Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-15
BULLETIN.

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Washington, May 15.-President
Samuel Gompers will leave here this
afternoon for Chicago, where he Will
arrive tomorrow afternoon and confer
with the officials Of the teamsters'
union.
Chicago, May 15.-Possible signs OF
the end of the teamsters' strike began
to grow today. President Shea, OF
the teamsters union, sent telegram
to President Gompers, of the American
Federation of Labor, requesting that
meeting Of the national board OF that
body be held In Chicago at the end
of the week. The report is also con-
1rmed that Shea had telegraphed the
national officers of the International
Brotherhood of Teamsters to come to
Chicago forthwith. The teamsters' ex-
ecutive board will be in session We'd
nesday or Thursday. Some members
are already here.
The move to bring the national
board Of the American Federation of
Labor together was viewed by the
team owners, who, thru their various
associations have been striving to
bring about conciliation between the
strikers and employers and by labor
officials generally, as important in the
direction Of settlement. This may
possibly take the form of calling off the
strike. The telegram to Gompers ask
ed that he call meeting In Chicago
not later than Saturday.
Shea's utterances today contained no
note indicating purpose to surrend-
er. "The papers say we are weaken-
ing,' he said, but want to say if any
teamster comes into the meeting to-
night and advocates surrender will
not answer for him."
Fully a hundred letters threatening
death have been received by half doz-
an OF men who have been given wide
publicity as managers of the employers
end of the strike. Serious cOnsidera-
tlon is being given to the letters since
the exposures made by the confession
of a hired thug that he and others
made a business of slugging here a.
the rate Of SIS per person slugged.
Isodyguards are now attending all the
principals on the employers side OF the
strike, night and day.
Mayor Dunno made definite dec
laration today that a call for state
troops would promptly follow spread
of the strike accompanied by violence.
President Gompers is said to have
issued call today to all members OF
the federation of labor, estimated at
two million, to contribute to the strike
benefit for Chicago teamsters. About
100 Western Union. Telegraph messen-
gers struck today because the Peabody
Coal Company delivered coal at the
Western Union Telegraph Company's
building by non-union teamsters. An
ATTEMPT to call a strike at another
school was frustrated by the police.
There were increased deliveries today,
and only small disturbances.
Chicago, May 15.-The influences in
the Teamsters' Joint Council at work
to- halt a general strike movement in
Guiding all drivers is expected to bear
fruit at a meeting of the council to-
night and avert a new and greater in
d,lstrial upheaval here. Rumors that
the executive board Of the Internation-
al Brotherhood of Teamsters would
meet in Chicago tomorrow and the
action of the ice wagon drivers in ac-
cepting the wage schedule of last year,
coupled with reports that dozens of
strikers have applied for their old po-
sitions at the department stores, sus-
tains the belief among the employers
that the end of the strike is not far
distant.
Whether 1000 cab drivers who re-
fuse to take passengers to stores under
the union ban, will orawill not strike,
depends upon the outcome of the
Teamsters Joint Council tonight.
Before Master in Chancery Sherman
the hearing Of the federal injunction
cases was continued today, attorneys
for the. employers working hard to
obtain light. ON the alleged "slugging'
feature 6f strike to show that "vio-
lerlce committees" exist for every un-
ior during times of strikes and that
men are trained for "slugging" work
and employed exclusively for that
purpose 1t was declared today if the
union men called as witnesses con-
time to refuse to answer questions
orders citing for contempt would sure
ly- follow.
HIRED sLuGGERs.
Police Making an Active Campaign