Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-05-10
CHICAGO II. BAD WAY
Labor Strike Assumes Alarming Pro-
portions and Bloodshed Results
SHOOT AND CLUB ON SUSPICION
Fighting Was Even More Savage Than
Mondays, Men Being Shot Down
and Beaten or Kicked Nearly to
Death in the Heart Of the Business
Section.

Chicago, Special.-The death OF one
man and the injury of scores OF others
was the immediate result of Tuesdays
fighting between the striking teamsters
and their sympathizers on the one side,
and the police and the non-union men
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 we're shot down in the
streets. At hundred places between
these two extremes of distance there
were assaults and fights in the streets.
Non-union men were pelted with
stones, bricks and every other conceiv.
able sort Of missiles. They were drag
ged from their wagons, beaten, club
bed and stamped upon.
EMPLOYERS DISUNITED.
The Team Owners Association,
which employs none but union team
sters, fatty refused to make deliveries
to any Of che firms involved in the
strike, when asked to do SO by the En-
ployers' Association at a conference at
the Union,14eague Club. When the en-
ployers received this ultimatum they
notified the team owners .nat unless
the request that no discrimination be
made In deliveries were granted, an ef-
fort would be made to have all exist
ing contracts between team owners and
the business houses and the railroads
cancelled.
Ask For Troops.
Chicago, Specia1.-Rioting in the
streets in connection with the team
sters' strike was so prolonged and so
fierce that many of the leading bust
ness men have concluded that there
will be neither peace in the city nor
safety for business interests until the
State militia has been called out to
restore order.
A committee of members of the En-
ployers' Association left for Spring
field to confer with Governor Deneen
and to request him to give orders to
the State troops. The labor unions
have several representatives at the
State capital, and it is likely that they
will also be heard before <a6Y action
is taken by the Goxsfnor. Chief OF
Police o'Neill says he is confident that
he has coIhfol of the situation and
can liaasp peace in the city. Mayor
DuEne supports him in this view and
r has declared that in his opinion the
emergency has not arisen requiring
the presence Of troops.
BUSINESS MEMS PLEA.
On the other hand. business men
point to the long list of injured which
marked the rioting of Tuesday and the
greater number of persons who were
hurt Wednesday, and declare that
these lists of injured alone are sufh
cient proof that the police department
is not sufficiently strong to cope with
the situation. No complaint is made
against the police department, for the
officers have dispersed every mob with
which they have come in contact and
have guarded wagons night and day
with the greatest vigilance. But de
spite the utmost efforts Of the police
fighting continues in the streets. sand
is, if possible, more vicious On each
succeeding day. -s@gzFs
While policemen have been able to
disperse mobs and guard the wagons,
they have not been able to prevent
the many attacks that are made on
non-union men in the business Of the
city alone. The situation, business
men say, will be ten-fold worse when
express wagons and retail delivery
wagons are sent to remote parts OF
the city.
Despite the orders of Mayor Dunno,
many wagons Of concerns against
which strikes have been declared were
handled by men armed with rifles and
shot guns.