Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1905-05-04
THE STRIKE HAS
BEEN INCREASED
Gigantic Struggle at Chicago Is OF
Greater Magnitude.
MORE MEN ARE OUT,
Strike Breaker Curry Too Seriously
Il ured to Report and a Num-
her Of Negroes Say Pay
Too Small For Risk.

Chicago. My Enlarged proper
lions were given to the transfers
strike Wednesday from both sides Of
the huge struggle. Contrary to ex-
pectation, the employees were the first
TO take aggressive action. All team
sters of the Crerar-C linch company,
which has coal contracts with many
office buildings and firms. went on
strike. The company ordered a load
Scott & Co. a large mercantile firm
which has been involved in strike
complications for some time past First
teams ordered to make delivery to the
involved firm were discharged for re-
fusinC to deliver the coal. All other
Transfers employed by the Crerar-
Clinch company Immediately struck. 1t
IS aai1 the effect of the new spread of
the strike might be to leave many OF
the tallest office buildings without fuel
10 run elevators. Other concerns af-
fected by this spread of the strike are
the American Cutlery company,
Ritchie Paper Box company and Sam
rel Cupples Woodenware company. In
each case the teamsters were ordered
to deliver one or more of the boycotted
houses and struck when the men were
discharged for refusing.
Brutality in the strike Wednesday
began with a fight and panic in a
crowded street car. Two men who
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breakers were assaulted and so Sc
verely beaten that they were taken to
the county hospital. The affair oc-
CURED on a street car at Twenty-sixth
street and Stewart avenue. When the
fight began passengers were panic
stricken and fled from the car. One
of the men. Edward Boswell. was q
negro medical student His compan-
ION. w. ]. Jameson. was also colored.
The men who committed the assault
escaped.
More than 1OC subpoenas were
placed i'm the hands of United States
deputy marshals TO be served on vio-
lators OF Federal court injunctions Is
sued in connection with the strike.
Men we're taken into custody to be
cited 10 appear before Master in Chan
Ger Sherman Fry. Counsel for the
Employers association will use the ev-
idence obtained at the hearing to urge
Wholesale indictments.
Strike Breaker Frank Curry, the
man with the Iron nerve" is reported
as being out OF the fighting. He did
not appear at the ErnpIoyers-rv70IA
ing company's barns and. II is said, In
all probability Curry will not be able
"a take further part in the strike. His
injuries. while not fatal. are exceed
ingly serious. and his associates say
he will lose the sight of his left eye.
Curry also has a deep cash two inches
long behind his right ear.
Nearly 900 negro strike breakers re-
fused to work Wednesday when the
police called at -unionists' head
quarters to accompany them to the
barns Of the Employers Teaming COM
pany. The negroes declined leaving
the building. alleging they had been
brought TO Chicago under a wr.ng inn
preston. I'VE are not going to work
as teamsters for $3.50 a day and take
our lives in our hands" Several 9TH
ers said: I'VE want to go back to St
Louis" Sixty others said they were
willing TO 20 TO work. Most Of the
negroes who struck participated in
Tuesdays rioting.
Joe Scott. a non-union teamster.
was shot in the right shoulder wal
ter Schultze. strike sympathizer.
who hooted non-unionists. was beaten
into insensibility by two negroes. Sew
eraI non-union negroes fired pistols.