The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-05-03
STRIKES
ENJOINED.
Sweeping Order by United
States Court
IN CHICAGO TROUBLES.
Two Men Shot Down in Street Riot
esterday-Injunction Order I'M
der Interstate Commerce
Law.

Chicago, May 81 Federal Judge G. G.
kohisaat yesterday afternoon, on ap-
plication of counsel for the seven ex-
press companies, issued a sweeping in.
junction against the striking teamsters
or affiliated organizations The labor
advocates are prohibited from interfer-
ing with the transaction of business Of
the companies on the ground OF viola
ton OF Interstate commerce act. The
prohibition in detail is fully as compre.
hensive as the previous injunction in
the matter of the Employers Teamine
Company.
Two men we're shot down in the
streets and six Others injured in the
course Of three riots that marked the
employers effort to break the teamsters'
strike yesterday:
George Schultz, shot by +. f. Carter,
independent guard, may die; unidenti-
fed man, colored, independent team.
shot through the abdomen by strike
sympathizer, may die; William Rather
white, in command OF fifteen colored
men, beaten by mob, may die: William
Davis, James Butler, David Lewis. An
drew Scott, William Ringer, colored.
badly beaten by the mob, taken to hos
pitaI; Sergeant Duffy, hit by brick.
There have been numerous clashes be.
tween mobs who sympathized with the
strikers and the crowds OF imported
men brought here to break the strike
and hundreds of bricks, stones and
sticks had been thrown but until a
guard 81 colored men, conveying three
wagons, reached Wabash avenue and
Harrison street, there had been no.
shooting. AT this intersection large
crowd gathered about the wagons men
acing the negro guards and private de-
tectives, The throng, hurting epithets
at the wagons, men ard convoy, soon be-
gan throwing missiles of bottles. bricks
and rocks. Several Of the colorerd men
We're injured, blood flowing from wounds
in the faces Of two. Suddenly +. f..
Carter, a negro guard drew pistol and
began shooting, one of the bullets strik.
ing George Schultz, one Of the disturb
ers, lnllieting severe wound in the
left side.
Then the rioters turned loose the
fury of their wrath, and despite the free
shooting on the part of the negroes the
members OF the mobs clambered upon
the wagons, and by the time police ar
rived in response TO the riot call, had
beaten several non-union men severely.
The second riot involving shooting
took place at West jackson boulevard
and Halsted streets. Here seven ne
groes who were riding IN wagon were
attacked by crowd that did not hest
tate to shoot. Many bullets were dis
charged from revolyers and pistols, the
negroes joining in the firing. As a re-
suit, one of the colored men was shot,
his companions leaving him senseless
and lying on the pavement.
Other outbreaks took place in which
several colored men were severely cut
and bruised BY blows from bricks and
clubs.
Many Of the wagons of the express
companies now bear huge hand. painted
placards reading:
United States Government bushes.
This, they figure, gives them the NOR
al support of Uncle Sam, in addition to
the regular protection, consisting of
police, private guards and sawed off
shot guns
Instructions TO "shoot to kill' were
given yesterday to strike breakers, who
are here to break the transfers strike,
according to reports that were in cireu-
lation around the non-union head quar-
tiers yesterday.
The reports were to the effect that
the strike breakers captains gave in
strnctions to their men to go the limit
in defending themselves from any at
tacks.