Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-05-07
INDIGNANT DENIAL IS MADE
Comparative Quiet in the Downtown
Streets of chloaso-PhyaleaI Vic.
lenee Now Gives Way to War of
Words Rstween the contendine
Forces-Worst Believed to BE Over.
tRy Associated press.l

comparatively quiet in the downtown
streets today despite the undated
continuance Of the teamstors' stI ike.
There were n few scattered outbreaks.
hut there was Il complete absence of
the marching crowds that for days fol
loved the wagons of boycotted firms
through the streets and seized ON
every Opportunity TO attack the drivers;
and wagon guards. Although there
have heen no positive developments
as yet, there is n strong feeling both
oI, the part Of the employers and the
the strikers that the worst of the dis.
order has been passed and that In
few days the streets of the city will
be cleared for traffic
There were only two riots today The
first was started at Canal and Yves:
Madison streets. A caravan Of coal
wagons under the guard of Il few depu.
ty' shcritfs was proceeding south ia
Canal street. when a union teamster
formed blockade.
General Fight Ensues.
In O few seconds general fight
was i'll progress and the non-union
drivers were assaulted with stones and
hotties. A riot call was sent tn the
Desplaine street police station and
strong force of officers under the com
mand of Lieutenant O'ConHor came
charging in:o the crowd They ham
mered both sides indiscriminatcly. ar
toll
throwing stones at the wagons and
dispersed! the crowd. Nobody was seri-
iously hurt =,
The other fight took place at the
power house of the Union Traction
Company at Crosby and Hobbir
streets. The Peabody Coal Company.
Which has the contract to deliver coal
Ia the power house. had delivered $50
tons i'll river barges. and a large force
of negroes was set to work Whcrlin,,
the coal fror; the hargSs to The power
house The sight OF the colored men
angcred the strike sympathizers who
were around The building and .he no
srncs were asSailed with bricks
One Negro Seriously Injured.
William Gilbert, one Of the colored
men. was struck OH The head with a
lump of coal and seriously injured. a!
detail of officers from the Chicago
avenue police station restored order
after few rnshes into tile crowd.
While the fighting disappeared
from the streets in n large measure, it
broke out with great violence in Il wa:
of words between the members of the
Employers Association and the labor
unions. Charges were made against
the pG."a II teI:.r sad that at the
outSet shat the policemen have, IL.
many eases, favored the strikers, re-
fusnG TO arrest union men when they
were seen assaulting non.union mon,
while the policemen lost no opportu-
nitv tn Arrest ncn-union men,
The charges against the labor lead
crs are To tho effect that they planned
an GstensiTle settlement of the stlikc
which wonl,l give them the crcdi, Of
gaining victory, hut which wouiu III
reality leave all the members Of the
, union without having becn on strike
Out 0f positions. The plan as stated
by several members IF the. Employ.
ers' Association and which they ms
sert came from President Shea. of tie
1'eanisters' Union. was to call The
strike OF FOR twenty. four hours, dur
lug which time the leaders Of the
union would get ont of town.
To Sell Out the Strikers.
4 All teamsters now working for the
Employers Association according to
the alleged plan, should be allowed to
retain their places without interference
4 by the unions and all strikers should.
Z he reinstated for the period of q
hours. At the expiration of this brief
period the employers were 10 be free
to discharge all the union mon they.
desired. President Shea. when the