The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1905-05-04
EMPLOYEES 5 TAKE FURTHER viG-
OROus ACTION AGAINST EN-
Flowers ASSOCIATION.
LARGE NUMBER OF HOAUNlONlsTs QUIT
MANY STRIKE BREAKERS WEARY
OF STRENUOUS LIFE THEY
HAVE BEEN LEADING.

SHIoiSO, May f.-1uldIBeu pIOpoi-
tions were given the teamsters' strike
during the day from both sides of the
huge struggle. Contrary to expecta-
tion the employees were the first to
take aggressive action. All the team
sters of the Creear-Clinch company,
which has coal contracts with many
strike. The company had ordered
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
five teamsters ordered to make the
delivery to the involved firm were dis
charged for refusing to deliver the
coal. All other employees of the Creear-
Clinch 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 a
fight and panic in 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 fighting.
He did not appear at the Employers
Teaming company's barns and 1t 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
cago under false pretenses.
1--WE are not going to work as team
sters for $3.50 a 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 in
Chicago. When told they must pro-
tect themselves from violence they
quit work.
Nonunion Men Walk Out.
"Ah! But | was a viper in their
camp" said George E. Davis, union
leader of Flint, Mich, who led LOG
strike breakers on a strike. Davis,
who Is locomotive engineer, was
brought from Michigan as one of 125
strike breakers. and, being a union
sympathizer, he worked up the insur-
rectionary feeling which resulted in a
walkout.
Fierce rioting attended caravan of
coal wagons sent out by the Employ
ers' 1eaning company from stable
in Armour avenue. The trouble
started in Franklin street, near Harri-
son. Walter Ccultz, strike sympa-
thizer, hooted the nonunion drivers
and was promptly knocked down and
badly beaten by two colored guards,
but the negroes were in turn Obliged
To fight their way for 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.