Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1905-05-05
MANY BLOODY FIGHTS
Furious Battles Fought In Streets Of
Chicago by Strikers.
ATTACKING NON.UNlON MEN
Even Persons Not Connected With
Strike AssaiIed-Teamown De-
sert Employers Combine-One Man
Killed and Scores Injured.
ATTACKING NON.UNlON MEN

Chicago May 3.-The death OF one
man and the injury of scores Of others
was the immediate result of Tuesday 5
fighting between the striking team.
sters and their sympathizers on the
one side and the police and the non
union men on the other There were
riots in all .rts of the city Men
were clubbf and stoned almost TO
death withih square of police head.
quarters and five miles away men
were shot down in the streets At a
hundred places between these two ex-
tremes OF distance there were assaults
and fights in the streets.
Blood was shed in State street in
the heart of the fashionable shopping
district. and furious riots took place
almost in the doorways OF the leading
hotels. Non-union. men were pelted
with stones, bricks and every other
conceivable sort OF missiles.
Chicago. May 3.-The strike situa-
ton in Chicago has assumed a pec1-
liar aspect and now the interest
which have been opposing the striking
teGmsters are not as united as hereto.
fore. The cause OF this slight disseu.
sion is the teamowners' association
which has contracts with the railroads
and many of the large firms through.
out the city 10 transfer their merchan.
disc. Until Tuesday it was supposed
that the employers association and
their allies were firmly bound togeth-
er in the fight for supremacy against
the teamsters
Wouldn't Obey Orders.
The teamowners' association. which
employs none but union teamsters.
fatty refused Tuesday afternoon TO
make deliveries TO any OF the firms
now involved in the strike when or.
dered to do so by the employers asso
citation. When the employers received
this ultimatum they notified the team
owners that unless the request that no
discrimination be made IN deliveries
w2re granted. an effort would be made
10 have all existing contracts between
tesmowners and the business houses
and the railroads cancelled.
Yesterday the employers associa,
ton had informed Mayor Dunno and
Chief OF Police O'Neill that they in.
tended TO move today 1885 wagons
owned by them and the different ex.
press companies and manned by non
union men. This necessitated a call
fo- the swearing in OF 900 additional
policemen. after the conference at the
Union League club. and employers
modified their plans and informed the
city hall officials that they would only
Increase very slightly the number OF
wagons over that in service Tuesday
Police Force Increased.
Although the plans have been
changed as 20 the moving OF the wag.
ons, the new men will be added 10 the
police force and will be put on strike
duty as rapidly as they are needed
Nine hundred OF them will be placed
OH State street alone. The large re-
tail establishments have announced
that they will make deliveries
The fighting Tuesday in the streets
was even more fierce and savage than
that Of Monday. The strikers and
their sympathizers attacked the non
union men at every opportunity, as.
sailing them with bricks. stones. clubs
knives and any and every other Of
fensive weapon upon which they could
lay their hands. The fighting occurred
in the heart OF the business section OF
the city, men being shot down within
200 feet Of the retail store Of Marshall
Field G. Co. dubbed nearly TO death
at the corner Of the Auditorium hotel