Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-03

The Employers Association has de
li.er"G an ultimatum to five of the
leading team owners that they make
deliveries 10 the department stores as
they had been doing in the past. The
answer Of the tcaming contractors will
he prepared at once and is anxiou3ly
looked forward to. The team owners
quit making deliveries to stores when
the tr;imst"rs entered upon the strike.
The team owners were informed that
they must either deliver freight to the
boycottcd stores or lCse the business
permanently. To deliver goods as de-
mandCd would cause q spread of the
strike to 5000 more drivers.
The Arthur Dixon Transfer Co.. Jos.
Stockton Co, w. p. Rcndt Co. Chris
tophnr NJ. Lynch and stephen 7.
Clarke are the companies most affect
cd.
The employers seemed determined to
force the tight and an employer said:
1.-THE unions have extended the strike
and we will simply do one better and
will end it ourselves if necessary. There
is no use drifting along on the defcn-
sivc''
Assistant Chief of Police Schuettlnr
reported. Tuesday. that he had 1850
men on strike duty. This force he
Ella ilrcd to be able to protect $50 wag-
ons in caravans. Where single wagons
are sent ont Il guard Of six policemen
is provided.
In one instance a hired carriage was
stopped iii Wabash avenue and the oc
cupant, woman shopper. compelled
to got out and walk. Another woman
with boil. arms full of bundles was
caught by the skirts and stopped as
she WAS about to step into a cab in
State Street. The cab driver was
warned rot to take her rs fare. I'm
daunted, the shopper walked to an
other corr CT where she hailed a second
cab. Again she Was stopped by the
union sympathiZers. Finally she board
Cd Il street car.
Only few hacks or cabs venture to
drive UP to the entrances Of any Of
the State street stores. In most cases
the drivers request their passengers
to aliSht on the opposite side of the
street.
With one exception. none of the State
street stores attempted to make dcliv-
cries in the residential districts. Mon
day, although at all the boycOttcd eS-
tahlishmcntS assurances were freely
given that the wagons would start out
Tue sGay. With few exceptions the liv-
cries refuse to carry passengers to u
buyccttcd store.
The sidewalks and the surface and
elevated cars are thronScd with men.
women and children carrying bundles
OF I'll sizes and descriptions.
The need of coal rapidly is develop
ing into one of the most important fac
tors OF the strike. Only two or three
stores on State street have sufficient
fer more than three days. Coal deal
crS shy the crisis will come soon.
The peril of the position was empha-
sized by John \. Fctzer, receiver for
the Union Traction CO.. who says:
''ln several of our stations. unless we
got coal in "a hours, we will have to
close down. or course we will try cv-
cry possible scheme first
Thirty non-union transfers were at
tackled. today, by crowd of strike
sympathizers at jackson boulevard
and Halstead street The police arrest
ed five persons
Drivers and helpers for all of the
large express companies. in South Chi
caeo. went out, today, OH sympathet-
ic strike.
While delivering coal. today, at The
FAR at Adams and Dearborn streets.
VIM. II. Brown. a non-union colored
teamster. bad his leg broken by Il
bucket thrown from the top of The
Fair building. Il stories high.
Mayor Dunno formally announced.
today. that he had decided to swear in
800 additional police for service. tomor-
row. In the heart of the fashionable
district. two trucks driven by non-un-
ion coiored teamsters and guarded by
40 negroes armed with stout canes,
were stopped for time by a jeering
crowd numbering SEQ. which soon in
creased to nearly 1000 persons Tin
cans, pieces of coal. old shoes and frnit
were thrown at the colored men, who
meantime used their clubs freely.
At Washington street, a number of
women. who had been shopping, be-
came mixed in the crowd. The negroes
drove the mob back and the women