The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-07-18
POLICE And STRIKERS
FIGHT fierce Battle
Officers Are Stoned and Reply With
Revolver FusiIIade, But Nobody =.
Is Killed or Injured.

fishfing Se3ween thy thy police and the
strikers Of the kellogg Switchboard
and Supply Co., took place this after
Attempted ptt f to send freight to some Of
In one instance the police opened
fire with revolvers and although the
fusilade was continued in4,1 for several far
there was a fight in which no rsvolvers
number Of men, some Of whom were
left in the streets until their friends
came back 2!.< to t? pick them up: ,oa +r,,o,<
loaded with freight escorted, by police,
bound for the Burlington depot was
passing an unfinished building at the
corner of Harrison and Peoria streets.
Mob Grows Violent.
A. bowling mob of thousand men and
police and charging them with stones.
Teamsters who sympathiZed with the
strikers managed to get their wagons
In the way Of the: kellogg companys
wagon =as it reac he'd Peoria street and
were endeaYorii1 sto the street
when the. Wor kmen on the unf finished
BUILDING pelted them with bricks The
Officers at once drew. theirsrevolyer and
fired at the workmen, who hastily fled
police kept up their fire through the
windows and. drove nearly all the
workmen from the place.
The route to the depot was then taken
blockades, the: wagon reached the de-
Second Riot Begins. :
The second fight occurred when the
police were escorting a wagon load Of
freight to- the warehouse of the Term
nvanue Tr ans efyeet at oGd n
fully 5000 strong followed this wagon,
and although the police were outnum-
bered one hundred to one, they took
the wagon safely. to the depot. The
mob had greatly increased by the time
I turn trip. and tor half q mile pursued
the police applying to them all sorts
Of epithets and pelting. them with
stones and sticks. The climax came at
when q private watchman who had no
particular call to mix in the trouble,
fired at one of the mob.
The shot went wild, but it inflamed
the mob to the highest degree and with
shouts and yells] they charged down
for the crowd and when it arrived the
officers went at it with fists and clubs.
Police Fought Hard.
The patrolmen were. greatly outnum-
Dereq 0put they Fought we'll together
and in less than three minutes every
member Of the mob. who could use
bis feet. was doing so, to the best of
his ability. Fully a dozen men with
broken heads were left lying in the
street where they had been Knocked by
the clubs of the Officers. Some :sof
them were loaded into the wagon and
taken to the police station. as were a
number who were not quick enough in
beginning their retreat. About twenty
arrests were made during the day.
The Kellogg company announces that
it will continue to- send out freight
every day, and the strikers say that
they will use every means to prevent
their doing so.
At all of the depots where freight
/ was delivered today the freight hand
lers refused to unload the freight from
any of the wagons and the work was
done by special men employed by the
company.
: The strike. which has now been in
progress for month, ordered by the
unions because the company refused
to sign an, agreement to employ union
men exclusively. The questions: of
wages and hours were agreed on ~
both sides but the company refused to
force: tts nen-union men into the organ