Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-20
THE LABOR TROUBLES
JEROME SAYS HE WILL GO AFTER
BUILDING EMPLOYERS.
Labor Leaders In Chicago Planning Tor
Coup to End Strike--Con-
tentions Elsewhere.

A dispatch from New York last night
says: A rather sensational alteration be-
tween District Attorney Jerome and
member of a building firm which Is inter-
ested in the prosecution Of Philip Vein
seimer the labor leader under indictment
under a charge of extortion. took place IN
the corridor of the Criminal Courts build
ing. where the grand jury is now in ses-
sion.
The builder in the course of CONVEX
sation took exception to statement made
by Jerome several days ago to the erect
that the employers were as bad as the
employees, and that their motives were any
thing but altruistic In making complaint
against Welnseimer.
you people are no better than the en-
ployes." exclaimed the district attorney.
You come down here eight months arter
you made the first payment. and try 70
make up believe you are honest In the
matter" -
This brought warm reply. whereat
Jerome CALCULATED: That's all right; put
wait till September l, and III make II not
for you people,. :.
September 1 is the date for the Prince
bill. making the bribe gfver equally guilty
with the bride taker. and depriving MIN
behind now, that he Is the victim of ex-
tortiOn.
May Tie Up Elevated.
More than a thousand conductors ana
guards of the elevated railroad. In: Man
haitian and the Bronx. which is under lease
and is being operated by the Interborough
Rapid Transit Company. met here late TO-
day and voted on strike action. as a result
of an alleged breach Of agreement between
the members of the Amalgamated Assps
ciation of Street and Electric Way En-
ployes and the officials Of the Interborough
Company. 1t was declared late tonlgnt
that nearly every vote cast Favored strlhe
action.
the Interborough officials entered into an
agreement with the men whereby the
employees of the elevated road were 70 pc
given the preference for positions IN the
subway when the latter Is ready for OPP
Grafton Recently, they say, the company
disregard the agreement and began 10
consider applications for positions In the
subway from men not affiliated with the
elevated road employees.
The Chicago Strike Situation
dispatch from Chicago last night says:
Representatives Of twenty-five labor unions
affiliated with the Chicago Federation OF
Labor met at the rooms of the federation
tonight to discuss what the leaders call
plan Of sympathetic action" which. 1t IS
said. will involve every labor union In the
city
According to John ]. Fitzpatrick. who
presided at the meeting, action on this plan
was deferred at the request of President
Donnelly Of the butchers union. who was
unable to be present at the meeting.
Mr.. Fitzpatrick denied that the proposed
move is in the nature of general or SYM
pathetic strike, but claimed that 1t Is the
most important step yet proposed and could
not fail to result In settlement OF the
stock yards strike. None Of the leaders
would give any hint as to what the pro-
posed action would be.
Corporation Counsel Tolman> has given
to Mayor Harrison an opinion declaring
the packers at the stock yards have no
legal right to house men In their packing
houses.
The opinion was given in response to the
request of the mayor, who was informed by
the Chicago Federal ton Of Labor 1.-THE
packers were boarding men contrary to the
law.
The mayor, after receiving the opinion,
sent 1t to Chief of Police O'Neil with in
structtons to see that the packers obeyed
the law. - ~. u
George F. Golden. the head Of the strik-z
ing packing house .teamsteIS, was found
not guilty of disorderly conduct this after
noon by fury IN the court of 5ustice
Quinn Police Inspector Hunt preferred
charges against Golden for ordering
teamster who was hauling load of meat
to take it back to the place where he pro-
cured it. '..-.' -- - -".'t
Strike Breakers Mobbed.. -
A dispatch from Cleveland. Ohio. last
night says. The first effort of the manu-
facturers to break the cloakmakerts' strike
came today when fifty non-union cloak
makers arrived over the Nickel Plate road
from New York. They were disembarked
at a suburban station and placed on street
a her n strikers gathered
followed the cars to the center of the city.
By the time Bank street was reached the
crowd of strikers and sympathiZers num-
bered 2OOO. Stones were being hurled and
a riot call was sent in. When the strike
breakers were disembarked, 1t Is claimed,
twenty mine of the fifty were won over by
the union men. The other twenty-one were
taken into a cloak factory on Bank street,
where they are being guarded by police.
The crowd was dispersed.
Heavy Armament at Zeigler.
dispatch from Zeigler, ILL.,. last night
says A rapid-fire gun from the north block
house here has been placed in a steel gon-
dola and. manned by four gunners. doubly
armed with revolvers and magazine rifles,
las been added to company Of twenty
five Zeigler Guards and sent out as escort
to frightened trainmen who refused to go
through Christopher without sufficient pro-
lection The train returned. bringing TWEEN
ty-six non-union mine workers. The train
met with no armed opposition.
Carmen Ask Higher Wages.
A dNpatch from st. Paul. Mimi. last
night says: F. l.. Ronemus, grand chief of
the Garments brotherhood, was in St. Paul
today in conference with the officers of the
brotherhood. and 1t is said that the subject
Of the conference was a renewal Of the
demands of the carmen of the Great North
ern railway for an increased wage scale.
The carmens union is effective in all the
Great Northern car shouJ from st. Paul
to the Pacific coast.
Nihilists Declare a Girl Was Born.