The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-05-04
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Positively Decline to Haul For Firms
Under Ban,
NUMEROUS AFFRAYS.
Strike Sympathizers and Those Haul
ing Engage In Several Alter.
cations, Resulting In One
Death and Many Hurt.

Chicago. May 4.-The death Of on
man and the injury of scores of other
was the immediate result of Tuesday
fighting between the striking miner
and their sympathizers on the one gid
and the police and non-union on tn
other. There were riots in all part
Of the city. Men were dubbed an
stoned almost to death within a squar
OF police headquarters. and five mile
away men were shot down In tn
streets. At several places between
these two extremes Of distances Their
were assaults and fights in the streets
Blood was shed on State street. In tn,
heart Of the fashionable shopping dis
trict, and furious riots took place al
most in the doorways Of the leading no
tells. Non-ulion men were pelted with
stones. bricks and every other conceiv.
able sort Of missiles. They were drag
ged from their wagons, beaten, dubbed
and stamped upon. The men who fol.
lowed the wagons on which they rode
were bent on mischief. and but for the
splendid service rendered by the police
force, the list Of the dead would be
twenty instead Of ten.
In return. the non-union men, al
though hopelessly outnumbered in every
fight. fought desperately. In sever. !
instances they drew their revolvers and
nffo1 nj n, ,{nH,
pressed around their wagons, peltins
them with stones and threatening their
lives. The colored d 'vers carried
heavy clubs, and they swung them with
terrific effect throughout the day. AS
far as can be ascertained, the list Of in :
jured amounts to about forty, but It
is far from being accurate
During a riot Tuesday night at Hal
sted and Erie streets. which lasted for
an hour. and in which fully 1000 peo-
pie were engaged, three policemen and
three non-unton men were injured AMI
twice as many rioters were dubbed.
-Four men were shot late Tuesday
afternoon in a riot at Polk street and
California avenue. This trouble was
the result Of an attempt Of the United
States Express company to deliver
goods on the far West Side without po-
lice protection.
At the Union League club a meeting
was held between representatives OF
Time Employers association and the
large team owners. It was the desire
II the Employers association to bring
- much pressure to bear upon the
cam owners as possible and with this
n view they had invited to the confer
.rce representatives of the railroads
entering the city. The team owners
stated their position exactly. They
would not attempt to deliver coal to
my firm where strike Is now in prog
'ess, giving as reasons for their re.
usal that their own neil would be
'alled out. and they would be involved
n the trouble with which they consid-
red they had no direct concern. They
we're Informed that If they would not
make deliveries their contracts with
he business houses, amounting to thou
ands of dollars annually, would be |
This did not change thei1 |
ttitude. however, and they persisted |
n their refusal to take part in the
trike. The railroad men, contrary tc |
he hopes of the members of the En-
loyers' association, did not exert the |
afiuence upon the team owners that
,as expected. They took practically
he same stand. declaring that the fight
vas something into which the rail-