Show MORE RIOTING IN CHICAGO AMONG STRIKING Ilk DRIVERS VERS Police Drive Back Mob lob That Attempts to Stop Delivery of Meat by Union Non-Union Teamsters CHICAGO June 3 Rioting 3 Rioting broke out again in the streets of Chicago to toay today today to- to day ay as the result of the packing house l t teamsters teamsters' strike Although great reat pre pre- I caution had been taken by the police policeto to prevent crowds from congregating where wagons were carrying meat un under uner un- un tier der er the ban of the strikers lh the attempt to move moe a caravan of twenty-four twenty wagons wagons wagons wag wag- ons under police protection from ther the yards met with conflict Mo Mob b of 2000 The rioting took place in South Clark ClarI street In front of the stores of or Irwin Bros Wagner Wagn-er wholesale dealers using using- meat from the big packers Wagons Wag Yag ons from the yards ards were vere driven t to to- these stores and were being unloaded when a crowd of spectators and strikers i ers era began ho hooting honting ting and interfering with the union non-union drivers The disturbance nce drew drw a mob of nearly 2000 people to the scene The police pollee who w were re guarding guarding guard guard- ing log the wagons tried to tc preserve order but were not successful Crowd Bea Beaten ten Back The two Irwin brothers seiz seized d a a. aS handles and in company with the po police police police po- po lice beat back the crowd In the melee Isaac Bean was thrown down a stairway stairway stairway stair stair- way and had his back broken A passIng passing pass- pass Ing n street car overturn overturn-ad rS lt a patrol Jr wagon wagon wag wag- I on os on rf the way to the riots and dumped r the policemen into the street A score or more of people s vere arrested but were released again In other sections of the cit city attempts were made to move moe sat meat but because of the large gatherings of f people to watch the trouble wagons were put back to warehouses u es and unloaded Big Stores Handicapped While disturbances were going on over the strike by the stockyards teamsters the ten big State street stores were seriously handicapped by the strike of 1300 drivers and conductors conductors conductors tors tors of delivery wagons members of or orthe the National Teamsters' Teamsters union the same organization that is conducting conducting the meat drivers' drivers strike Following are the stores affect affected 1 Marshall Field Co Carson Pirie Pine Scott Co A. A C. C Stevens Bros Mandel Bros Mayer Hillmans Hillman's Boston store the Fair A. A 1 M. M 1 Rothschild Co and Siegel Coo Cooper pel us Co Cause of Trouble The reason for the strike is a differ difference ence coca over the wage scale of the the- stores and an attempt to relieve the Fall Fair whose men were already on a strike e. by sending two from each eat of or the other stores to carry calor goods All All' J e 1 1 tott f M hl a conference ren e sent r. r se r dut u t a. a a join joint ultimatum against the union and It its methods rhey They said they would brook no Interference between their employees em em- and themselves hes by organizers that thare had been no difficulty until the org organizers assumed an authority to dictate terms that the wage scale was equitable and would be continued in force as at present and that the men would have to leave their employ u If they insisted on union dictation The most serious trouble of YC occurred In Crosby street treet In the district known in Police pollee circles as as' as Little Hell A A. detachment of policemen under the command of Collins was escorting escort escort- InS InS' a number of wagons loaded with meat to the Obstructions distributing stations station lawn clOwn town In the way of or other teams making stopping r gp progress and r Preventing were i encountered the g meat mea wago wagons at several sev sev- eral places Finally the police charged charred the mob which had and congregated In the fight which followed I a 11 number of S1 policemen of the mob were Injured while many man mo more were used up The meat ons TS Last Tri were finally ally returned tl to the barns wag S night a serious fight took place at af Twelfth and State streets Meat Mea t was be beIns be- be ing Ins from the packing house ing-housa ing Plants b by two retail firms Frohling Heppe eppe and Bettinger Hoffher when a mob took possession and overpowered the three policemen and threw ti the meat in iri the street t. t Police Sergeant Mooney came to their assistance a and d he was slashed with a i razor in the hands of a colored man ital and had to be taken to the toe hos pita pital I. I |