The Washington times., 1904-08-04
SETTLEMENT TALK
AGAIN FILLS AIR
Butchers Union May Make
Another Proposition.
SITUATION REMAINS QUIET
Angry Mob Fights With Police-Bricks
and Missiles Fill the
Air at Night.
SITUATION REMAINS QUIET


resumed this morning with little to base
a positive claim that such a desirable
movement is 10 be brought about imme-
diately.
President Michael Donnelly, of the
butchers union, who Is returning from
q tour of the Western packing centers
is reported to have advised Secretary
Homer D. Cali of the same union, that
another proposition may be made to the
packers which involves satisfaction To
the employers. and at the same time will
not kin the organization the strikers
have built up.
In another direction ACCESSIBILITY OF
reopening negotiations with the packers
is being discussed among officials Of the
Chicago Federation Of Labor. which be
Iievcs the packers will not refuse to
meet with representative union men.
Notification has been sent 70 the va
rious employment agencies that have
been supplying strike breakers TO cease
sending men. many of whom are I'M
satisfactory and cannot be used.
Drivers 10 Get Word
Plans to harass further the proprietors
Of the plants include instructions TO
make the gon drivers cease hauling
from private and branch storage houses
the meat produced by the big concerns,
and 10 ice teamsters not 10 deliver ice
to meat dealers who persisted in pur-
chasing supplies OF companies against
which the unions are fighting.
Mob Fights Policemen.
An angry crowd of 5000 persons. who
filed Forty-seventh Street for five
blocks and extended back to Forty-ninth
Street. fought with seventy policemen
last evening 10 prevent the officials
from taking five strike breakers out Of
the stock yards district.
Bricks and missiles were hurled at the
police. who fired several shots; strike
ynpathizers were knocked down and
wounded. and several policemen were
hurt. Repeated charges were made into
the throng by the police before the
district was quiet enough to permit the
peaceful egress of the I'VE machinists,
whom the police were escorting TO a
street car
Sought Mems Discharge.
Meantime Police Inspector Hunt had
asked the Chicago City Railway Com
pany 10 discharge five conductors and
four motormen Of the Firty-seventh
Street line. and had arrested one motor
man. who was locked in a cell and was
not permitted to get bail
For two hours Forty-seventh Street,
from Center Avenue to Bishop Street,
was filed with men. women. and chill
dren. At every hand the police had per
sonal encounters. Women appeared at
second story windows with bottles and
clubs TO hurl at them. Strike sympa-
thizers were dragged from saloons and
stairways and pushed into patrol wag-
ons until three Of the vehicles were fill
ed.
Had Baby and Revolver.
you hounds. you hounds." shouted
woman. carrying a baby on one arm and
waving a revolver with the other, as she
stood in the upper story Of her home.
you ought 10 be shot down ike dogs"
The outbreak began early in the even
ing. when five machinists working at
the William r. Perrin machine shops. In
the stock yards left the district in
charge Of a detail Of police. They step
ped from behind a high board fence at
Ada Street in time to catch an eastbound
Forty-seventh Street electric car, but
the motormau hooted and refused to
stop for them. Eleven other cars also
rushed by.
Some One Threw Stone.
Meanwhile the residents Of the thickly
POPULATED district had learned that five
strike breakers were waiting to leave
for home. Crowds poured out of build
ings and surrounded the men. Epithets
were applied to the machinists and 70
the police and finally some one threw
a stone.
The policemen beat back the rioters and
returned the men TO the stock yards
inclosure. Then the half dozen police
men charged the mob and fought their
way 10 a patrol box, from where they
sent a riot call 10 the stock yards police
station.
Police Answer Call.
Ijeut. George Prim and a wagon load
of men hurried out OF the station. The
streets were so filled that the wagon
could hardly pass. and the police dis
mounted at Forty-eighth and Ada
Streets. Prim and his men fought their
way 10 the street car tracks. Prim him
self knocked down several men who
attacked him. re and his squad cor
rallied many prisoners.
Inspector Hunt and Captain Clancy
hurried TO the scene OF the not with
more uatrol wagons. Inspector Hunt
and d detail OF men charged the crowd
east Of Ada Street. Captain Clancy
started west with his men. Lieutenant
Prim went south. Men were Dragged
out of doOrways and hurried 10 the po-
lice station and women and children
were warned that they must remain IN
doors At the end Of TWO hours there
had been sufficient fighting and enough
arrests 10 convince the residents OF the
district OF the supremacy OF the po-
lice.
Street Cars Refuse to Stop.
CAPTAIN Clancy was the last TO leave
and he ordered back part Of the detail
10 the police station 10 report TO him
Immediately. The men went 70 the near
est crossing 10 wait for street car.
Five street cars refused TO stop for the
policemen. One conductor kicked at the
head OF a policeman. Others hooted
and hurried by.
.Street car men have been response
bile for the fight Of this day Inspector
HINT reported 20 the railway ofhclals
Tomorrow my men VIII drag OF every
rnotorman and conductor who does not
act as he should
Tho street car officials assured the
r.olice that the cases Of the men involved
would be settled al once.
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