The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-04-28
WILL FIGHT STRIKE
TO THE BITTER End
EMPLOYERS, AssoorA-
TIoN VERY DETERmINED.
WIN Stand Firm for the aopen shop
in the Struggle with the striking
Teamsters-Many More Men Quit
Three Clashes During the Dny-po-
lice Sergeant and Two Others seri-
ousIy Injured.

ously Injured.
Chicago, April 27.-With 1880 team
sters on strike tonight, with constant
accessions to their number and with the
express determination OF the Employ
ers' association to take firm stand for
the open shop and to fight the team
sters union to bitter end. Chicago
tonight to all appearances stands on
the eve of one of the greatest indus
trial upheavals in her history
There was rioting In various parts
OF the city to-day despite the strong
guards of policemen and the numbers
of private detectives hired by the En-
ployers' association to protect their
wagons. During the clashes three per-
sons We're seriously injured, two Of
whom probably will die. The injured
are.
Richard Cummings, police sergeant
run over by an omnibus driven by John
Ceresa, a union driver. CUMMINGS
probably will die.
Samuel Jackson, colored teanister
employed by the J. ". FarwelI company
attacked by mob of 200. He was
beaten and head was cut with shovel.
Mark Moran. district messenger boy.
struck on the head with a board thrown
at a non-union teamster: condition crit
ical
The declaration made last night by
members of the Employers association
that they would promptly discharges
any teamster who refused to haul goods
to or from Montgomery Ward & Co.
brought out the teamsters in many
down town mercantile houses during
the day. 1t is expected that the num-
her will be increased largely BY to-
morrow. Tonight the leading firms
against which strikes have been declar-
ed and the number Of teamsters who
have gone out from each are as follows:
Montgomery Ward & Co., 15;. Daniel
Slocun & Co. is; Marshall Field & Co.,
wholesale and retail, 160; Pearson,
Pierce. Scott & Co., wholesale and re-
tail: j. v. FarwelI & Co, rs; Wells-
Fargo Express company, IS; American
Express company, 300; National Ex-
press company, 80; Pacific Express
company, so; United States Express
company, 120; Adams Express company,
1926; Forbes Carriage. company, 220
80
The Forbes Carriage company involves
a number of the largest business houses
in Chicago, for whom it contracts I'd
deliver goods. Among these firms are
Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co.,
sprague, Warner & CO., Western Elec-
trio company, s. A. Maxwell & Co., and
the American Type Founder company.
In addition to these firms the teamsters
employed by a number of smaller con-
Germs were called out. The business
agents of the teamsters' union declared
I tonight that by tomorrow they would
call out 1000 truck drivers and thereby
cripple to a large extent the entird
transportation business of Chicago.
It is the intention of the teamsters
union to shut off as far as possible an
supplies Of coal from the establishments
where strikes have been called. The
Daniels Coal company will be made q,
special point of attack, Jas a large por-
tion of it's stock is owned by men who
are members of the firm Of Mont tgomery
Ward & Co. The wagons of this com
pany had an especially hard time In
passing through the streets to-day, but
none Of their men were injured, al
though they were frequently attacked.
The strike to-day was not confined to
teamsters. When the tugboat Talbot
attempted to receive goods from the
pier Of j. ". Farwell & Co. thirty
stevedores refused to handle the goods
They were promptly discharged and
nom union men taken on in their places.
Fifty bundle boys in a down town dry
goods store also struck during the af-
ternoon. They had no grievance and
were unable to make a complaint when
asked for one. The superintendent of
the store induced them to go back to-
work,