Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-11-02
Riots Were Numerous in Chicago
In Connection With Gar
ment Workers Strike.
ONE POLICEMAN WAS STABBED
Police Kept Busy Answering Riot
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Car Traffic IIampcrcd

Chicago, Nov. 2.--Riots broke out in a
dozen places today in connection witt
the big strike OF garment workers which
has been on strike here for fortnight.
one mob was led by u girl. In another
q policeman, resisting Eingle-handed a
big crowd, was stabbed and is reported
in a serious condition. Strikers marched
through the streets shouting and blow
ing whistles and horns. Street car traf-
lc was hampered and at one spot
stalled by the crowds.
Many arrests were made and many
strikers injured by the clubs which the
police were compelled to use.
Practically all of the city's force of
police was kept busy on guard or. an
swering riot calls. Windows were
broken In several shops and the strik-
ers claim to have gained hundreds of
recruits from the so-cailed strike break
crs who remained at work when the
strike. was called, or came here to MI
lrthe vacant benches. The strike Is not
for an increase of wages but for the
principle Of collective bargaining, as
the.striIcrs term their demand for rec
ognition &c the union
Josie Mielewzki. IA years old, led one
| OF the most serious riots when an at
tack was made op the shops of Kuhn,
Nathan & Fisher this afternoon. She
and n number Of "otlicrs were arrested
The strikers. numbering about 200.
had broken several windows and had
conquered the guard around the place
when the police arrived.
WHAT THE GIRL SAID. ~
AT tho word charge" from the POI
lice, the girl is said to have shouted:
Get together. men. charge the police.
Get the jump on EN-"
The strikers responded to her call
and attacked the 'bluecoats. The latter
used their clubs and scattered the mob.
Josie and Il youth named Frank Brex.
fought to the last. continuing their.
resistance even In the patrol wagon.
The first serious injury % the strike
was received by Policeman Carroll
Johnson. He was stabbed and beaten
when, single handed, he sought to beat
back mob OF 900 persons who We're
charging the shop Of Fred Shau, at llo6
| West Huron street. IS
He was rescued by u patrol wagon
load OF hisscomrades.
Il Two hundred and fifty employees Of
ttSarnuea Cohen, at 7l0 West Madison
t1ess gn,i'sr,s 9. ,,lsA
iestima ted MT 900 MEN. boys and gtfla
l5fnarrhed in front OF the place. s
/ jChica go, Nov. 2.---Mayor Busse. 1t was
learned today. Will be asked for a per-
nit to- allow a parade of 10000 per-,
sons as II demonstration by striking
garment workers and their friends.
They expect that the permit Will he
|trefused. In which cnsc another appl.ea-
stIon Will be made just before the Inn
pending election.
Chief OF Police Stewart declared to-
day that club women, settlement work
ers and college girls who have donned
the garb Of workers will be treated ex-
actly like any striker. Their engraved
visiting cards, he declared, do not I'M
press him In the least.
1.-THE police have exercised great re-
straint In handling the crowds. de-
cIared the chief. land will continue to
do so, but the society women and So
cial settlement workers who hope to
intimidate the people are on the wrong
track. n they are disorderly they Will
be arrested ~ y,
THREE LOuTBREAis.
Three outbreaks occurred ut the shops
of Hart, Schafrner & Marx and of
Ederheimer & Company, on the north
west side of the city, A mob OF 800
stormed the Hart. Schaffner & Marx
building with bricks and stones. break
ing windows and hitting number OF
strike breakers Police charged the
crowd and made four arrests. At Eder-
heimer & STEMS plant. 20l North Robey
street another mob gathered ana was
dispersed by the bluccoats
II is said to be ono of the purposes
Of these society pickets to submit to
rrest in order to dscredit the police.
whom they accuse OF brutality. by
proving their own innocence of infring-
Ing the law.