The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-05-27
RIOTING BREAKS OUT
 AFRESH IN CHICAGO
POLICE USE THEIR CLUES AND
 FIRE IN THE AIR.

Men Armed with Various Weapons Ac-
 companied by JeerinE Women and
 Excited Children BOmbard Nom
 Union Teamsters-strilxe Spreads in
 Small Degree Throughout the Buiid-
 ing Trades.
 Chicago, May 26.-Rioting broke out afresh to-day in the teamsters strike, and although no one was seriously hurt there was a number of vicious fishts in the lumber yards during which the police were compelled to use clubs, and in one case revolvers to dfsperse the crowds.
 Tonight general rioting was prevail ent throughout the lumber district ana particularly near West Thirty-hfth strset and Center avenue. Lumber
 wagons returning from making deliv- cries were attacked by crowds at every.
 available opportunity. Large numbers of men armed with clubs, slungshots, and bricks, accompanied by jsering women and excited children, filled the sidewalks, awaiting the passage of wagons, which were believed to be un- guarded.
 Trucks appeared with one policeman on each. The drivers were imm! diately bombarded with bricks and stones, and
 several air rifles were brought into play. A bullet from one of these weap- ons wounded Policeman James Fitzpat-. rick in the right hand. The two police
 men drew revolvers and fired over the= heads of the rioters, holding them at
 bay until the drivers reached the lum-
 bsr yards.
 | A patrol wagon and a detail if police-s
 men were sent to protect other lumber
 wagons which were on their way home.
 Stones were hurled at the patrol wagon and the policemen were forced several I times to jump from the wagon and charge the mobs before the streets
 could ge cleared.
 l Tn West Thirty-third street special ! policeman pointed out a man who was 1 wearing a union button and throwing i bricks as the man who had fired the 1 shot which wounded Policeman Fitz-
 patrick.
 Get that man. ordered Lieutenant
 Mooney, springing from his seat on the ! front of the patrol wagon. Don't shoot i him. he added, as two officers drew 1 revolvers and started in pursuit. The l man ran into a vacant lot, and the Z two officers opened fire, shooting into the ground near him. The man stop ped and was arrested. He gave his
 name as Otto Topen, and said he was i a union teamster. A large, keen knife ! with an eight inch blade was taken
 from him at the time of his arrest. l The worst fight in the lumber yards
 occurred at West Twenty -second street I and Ashland avenue, where a crowd of \ msn and boys had all through the
 morning hurled stones and clubs at ey-
 cry passing lumber wagon Finally a I wagon on which Policeman Bagerski Twas a passenger came along, and the
 mob greeted 1t with the usual voiiey l of stones. They also threatened to at
 tack the driver, and the situation was so serious that the officer, drawing a
 revolver, fired six shots at the crowd, which fled in confusion. None of the bullets hit anybody. l I The strike to-day spread in a small ] degree throughout the building trades. l There were a number of instances were wood workers refused to receive l the material delivered by non-union l teamsters and walked out. This move
 in every instance was made by the men | ne itd fxyid, nn1t .1ff1
 cial action taken by any of the fa- l terial trade unions looking to active sympathetic support of the teamstsrs. I Several of the labor leaders in the
 ranks of the material trades have de- I clared within the last twelve hours l that there is no prospect in their opin- ion of any complete tie-up of the build l ing trades by a strike.
 l An exciting incident occurred to-day l during the examination of President Shea before Mastery in Cfancery Sher- l man. Levy Mayer, for the employers, 1 in his examination of witnesses, at tempted to identify certain North Cam I bridge, Mass, men in connection with a murder in which Shea, when young l man, was alleged to have been involv- ed. Shea was born in North Cam l bridge. Tn questioning witnesses, MT.
 Mayer often alluded to Mrs. Shea and her daughter. Shea hotly told Mayer I that he was willing to answer all ques- I tions concerning his family, but that
 Mayer had better not cast any slurs
 upon either. : A fierce wrangle between
 attorneys for the opposing sides brought the incident to a close.
 At a meeting of the Associated Build ing Trades tonight, at which twenty
 nine trades affiliated with the building I industry were represented, it was de-
 cided that no action will be taken
 (which will tend to drag the building trades into the teamsters' strike This action on the part of the building trades
 will go far toward restricting the strike
 to it's present limits, as it means that the members of the building trades 4 unions will work with materials irre- lspective of the fact that they are haul
 ed in wagons driven by non-union | teamsters. l