The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-22
HOMES OF MOURNING
MUST NOT BE PICKETED
CONCLUDED FROM FIRST PAGEl


or no law, picketing OF every kind around
these houses will have to stop. l shall take
my chances with the courts on the question
II my conduct is questioned in any court.
Chef o Neil then issued general ,, order r
to all the inspectors OF police, on the line OF
his conversation with the two union OF
ficials He instructed the commanding offl-
GERS to accompany funerals in carriages, IL
circumstances seemed TO require 1t, TO see
that the last rites of the dead were in no
way interferred with
While the courts have inclined to permit
ting peaceful picketing, Chief O'Neil'S order
tends to prohibit picketing of any kind
around the houses of mourning. He de-
clared tonight that, in his opinion, no court
would be found which would fail to sustain
an act OF such evident necessity and pro-
priety as that contemplated by the police
On TOD of Chief O'Neirs order came the
announcement tonight that police plans
looking to a settlement of the strike had
been launched. Through the efforts of the
Chicago Board of Arbitration, which was
largely instrumental in the settlement of
the laundry strike last summer, a commit
tee of four was appointed at a meeting or
the four liverymen and undertakers' asso-
Citations to meet with a committee of four
from the drivers union and endeavor to
bring about an amicable adjustment or the
trouble.
A funeral party of over a dozen people
from the Northwest arrived in Chicago to-
day, and after the body of the decedent
had been taken from the Union Depot in
dead wagon, pickets stopped bus In
which the mourners were being transferred
to the Dearborn station. 1t was explained
to the pickets that the body was being
taken South and that train connections had
TO be made, but they refused to allow the
bus to proceed until union business agent
arrived. He heard the details and then de-
clared that the mourners should proceed in
tie bus without interference.
Plans had been made by John Curran to
have a coffin containing the body of his
wife carried on the shoulders of six pail
bears from his home to st. Patrick's Church
and from the latter place to railroad sta
ton, but owing TO the slippery condition
of the sidewalks, he abandoned the idea.
The body was removed In a dead" wagon.
over 100 mourners, including children and
babies carried In arms, formed in pro-
cession and followed the undertakers
wagon in the street.
Determined that the strike should not
interfere with his wedding, Antonio Lo-
casco, manager for a commission firm,
drove a hired hospital ambulance with his
triumph to the Church of the Assumption
where the ceremony was performed. Strike
pickets, who endeavored to stay the prog
ress of the gayly bedecked ambulance
wagon through the streets were brushed
aside and outdistanced by the fast-running
vehicle, which was driven at a gallop all
the way from the church to the home of
the bride.
A number of extra business agents were
posted throughout the city to-day by the
Livery Drivers Union for the purpose say
the union officials, OF preventing interior
ence on the part Of the union sympathizers
with the movement of hearses. should the
undertakers attempt to substitute them for
the black dead wagons. The undertakes
and liverymen are accused by the union
officials of seeking to divert public sympa-
thy from the strikers. Twelve Independent
undertakers are reported by the union as
having signed the wage and hour agree
ment
Ambulances have come under the ban of
the striking pickets, according to reports
nndQrfQ liVQrVmQn
who declare that police will be necessary
to man the conveyances of the sick well
as those of the dead.
The committee got together tonight and
agreed upon a basis of arbitrating the diff
Guilty The proposition will be submitted to
a vote of the men on both sides tomorrow,
and ii is said that the result probably will
be an agreement to settle everything by
arbitration.