The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-05-04
EMPLOYEES TAKE FURTHER WIG
oRoUs ACTION AGAINST EN-
PLoYERs' ASSOCIATION.
LARGE NUMBER OF AONuNIONlsTS QUIT
MANY STRIKE BREAKERS WEARY
OF STRENUOUS LIFE THEY
HAVE BEEN LEADING.

Chicago, May 4.-Enlarged proper
t1ons were given the teamsters' strike
during the day from both sides of the
huge struggle. Contrary to expecta-
t1on the employees were the first to
take aggressive action. All the team
sters Of the Creea1cAlinch company,
which has coal contracts with many
office buildings and firms, went on
strike. The company had ordered a
load of coal delivered to Carson, Pirie,
Scott & Co.. large mercantile firm
which has been involved in the strike
complications for some time past The
tive tealnsters ordered to make the
delivery to the involved firm were dis
charged for refusing to deliver the
coal. All other employees of the Creear-
Cl1nch company struck Immediately.
1t was 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.
Brutality in the strike began with
fight and panic in a crowded street
car. Two colored men, who, it is said,
were mistaken for strike breakers,
were assaulted and SO severely beaten
that they were taken to the county
hospital. The men who committed the
assault escaped before the police ar
rived.
Noted Strike Breaker Hurt
Strike Breaker Frank Curry, the
man with the iron nerve" is re-
ported as definitely out OF the fightins
He die not appear at the Employers
Teaming company's barns and it was
said that in all probability Curry will
not be able to take further part in the
strike. His injuries, while not fatal.
are exceedingly serious and associates
say that he will lose the sight of his
left eye. The blow which caused the
injury came from cobblestone.
Nearly 800 negro strike breakers re-
fused to work when police called at
the nonuniOnists headquarters to ac-
company them to the barns of the EN-
ployers' Teaming company. The ne.
grOes declined to leave the building,
alleging they had been brought to Chi
casO under false pretenses.
I'VE are not going to work as team.
sters for $3.50 day and take our lives
in our hands, several of the negroes
said. I'VE want to go back to st.
Louis"
Nineteen colored men, imported
from Xenia, o., as strike breakers, quit
work during the day. The men are
students and were informed that they
could get big salaries by working H.
Chicago. When told they must pro-
tect themselves from violence they
quit work.
Nonunion Men Walk Out.
"Ah! But l was a viper in their
camp" said George E. Davis, union
leader Of Flint, Mich, who led JOG
strike breakers on a strike. Davis,
who is locomotive engineer, was
brought from Michigan as one of 125
strike breakers, and, being union
sympathiZer, he worked UP the insur
rectionary feeling which resulted in
Walkout.
coal wagons sent out by the Employ
ers' Teaming company from stable
in Armour avenue The trouble
started in Franklin street, near Harrl
son. Walter CcultZ, a strike sympa-
thizer, hooted the nonunion drivers
and was promptly knocked down anu
badly beaten by two colored guards,
but the negroes were in turn obliged
to fight their way for a mile through
crowds OF white strikers and sympa-
thizers. Volleys Of stones were thrown
and many of the colored men riding in
the wagons were injured.
More determined efforts to secure
the presence Of troops in Chicago,
either federal or state, were made dur
ing the day by the employers. Sew
eral conferences were held between
representatives of the Employers
association and the Employers Team
ing company with the view to arrang
ing some action toward the calling out
OF troops.