The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-05-01
HAVE APPEALED
TO ROOSEVELT
Chicago Labor Leaders Ask Assist
ance of President.
FUTILE PEACE EFFORTS
STIRRING TIMES EXPECTED THIS
WEEK.

Chicago, April 30.-Anticipating that
today's peace conferences in Mayor
DUNES office would be futile. the Chi
caEo Federation of Labor, without
waiting for announcement Of the result
of the negotiations, appealed to Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Governor Deneen
for assistance in the teamsters' strike.
Fearing that troops may be sent to
Chicago to preserve order during the
strike. the labor organization has asked
both the president and the governor 10
investigate the situation in Chicago be-
fore taking any such action. To IA
Cilitate the matter a committee was ap-
pointed with orders to communicate at
once with both the president of the ma
ton and Governor Deneen- President
Roosevelt will visit Chicago May Sth,
but it is the intention of the labor body
10 get in communication with him i'm
mediately-
Ended ia Failure.
4 determined effort on the part Of
. Mayor Dunno and his peace committee
composed of Bishop g P Anderson Of
the Episcopal church, Rev. jenkins
Lloyd, Of All Souls church. Or. Emil
Hirsch of Sinai temple, Miss Jane
Adams Of HullhOUse and DR.. COTnelia
de Bey of NeiChbOThOOd house, to bring
about an amicable settlement OF the
strike was an absolute failure and all
peace negotiations for the present at
least, have been declared off.
Indications tonight are that the strike
IS bound to spread to other firms. Both
sides seem determined in the stand they
have taken. All members of the en-
plOyers association viii insist on all of
their union teamsters making deliveries
10 the concerns already involved in the
strike.
Will Spread Rapidly.
A refusal on the part of any driver to
comply with this request, the employers
declare, viii be met with instant dis
missal- The teamsteTs' union has de-
clared that in every instance where a
union teamster is discharged for this
reason every union driver employed by
the firm making the dismissal viii be
ordered on strike With both sides in
this frame Of mind there seems TO be
nothing which can prevent "A rapid
spread of the strike.
Nine hundred extra policemen Will
be put on duty in the downtown dis
triCt tomorrow morning. Three hun
dred of these viii guard wagons of the
express companies, 150 viii be held in
reserve at Central station and the re-
mainder viii be assigned to guard the
wagons of the Employers leaning COM
pany, the new organization which was
formed TO take the place of the strik-
ing Ieamsters-
Non-Union Men Secured.
The streets were free from riotiug
today as no effort was made TO make
deliveries to the firms involved The
employers spent the day i'm making pre-
-parations for the coming week. and il
WIS stated tonight that hundreds of
men had been secured since Saturday
might who viii be put on wagons tomor-
row to take the places OF the strikers.
The express companies had several
wagons at work in transferring pack
ages from one railroad 10 another No
interference on the part of the strike
sympa thizeTS was met with
Early today a mob of 500 men and
boys. headed ny d humber of striking
transfers raided the main stables Of
the Employers TeaminE company and
stampeded the animals.
William and Harry Grady. picture
frame manufacturers. who were shot
early today and seriously wounded. are
said to have been the victims of d mis-
understanding. Some time ago these
men supplied Montgomery. Ward &
Company with picture frames but their
contract expired several months ago.
It is said by the police that strike SYM
the GUadyS were still connected with
the Ward company made the attack on
the two men