The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-04-28
BLOODSHED FLOWS AND TWO
DEATHS WILL LIKELY RESULT
Employers Association Says 1t is Fight
to the Death for the open Shop"
Labor Leaders are Equally
Determined

Chicago, April 27-With 3,100 team
sters on strike tonight wi h constant
accessions being made to their num-
Der and with the express determine
tion OF the Employers Assocla ion to
take firm stand for open shop and
fight the teamstcrs unirn & o finnish
Chicago tonigt O all appearances
stands ON the eve Of one Of the great.
est Industrial upaeavals in her his
tory.
Deaths as Result Of Riots.
There was rioting in various parts
4 he city today. despite strong guards
Of police and numbers Of private de-
tectives hired by the Employers Asso-
citation to protect their wagons. Dur
ing w rsDunlazes three persons were
seriously injured, two Of whom will
probably die.
The injured are: Richard Cum.
mings, police sergeant run over by
an omn bus driven by John Ceresa
union driver. Cummings will prob
ably die.
Samuel Jackson, colored teamster
employed by ]. Y. Farwell Company
attacked by a mob Of two hundred, Ht
was badly beaten and his head cut by
blow with a shovel.
Mark Moran, distr ct messenger
boy. was struck on the head by .
board thrown at non-union teamstel
from building at Van Buren, and Il
Sale streets. His condition Is critical
y How Cummings Was Hurt.
Cummings was hurt while command
ing squad Of policemen which was
guarding wagon of Ward e. Co, 4
blockade had been formed by strik'
sympathizers and Cummings was bust
ly engaged in clear ne 1t away whel
the omnibus came up.
The driver, John Ceresa, was warn
ed to keep back He persisted i
driving in, and the tongue of his omni
bus struck Cummings I'm the side
knocking him down. and the loade
omnibus passed over his body. Thre
of his RIBS were broken and he SUI
fered internal injuries. He was take
10 hospital, where it was said h
could not recover. Ceresa was arres
ed.
More Teamsters Strike
The declarat on made last night b
The Employers Association that the
would promptly discharge any team
sters who refused to deliver goods
or call for them at he establishmer
OF Ward & Co. brought out teamster
In many down town mercantile house
during the day and thre number, II
expected, will be increased largely b
tomorrow morning.
How the Strike Is Spreading.
Tonight leading firms against whic
strikes have been declared are
Montgomery, Ward & Co. Daniel
Coal Company, Marshall Field & CO
Carson, Pierce. Scott g. Co., J. v. FAR
well & Co, Wells-Fargo American
National. Pacific, United States an
Adams Express Companies. Forbt
Carriage Co. This last concern Il
wolves d number of the largest bus
ness houses in Chicago, for whom
contracts to deliver goods. Anon
these firms are H'bbard, Spencer. Bar
lett & CO.. Sprague, Warner e c.
Western Electric Co., s. A. Maxwe
q Co. and the American Type Fou
dry Go,
viii Call Out Others.
In addition to these firms. teal
sters employed by number Of small
concerns were called out late tn
evening Business agents Of the tea
s.ers union declared tonight that
tomorrow they will call on strike 10
truck drivers. and thereby cripple
la~ge extent the entire transpor
tion business in Chicago
II was declared also that drivers
grocery houses which delivered goo
TO any firms where the strike exil
would be ordered to JOIN in the lo'
out.
Flight For "open Shop"
X While the labor leaders we're In c.
ference delegates from the Employs
Association. commercial exchange a
representative p{ outside industr