Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-27
BUILDING TRADES WITHDRAW
AID FROM STRIKERS
is A SEVERE BLOW TO SHEA
BY Their Refusal to Help, Teamsters
Lose One Thousand Dollars
Week-Union Men Use Air
Guns Against Police
BY Associated Press.

out afresh today in the teamsters strike
and although nobody was seriously
hurt, there were number of vicious
fights in the lumber district, during
which the police were compelled to use
their clubs and in one instance revol-
vers in order to dispense the mob.
A serious fight took place at the cor
ner of Canal and Madison sire Its, ad-
joining the passenger station of the
Pennsylvania railroad. The wagon of
an express company, although pro-
tected by policeman and a deputy
sheriff, was attacked by large crowd,
despite the fact that it bore on each
side large placarG declaring that all
people had been enjoined from inter-
fering with the wagon by the federal
court. The policeman displayed his re-
volver, but the crowd, paying no at
tention to him, rushed at the wagon
and, seizing the wheels, attempted to
overturn it. A riot call brought from
the Desplaines street police station,
four squares distant, a large force of
Officers, who dispersed the crowd and
arrested about forty of the most active
in the disturbance.
The worst fight in the lumber district
occurred at Twenty-second street and
Ashland avenue, where a crowd of men
and boys had all through the morning
hurled stones and clubs at every pass
ing lumber wagon. Finally a wagon
on which Police officer Bagenski was
a passenger came along, and the mob
greeted it with a volley of stones.
They also threatened to attack the
driver, and the situation was so serious
that the officer, drawing his revolver,
fired six shots at the crowd, which
broke and fled in wild confusion. None
of the bullets hit anybody.
Disorder in Lumber District
This evening general rioting was
prevalent throughout the lumber dis
trict and particularly in the territory
near the intersection of Thirty-fifth
street and Center avenue. The lumber
wagons returning from making deliv-
cries were ATTACKED by crowds at ev-
cry available opportunity. Large num-
ters of men armed with clubs, slung-
shots and bricks, accompanied by jeer
ing women and excited children, filled
the sidewalks along Center avenue.
Thirty-fifth street, Loomis street and
Archer avenue, awaiting the passage
of wagons which were believed by the
crowd to be unguarded.
At Archer avenue and Loomis street
two trucks appeared with one police
man on each. They were Immediately
bombarded with bricks and stones and
scores of air rifles were brought into
play A bullet from one of these
weapons seriously wounded Policeman
James Fitzpatrick in the hand. The
two policemen drew their revolvers and
fired over the heads of the rioters,
holding them at bay until the drivers
managed to reach their destination at
the yards of the Rittenhouse &
Embree Lumber company.
The strike today spread in a small
degree throughout the building trades.
There were a number of instances
the material delivered by non-union
teamsters and walked out. This move
in every instance was made by the men
as individuals only. No official action
was taken by any of the material trades
unions looking to active sympathetic
support of the teamsters' strike.
Several of the labor leaders in
the ranks of the material trades have
declared within the last twelve hours
that there is no prospect, in their opin-
ion, of any complete tie-up of the
building trades by strike of the men.
There is no movement at present
looking toward a settlement of the
strike. Mayor Dunno today for the
first time since the commencement of
the teamsters strike declared that he
knew of no contemplated plans for
peace.
The mayor talked as though he had
abandoned hopes of settlement AL
derman Dever, chairman of the city
council peace committee appointed a
week ago, said tonight that he had
practically ceased work. as the COM
mittee could see no avenue in the con-
troversy looking toward an adjustment
of the differences between the team
sters and the employers.
At a meeting of the Associated Build
ing trades tonight, at which twenty
nine trades affiliated with the building
industries were represented, it was de-
cided that no action will be taken
which will tend to drag the building
trades into the teamsters' strike.
This action on the part of the build
ing trades will go far toward restrict
ing the strike to its present limits, as
1t means that the members of the
building trades union viii work with
materials Irrespective of the fact that
they are hauled in wagons driven by
non-union teamsters.
1t was decided at the meeting to
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