Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-16
MORE MEN MAY STRIKE
Possibility of urther Trouble
in Chicago.
MEETING HELD TODAY
GENERAL LIVERY BUSINESS
LIKELY TO BE NEXT AFFECTED.
This Includes Drivers of Carriages and
Hearses for Funerals-Ques-
ton of Boycott.
MEETING HELD TODAY

CHICAGO, May 16.-PossibIlity Of a tie
up of all Every business in Chicago. In
Guiding funerals. grew more definite at a
meeting today of President Shea Of the
Teamsters Union; W j Gibbons. business
agent of the Cab and Livery Wagon
Drivers Union. and representatives of the
hverymens and undertakers' associations.
Frank Amberg. a prominent livery owner.
left before the other members. declaring
that he for one not going to allow
dictation as TO where his drivers should
carry passengers. and that he would dis
regard the rule of the unions that no car
riages should be allowed to unload pas
sengers at boycotted stores
Other members OF the liverymens COM
mittee, A B. Perrigo. j. O. Sullivan and
Harvey Edgerton remained in conference
with Shea and Gibbons for some time In
the hope of avoiding a lockout or spread
of the drivers strike.
Two Rescued by the Police.
George Tallman and Henry Coles, two
colored men attacked by a mob of strike
sympathizers at 18th and State streets to-
day, were rescued by the police. The
negroes had been recognized as having
driven teams for the Employers Teaming
Company and were severely beaten. The
police used clubs vigorously in dispensing
the crowd.
More than 100 messenger boys employed
by the Postal Telegraph Company paraded
the streets today. The boy strikers occu-
pied themselves chiefly in shouting at nom
union teamsters
Patrick Mcmahon, president of the Terra
Gotta Sand and Brick Toamsters' Union.
has partially recovered from a blow on
the head with a black jack supposedly
administered by 'sluggers' hired 10y an
other faction of the teamsters- Mcmahon
says he will continue his fight against the
policy of President Shea in the present
strike as he has been doing. Although he
was the lookout for a personal attack
two assailants executed their work upon
him in his own doorway.
Union Men Arrested for Slugging.
Bricklayers' He'll, chief labor headquar-
ters In Chicago and meeting place for the
Federation of Labor, has been invaded by
the police Eleven union men were ar
rested who had taken refuge in the build
ing after non-union driver had been
"slugged."
Fear that he would meet the same fate
as F. ]. Carlstrom, the woodworker. who
was killed it is alleged, by "sluggers," led
John Mitternan to kill himself MItterman
cut his throat with razor while standing
in the street opposite his dwelling. lie
died two hours later at a hospital, ravinE
against the unions Mitterman UP to and
after the time of the strike was in the en-
Carlstrom worked. He was one of the men
on the list of those to be "slugged," of
whom Carlstrom was the first
The fact that he was to meet the fate Of
Carlstrom preyed upon Mitterman's mind
that he sent a letter to Mr.. Nickel week
ago saying that he had been followed by
'sluggers' and was in fear of his life. An
investigation is being made.
School Youths to Be Dealt With Sternly
Strikes OF school children, who have quit
desks by hundreds in sympathy with the
teamsters' strike, are TO be dealt with stern
ly, according to President Clayton Mark
of the Chicago board of education. The
childrens strikes have followed the use Of
non-union tearnsters by boycotted firms in
delivering coal at the public schools. 1t is
alleged that in many cases the parents
rather than the children are responsible
for the strike.
Arrest and prosecution are threatened by
the board of education as punishment for
parents who permit children TO go on strike
In schools Many inspectors are TO be
placed at the disposal Of Superintendent or
Compulsory Education Bodine to report
cases where parents have violated the law.
After a conference with Bodine, Superin-
tendent Cooley. Trustee R. A. White and
Attorney Clayton Mark, the president of the
board has issued this statement:
THE law requires parents to keep their
children in school. 1t also requires the
children to attend school and obey the
promptly enforced against the parents for
failure to send their children to school,
and against children for failure TO attend
and obey the rules of the school"
Pupils of the Fallon public school. f2d
and Wallace streets went on strike" to-
day when two loads of coal from the Pea
body Coal Company were delivered at the
building The pupils stood at distauce
from the non-union teamsters ana 1eereu II
them. -,
Several policemen were sent to the school
to maintain order. A strike" occurred at
the same place after the packing house
strike when colored teacher was assign
ed there. The Fallon schools and the
Graham school are in adjoining districts
More Strike Breakers Arrived.
New consignments of striSe-brea1ers are
arriving III Chicago. Three hundred white
and colored men came from ST. Louis to-
day They were recruited in Louisville
Evansville and other river towns. The
men were marched to the barns of the Chi
cago Teaming Company. Jackson boulevard
and Franklin street. Another large gang
came from Cincinnati, consisting of whtta
men entirely Nearly a score or the whites
deserted after they reached the city, declar-
ing they were not told tnat lhere was
strike on here.
1T c. Baker, one of the deserters, com
planned that the two passenger cars IN
which they were brought to Chicago were
locked during the entire trip. The strike
of school children assumed large proper
tions today. when 800 pupils of the Graham
School, 41st and Union streets, refused To
enter the building According to school OF
icfals no unfair coal has been deliyefed
at the Graham School. The authorities de-
clare that there was no apparent reason
for the strike.