The Iola register., 1902-06-06
STRIKE Is OVER
The Teamsters and Packers Reached
an Agreement at four O'clock
This Morning
BY scripps-McRae Press Assn.

BY scripps-McRae Press Assn.
Chicago, June 5.-A settlement be-
tween the striking teamsters, and
packers was effected at four O'Clock
this morning after an all allnightsession.
1t is a compromise with the unions
scoring the important points. All of
the strikers will be reinstated without
prejudice but the packers refuse 70
employ union men only, though agree
ing not to discriminate against them.
The new wage scale provides that the
teamsters shall get from twenty cents
an hour on single wagons to thirty
cents on six horse wagon. No work
will be done on labor day.
The boycotts were all declared of,
and a union jolli6cation took the
place of riot and bloodshed. BY the
new scale the teamsters in seventy
hours earn. a minimum of sl2. .O6 and a
maximum of S21. Yesterdays strikers
took out the wagons today.
Chicago, June 4.-Driven by men
covered with dust and blood, many of
them barely able from exhaustion to
hold the reins in their hands, thirty
six meat wagons entered the main gate
of the Union stock yards tonight, amid
shower of stones, bricks, bottles
and sticks. The wagons, guarded by
five police wagons filed with blue
coats, and two omnibuses crowded to
the fullest capacity with policemen,
were on the return from delivery of
supplies to downtown provision
houses, after one of the tiercest DAYS
in the strike of tAc beef packers team
Nters. Many ct tli drivers, officials
at the packing houses, were cut and
bruised from head To- foot. The po.
lice wete in even worse condition. The
wagon drivers had been working from
D o'clock in the morning, and their
progress from the stock yards into
the city's business district and back
again had been contested bitterly by
mobs of strike sympathizers.
AT the very entrance to the stock
yards tonight, after all seeming dan
ger had passed, George June, an en-
ploye of the Anglo-American Packing
Company, was struck by a baseball
bat and knocked from his wagon seat.
He was picked up in an unconscious
condition, and it is believed, may die.
Many others were struck at the same
time by shower of stones, but the
police were too worn out to offer re-
sistance. More than a dozen battles
were fought during the day between
rioters and the police, and the hospit-
ais tonight are overcrowded with the
injured.
The tiercest battle of the day took
place this afternoon at Sixteenth street
and Michigan avenue. The rioters
stood on the viaduct and hurled rocks
at the meat wagons passing under
meath. The mob was the most formid-
able in numbers and in daring of any
of the crowds that gathered during
the day, Before this mob could be
dispersed, the police were compelled
to use revolvers. More than fifty
shots were fired, bullets passing over
the heads of the crowd, which finally
became frightened and scattered, but
not until many of the rioters and po
licemen had suffered serious injuries.
Another serious riot broke out at
Congress and State and Harrison and
State streets. BY some maneuver the
strikers succeeded in dividing the
thirty -eighO wagon caravan the sec
ond one to leave the yards today, so
that the front of it lay at Congress
street on State and the rear at Har-
rison. While the vanguard battled
with crowd which hurled broken bot,
ties. stale eggs and other missiles, in
cluding spools OF thread thrown by
women sympathizers in the crowd, the
rear guard was called upon to defend
itself against more serious attack.
At this place the mob made desper-
ate assault on the drivers, but was
compelled to turn its attention to the
police, who came up on the run. Twice
the bluecoats hurled themselves against
the infuriated men, and twice they we're
rebuffed and crowded back.