Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1900 — DEATH IN CHICAGO LABOR RIOT. [ARTICLE]

DEATH IN CHICAGO LABOR RIOT.

Union Picket Lead* an Attack and Ia Killed. In an attack upon non-union men employed at the Baker-Vawter company, lithographers in Chicago, where a strike is in progress, Peter Miller was shot through the head and instantly killed 1»y H. O. Baster, superintendent of tha factory. John McGuire waa also shot through the right arm and right cheek by the superintendent, and severely, although not fatally, injured. In addition to this affair, the labor situation waa intensified by the arrest of George P. Gubbins, president of the Bricklayers’ Union. He was taken on a charge of inciting riot. The trouble at the Baker-Vawter company's plant which almost assumed the proportions of a riot was the outcome of a strike which has been m existence at the factory since last January. •