The Ladysmith news and Ingram news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1906, 1905-05-06
FIGHTING IN STREETS MORE
FIERCE AND SAVAGE THAN
ANY TIME YET.
WOMEN FLEE FOR THEIR LIVES
MEN WHO HAD NO CONNECTION
WITH STRIKE WANTONLY
ASSAULTED.

Chicago. May 4.-The death OF one
man and the injuring OF scores OF otn-
ers was the immediate result OF the
conflicts between the striking team
STEERS and their sympathizers on the
one side and the police and non-unlon
men on the other. There was riotlng
in all parts of the city. One man
was dubbed almost to death within a
square of police headquarters, and
four miles away men were shot down
in the streets. At a hundred places
between these two extremes OF DIS
lance there were
Assaults and Fights
in the streets. Blood was shed on
streets in the heart Of the fashionable
shopping district and furious riots
took place almost in the doorways OF
the leading hotels of Chicago. Non
union men were pelted with stones,
bricks and almost every other con-
ceivable sort of missiles. They were
dragged from their wagons, beaten,
dubbed and stamped upon by the
mobs that followed the wagons on
which they rode, and but for the
splendid service rendered by the po-
lice force the list of dead would be
twenty instead of one.
EMPLOYERS and Allies at Outs.
Chicago, May 4.-The strike sltua-
ton in Chicago assumed a peculiar
aspect yesterday, and the interests
which have been opposing the strlk-
ing teamsters are not as united as
heretofore The cause of this slight
dissension is the Team Owners asso-
citation. which has contracts with the
railroads and many Of the large firms
throughout the city to transfer their
merchandise. Until yesterday it was
supposed that the employers assocla-
ton and their allies were firmly
bound together in the fight for SUI
premacy against the teamsters. The
Team Owners association, which en-
ploys none but union teamsters,
FIatIy Refused
yesterday afternoon to make deliver
les to any firms now involved in the
strike, when ordered to do so by the
employers association. When the en-
ployers received this ultimatum they
notified the team owners that unless
the request that nc discrimination be
made in deliveries was complied with
an effort would be made to have all
existing contracts between the team
owners and the business houses and
the railroads cancelled.
The Commission Team Owners and
the Lake Transportation Team Own
ers' associations have also taken a
similar stand as the Chicago Team
Owners association.
During the day the employers had
informed Mayor Dunno and Chief OF
Police O'Neill that they
Intended to Move
to-day 1885 wagons, owned by them
and the different express companies,
and manned by non-union men. This
necessitated a call for the swearing in
of 1000 additional policemen, but af-
ter a conference the employers mod
flied their plans and Informed the
city hall officials that they would only
increase very slightly the number OF
wagons over that in service yester-
day. Although the plans have been
changed as to the moving Of the wag-
ons the new men will be added to the
police force to-day and will be put
on strike duty as rapidly as they are
needed. The large retail establish
ments have announced that they will
make deliveries. There have been
numerous complaints of the
Interference by Strikers
with women shoppers, and the au-
thorities have determined to put an
effectual stop to all such practices.
Judge C. G.. Kohlsaat of the United
States circuit court, at the request OF
the attorneys representing the seven
express companies, yesterday issued
a temporary injunction restraining all
persons from interfering with the
wagons Of the petitioners or the men
employed upon them.
The fighting yesterday in the
streets was even more fierce and
savage than that of Wednesday. The
strikers and their sympathizers at
tackled non-union men at every oppor-
tunity, assailing them with bricks,
stones, clubs, knives and any and
every other kind of an offensive weap-
on 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 & Co., dubbed nearly
to death at the corner Of the Auditori-
UNI hotel in plain view of hundreds of
ladies who were compelled to run
from the mob to save their own lives.
In several instances men walking
along the streets who had no active