The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-07-27
RIOT AT STOCKYARDS
Strike Breaker Badly Beaten and
ASSaiIantS Escape.
THE RACE ISSUE RAISED
Girls Refuse to Work With Negroes In
Swift g. Co.'S Restaurant = Panic
Among coIored Nonunion Butchers
Leads to Much Shooting.

Leads to Much Shooting.
Chicago, July 2T. TWO thousand per-
sons saw one of the most brutal cases
Of smuggling and some Of the poorest
craftsmanship on the part Of the police
linen since the strike at the stoekyards
began. A strike breaker named john
Mulloy had inst left the yards and
reached Forty-first and Halsted streets
when three men, Of whom one was
named John Doody, attacked him.
Mulloy was knocked down and nearly
killed His nose was broken, his eyes
cut open with terrific blows and one
ear was nearly torn off Five police
men then appeared, whereupon the
three sluggers ran.
The chase led through a crowd Of
strike synpathizers and curious specta-
tors through streets and alleys TO the
Halsted street yiaduet, the policemen
calling upon the fugitiyes TO stop or
they would be shot. The crowds In the
streets were SO large that the police
men We're afraid ait first to use their
revolyers, and In the crush two Of the
fugitiyes leaped into a laundry wagon
and were rapidly driven away, but the
third man was kept in sight, and as
soon as he reached the approach 10 the
viaduct the policemen began shooting
How many shots were fred is not
known, but the noise sounded as If
sham battle was in progress, but all
the shots missed Body had an APP
parently clear way ahead Of him and
was running fast when lie stumbled
and fell Before be could make up the
loss Of time the policemen were upon
him, and he was held until patrol
wagon came from the stockyards. tie
was put in a cell to await hearing.
Mulloy while the excitement Of the
man chase was at its height, was found
by friends, who quickly took him
away.
Race Feeling Aroused,
Development OF d race war is rapidly
proceeding throughout the strike dis.
trict, the trouble starting fl the res.
taurants Of Armour q Co, Swift 4 "a.
and Nelson Morris & Co, where all
the dining room girls quit on account
of the presence of colored, cooks. The
real cause, it is inferred, was their de-
sire to aid IN the sympathetic strike.
AS rapidly as d girl took on her apron
and walked out colored man was en-
ployed In her place. Thereupon twenty
i've girls ia Swift Il Co.'S restaurant
quit In d body. twenty-five 1T Nelson
Morris 4 Co.'S and thirty at Armour &
Co.'S The women strikers marched Ia
a hail and held d meeting, where IT
was decided to form themselves for
picket duty and see that no girls went
into the yards to work either III the
strike affected places or III the restau-
rants Of other firms 4 dozen Of them
took up places AZ Exchange avenue
and Halsted street and every young
woman who passed was urged to 20
home or stay and 10 picket duty, Not
few complied, but the others broke
away and fed into the yards 70 work.
-Four girls we're roughly handled but
not seriously hurt
Strike Breakers in Panic.
Shooting wildly ii the darkness. Il
score Of panic stricken strike breake.s
hired BY Swift & GO. spread constolna
ton through the stockyards. Riot calls
We're sent e the police. AMI the armed
garrison Of Packing Town turned ont
in full force believing that the strik.
ers had made IN organized attack un-
der cover Of darkness. Failing to dis
cover any strikers. the police arrested
the strike breakers all Of them colored
The prisoners numbered a dozen.
When the police turned from search
Ing for an attacking party and arrested