Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-05-03
THE STRICKERS
SCORE POINT.
Discussions Arise in the Ranks
of Chicago Team
Owners.
FIGHTING IN STREETS.

opposing the striking teamsters are not
as united as heretofore. The cause of
this slight dissension is the Team Own
ers' association, which has contracts
with the railroads and many of the
large firms throughout the city to
transfer their merchandise. Until now
it vas supposed that the Employers
association and their allies were firmly
bound together in the fight for supreIn-
acy against the teamsters.
The Team Owners association, which
ly refused to make deliveries TO any of
the firms involved in the strike when
ordered to do so by the Employers as
ISOLATION. When the employers re-
ceived this ultimatum they notified
the team owners that unless the re-
quest that no discrimination be made
in deliveries were granted an effort
would be made to have all existing
contracts between team owners and
the business houses and the railroads
Cancelled.
An attempt at lynching, a new fed
eral injunction, the calling into service
of 900 extra policemen. marked aggres-
sive action on the part of the employ
ers, the posting of danger proclama-
tons. ominOus bristle of firearms. ter
rorizing of street pedestrians, great loss
of perishable goods in commission
houses and warehouses. partial paraly-
sis of business and general prepare
tions for an extension of the strike
were the main features of the war be-
tween the teamsters and the employers.
There was one death during the day.
Charles Beard had his skull fractured
in a riot near the Auditorium hotel.
While disorder reigned in the streets
representatives of employers, with
wealth aggregating $200,000,000, met
at the Union League club and devised
ways to strengthen their position.
The Employers Teaming association
sent word to the large team owners
that they desired to know where they
stood in the present fight. Many of the
members of the Teaming association
have contracts for the delivery of coal
with the team owners. who have so far
III W iiloh0 Hhf P' 49,
commencement of the strike.
The railroad men, contrary to the
hopes of the members of the Employ
ers' association, did not exert the infiu-
ence on the team II that was ex-
pected. They took practically the same
stand. declaring that the fight was
something into which the railroads did
not properly enter, that they had on
tracts with the team owners, that these
contracts were at present being full
filled to their entire satisfaction and
that they could see no reason why the
railroads should be dragged in&o the
struggle.
The fighting in the streets was even
more fierce and savage than has occur
red yet. The strikers and their sym
pathizers attacked the nonunion lei
at every opportunity, assailing them
with bricks. stones, clubs, knives and
any and every other offensive weapon
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 300 feet Of
o tlt ~ Ctpit VI a. WI ~
|, Co. dubbed nearly to death at the cor
ner of the Auditorium hotel in plain
view of hundreds of ladies who were
compelled to run from the mob to save
their w lives. In many instances
men walking along the streets who had
no active connection whatever with the
strike were assaulted by hoodlums,
/, who beat them first and later accused
them of being strike breakers. A nota-
bic instance of this kind was that of
Rev. w. X. Wheeler. pastor OF the
Ninth Presbyterian church, who, while
passing the corner Of Des PLANES and
Adams streets on his way to the Penn
s~ylvania depot. was attacked by three
men. who knocked him down and beat
him severely.
Rev. Wheeler was assaulted with
brass knuckles and ''billics," One OF
the ~clergyman's assailants sat upon
him and continued TO pommel the vic.
tim. Rev. Wheeler. using all his
strength. chung to this assailant unit
the police opportunely arrived. The
minister's prisoner gave the name Of
James Blau. The police followed tht
other two assailants for two blocks
and fred repeatedly at the f~ugitives
who. however, ran into an alley ant
disappeared.
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tise in the Evening News. Thos'
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