The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-18
RIOTING IN CHICAGO
One Man Shot In Clash of Whites and
Blacks.

Chicago, July 1s.-A fresh effort
toward settlement Of the packing
house strike was made this afternoon
by Secretary G. l.. Champ Of the Sta
tionary Firemen's international union
and by President Joseph Morton Of
the local body Of the same orgoniza-
ton. The two officials, after con-
ference with President Donnelly, pro-
ceeded to call on the packers.
Chicago, July 1s.-Rioting, in which
one man was shot, another stabbed
and four negroes dubbed and badly
beaten, marked yesterdays close in
the stockyards strike.
Following is a list of the injured:
William Durand, shot in jaw, condi-s
ton serious.
James Kiley, Waterman for Swarz-
schild & Sulzeberger, stabbed over
heart and painfully injured.
Grant Baker, colored, beaten on
head and body with baseball bat.
William Riley, colored, beaten with
baseball bat.
Sam Woods, colored, beaten and
kicked by crowd.
George Parker, colored, beaten
about head and body, locked up at
Thirty-fifth street police station, where
he is being held as a witness.
The negroes were on their way to
the yards when crowd Of strikers
and sympathizers who had been play.
ing ball in a vacant lot, noticed them.
Cry of scabs!"
Some raised the cry, There goes
| the scabs!" and Immediately the
crowd Of negroes were surrounded.
| Bricks were thrown and baseball bats
were freely welded. The black men
drew revolvers and shot at their as
| sailants.
William Durand fell with bullet
wound in the jaw. The bone was frac-
tured. The shot which wounded Dur
and was said to have been fired by
Grant Baker, and he was set upon by
| the mob and beaten over the head
with bat.
James Kiley was on his way to work
| as a Waterman at the plant Of Swarz-
schild & Sulzeberger and got mixed up
the affray. He was stabbed over
the heart by a negro who is said to
have been William Riley. Riley was
attacked and beaten into insensibility
! by the crowd.
! About dozen shots were fired be-
fore the police arrived on the scene,
having been called by a citizen who
saw the fight. BY the time the police
arrived, the crowd had dispersed. the
only ones left being those who were
! too severely injured to get away.
Altho expressing faith in the strik-
! ers' ability to win in a test of endure
| anCe, the ledCeTS were To-Day Stlll IN a
receptive mood. On returning from
| East st. Louis, President Donnelly de-
| clared he would hold no further con-
ference with the packers unless the
packers asked for it.
/ He also said there would be no
effort to call out the livestock hand
lers for the reason that the strikers
/ were unwilling to cause the wide
spread suffering among the cattle now
! in the pens that would follow.
Packers Must Yield.
sThis strike cannot be broken un-
! less the packers come to proper
terms" said Donnelly. They are
talking about the great business they
are doing. Why, they are not doing
IL per cent Of the normal business
now, and I know for fact that Ar
mour killed only sixteen hogs from
| the time the strike started until Sat-
urday night.
/ I'm st. Louis, the one trust plant is
/ tied UP tighter than a drum and the
/ independent packers are doing rush.
] ing business, running both night and
| day. We are sending them all the
union men they need in East st. Louis.
| ''In Chicago the independent pack
ers and butchers are reaping the
benefit. / intend to send big gangs
Of cattlebutchers tonight to inde-
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