Eureka Reporter | 1905-05-05 | Page 2 | Chicago on the Eve of Trouble

CHICAGO ON THE EVE OF TROUBLE chicago with 1330 teamsters on strike with constant accessions being made to their number and with the expressed determination ot the em players association to take a firm stand for the open shop and fight the teamsters union to a finish achl cago to all appearances stands on the eve of one ot the greatest industrial upheavals in her history there was rioting in various parts of the city thursday despite the strong guards of police and private de hired by the employers asso elation to protect their wagons during the trouble inree persons were seriously injured two of whom will probably die the declaration made by the members of the employ ers association that they would promptly discharge any teamsters who refused to deliver goods or call tor them at the of mont gomery ward co brought out the teamsters in many downtown mercantile houses and the number it la expected will be increased largely strikes have been declared twelve leading firms and 1 teamsters have gone out