The Caucasian., 1905-05-04
STRIKE IS INCREASED.
Gigantic Struggle at Chicago Is Of
Greater Magnitude.
MORE MEN ARE OUT.
Strike Breaker Curry Too Seriously
II ..nred to Report and a Mum.
ber of Negroes Say Pay
Too Small For Risk.

Chicago, Nay 4.-Enlarged proper
tions were given to the teamsters
strike Wednesday from both sides OF
the huge struggle. Contrary to ex-
pectation, the employees were the first
to take aggressive action. All team
sters of the Crerar- Clnch company,
which has coal contracts with many
office buildings and firms, went on
strike. The company ordered a load
of Goa! delivered to Carson, Pierre.
Scott & Co., a large mercantile firm
which has been involved in strike
complications for some time past. First
teams ordered to make delivery to the
involved firm were discharged for re-
fusing to deliver the COAL All other
teamstcrs employed by the Crerar-
Clinch company Immediately struck. 1t
is said the effect Of the new spread Of
the strike might be to leave many of
the tallest Office buildings without fuel
to run elevators. Other concerns af-
fected by this spread Of the strike are
the American Cutlery company,
Ritchie Paper Box company and Sam
uel Cupples W6odenware company. In
each case the teamsters were ordered
to deliver one or more Of the boycottsd
houses and struck when the men were
discharged for refusing.
Brutality in the strike Wednesday
began with a fight and panic in a
crowded street car. Two men who
cot RI no oiSto ctriI a
breakers were assaulted and so Sc
verely beaten that they were taken to
the county hospital. The affair oc-
Cured on a street car at Twenty-sixth
street and Stewart avenue. When the
fight began passengers were panic
stricken and fled from the car. Ont
of the men. Edward Boswell, was q
negro medi0al student. His compan-
ion. w. ]. Jameson. was also colored.
The men who committed the assault
escaped.
More than 100 subpoenas were
placed in the hands of United States
deputy marshals to be served on vio-
lators of Federal court injunctions is
sued in connection with the strike.
Men were taken into custody to be
cited to appear before Master in Chan
Ger Sherman Fry. Counsel for the
association will use the ev-
idence obtained at the hearing to urge
wholesale indictments.
Strike Breaker Frank Curry, the
man with the iron nerve" is reported
as being out of the fighting. He did
not appear at the Employers Team
ing company's barns and, 1t Is said, in
all probability Curry will not be able
to take further part in the strike. His
injuries. while not fatal, are exceed
ingly serious, and his associates say
he will lose the sight of his left eye.
Curry also has deep cash two inches
long behind his right ear.
Nearly 300 negro strike breakers re-
fused to work Wednesday when the
police called at non n-unionists' head
quarters to accompany them to the
barns of the Employers Teaming COM
pany. The negroes declined leaving
the building, alleging they had been
brought to Chicago under wr.ng inn
preston. 1--WE are not going to work
as teamsters for $3.50 a day and take
our lives in our hands," Several 9TH
ers said: "We' want to go back to st.
Louis" Sixty others said they were
willing to go to work. Most of the
who struck participated in
rioting.
Joe Scott, non-union teamster,
was shot in the right shoulder. Wal
ter Schultze, a strike sympathizer,
who hoeted non -unionists, was beaten
into insensibility by two negroes. Sew
eral non union negroes fired pistols.