The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-16
PRESERVE ORDER
OR FACE MILITIA
Dunno Declares Spread Of Strike
Would Mean Calling Out
Of Troops.
LIvERYMEN INCUR
STRIKE HOSTILITY
Attempt by Teamsters to Stop
Cab Deliveries at Boycotted
Stores.

Chicago, May l6.-Possibility of
tieup of all livery business in Chicago,
at meeting today of President Shea
Of the teamsters' union, W. ). Gibbons,
business agent of the Cab and Livery
Wagon Drivers union, and representa-
tives Of the Liverymen IS and Under
takers associations.
| Frank Amberg, prominent nvery
owner, left before the other members.
declaring that he for one was not go
| ing to allow dictation as where his
| drivers should carry passengers, and
that he would disregard the rule OF the
unions that no carriages should be al
cotted stores. Other members Of the
liverymen committee endeavored. to
induce President Shea and his fellow
unionists to permit the delivery OF pas
sengers at the boycotted stores; The
labor leaders fatty refused to deviate
from the stand taken against such de-
| livery.
Lockout as Weapon.
IN A% fPerg i Of the s f1e
meeting, that he would call session
of the Employers association and in
sist upon it's members doing business
with the bpycotted houses even it 1T
was necessary to lock out all employees
| to do so.
| C. P. Shea, president of the Interna.
tional Teamsters' union; Charles Dold,
president of the Shicago Federation of
Labor and several other labor leaders,
! held a conference with Mayor Dunno.
today. The labor officials were asked
not to spread the strike, but to aid in
putting down disorder. They replied
that they would not spread the strike.
but that they might be powerless to
prevent it's spread. They also criti.-
cized the police department for alleged
aiding Of non-union men.
Mayor May Ask Troops.
i Mavor Dunno reiterated his previ-
GUS statement, that if rioting contin-
ued and the strike spreads, he would
be compelled to call in state troops.
He talked plainly of the possibilities
of the police being unable to preserve
{ peace in case anything, approaching
= general strike occurred, accompanied,
: as it probably would be, by a renewal
Il of violence and rioting ON a larger
: scale than heretofore.
The officials Of the iverymen S union
: were also called into the mayors Of
. fee and Informed that any cabman who
:. refused to deliver passengers to the
promptly deprived Of the city license
3 under which he operates.
School Strikers to Be Punished.
5 Strikes of school children who have
I quit desks by hundreds in sym
/ are to be dealt with sternly, ae-
4 cording to President Clayton Mark
0 of the Chicago board Of education. The
t children's strikes have followed the
: use Of non-union teamsters by boycott
: ted firms in the delivery of coal at the
Il. = oil hot S,,
e many cases the parents, rather than
= the children, are responsible for the
| strike.
f Arrest and prosecution is threatened
!, by the board of education as punish
e ment for parents. who permit children
l. spectors are to be placed at the dis
Il posal of the superintendent of compul-
t sorry education to report cases where
f parents have violated the law.
|, More School Strikes.
e The strike of school children assumed
s larger proportions today when 1880 pu-
t pills of the Graham school, Forty fifth
e and Union streets, refused to enter the
l. building. According to school officials
n no "unfair' coal has been delivered at
i the Graham school. The authorities de-
z clared that there was no apparent rea-
son for the strike.
|
: Forty second and Wallace streets, went
n on strike today when two loads of coal
&c from the Peabody Coal company were
i delivered at the building. The pupils
d stood at a distance from the non-union
/ teamsters and jeered at them. Several
l. policemen were sent to maintain order.
e A strike occurred at the same place
If after the packing house strike, when q
! colored teacher was assigned there. The
Fallon school and the Graham school ara
in adjoining districts.
y Messenger Boys Parade.
Il More than one hundred messenger
it company paraded the streets today. The
e boy strikers occupied themselves chiefly
h in shouting at non-union teamsters.
e The youngsters became SO disorderly
e that fifty Of them were summariy ar
rested by the police, and put in jail.
+ The others with great CELEBRITY disap-
J. peared.
n Negroes Beaten by Mob.
- George Tallman and Henry Coles
! two colored men attacked by mob OF
. strike sympathizers at Fourteenth and
"a State streets today, were rescued by
- the police. The negroes had been rec
- ognized as having driven teams fol
- the Employers leaning company and
: were severely beaten. The police used
clubs vigorously in dispensing thu
= crowd.
g slugged, but He Receivers.
1t Patrick Mcmahon, president Of the
Terra Gotta, Sand and Brick Transfers
union, has partially recovered from I
blow on the head with a black jack :
!, supposedly administered by sluggers'
"a hired by another faction of the team
" sters. Mcmahon says he will continus
ea his fight against the policy of Preiden1
le Shea, in the present strike, as he hat
ne been doing. Altho he was on the look
rs rs out for personal attack, two assailantl
III slugged him in his own doorway.