Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-06-04
STRIKE IN CHICAGO GROWS.
More Men Go Out in Sympathy with
Tcamsters Strike and Police are
Kept BUSY.
Strikers Disclaim Responsibility for
Lawlessness and Claim tits work
of Sympathizers.
Rioting Breaks Out in Various Parts of
the City and Police Reserves
on Duty.

many of the police on crossing duty in
the down town district were held in
readiness for riot calls. Hundreds Of
officers assembled early in the morning
at headquarters and were given def
mite orders to prevent disturbances
such as marked Mondays deliveries of
meat by the packers. The strikers
have doubled their picket forces to try
to dissuade non-union men from car
rying meat from railroad branch
houses either to hotels and restaurants
or distributing points of the 'big eight"
packing establishments. All the build
ings of the packers are under guard,
the police assisting in many instances.
The strikers deprecate the lawlessness
end disclaim responsibility for it. They
say in all instances the work of the
mobs was that of sympathizers only.
Delivery drivers of the big depart
ment stores have become more dissat-
isfed with their positions and threat
en- to make the teamsters' strike Still
more serious by tying up all delivery.
The teamster employees of the Boston
store struck during the day. The Fair
teamsters are already out and other
men who were pressed into service on
the wagons met with constant block
ades formed by sympathizing team
sters in other wagons along their
routes. The drivers of A. H. Roths-
child &; Co. held meeting in the
basement Of the store and threatened
to go out. Police were called to all
the stores where men had struck or
made demonstrations.
At 10 o'clock the teamsters of all
the big State street department stores
struck The number of men affected
is estimated at $50.
A train of 20 wagons loaded with
meat from the stock yards made it's
way to the downtown district early
under heavy guard of police.
Rioting Again Breaks Out.
Rioting broke out in the streets later
in the day.. Notwithstanding police
precaution the attempt to move car
avan of "a wagons from the yards
brought on conflict in South Clark
street before the stores of Irwin Bros
& Wagner, wholesale dealers. When
the wagons were being unloaded
crowd of spectators and strike sympa-
thizers began hooting and interfering.
The disturbance drew mob of nearly
1000 people to the scene. The two Ir-
win brothers seized axe handles and in
company with the police beat back the
crowd. In the melee one man, Isaac
Bean, was thrown down stairway and
had his back broken. A passing street
car overturned a patrol wagon on the
way to the riots and dumped the police
into the streets. A score or more of
people were arrested, but were releas-
ed again. In other sections of the city
attempts were made to move meat, but
without success.
While disturbances were going on
over the strike by the stock yards
teamsters managers of the big State
street department stores were in con-
sultation over the strike of the driv-
ers and conductors of their delivery
wagons, who are members of the Ma
tional Teamsters union, the same or
ganization that is conducting the meat
drivers strike. The stores affected
are: Marshall Field & Co., Carson,
Pierre, Scott & Co., c. A. Stevens &
Bros, Mandel Bros, Schlesinger &
Mayer, Hillmans, Boston store, the
Fair, A. M. Rothschild & Co., and
Siegel, Cooper & Co. The reason for
the strike is a difficulty over the wage
scale of the stores and an attempt to
relieve the Fair, whose men were al
ready on strike, by sending two wag-
ons from each of the other stores to
carry goods. The managers sent out a
joint ultimatum against the union and
its methods. saying they would brook
no interference between their en-
ployes and themselves by organizers;
that there had been no difficulty until
the organizers assumed an authority to
dictate terms; that the wage scale was
equitable and would be continued in
force as at present and the men would
have to leave their employ if they in
sisted on union dictation