The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-05-27

One Of them had q billy and pounded him owe!
the head with Il. He was Knocked bowman
the men Jumped on him and kicked him. r.
nn,iy he Mss RESCUED T { .I by a S crowd q, ~ a's w s.ssIl,
Electric Company's building. the men at work
were attacked by, a small army Of pickett
James Lane. a machinist employed IN the build
skull was fractured. He was taken 10 the
County Hospital. Several other men were
badly beaten and injured, The police arrested
five Of the assaulting party.
on April 70 Thomas Gibbons was on his
way home and AZ the corner Of Ann and Ran
dolph streets was attacked, by six men, a
wsm" ran saw Sr, ,Se siSSan. an vas '' feams in the
siresr bleeding from several cuts In his head
he was unconscious., His skull was fractured
He was taken to the County Hospital No
Ian, William Phillips. George Racquet apd
George Hanton, non-linion workers In the
humpmayer Stone Company, were, SET upon
Hanlan was ht in the head with a brick. Phillips
was shot in the leg Raquets right cheek was
torn of with n brick and Hanton was knocked
down and assaulted. No arrests were made,
AsrArE or ANARCHY
This completes the record for the one month
SSlrSHs reader. a good idea Of the ,condiiion
of affairs a. they exist In the city Of Chicago.
There has been another killing this month.
A striker named Dennis Hanniston, leading
an aSsaul, on a party Of non-union men guarded
by police, was shot and died The next day.
The experience Of Frank J.. Davis. a mem
her Of a contracting hrm. will perhaps give an
idea Of what can happen IN this city by the
axes while anarchy prevails, Mr.. Davis was
sitting in his of1ce one afternoon when a consta-
bic came in with a warrant for his arrest. The
warrant accused him Of assault on a man named
Davidson. Mr.. Davis didn't. know ANYTHING
Of any assault having taken place but the con-
stable convinced him that he was the man
got him out a. far as the corner and then held
him while two thugs beat him Davis finally
broke away and went back 10 his ONCE. The
arrestinc him again. Mr. Davis went to court
and there was no complainant and ne was as
charged.
This record Of lawlessness and crime may
be closed with the following taken from a Chi
7Non-union men were held In a state Of siege
at the Desplaines street police station by union
pickets Wednesday evening. A crowd OF thirty
five union pickets boldly surrounded a few
non-union men from the Butler building, in
charge Of special policemen. at Washington ana
Desplaines street, within sight Of the police
station. and were so threatening that the spe-
cIal police took their charges 10 the station
for protection. The pickets hung around for
Of the station The city police did not interfere
Could anything better illustrate the condl-
ton Of tarrorismr
One might think from q reading OF the news
papers that rhe whole thing was a joke. Here
Is an extract from a report OF a session OF me
Grand Jury, John Fimdl appeared before. the
Jury. There was a bandage over one OF MS
eyes. =,
Hello. what's happened to YOU" said one of
Nothing but an eye gouged out, said Fimdl
Just one?" asked the Juror.
Only one. said Find. -.
The record printed above is a record only OF
the crimes committed in the name or union LABOR
labor trust is directly responsible. While they
we're going on, there were the customary hold
uIps for robbery; highwaymen fourished' They
shot at people occasionally ana ana robbed 20 peon.e
of them 80 long as so many OF them were needed
TO watch various buildings that were sur
rounded by strikers
CHILDREN KEPT FROM SCHOOL
The reader is already acquainted IN A general
way with the conduct Of the Building Trades
Council in us dealings with the employers Some
specific cases 10 show the injustices and the
arrogance will not be out OF, place here. Be
tween 5000 and 2o,Mo school children are kept
away from school by this trust. There ia no
room for them in the public schools that now
exist and the city has in course Of construction
seven more schools which would acconimo-
date them. Work on these schools has been
held MP bv the refusal of union laborerst 10 work
and complete them and by the failure OF the
police 20 furnish protection TO non-union work
men who would he glad 10 work and complete
them. Here are the specific reasons why union
lahorers stopped work on those schools
First. the Madison avenue school, Seventy
Nfth street and Madison avenue. No WOTk
has been done on this school for seven months
on account Of a non-nnion pressure tank of the
value Of si7. Every bit Of work on this school
house was done by union labor paid ior ~ the
sci in place by union workmen. After II had been
SGT in place, some one discovered that the tank
had been made in a nom union shop. 4 w3klng
delegate demanded that the si7 tank N torn
ont. The contractor refused to have the tank
torn out and every workman working on that
building was called out. the place was picketed,
.,bar ,na,, VI ava fnrhiAHpp IN pntar II and NOT a
stroke Of work has been done on II since.
The next schoolhouse is known A. the Dewey
Schoolhouse AZ Fifty-four'h and mon streets
The Dewey Schoolhouse was almost COMPLETED
4 cement cellar was put in. Every biz Of work
on this sChoolhUlse was done by union men
Every bit Of material was. provided by union
firms II happened that when the cement cellar
was put in there was no union OF concrete work
ers. After the work was all finished. walking
delegates demanded that the concrete men
should orGaniZe and after they had ORGANIZED
insisted that the concrete cellar was not union
laid and that the concrete would all have 10 be
torn out End put in over again, made no
diferen- % 10 this walking delegate that the men
who would lay this concrete as union men were
the same men who had laid II before as nom
union men. The concrete had 10 come out. II
hasn't come out yet, and there hasn't been a
stroke of work done on the building since
The next school is the one known as the
Prescott az ashland and w~rishtwood
his school for seven months. In this
sc~hoolhouse. as in the others. every bit
of work was done by union men. Among other
things. the boilers In the cellar were sol up by
discovered that they had been made in a nom
union shop, and the Building Trades Council
said that those boilers would have 10 be torn
out or every man on the bulld ding would be called
ont. The men were called out, and no men
have been permitted 10 work there since.
The next school was the Calumet q, Twenty
sixth and Calumet streets, No work has been
done on that since the list Of February. and
the situation al that school was precisely the
same as at the Others. Every bit OF work had
been done by union men. and the boilers had
been placed by union men. but the discovery
was made after the union men had received
their wages that they were non-linlon boilers,
and the union men demanded that the boilers
be- torn out and union boilers be put IN y,
Next comes the Wnllef High School
at Orchard and Centre street, No work has
been done on this school since the LIST 81 Feb
rnary and every possible preteXt. has been
resor'ed 10 by the Building Trades Council
members TO prevent any work from being
kick that came. there was over the lathers.
The walking delegate declared that the lath-
ers were putting M too many laths in n dav.
That stopped work for a little while. and the
the Steam Filters. The engineers In charge
Of the building demanded the right TO have
the work done according TO specifications.
but the Steam Filters Union insisted on put
specifications. These were Just two Of the
many pretexts resorted to,
The next school was the Erie AZ Sixty-frst
street and South Hermitage avenue. No
work has been done on that since Feb. I. be-
cause the boilers, though set by union men.
Ike those in the Calumet and Prescott, were
non-union made.
Next comes the Pullman school. No work
was done on this from Feb. | 10 March
! for the same reason n non-union boiler got
In fnr that hAF uras m aufn En-r ~ ne