STRIKE RIOTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 460, 2 July 1902, Page 3

STRIKE RIOTS.

SUFFERING AND DISORDER.

Chicago has suffered a meat famine induced by the teamsters’ strike. The strike was in other ways a terrible ordeal, as it was attended by riots and violence. In the end, the teamsters gained recognition of their union, which was the main point for which they contended. The scale of wages agreed ujion was slightly less than the men demanded, Tho strikers secured concessions demanded as to hours of labor.

The hospitals began to feel the effects of the trouble before the matter was settled, and the police stations were scarcely able to hold the strikers that had boen arrested.

An evening truin of thirty-six meat waggons entered the gates of the Union stockyards. The drivers were covered with dust and mud, and many were so exhausted as to be scarcely able to hold the reins. They came in in the midst of a shower of stones, bricks, and bottles. Three waggons, escorted by five waggons filled vvitn policemen, wero on the return from delivery of supplies to down town provision stores, after a fierce day’s lighting. Tho police wero in even a worse condition than the “scab ” laborers. The progress of the waggons had boon everywhere contested by mobs. This scene was not unique, but was the culmination of tho troublo of many days’ duration. Tho settlement is an immense relief to the city, as much suffering and disorder was thereby averted.