Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1905-05-04
TEAM OWNERS
NOW REFUSE
Positively Decline to Haul For Firms
Under Ban.
NUMEROUS AFFRAYS.
Strike Sympathizers and Those Haul
ing Engage In Several Alter.
cations, Resulting In One
Death and Many Hurt.

Chicago, May 4.-The death OF one
was the immediate result of Tuesday S
fighting between the striking miners
and their sympathizers on the one side
and the police and non-union on the
other. There were riots in all parts
OF the city. Men were dubbed and
stoned almost to death within a square
of police headquarters. and five miles
away men were shot down in the
streets. At several places between
these two extremes of distances there
We're assaults and fights in the streets.
Blood was shed on State street. In the
heart of the fashionable shopping dis
trict and furious riots took place al
most in the doorways of the leading no.
tells. Non union men were pelted with
stones. bricks and every other conceiv-
able sort of missiles. They wee drag
ged from their wagons. beaten. dubbed
and stamped upon. The men who fol-
lowed the wagons on which they rode
were bent on mischief. and but for the
splendid service rendered by the police
force. the list of the dead would be
twenty instead of ten.
In return. the non-union men, al
though hopelessly outnumbered in every
fight. fought desperately. In sever. /
instances they drew their revolvers and
emptied them into the crowds which
pressed around their wagons. pelting
them with stones and threatening their
lives. The colored drivers carried
heavy clubs. and they swung them with
terrific effect throughout the day. AS
far as can be ascertained. the list of in
jured amounts TO about forty, but it
is far from being accurate.
During a riot Tuesday night at Hal
sted and Erie streets. which lasted for
an hour. and in which fully 1000 peo-
pie were engaged. three policemen and
three non union men were injured and
twice as many rioters were dubbed.
Four men were shot late Tuesday
afternoon in a riot at Polk street and
California avenue. This trouble was
the result of an attempt of the United
States Express company to deliver
goods on the far West Side without po-
lice protection.
At the Union League club a meeting
was held between representatives of
thine Employers association and the
large team owners. It was the desire
of the Employers association to bring
as much pressure to bear upon the
team owners as possible, and with this
4 In view they had invited to the confer
ence representatives of the railroads
entering the city. The team owners
stated their position exactly. They
would not attempt to deliver coal TO
any firm where a strike is now in prog
ress, giving as reasons for their re-
fusal that their own men would be
called out. and they would be involved
in the trouble with which they consid-
cred they had nc direct concern. They
were informed that If they would not
make deliveries their contracts with
the business houses. amounting to thou
sands of dollars annually. would be
cancelled. This did not change their
attitude. however. and they persisted
in their refusal TO take part in the
strike. The railroad men, contrary TO
the hopes of the members of the En-
ployers' association. did not exert the
influence upon the team owners that
was expected. They took practically
the same stand declaring that the fight
was something into which the rail-
roads did not enter