The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1905-05-03
Railroad Companies and Employ,
ers Do Not Agree.
STREET FIGHTS NUMEROUS
Striking Teamsters and Their Sympa-
thixers Assault Drivers With Stones
and Several People Shot and Some
Hrutally Beaten by Strikers.

Chicago, May s,--The strike situa'
tion In Chicago assumed peculiar as
poets today, and tonight the interest:
which have been opposing the strik'
ing teamsters are not as united q:
heretofore. The cause OF this dissen'
sion is that the team owners associa-
tion which has contracts with the rail-
road companies and many large firms
throughout the city refuse TO transfer
their merchandise. Until today It was
supposed that the Employers Asso-
citation and their attorneys were firm
ly bound together in the fight for su-
premacy against the teamsters.
The team owners association, which
employs none but union teamsters.
fatty refused this afternoon to make
deliveries 10 any Of the firms now in
volved in the strike. when ordered to
do so by the employers association.
When the employers received this ul-
timatum they notified the team owners
that unless they recognized the re-
quest no discrimination would be
made to have all existing contracts
between the team owners and business
railroad men, contrary TO the hopes
of the members of the employers. as
sociation. refuse to exert the influence
upon the team owners as was expect
ed. They took practically the same
stand. declaring that the fight was
something into which the railroads did
not propose to enter.
The commission team owners and
the lake transportation team owners
association also take similar stand
to that of the Chicago team owners
association. One thousand men will
be added to the police force tomorrow
and will be put on strike duty as
rapidly as needed. Nine hundred OF
them will be placed on State street
alone.
j. The fighting today in the streets
was even more fierce and savage than
yesterday. Strikers and their sympa-
thizers attacked non-union men at
every opportunity, assailing them with
bricks, stones, clubs, knives and any
other weapon upon which they could
lay their hands The fighting occur
red in the heart Of the business Sec
tion Of the city, men being shot down
within 200 feet Of the retail store of
Marshall, Field & Co.. and dubbed
nearly to death at the corner Of the
Auditorium hotel in plain view of
hundreds of ladies, who were COM
PEELED to iun from the mob TO save
their lives. In many instances men
walking along the streets, who had no
active connection whatever with the
strike, were assaulted by hood1ums
who beat them first and then accused
them of being strike breakers.
AS far as is known but one man
was killed today. The list of the in
jured number 27, but the whole num-
Der hurt is much greater than it is
possible to obtain. In many cases the
union men swung their clubs with
great effect, knocking men from their
wagons headlong into the street, In
other instances when assalied by mobs
the non-union men fired point blank
into crowds and 1t was difficult 10 see
hsw members Of the mob could escape
many broken heads or how bullets
fired should have gone wild. Although
It was announced last night by the