The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-05-04
REQUEST FOR TROOPS ID
 QUELL CHICAGO RIOTS
BUSINESS MEN TO ASK GOVERN OR TO ORDER OUT STATE
 MILITIA.

Disturbances in Connection With Team sters' Strike Prolonged and FIercer
 No Peace in City Nor Safety for
 Business Interests-Mayor Dunne and
 Chief of Police Think Police Can
 Handle Situation-First Rifle shot
 Both Sides Make Gains. Chicago, May 3-Rioting in the streets to-day in connection with the teamsters' strike was so prolonged and so fierce that many of the leading busi- ness men have concluded that there will be neither peace in the city nor safety for business interests until the state militia has been called out to re- store order.
 A committee of members of the En- ployers association left for Springfield to-day to request Governor Deneen to give orders to the state troops The labor unions have several representa- lives at the state capital, and 1t is likely that they also will be heard be- fore any action is taken by the gov ernor.
 l Chief of Police O'Neill says he is con- fident that he has control of the situa- tion and can keep peace in the city, Mayor Dunne supports him in this view and declares that the emergency has not arisen requiring the presence of troops.
 On the other hand, business men point to the long list of injured which market the rioting of yesterday and tha greater number of persons who were hurt to-day, and declare that this list is sufficient proof that the police de- partment is not sufficiently strong to cope with the situation.
 While policemen have been able to disperse mobs and guard wagons, they have not been able to prevent the many attacks that are made on non-unien men in the business portion of the city alone
 Despite the orders of Mayor Dunne, many wagons of concerns against which strikes have been declared were ham dled to-day by men armed with rifles and shotguns.
 The first rifle shot during the strike whizzed through a crowded thorough fare to-day. It was fired by guard on
 
 company while it was passing through a crowd of strike sympathizers at State and Randolph streets Tn driving past the corner the driver of the wagon refined his horses suddenly, and the guard, seeing a street-car conductor stopping as though to throw a missile, 5 fired without the slightest hesitation. I Nc person was hit.
 The request of the employers, made to-day, that the police be allowed to ride on their wagons was refused by the chief of police. The officers will com tinue to march abreast of the wagons on the street, or on the sidewalks. One hundred and fifty wagons of the seven express companies went to and fro across the city to-day, each carry ing guard armed with a rifle or a ] double-barrelled shotgun. No attempt , was made to interfere with any of the express wagons.
 The trucks of the Scott Transfer cona- ]; pany also were guarded in the same manner. The company transacted its business as though there had been no | strike against it.
 Both sides made gains to-day and the
  l lanced as before. The accession to the ranks of the teamsters was made when a strike was declared against the coal firm of Crerar, Clinch & Co, employing several hundred men. One of their drivers was discharged for refusing to make deliveries, and the rest walked out. W
 The gain for the Employers associa- , tion was made when members of the : Hay and Grain Dealers association, . employing twelve hundred teams, de- i, clared that deliveries would be made Ito any place in the city. If drivers re- fuse to obey orders they will be dis charged.
 The mobs that filled the streets in the business quarter to-day were larger and uglier in disposition than those of yesterday. There was fighting in all parts of the downtown quarter through ,sfout the day and dozen times police- ], linen were compelled to use their clubs, and wagon guards, armed with heavy canes, swung them whenever they thought an assault was about to ba made.
 On the otier hand, the strikers and { tLn6lr IfleHuS were eQuduy AludsCiAiiiA~ mate in assaulting people. There were ], a number of instances where mobs
 boarded street cars and wantonly att !, tackled people riding in them, giving as , reason that they were strike breakers, when, in fact, they had nothing to do with the strike. w Jamison and Ed ward Boswell, the latter negro medical lstudent, were dragged from State
 street car and beaten unmercifully.
 Up to o'clock tonight a score of
 linen had been taken to hospitals with all sorts of injuries, and fully two- !, score were injured in the various fights y of the day, whose names could not be : learned.
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