Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-04
CLASH IN CHICAGO
NE WSPAPER WAR
First Rioting Occurs in Strike,
and Police Are Called Out
to Protect Men.

CHICAGO. May 4.-Newspaper stere-
otvpers at midnight joined the striking
pressmen. newsboys and wagon drivers
of the Chicago daily newspapers.
Morning papers today We're issued in
four page form, but distribution was
greatly Handicapped No morning pa
pers were on sale in the downtown sec
ton except in the newspap per Offices,
and very few We're sent to the suburb
stations. Arrangements were made to-
day to resume street selling. Extra
guards viii be furnished the rewsboys
who desire to handle the papers.
Following attacks yesterday on news
boys in many parts of the downtown
districts by thugs and sympathizers
with the strikers, at least half dozen
boys today are in hospitals as result
of the injuries they received. In some
cases the police found it difficult to
cope with the situation, and extra pa
trolmen were rushed to the corners
where the attacks occurred.
Strike May Spread
Possibility that the strike may spread
to other mechanical departments of the
newspapers was faced by the publish
ers today. Some of the leaders of the
compositors have objected to the set
ting of type for non union pressn1en
and sympathetic strikes have been dis
cussed. Most of the printers, however
have urged the men to stay at work,
declaring that their contract ought not
to be violated.
A spread of the strike to the coal
wagon drivers, preventing delivery Of
coal to the newspaper plants has also
been discussed. No strike has been
called
The third day of the strike finds the
newspapers able to print their papers
in spite of the walkouts in the me-
chanical department. The distribution
of the papers has been seriously handi-
capped. however Attempts to sell at
news stands have been the signal for
violence
The rtrike Of the wagon drivers has
made It difficult to deliver papers and
has Handicapped the regular carrier
circulation, although this has been
handled to me extent.
A riot in which three arrests were
made and shots were fired occurred
today in the alley back of The Tribune
building. Max Annenburg. circulation
manager for The Tribune. was attack
ed as he stepped into the alley. After
he had been struck a number of blows,
he managed to draw his revolver and
fire several shots. His attackers fed
but three of them were captured by
tI,o Iaxrt l1e
shooting.
The men arrested gave the names of
George Bell, former driver for The
Tribune; c. NJ strickler former driver
for THE Examiner. and George Reader
a laborer
One pressran who refused to GO ont
has asked the police for protection HI
has received letter from the strik
ers. he says. which threatened him with
physical harm. and asserted his home
would be dvnamited unless he stopped
work
The men themselves are not thor
oughly in sympathy with the strike, ac
cording to the publishers. who say that
many of them have gone to the pub
fishers and told them that they did not
want to strike. but they were forced
to leave their work by threats of vio-
lence.
The stereotypers strike was voted in
defiance of an order of international
President James ]. Freel. who had
warned the locals here against violat-
ing their contract
Cited for Court Contempt.
George Bell. c. NJ Stricken and
George Raider. arrested today in con
nection with an attack on Max Amen
berg. circulation manager of The Tri-
bune. We're cited for contempt of court
for having violated an injunction
granted by Judge Burke at the request
Of The Tribune forbidding strikers in
terfering in any way with the printing
and circulation Of the newspaper. The
hearing was set for Monday. and will
be tried before Judge Mcdonald
Mrs Theresa Gonzales was the vic
tim of an attack by strike svmpathiz-
ers Four men entered the station of
the Northwestern elevated at Fullerton
avenue. seized her, took the papers she
was selling and, tearing them in two,
threw them on the floor The station
agent saw the attack and telephoned
for the police. The men fed, shouting
back as they RAM You've got to quit
selling papers or something will hap
pen to you