You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Wednesday May 10, 1905
Chicago, Illinois - Teamster Strike Grows, Strike Sympathizer Killed in Violent Clash
The Teamster Strike of Chicago is still on and additional drivers have been called out by the union leadership. One man was killed during a violent clash with scabs yesterday, the dead man being described as a strike sympathizer who was throwing large rocks at a scab. According to the report of the Rock Island Argus, the scab shot in self-defense.
From yesterday's Rock Island Argus of Illinois:
TEAMSTERS NAME COMMITTEE
TO SEE THE PRESIDENT
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Additions to Ranks of Men Out at Chicago
Threaten to Cause Shortage of Flour
and Tieup of the Building Trades.
Chicago, May 9.-The Crane company drivers will strike tomorrow. Instructions to do so were issued to the leaders this afternoon.
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Chicago, May 9.-Striking teamsters appointed a committee today to see the president when he reaches Chicago.
Discharge of a union teamster for refusing to deliver goods at a boycotted store, resulted in an addition to the ranks of the strikers today. The new men out are the drivers for the teaming company which delivers flour for the milling companies. If the employers' association supplies teamsters the deliveries of flour will be continued; otherwise a shortage is threatened. Two drivers of the Crane company were also discharged today, and all employes of the company threaten to go out. Many business houses hitherto neutral have concluded to insist that their drivers shall deliver goods to houses under ban.
Deliveries Nearly Normal.
Deliveries of retail stores are said to have been almost normal today. Policemen, deputy sheriffs and hired guards rode in wagons. Deliveries in downtown districts were made by an additional number of wagons, and there was practically no disorder.
The strikers made a motion in the United States court to have the federal injunction dissolved but the court deferred until tomorrow the hearing of the argument.
Flour Supply in Peril.
Chicago, May 9.-A shortage in the delivery of flour to groceries and bakeries is threatened by the spread of the teamsters' strike today. Drivers of the Wening Teaming company, a large concern chiefly engaged in delivering flour for milling companies, quit work when one of them was discharged for refusing to deliver to boycotted stores.
Building Industries Threatened.
Crane company, controlling most of the material in the steam fitting and gas fitting industries may be involved in the strike through the discharge of two drivers who refused o deliver material at the Marshall Field building. The company gives employment to 25,000 men directly or indirectly through it's mills, foundries and warehouses. Should a strike of the Crane teamsters be declared the building industry of the entire city will be badly handicapped.
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Companies Aggressive.
While the strike today is assuming more threatening attitudes, the Employers' Teaming company is becoming increasingly aggressive. Today 1,800 teams were sent out. The company promised to furnish teamsters to do the work of all drivers who quit.
The delivery of retail goods was further extended, and the number of deputy sheriffs and special police, increased.
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RIOTING IS RESUMED;
POLICE FIGHT MOB OF A THOUSAND PERSONS
Chicago, May 9.-Rioting broke out at Lake and Clark streets this afternoon when a fruit-laden truck belonging to the Employers' Teaming company, and driven by Henry Scott, a colored nonunion teamster was surrounded by a blockade of wagons and a mob of 1,000 persons. A riot call brought the police to the spot and after half an hour of active work the police dispersed the crowd. Stones and missiles were thrown and one shot fired.
Women Start It.
Women strike sympathizers started the riot, bombarding the nonunion driver with oranges and other fruits from an elevated railroad station. Many car windows were smashed. The riot stopped traffic on the street car lines for nearly an hour.
Ask Dissolution of Injunction.
A motion to dissolve all federal injunctions against the strike leaders on the ground that the bills are supported by insufficient affidavits was made before Judge Kohlsaat today by Attorney Leboskey. Kohlsaat continued the proceedings until tomorrow morning, saying he was too busy to hear the arguments today.
Shoots Assailant.
Chicago, May 9.-To defend himself against a volley of heavy stones, William O'Day, a colored teamster drew his revolver and fired twice yesterdy, fatally wounding his assailant, Albert Enders. Enders did early last evening at his home, 451 Twenty-third street. O'Day was locked up at the Twenty-second street police station. Enders was an active strike "sympathizer."
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From the Chicago Broad Ax of May 6, 1905:
COLORED MEN
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Should Not be Brought to Chicago to Act as
Strikebreakers for Such Negro-Hating
Concerns as Marshall Field & Co.
and Mandel Brothers.
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The great teamster's strike in this city is at fever heat, and at the present writing it seems it will be a death struggle between the teamsters, the business men or the capitalistic classes, at this time we will not attempt to discuss any other phase of this bitter class struggle between capital and labor, except as it effects the law abiding colored people-those who will continue to reside in this wonderful city after the strike has been lost or won either by the teamsters or by those who are opposing them.
