The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-05-11
BLACKS AROUSE IRE
Presence of Co|ored Strike
Breakers is Resnted.
COMPLICATES SITUATION
Merits or Dement'S Of the Strike Is
Lost Sight Of by Injection OF tho
Race lssue-Host Of Deputies
Sworn In.

A Chicago special says: The public
temper on the negro question was
extremely bad and promised to grow
without any relation to the merits or
demerits Of the strike. A considera'
ble portion Of the members OF the
Employers Teaming Association re-
gret that the negro strike breakers
were ever brought in A great pcr-
ton of those who have been used are
said to have proven incapable. Dur
ing the last two weeks more than
one thousand negroes have been
brought into the city to aid the En-
ployers' Teaming Association. Some
OF these have brought their families
with them sufficient to make the ne
gro importations into the city amount
to about 1,500.
The number who have already quit
the teaming association through fright
over the situation is placed at 500, a
number Of whom are drifting about
the streets. It was said that the en-
ployers had given notice to their agen-
cies that no further importation OF
negroes reed be made; that only
white men are needed to take the
place of the strikers. Aside from the
freffectiveness of many Of the colored
men, the spectacle of street process
sions of hundreds of imported negroes
armed with heavy hickory sticks ana
of negro caravan drivers from whose
pockets butts of pistols could be seen
ostentatiously protruding, seemed to
have infamed more than anything else
the ordinarily peaceful side OF the
city's population.
This was shown more generally
Thursday than any time previous by
the daring with which respectable
men and women howled at the i'm
ported colored men. Yells OF 60
back home!" Fight white man with
a white man," were heard frequently.
Violence In the strike showed no
signs of cessation. The very first
outbreak resulted in a fatality. Chas.
Rjsbling, g white man, received
fractured skull, and is expected to
die. He was standing IL : crowd
which started to jeer non-union col
ored teamster, who was guarded by
i've detectives. The negro suddenly
picked up a stone and threw 1t into
the crowd. Riebling was struck on
the head and sank to the ground un-
conscious.
The crowd chased the negro into
the stables of the teaming company,
but were driven back by private de-
tectives welding 'billies" and pieces
Of gas pipe. Police reinforced the de-
tectives and paeified the crowd by de-
manding that the negro be surren-
dered. The police entered the sta
bles, but were unable to find Rieb-
Eng's assailant. Riebling, unconscious,
was taken to the Peoples hospital.
Sheriff Thomas E. Barrett Of Cook
county has taken active control OF
the strike situation. So much pres
sure has been brought to bear upon
him and Mayor Dunno by business
men who believe their interests to
be seriously imperiled by the con-
slant rioting in the streets that the
sheriff has been compelled to swear
in large force Of deputies and take
active steps to do ava! with the
present disorder.
Two hundred deputies we're sworn
in Thursday afternoon in the Office Of
Sheriff Barrett, and it is expected
that two thousand will be enrolled.
The decision By Sheriff Barrett to
swear in deputies for strike duty was
against the wishes Of Mayor Dunno,
who declares that the police force Of
the city are adequate to preserve
peace.