Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1903-05-08
Settlement by Leather Workers Only Real
Development in the Strike.
NO MOVE MADE IN THE MAIN CONTESTS
Day Passes Without Any Conf OTIS or lndi-
cations Of One,
SHERIFF POWER ISSUES A PROCLAMATION
Appoints Fifty Deputies to Assist the Po-
liOe if Necessary
JUDGE MUNGER M0OlFlES HIS ORDER
Changes Provision which Would
SHERIFF POWER ISSUES A PROCLAMATION
JUDGE MUNGER MoOlflEs HIS oROtF
Changes Provision which would
Have Prevented Teamsters From
Maintaining Their Local Or
EaniEation as a Union.


Maintaining Their Local Or
| EaniEatiOn as a Union.
Yesterday was a quiet day In the prog
ress OF the local strikes and uneventful
| save for the meeting OF the Business Mems
! association last night which was attended
| by the governor, attorney general adjutant
| general of the state, the mayor and chief
/ OF police Of the city and sherif of the
/ county. One OF the chief features Of the
| day was a settlement with the leather
| workers. The issuance Of federal court
| injunction the night before had aroused
some fears from outsiders not well ac-
quainted with the situation, but nothing
out of the ordinary transpired and the day
closed as one of the least remarkable since
| the inception Of the present difficulties.
Chief Donahue, with his enlarged force,
! was constantly in evidence throughout the
| day, ready for any emergency But the
| streets they patrolled, which the day be-
fore we're thronged with excited spectators
eagerly watching every development, were
yesterday free from unusual numbers and
! uncommon scenes. The wholesale districts
even did not present any different appear
ance than on any other day and wagons
with freight moved-not in great numbers
freely and without the least Interior
ence. A stranger might have spent the
day in the city and not known that 2,7OO
men, representing a dozen unions were on
a strike.
The actual events Of progress during the
day were few. The egg Gamblers In the
wholesale houses, whose total number is
about 200, Joined the strikers and four
drivers of street sprinkler wagons went
ont. The teamsters spent the day confer
ring with their newly employed attorneys,
smyth & Smith, as to the course to adopt in
the Injunction case and the various other
unions held usual daily meetings. In the
evening the teamsters' local leaders were
in conference with Thomas A. Coleman,
first vice president OF their international
organization, who arrived during the day
from St. Louis. President N. W. Evans is
expected today from Detroit and the two
international officials will take up matters
with the local officials
I II had been reported through the busi-
ness agent that the trades councils would
last night declare complete ntrike of
those men not now out, but this was not
done The partial settlement Of the leather
workers troubles yesterday and the pos
sibility of a settlement Of the entire series
OF strikes through the mayors proposed ar
bitration plan are two Of the bright spots
! : in the strike armament.
! President e. s. Krenz of the leather
workers union gave out this statement re-
garding his unions affairs:
THE leather workers have satisfactorily
: adjusted their differences with the firms oi
Marks Bros saddlery company, ]. H
Haney e. Co. and the Omaha Tanning and
Manufacturing company, the above firms
having signed the price list, and agreed to
I, employ only union men in their respective
j r1k Of ali
has up to date shown no disposition tC
meet the union, either upon the matter o
= wages or upon the other issues involved
} and the employees of this firm are still out
This puts to work eighty men and leaves
only fourteen out"
No Important Moves.
Neither side of the controversy has mad,
any important move since the injunction
: against the teamsters was issued by Judge
$ Munger Wednesday afternoon. The men haC
a anticipated that order and had made al
l. ! preparations for its observance. Or
4 Wednesday they had preserved order anC
= maintained peace, and yesterday they pur
sued the same course. AT none Of th'
d places affected by the strike is. there an!
d activity. Owners have made no addittona
d efforts to establish operations and the sit
O uation is absolutely unchanged. In Counci
II | BluftS some little QlsOIutI dlltuutu
A effort of nonunion teamsters 10 do business
but nothing the local police did not imme
+ !'diately control. All the efforts of the lead
!, ers of the unions are bent to the main
o tenance OF good order.
e Authorities Are ViRilant
Mayor Moores and Chief Donahue ar
Al still watching every move Of both sides
y and have the situation well in hand. Ap
. peals to Governor Mickey for military pro
lection have met with the answer that tn
governor will make no move until requisite
to do so by the city and county authori
ties.
A local publication, noted for the dis
semination OF misinformation, create
something of uneasiness yesterday b
announcing that the street car men ha
% decided to go on a strike in sympathy wit
- the other unions out. Nothing could b
~ farther from the truth. The street ca
,s men have no grievances Of their own. an
" are not involved in the present difhcult!
=, and have not the remotest notion
Or striking.
re sheriff Powers Position.
Sheriff Power last evening, after consu
- tation with Mayor Moores and Chief
- Police Donahue. issued the following pro'
To the Citizens of Omaha, and Especial
Those Laborers Now on a Strike, and
T. Their Former Employers: The mayor an
. chief of police of the city of Omaha haN
=, ! called on me to assist In preserving II
OF peace and TO protect the persons and prol
- | erty OF our citizens. The Board of Count
| Commissioners has authorized me TO swei
OF in such number of deputies may
n necessary for that purpose and nifty hay
=, | been sworn in, and more will be II needle
Tx with the controversy now on in Omal
between organized labor and its employe
IN l. as sheriff have nothing &c do, but IL
nv duty TO preserve order and the la
In must and shall be upheld and obeyed. IT,
IN | right to peaceably drive through the stree
" | OF the city must not be interfered wit
a. Conveyance and property must not be di
| turbed by those who have not been e
'e' ] trusted with them. II Il becomes nece
| sary deputy sheriffs will be placed on q
?" such conveyances as need protection. tt
- | drivers Of such cOnVeyances must not
IN assaulted or interfered with.
NJ All the power vested In as sheI
=. | OF this county will be used to protect ii
'r persons and property OF every one In Il
-, city from any act of violence or disorder
/ appeal 10 every one to refrain from al
an act OF violence or disorder and to assist n
.H In preserving the public peace The rep
tadon Of Omaha and Of all its citizens Is