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Other unions, particularly in the building trades, began to strike in sympathy with the Teamsters. The [[American Federation of Labor]]'s [[AFL–CIO#State_and_local_bodies|Central Labor Council]] in Minneapolis offered financial and moral support for the strike, allowing the union to coordinate some of its picketing activities from its headquarters.
The fighting resumed on Tuesday, May 22. The picketers took the offensive and succeeded in driving both police and deputies from the market and the area around the union's headquarters. Of the several hundred deputized "special police", two (C. Arthur Lyman and Peter Erath) were cornered and killed. In the following "general riot" another roughly two dozen special police, municipal police, and strikers were beaten or wounded.<ref>{{cite news |date=15 May 1948 |title=Killings, Riots Mark Strikes in Minnesota |pages=4 |publisher=Chicago Tribune |url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1948/05/15/page/4/article/killings-riots-mark-strikes-in-minnesota |access-date=16 April 2017
==Negotiations==
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