The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-27
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SF.<x;e IN CHICAGO.
SS
b !. Are Continually Called
TO Lumber District
OFFICERS CHARGE ON MOBS
During One Fight Policeman Fires
Six Shots Into Crowd, Which
Flees, Without Anyone
Being Hurt.

Chicago, May 26.-Rioting broke out
afresh today in the teamsters' strike,
and although nobody was seriously hurt,
there were a number of vicious fights in
the lumber district, during which the
police were compelled to use their clubs
and in one instance revolvers, in order to
disperse the mobs.
A serious fight took place at the corner
of Canal and Madison streets adjoining
the passenger depot of the Pennsylvania
railroad. The wagon of an expires COM
pany although protected by a policeman
and deputy sheriff, and bearing a federal
injunction placard, vas attacked by
large crowd The policeman displayed his
revolver, but the crowd paying no atten-
tion to him, rushed at the wagon and
seizng the weels attempted to overturn
It, A riot call brought from the Desplaines
street, police station four squares distant,
large force of officers who dispersed
the crowd and arrested about forty of the
most active in the disturbance.
Fight Continues All Morning.
The worst fight in the lumber district
occurred at Twenty-second street and
Ashland avenue where crowd of men
and boys had all through the morning
hurled stones and clubs at every passing
lumber wagon. Finally, a wagon on which
Police officer Bagenski was a passenger,
came along, and the mob greeted it with
the usual volley of stones They also
threatened to attack the driver, and the
situation was so serious that the officer,
drawing his revolver fired six shots at
the crowd which broke and fled in wild
confusion. None of the bullets hit any,
body.
This evening general rioting was pre-
valent throughout the lumber district,
and particularly in the terrific ? near the
intersection of Thirty-ffth street and Cen
tire avenue. The lumber wagons returning
from making deliveries were attacked nv
crowds at ever available opportunity
Large numbers of men armed with clubs.
slungshots and bricks, accompanied by
Jeering women and excited children fill
ed the sidewalks along Central avenue
Thirty-hfth street, Loomis street and
Archer avenue, awaiting the passage Of
wagons which were believed by the crowd
to be unguarded.
At Archer avenue and Loomis street
two trucks appeared with one policeman
oh EACH Inc truckS were Immediately
bombarded with bricks and stones and
scores of shotguns were brought into play.
A bullet from one of these weapons seri-
ously injured Policeman James Fitzpat-
rick in the right hand. The policeman
drew their revolvers and fired over the
heads of the rioters. holding them at bay
until the drivers managed to reach their
destination. This was at the corner of
thirty-fifth street and GENRE avenue. A
patrol wagon and a detail of policemen
were here under the command of Lieuten-
ant Mooney, and as soon as he learned
of the attack on the first two wagons he
sent out the patrol wagon to protect 9TH
ers which he knew were on the way.
Had to Charge Mob.
Stones were hurled at the patrol wagon
and the police 7re forced several times
to jump from the wagons and charge the
mobs before the streets could be suf-
ficiently cleared to enable them to reach
the lumber wagons. A crowd of union
pickets had been stationed In a saloon on
Thirty-fifth street to block the passage
for trucks. The police dashed into the
saloon, used their clubs freely and chased
the pickets down the street. The return
to the yards was marked by repeated at
tempts to block the wagons. and the po-
lice made numerous charges into the
mobs.
The strike today spread in a small de-
gree throughout the building trades.
There was a number of instances where
voodworkers refused to receive the ma
terial delivered by non-unlon teamsters
and walked out This move In every in
stance was made by the men as individ-
usls only. There was no official action
taken by any of the material trades
unions looking to active sympa athletic sup
Of 10 at ri of
the labor leaders in the ranks of the ma
terIai trades have declared that within
the last twelve hours there is no prosps t,
in their opinion, of any complete .ie-up
of the building trades by strike of the
mon.
There Is no movement on foot at pres
ent looking toward a settlement of the
strike. Mayor Dunno today talked as
though he had abandoned hopes of a set
tlement.
Building Trades Withdraw Support.
At meeting of the Associated Building
Trades tonight at which twenty-nine
trades affiliated with the building indus
tries were represented it was decided
that no action will be taken which will
tend to drag the building trades into the
teamsters strike This action will go
far toward restricting the strike to its
present limits. o.
1t was decided at the meeting to with
draw all the financial and moral support
that the building trades has been giving
to the teamsters thus far in the strike.
This means a loss to the teamsters Of
$1,000 a week which they have received
from the Building Trades Union. A COM
mittee was appointed to convey to Pres
ident Shea of the teamsters' union the
action voted by the building trades.
The news visibly affected him, and he
replied:
Il can't believe that this Is true The
building trades workme1 are too loyal to