Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-06-16
STRIKERS
ON PICKET
DUTY ARE
ATTACKED
Two members Of Boiler.
makers Union Assaulted;
Ice to Be Delivered
Here Monday.

While engaged in picket duty,
George Murray, 828 South Twenty
second street, and Edward Kennerly
6O3 North Seventeenth street, both
members of the boilermakers' loca'
now on strike in this city, were at
tackled and badly beaten this morn
ing at Thirteenth and Farnam
streets by II men.
According to the two men, bot
ties and bricks, wrapped in paper,
were used as weapons by the at
tackers.
Murray and Kennerly immediate
ly reported the affray to a police
man, but the latter failed to take any
action.
According to officials of the
boilermakers' union, ><he union will
call upon the police heads and de-
'mand the arrest of strikebreakers in
order to identify the men Immediate
ly connected with the assault Sur
day morning.
Both Murray and Kennerly bore
several bruises, contusions and
lacerations as a result Of the attack.
Especially Murray suffered a deep
cash on the left side. of his head.
Crowds Gather.
Carloads of detectives were sent
hurrying to different parts of the
city after midnight last night to
break up crowds of strikers that
were reported to be lying in wait
for the milk wagons.
A call to Twenty-fifth and Cass
streets and another half hour later
to Twenty-fourth and California
streets scattered a crowd of fifteen
OF twenty strikers.
A large crowd of strikers was
gathered on Leavenworth street
near Twenty-seventh street just
west of the Atlantic Dairy Co. but
until late this morning no violence
had been attempted.
Cooks and Walters Quit.
1t was reported Saturday evening
that all walters, mattresses and
cooks at the Millard hotel cafe,
where more than 20 strikebreakers
employed by the Drake Williams
Mount Co. are housed, walked out
when the management refused their
demand that the 20 men be expelled
from the hotel.
Union men will continue trans
porting ice in this city, it was de-
cided at meeting of drivers of ice
wagons and trucks at the Teamsters'
hall Sunday morning. The meeting
was called to decide what action
should be taken by the union ice
men to enforce the demands of the
other teamsters and truck drivers.
Another meeting for the same
purpose is scheduled for Tuesday
evening at the union headquarters.
The latest development in TIE
-teamsters' and truck drivers strike
is the accusation made by the str;k-
ers against their former employers
that the latter are bringing in col
ored strike breakers from points i'll
the south in an effort to end the
strike. Circulars bearing these ac-
cusations were distributed through
out the fashionable Florence boule-
ward district by strikers organized
into groups. Many-of these circu-
lars were placed in the mail boxes
Of the various residences. Others
were handed to men and women in
automobiles. The machines were
stopped by groups of strikers and
the occupants given the posters.
Employers Deny Charges.
Employers unanimously deny any
knowledge of the accusations. Many
of them emphatically stated that as
far as they were concerned the
strike is practically over. The
necessary drivers can be found in
this city, they state. A few of the
officials declared that they are even
now operating with full force.
The charges made by the strikers
were characterized as "absurd' and
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