The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-04
The ICE SUPPLY
is NOW CUT OFF
LATEST MOVE OF STRIKERS.
MERCHANTS WHO HAUL FOR PACK
ERS WILL BE PUNISHED.

Teamsters' Union Prohibits Drivers
of Ice Wagons Delivering Ice TO
Those who Have Helped Packers.
This Boycott Stin Further Conn
plicates Chicago SituatiOn-Seri-
Gus RiOting COntinues-POliceme
BADLY Hurt in Clash With StriIN-
ers.
Chicago, Aug. S.-The threatened
spread of the stock yards strike to out
side industries came tonight when an
order was issued by the Transfers
Union, prohibiting drivers of ice wag-
ons from making any deliveries TO re-
tail merchants who. since the packing
house teamsters went on strike, have
been hauling meat from the yards in
their own wagons.
AS the refrigerators in the meat mar
kets do not hold enough ice to last
longer than forty-eight hours, if the
order cutting off the supply of ice can
be enforced, it means that the major
ity of people in Chicago will be COM
PEELED to go on short rations as far as
meat is concerned.
The officials of the Teamsters' Union
have appointed pickets to watch the
meat markets all over the city. and
these men have been instructed to see
that the boycott is carried out to the
limit.
Policemen Were Injured.
Outside of the decision of the strik-
ing unions to extend the strike to the
icemen, there was little change over
yesterday in the situation at the stock
yards to-day.
yards tonight, two policemen were in
jured and twenty-eight rioters were ar
rested after having been beaten into
subjugation.
The trouble started when five strike
breakers from one of the machine
shops in one of the packing plants 4
We're leaving the yards, and tried to
board a street car to go to their homes.
Despite signals from the strike
breakers the motormen on twelve cars
refused to stop and a crowd standing
near by seeing a good opportunity to
get revenge on the non-union men,
commenced hurting stones at them.
Police to the Rescue.
Two policemen who were guarding
the entrance went to the assistance of
the non-union men. but the rioters
by this time had grown in numbers
so rapidly that fully a thousand an
CRY men were trying to get at the
strike breakers. Retreating into the
machine shops, the policemen sent in
a riot call for reinforcements.
When the additional policemen ar
YiUed was made the riot
ers. The crowd was armed with
bricks and stones, and when the po-
licement started forward, every man
who could find room enough threw
a brick. Two of the bricks went true
to the mark. and two of the police
men dropped in their tracks having
been hit on the head.
They were picked up by their COM
panions and taken inside the machine
shop where it was found, that one
of the men, Patrick Ryan, was suf-
fering from a fractured skull The
other policeman was not so seriously
hurt Seeing the condition of their
companions, the other eighteen police
ment made another charge on the
crowd.
TweDty-EiGht Were Arrested.
This time the onslaught was in
earnest. eighteen clubs being swung
from right to left with all the muscle
that each man could master. Every
time club descended it landed on
mans head and fully fifty of the
rioters were beaten to the pavement in
this manner before they showed any
signs of scattering.
As soon as the policemen saw that
they had the men on the run, they
turned their attention to those who
were lying on the ground and sue
ceedde in arresting twenty-eight of
them before they could scramble to
their feet and get away.