The San Francisco call., 1903-12-22
MUST RESPECT
CHICACO'S DEAD
Police Notify the Strikers That
There Shall Be No More Inter
ference With the Funerals
PEACE MAY BE ARRANGED
Board of Arbitration Steps in
With View to Arranging
Settlement of Differences

CHICAGO, Dec. 21.-Picketing of
houses from which funerals are to start
by the union livery drivers who went
on strike four days ago is to be pre-
/ vented by the police, under direct or
ders issued tonight by Chief of Police
O'Neil. j. A. Wadsworth, secretary,
/ and Charles Stevens, business agent of
the Liverymen's Union, were summoned
before Chief O'NeiI tonight and told in
/ decidedly PLAIN language that any diff
ferences the union might have with en-
ployers would have to be settled away
from the houses of mourning.
/ Chief O'Neil tonight issued a general
order to all the inspectors of police. He
! instructed the commanding officers to
/ accompany. funerals, if circumstances
I seemed to require it, to see that the last
! rites over the dead were in no way in
! terfered with.
EFFORTS TOWARD PEACE.
While the courts have; been inclined to
| permit peaceful picketing, Chief
! O'Neil's orders tend to- prohibit picket
ing of any kind around the houses of
mourning. He declared tonight that,
in his opinion, no court would be found
which would fail to sustain an act of
such evident necessity and propriety as
that contemplated by the Police De-
partment.
On top of Chief O'NeiTs order came
the announcement tonight that peace
plans looking to the settlement of the
strike had been launched. Through the
efforts of the Chicago Board of Arbitra-
tion, which was largely instrumental in
the settlement of the laundry strike last
summer, committee of four was ap-
pointed at meeting of the four livery
men and undertakers' associations to
meet with a committee of four from the
Drivers Union and endeavor to bring
about an amicable adjustment of the
trouble.
The committee met tonight and
| agreed upon basis of arbitration. The
proposition will be submitted TO a vote
of the men on both sides TO morrow
and it is said that the result probably
will be an agreement to settle every
thing by arbitration.
INCIDENTS OF THE STRIKE.
arrived in Chicago to-day, and after
the body of the deceased had been
taken from the Union Railway Station
in dead wagon pickets stepped an
omnibus in which the mourners were
being transferred to the Dearborn sta
tion. II was explained to the pickets
that the body was being taken south
ward and that train connections. had TO
he n I.TEX -,
omnibus to proceed until a union busi-
ness agent arrived. He heard the de-
tails and then declared that the mourn
ers should proceed without interference.
Plans had been made by John Curran
10 have a coffin containing the body of
MS wife carried on the shoulders of six
pail bearers from his home to st. Pat
rick's Church and from the latter place
| to railroad station. but in consequence
Of the slippery condition of the side
walks he abandoned the idea. The
body was removed in a dead wagon.
More than one hundred mourners. in
Guiding children and babies carried in
arms, formed in a procession and fol-
lowed the undertaker's wagon in the
street
The Grand Jury to-day commenced
an investigation into the acts of viz
lence committed during the recent citv
railway strike and against non-union
men employed by the company since
the termination of the strike. A num-
Der Of witnesses were questioned as to
their personal knowledge of so-called
Wrecking crews" and educational
committees. Among these witnesses
was General Manager Mccullough of
the City Railway Company, who said.
after leaving the jury room, that he
had testified that he had no persnnaI
knowledge of specific acts of violence
but that he had told the jury in a gen
eral way Of the violence which had fol-
lowed the company's attempt to move
cars with nOn-union crews.
The investigation will continue to-
morrow and evidence will be sought in
connection with the press feeders
strike, which has been in progress for
several weeks. Among the witnesses
who have been subpenaed in this con-
nection are John M. Shea, treasurer Of
the union; r. j. Street, cashier of the
First National Bank; John B. Clark.
president of the Eibernia Bank. These
witnesses will be questioned in an ef-
fort to ascertain if money was paid to
"wrecking crews" and professional
sluggers."
1t has been reported to the jury that
checks of the union were honored at
the First National and Hibernia banks.
Treasurer Shea was ordered to produce
all of his books and records for 1903.
He will also be asked, it is said, to tell
if he paid money or received orders
from the higher officials of the union
to pay money to professional slug
gers
BERLIN USES GASLIGHT
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