Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-11-27
CHICAGO LABOR WAR
RIOT AND DISORDER FEATURES
OF THE STREET-CAR TiE.uP.
Great Denuncintory Mass Meeting Of
Unionists HcId-Attempt to Open
State Street Cable Line Meets with
Violent, Resistance by Mob.

Chicago dispatch: Hang the Alder
menu ION to the City Hallp, were
the slogans of the $1,000 Chicago
street ear strikers and sympathiz-
Ing trade unionists who filled the
great auditorium ut Tnttersalls Sunday
afternoon. Threats, denunciations and
violence were III the air. Aldermen
were called "grafters' and thieves" the
Mayors name was Kissed and the police
department denounced; obloQuy, prison
and death were urged for all concerned
In the granting of franchises.
The resolutions adopted demanded the
immediate ceasing of negotiations with
the traction companies, the removal of
the police from the cars, the opening Of
proceedings for municipal ownership Of
car lines and the removal Of the City
hallway Company from the streets il
better service was not given at once.
A riot, in which several hundred men,
women and children took part, occurred
on Archer avenue Saturday. The mob,
which gathered to intercept a number
OF wagons under escort, conveying food
to the barns, charged the police and con
stables shouting and throwing stones. A
constable was struck on the head and
badly cut The police drew their revolv-
ers and made stand about the wagons,
but refrained from shooting. The rioters
were finally driven back and consoled
themselves by burning wagon previ-
ously wrecked in the vicinity of the
barns.
Sensational rumors that an attempt
had been made to blow up cars on the
Wentworth avenue line by means OF dy-
Mantle caps proved groundless. Three
railroad signal torpedoes fastened to the
rail were at first believed to contain dy-
Mantle.
Police Use Revo1vcrs.
/ On Monday shots were fired by the
police, flying sticks and stones shattered
windows, many persons were dubbed and
number were arrested in clashes be-
tween crowd Of strike sympathizers
and a strong force of patromen when
the Chicago City Railway Company
started cars under heavy police guard
on it's State street cable line.
The first serious outbreak OF disorder
came ut Forty-frst street as the first
State street car passed, the police draw
ing revolvers and firing a dozen shots in
the air as they charged the throng,
pounding with their clubs to right and
left
A few minutes later and the police at
tackled n number of strikers who were
endeavoring to get off the street and into
the strike headquarters at 1896 State
street The men were dubbed into the
hallway and up the stairs number
falling bruised and bleeding.
While this disorder prevailed Interna-
tional President Mahon of the union, the
executive committee OF the striking en-
ployes and Attorneys Darrow and Prem
tiss waited to receive the company's
reply to the peace propositions advanced
by the men.
Mr.. Mahon and Mr.. Darrow asserted
that the situation was not wholly cloud
ed They hazardcd an opinion that
agreement might come soon.
Shoot Two of IA Mob.
Two non-union workmen, brought to
bay by hundred strikers near the
American Hide and Leather tannery,
Front and Sangamon streets, fired into
the crowd, wounding two men. The nom
union men had applied for work, when
the strikers and their sympathizers at
tackled them, throwing stones and sticks.
The two men fled at first, but afterward
turned faced their pursuers and hred
desperately into the crowd. Two men
fell at the first shots, seriously injured.
Embroidered by their success, the non
union men advanced toward the crowd.
firing rapidly. The rioters broke and