Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-05-27
STRIKE INVOLVES The
BUSINESS INTERESTS
Situation In Chicago Is Indeed
A Very Grave One.
RIOTS IN THE LUMBER DISTRICT
Troops Have Not Been Called for, But
II Seems that This Course viii
Have To Be Taken--strikers' Bene-
fits Are Increased.

Chicago, May 26.-The teamsters
strike is running along like tloodtiie
no barrier appearing in any way to
keep it indefinite bounds ad while i,
has been spreading il Las shifte4 tenn
porarily from tie strife between en-
ployers and labor unions to differences
between the business interests inxolv
ed, and the local administrative au-
thorities.
In the face of declarations by the
employers that the police de
partment of the city is absolute
ly inadequate to afford protection te
property as a result of the conditions
brought about by the strikes spread
to the lumber district, Mayer Dunno
announces that there will be no ne
cessity to call for troops this week.
The lumbermen, the latest interests
to be affected by the strike are not SO
optimistic. They seem to be living
in terror of riotous uprising in that
vast area embraced by their yards
and plants-a district peculiarly invit-
ing to incediarism.
In anticipation of trouble to the
lumber district, the mayor instructed
Chief of Police O'Neill to close all the
saloons there between the hours of /
and p. m, the cases where crowds
were permitted to gather inside or out
side the premises.
In preparations for ia protracted
strike siege the teamsters' joint com
mittee has arranged to send commit,
tees to all parts of the country for
the purpose of gathering funds. 1t is
raise S1,000,000 by July l, Solicitors
probably will start from Chicago next
week on their mission. They will
visit every local union in the United
States according to the plan, and it
will, in urging financial assistance,
strive to arouse organized labor every
where to sympathy with the present
struggle.
One Of the first moves of the strike
leaders to keep the men in line will
be to increase the weekly strike bene-
fits. The drivers on strike now re
ceive $40 a week. The express driv-
ers' union has arranged, according to
the officials to pay its members $12
weekly beginning next Monday. II
CI iain dc Z,
efits paid to other strikers will be in
creased in proportion.
Strike riots began today in the i'm
mediate neighborhood of the lumber
district. At Thirty y-fifth and Morgan
streets, 20 lumber and shaving wagons
IA of which belonged to the Ritten
house and Embree & Co, and guard
ed by upwards of forty police, were
attacked by crowd of more than 400
strike sympathizers with bricks
stones and sling shots. While the
police confined themselves to clubs
the fighting waged indecisiyely
Finally the police drew revolvers
and charged the crowd The sight OF
the firearms quickly quieted things
the mob fleeing wholesale. No ar
rests were made. At Thfrty-fourth
street near by, police on guard were
later forced indoors. Many of the
strike sympathizers armed themselves
with small air rifles and from behind
lumber piles and buildings fired inter
mittently at the police, a number Of
whom were struck without being able
to see the assailants and were finally
forced to take refuge in offices anc
other nearby bAtldings.
The building industry of Chicago
faced a fresh complication today il
sympathetic strikes among carpenter,
and other workmen. At dozen build
ings the contractors encountered tht
alternative of sending back the lum
Der delivered by nonunion teamster.
or having strikes to deal with.
In number of instances tn elumbeI
was accepted by the contractors
where whereupon the carpenters ant
other workmen promptly laid dowl
their tools and quit. While the car
penters district council has refused t,
authorize strike, the members of tn,
union declare there is a tacit under
standing that they are not required
to work under police protection O
with lumber delivered with police pre-
lection. The first lumber mill to shu
down because of the shortage in sur
plies was that of the J. w. Landi
Mill company. The first were draw
today and the workmen laid off.