Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1904 — VIOLENCE AS MEN QUIT THE YARDS [ARTICLE]

VIOLENCE AS MEN QUIT THE YARDS

Mobs Attack Street Cars Carrying Colored Non-Union Men to Their Homes. Chicago, Sept. 14. —The first general exodus of “strike breakers” from the stock yards began at night. It was accompanied by a series of assaults upon non-union workers in which several women were hurt. Twice within half an Lour mobs collected at Root street and Princeton avenue nnd attacked street cars in which colored men from the yards were detected among the passengers. Stones and other missiles were hurled. Riot calls sent to the stock yards station brought policemen who were compelled to use their clubs on the union sympathizers. Women participated in the trouble. Eight persons were injured. More than 7,000 of the former strikers at the stock yards gathered in Packingtown in the morning looking for work. About 1,100 were given employment and the rest went away muttering imprecations upon the nonunion men who supplanted them during the long strike. Of the 1,100 reinstated, 150 were teamsters.