The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-27
RIOTING N IHgSIRIKE  The ChicssO Disturbances Break Out AfreSh. VICIOUS FIGHTING OCCURS Police Charge M0bs Of the
 Union Men. Trouble Generally Prevalent in Lumber District-Mayor Dunne Appa-
 rentIy Abandons All
 Hope of Peace.

Chicago. May 26.-Rioting broke out afresh today Tn the teamsters stlke and although nobody was seriously hurt, there were a number or Vicloue fights in the lumber district, during which the police were compelled 10 use their clubs and, in one instance revolV- | CTS. in order to disperse the mops' A serious fight took place at the cor ner of Canal and Madison Streets ad- | joining the passenger depot or the | Pennsylvania Railroad. The wagon or | an express company, although protee.- | ed by d policeman and deputy sherhl | and bearing a Federal injunction pla- | card was attacked by a large crowd. | The policeman displayed his revolver | but the crowd, paying no attention 10 | him, rushed at the wagon ana selzihB | the wheels attempted to overturn It. A riot call brought from the pes | plaines Street police station' iour l squares distant, large force or onn- | cers who dispersed the crowd ana ar l rested about forty of the most active | in the disturbance. The worst hgnt 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 ana | clubs at every passing lumber wagon | Finally a wagon on which Police onl- | cer Ragenski was a passenger came along and the mob greeted it with the | usual volley of stones. They also l threatened to attack the driver ana | the situation was so serious that the l officer, drawing his revolver, nred SIX l shots at the crowd, which fled in the widest confusion.
 RiOtinR General.
 This evening general rloting was prevalent throughout the lumber uls- l trict and particularly in the territory near inc intersection of Thirty-fifth | Street and Centre Avenue. The lumber | wagons returning from making deliv- l cries were attacked by crowds at every l available opportunity. Large numbers of men armed with clubs, sling shots and bricks, accompanied by 9eerlng women and excited children, hlea the l sidewalks along Central Avenue, Tnir- | ty-ffth Street, Loomis Street and Arch CT Avenue, awaiting the passage of i wagons, which were believed oy the 1 crowd to be unguarded.
 l At Archer Avenue and Loomis Street two trucks appeared with one police man on each The trucks were imme- diatelv bombarded with bricks and | stones and scores of air rifles were | brought into play. A bullet from one 1 of these weapons seriously wounded Policeman James Fitzpatrick in the | right hand. The two policemen drew | their revolvers and fired over the heads | of the rioters, holding them at bay un- 1 til the drivers managed to reach their | destination.
 This was at the corner of 35th Street | and Centre Avenue. A patrol wagon and a detail of policemen were here | under the command of Lieutenant Mooney, and as soon as he learned Of the attack on the first two wagons he sent out the patrol wagon to protect others which he knew were on the 1 at tho af- rol wagon and the police were forced several times to jump from the wag- ons and charge the mobs before the streets could be sufficiently cleared to l enable them to reach the lumber wag- | Ons
 Chased the Tickets.
 A crowd of union pickets had been stationed in saloon on 35th Street to block the passage of the trucks. The | police dashed into the saloon. used | their clubs freely and chased the pick cts down the street. The return to the yards was marked by repeated at tempts to block the wagons and the police made numerous charges into the | mobs.
 The strike today spread in q small degree throughout the building trades. | There were number of Instances l where wood workers refused to receive the material delivered by non-union | tCamsters and walked out. This move | in every instance was made by the men | as individuals only. There was no off, ficial action taken by any of the mate rial trades unions looking to active sympathetic support of the tedmsters' 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 of any com plete tieup of the building trades.
 There IS no movement on foot at present looking toward a settlement of the strike. Mayor Dunne today talked as though he had abandoned hopes of a settlement.
 There was a report today that the teamsters were planning to join the employers in a request for troops. President Shea was asked if he pro- posed such a move.
 Doesn't Want Troops.
 'T did not" he answered. q don't want to see troops here and If they come it will. be because the employers want to do what the mine owners dio when the troops were called in Penn sylvania during the strike and the coal miners were shot down-murdered would be a better word If the troops do come 1t will be a sign of only one thing. and that not the necessity oi preserving the peace. which has not | employers want to coerce labor union ists. Any murders that result will be just as much chargeable to the mem bers of the employers as a murder
 would be to me If I should hire ono man to go out and assassinate an. other"
 Attorney Clarence s. Barrow called on States Attorney Healy today tc discuss the possible prosecution of ex.
 press company officials on charges oi
 imposing a black list. The prosecution
 if begun would be under the statute
 imposing a punishment of imprison.
 ment in the penitentiary for not moro
 than five years or a fine not exceeding
 $2b00 or both.
 At meeting of the Associated Building Trades tonight, at wnicl twenty-nine trades affiliated with tn, building industries were represented it was decided that no action will b, taken which will tend to drag tn, building trades into the teamster
 strike This action will go far tow
 ard restricting the strike to its presen
 limits.
 In preparations for a protracteC strika sieGa the teamsters' joint Goun