Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-06
STRIKE SITUATION
IMPROVED TODAY
Mayor Dunno Tells Governor
There Will Be No Need For
the State Troops
RAIN AIDS IN KEEPING PEACE
Strikers Declare They Will Not Give
Up the Fight and That the Struggle
Has Only Just Begun, While Busi:-
ness Men Declare There Will be No
Compromise.

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Compromise.
Chicago. May 6-Sheriff Barrett, af-
ter making tour of the business dis
trict said: "The serious trouble seems
to be over The strike situation is now
well in the hands of the authorities,
and l look for continuation of COM
parative quiet and tranquility. I am
glad the employers have decided not to
engage any more negroes, as be-
lieve the use of negroes for strike
breakers caused more rioting than any
other factor in the strike"
Rain today was perhaps more in-
fluential even than the police and dep-
uty sheriffs in giving more peaceful
aspect to the streets. Much of the time
wagons belonging to the strike bound
firms moved freely without the slight
est sign of interference. Withdrawal Of
the colored teamsters to some extent
was SiiSO a AdStoA Ia plOuuCNtS quiet.
Street disturbances tho greatly lessen
en- today, did not wholly disappear.
Rioters attacked Charles Mcintyre.
colored, at Cottage Grove avenue, and
Twenty-sixth street, beating him al
most to death with "blackjacks." Sew
eral shots were fired from the crowd in
Desplaines street at non-union team
sters, but no one was injured. De-
partment stores and express compan-
les had number of their employees
sworn in as deputy sheriffs in an effort
to provide additional protection to
their drivers
In conversation over the long dis
tance telephone today Mayor Dunno
told Governor Deneen that the trouble
in Chicago seemed to be gradually dis
appearing and conditions were mucs,
apieter than on previous days; tina.
there was no need for troops at the
present time.
The employment office of the asso-
citation opened today. The officials in
best and most competent men available
as fast as possible.
A new scheme Of handling produce
shipments formerly handled by ex-
press companies, has been evolved.
Today many country shippers began
sending in their consignments of ber.
ries and vegetables by the suburban
electric lines. Officials of the Com :
mission Drivers Union say this win
take from the express companies per-
manently a large amount of bushes
that has always heretofore been han
died by express.
Strike Not Over.
President Charles ,Dold of the Fed
Grafton of Labor, today denied the
force and accuracy of the statement
from a member of the Employers AS
sociation that the employers had all
ready won the strike. The unions
have not touched at the edge of their
resources yet" said Dold. The
strike has not been won by the EN-
ployers' Association. The unions have
only started. They know they have a
big fight and expect a long one.
There is no thought Of surrender"
C. n. Conover. vice president Of
Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co., said
today the employers of Chicago are
agreed to lock up their doors and let
business stagnate rather than surren-
der to the teamsters' union. This. he
said, would be the rule Of his own
house. The statement was brought
out by the report that the company
was about to return to union drivers.
Conover says the same feeling exists
generally among the employers in
volved in the fight, whose interests In
the business would mount high to
millions, and whose employees are not
directly involved in the strike, yet
number tens of thousands. The En-
ployers Association today reported
having 1900 wagons in service. a much
larger number than yesterday.
Tugmen On Strike.
The strike of the tugmen in sym
pathy with the teamsters began today.
River traffic of the Peabody Coal Co.,
and other concerns is interrupted.