Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-19
END OF THE STRIKE
Stated That 1t Will Surely
Come Tonight.
TOLD BY THE SHERIFF
SITUATION APPARENTLY CLEAR
ED SINCE MORNING.
Looked Gloomy When President Com
pers Left Chicago-Doings
Of the Day.
TOLD BY THE SHERIFF

| be no claim of victory defeat by either
side. The employers will take back the
| teamsters who are worthy and desirable
men and who have not violated the law"
This declaration was made by Sheriff
Thomas +. Barrett today and was con-
firmed from several sources. Sheriff Bar
rett began at once to call In the extra depu-
ties engaged in guarding wagons of the
Employers Teaming Company and discon-
tinued the appointing of new deputies.
Notwithstanding the statements of Sher-
III Barrett and Mayor Dunno, C. ii. Cook
of the teamsters' general strike committee
said: Il have heard nothing whatever of
such settlement the newspapers are
printing today. The strikers are instructed
and have promised to take no Information
from the papers. The men positively will
go no back to work until the strike has
been settled officially
General Belief
Simultaneously with Mr.. Cooks statement
came a report credited to a member OF the
employers association who is q department
store leader that he had reason to believe
the strike will be officially called off II
promise is made to the strike leaders that
there will be prosecution in the federal
court of the men now included in the
charges of violation of the courts in1unc-
tions. Dell Stevens of the Department
store DT1NeTS Union tiiS
noon that matters will be brought to a
focus by the rank and file of his union at
meeting between the union men and some
employers. From this meeting large re-
suits will come-watch the meeting Tor a
settlement" the union man said
President Shea's Statement.
President Shea of the Teamsters' Union,
when told of the declaration of Mayor
Dunno and Sheriff Barrett said:
There is no man in this world that has
power to cali this strike off or make any
such settlement. The teamsters joint coun-
cil alone has that power. The council has
not considered any such proposition.
When President Gompers left chicago
last night, ii is said, Sherln Barrett was
given authoritative information that While
there would be no formal capitulatlon on
either side of the controversy, the striking
teamsters and the employers would quietly
merge interests and restore peace. The
sheriff was informed that If the law-ab.d-
ing members of the union could be refnstat-
ed the strike would not last twenty-four
hours. Sheriff Barrett declared that he had
been informed that such men would De
taken back
Mayor Dunne's Prediction.
Mayor Dunno said that he had learned
from source not connected with either
side of the teamsters' strike. that the
strike will be called off within twenty-four
hours
Serious Flour Famine.
A serious flour famine threatens Chicago
as the result of the spreading of the strike
to include the wholesale flour manufactur-
ers and dealers. Predictions were made
today that unless peace intervened the de-
livery of flour to retail merchants would
be tied up within the next twelve hours.
The flour manufacturers and dealers were
said to be acting in concert and intended
to lock out union drivers as soon as the
drivers refuse to haul goods to any of the
boycotted firms. Pieser, Livingstone & Co.
today ordered -four taken to a boycotted
house When the driver refused TO make
the delivery, twenty-elght union drivers
were told their services were not needed
any longer. 1t was said that each OF the
manufacturers and dealers who supply the
bulk of the retail trade in the city would
take similar action whenever drivers re-
fused to make deliveries.
A report appeared on the stock Ickers
today that Sheriff Barrett had informed
members of the firm of Bartlett, Fraser ~
Darlington that settlement OF the strike
had been reached and an announcement
would be made this afternoon. Chief Dep
uty Sheriff Peters said the report was not
authorized.
The police were called to Lake and Clark
streets today to rescue a teamster on an
Employers Teaming Company wagon which
had become stalled in a rut. The wagon
was loaded with goods for Reid, Murdoch
& Co. and was protected by one policeman.
When the wagon became STALLED" a crowd
of 1900 persons gathered, jeering and hoet-
ing the non-union teamster. Becoming bold
err the crowd began to throw decayed fruit
and other missiles at the policeman and his
charge A riot call brought twenty-five
patrolmen, who forced their way to the
wagon and rescued the non-unlon teamster
No arrests were made
President Shea of the teamsters declared
to the Iiverymen's association that he had
more power than the mayor OF Chlcago ana
had enough men to go up State street ana
clean out the district to the lake according
To the testimony of Franz Amberg before
Master in Chancery Sherman today. AM
berg is president of the West Side Livery
mems Association. THE last time l saw
Shea said the witness, was at the Briggs
House Tuesday at conference. When we
asked him if he would allow us TO deliver
passengers to the boycotted stores he SAID
he could not possibly allow it. He said If
we attempted to do it he would put fifteen
of his best men along State street and take
the names of all who hauled people to the
stores. and he would get them where he
wanted Them.
Then the witness told of Sheas threat to
"clean OUT part of the city.
Il told Shea he ought to have been run
out of town long ago. | thought myself
that it would be better to hang him TO
lamp post.
An early dispatch from Chicago today
said: Overtures looking to peaceable set
tlement of the teamsters strike here were
temporarily set aside early today. Through
the departure of President Gompers for
Dayton, ONO, last DiSnl lite ciiiel H-huStSo
upon which hopes of peace were centered
was removed.
The defiant attitude of International Pres
ident C. p. Shea and his bitterness to-
ward the State street merchants whom ne
accuses of conspiring to wreck the team
sters' organization seemed to preclude the
possibility of any definite steps toward an
adjustment of the trouble before the return
of Mr.. Gompers. Encouraged by the ef-
forts at mediation. however. the president
of the American Federation of Labor viii
hasten back to Chicago and expects to re-
new his negotiations tomorrow. Mr.. Comp
ers admitted before his departure that the
various conferences between representa-
tfves of both sides in the controversy had
produced a more pacific feeling. and this, he
argued would accomplish much toward fix
ing a common ground upon which terms or
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