for the old scale which had been paid the men whom they replaced. It was not granted, and they struck"
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