Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1905-05-05
STRIKE IS INCREASED.
Gigantic Struggle at Chicago Is Of
Greater Magnitude.
MORE MEN ARE OUT.
strike Breaker Carry Too Seriously
Injured to Report aud Nun.
ber Of Negroes Say Pay
Too small For Risk.

Chicago. Nav 4.--Enlarged propor-
tiens were given to the teamsters
strike wednesday from both sides OF
the huge struggle. Contrary. TO ex-
pectation. tlye employees were the first
TO take aggressive action. All team
sters OF the Crerar~ Clinch company
which has coal contracts with many
once buildings and firms. went on
strike. The company ordered a load
OF coal delivered to Carson. Pierre.
Scott q Co. a large mercantile firm
which has been involved In strike
complications for some time past. First
teams ordered to make delivery 10 the
involved frm we're discharged for re-
fusing to deliver the coal. All other
teamsters employed by the Crerar-
Ciinch company Immediately struck. IL
Is said the effect of the new spread OF
the strike might be to leave many Of
the taliest ONCE buildings without fuel
TO run elevators other concerns M
fected by this spread OF the strike are
the American Cutlery company.
Ritchie Paper BOX company and Sam
uel Cupples Woodenware company. In
each case the teamsters were ordered
to deliver one OF 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
were said to be mistaken for strike
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 fed from the car One
of the men, Edward Boswell. was
negro medical student His compan-
ion. w. j. Jameson, was also colored
The men who committed the assault
escaped a4
More than 1Os subpoenas were
placed in 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 were taken into custody to be
cited to appear before Master In Chan.
Gerry Sherman Fry. Counsel for the
Employers association will use the eve
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 lighting He did
not appear at the Employers Team
ing company's barns and. II is said. In
all probability Curry Will not be able
to 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 300 negro strike breakers re-
fused 10 work wednesday when the
police called at non -mionists' 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 wrong 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 go to work. Most OF the
negroes who struck participated in
Tuesdays rioting.
Joe Scott, a non-union teamstsr,
was shot in the right shoulder. Wall
ter Schultze, a strike sympathizer,
who hooted nom -unionists. was beaten
into insensibility by two negroes. Sew
eral union negroes fred pistols.