It is the opinion of the vast majority of the better class of colored people residing in all parts of Chicago, that the managers of the Employer's Teaming Company are not justified in bringing hundreds and hundreds of colored men here from the remote parts of the South-many of them representing the lowest and the toughest element of the race, who are armed to the teeth and are ready to shoot any person on the slightest provocation, to temporally serve as strike breakers, for such Negro hating concerns as Marshall Field and Company, Mandel Brothers, and Montgomery ward and Company who have no use for Negroes in general except to use them as brutish clubs to beat their white help over the head so that they will bow or knuckel down to them in all things.
Every intelligent colored man and woman residing in or near Chicago are aware of the fact that for years past Marshall Field and Mandel Brothers have absolutely refused to permit colored men or women to work in their stores even as cuspadore cleaners, and any Negro who will spend his money in their stores or work for them simply as a strikebreaker, is an enemy and a traitor to his race.
Marshall Field and Company, Mandel Brothers, Montgomery Ward and Company and the other firms who are engaged in bringing many colored men here from the South to serve them for the time being like so many servile and abject slaves have by their actions proven themselves dishonest in this respect, for if they were inclined to give permanent work to colored men as teamsters, they could find plenty of respectable colored men right here in Chicago who are familiar with the city, and they would be in a much better position to act as teamsters, providing they were assured steady situations, than that class of colored men who are thrown in here from the rural districts of the South who are like a fish out of water or a wild horse in a city like Chicago.
But the managers of the Employers' Teaming Company, and the firms referred to seemingly only want to deal with the roving and the unresponsible Negro, so that they can handle them for a short time to suit themselves. It is therefore the duty of the Afro American preachers, residing in this city, to proclaim aloud from their pulpits against flooding Chicago, at this particular time, with so many colored men, who resemble or act like desperadoes, and judging by the conduct of many of them they are ready to cut and shoot at the drop of the hat.
The press in general should in a manly way help to discourage this practice of rushing thousands of colored men into this city to act as tools for the puffed up millionaires who are Negro haters at heart and who have no use nor respect for colored men except to use them whenever they want to browbeat and bulldoze, and lord it over their white help.
Our chief contention is that it adds nothing to the credit of the Negro to become professional strikebreakers and the presence of this class of Negroes in Chicago at the present time makes it much more difficult for the respectable colored people in this community to get a long, and they assist to greatly increase all kinds of lawlessness which is now flourishing in this city.
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SOURCES
Rock Island Argus
(Rock Island, Illinois)
-May 09, 19051893-1920
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/...
The Broad Ax
(Chicago, Illinois)
-May 06, 1905
(Also source for newspaper's banner.)
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/...
IMAGES
Teamster Strike, Patrol Wagons Guard Scab Trucks
http://www.newspapers.com/...
Masthead of The Broad Ax
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/...
See also:
For more on The Broad Ax:
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/...
NOTE:
Throughout its history, the Broad Ax (Salt Lake City and Chicago) was issued weekly by its founder, publisher, and editor, Julius F. Taylor (1853-1934). Born into slavery near New Market, Virginia, Julius Taylor was the 13th of 14 children of Gilbert and Mary Ann Taylor. Taylor’s parents and older siblings had earlier been sold to different owners but remained in relatively close proximity in the Shenandoah Valley. In the mid-1860s Taylor made his way to Philadelphia and settled successively in St. Paul, Minnesota; Fargo, North Dakota; and Chicago, before arriving in Salt Lake City in 1895. There Taylor founded the Broad Ax, which joined two other black newspapers published in Salt Lake City at a time when there were fewer than 1,000 African Americans in the state...
With tensions rising between the Broad Ax and the leaders of the Latter Day Saints in Salt Lake City, Taylor relocated to Chicago in 1899…
In 1912, Taylor joined with the publishers of three other black Chicago newspapers to form the Colored Press Association of Chicago (not to be confused with the Associated Negro Press founded by Claude Barnett in Chicago in 1919)...
Knock at the Door of Opportunity: Black Migration to Chicago, 1900-1919
Christopher Robert Reed
SIU Press, 2014
(Search: Julius F. Taylor, all pages relevant.)
https://books.google.com/...
Note: I searched for a long time for
a photo of Julius F. Taylor, to no avail, but did find a
a photo of his mother with a bit of bio:
Life Story of Mrs Mary Ann Taylor Dixon-
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/...
Mrs Mary Ann Gale Taylor Dixon, report on funeral-
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/...
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