Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1905-05-19
STRIKE WILL
END TONIGHT
So Says Sheriff Barrett Of Cook
County, in Regard TO Chi.
cago Affair.
NO CLAIM OF VICTORY
On Either Worthy and Desirable
Men will Be employed and Go
Quietly to Work

Chicago, May 19-J"The strike will
end tonight or tomorrow morning.
There was no claim of victory or de-
| feat of either side. The employers
will take back the teamsters who are
worthy and desirable men and who
have not violated the law" This dec.
laration was made by Sheriff Thomas
! E. Barrett today and was confirmed
from several sources. Sheriff Barrett
| at once began to call In the extra dep
| uties engaged In guarding the wagons
Of the Employers Teaming Company
and discontinued appointing new dep.
uties. Mayor Dunno says he had been
informed that the strike would come
to an end within "a hours, or 48 at
least There will be no formal calling
off of the boycott, he said. The men
who are re-employed will quietly -
back to work and the ban will
ed without demonstrat'
President Shea, whe' a=
larations of Mayor ... .
Barrett, said::
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da. said that he na.
,ource not Connected Win
side that the teamsters' strike will be
called off within "a hours.
Shea Very Bitter Towards Merchants.
Chicago, May 19.-Overtures look
ing to a peaceable settlement of the
Transfers strike here were temper
arily set aside today and through the
departure of President Gompers for
Dayton, Ohio. last night, the chief In
f1uence on which the hopoo of poaoo
were centered was removed. The de-
fiant attitude of the international pres
ldent, c. P. Shea, and his bitterness
towards the State Street merchants
whom he accuses of conspiring to
wreck the Transfers organization,
seemed to preclude the possibility of
any definite steps towards the adjust
ment of the trouble before the return
Of Mr.. Gompers. Encouraged by his
efforts at mediation, however, the
president of the American Federation
Of Labor will hasten back to Chica.
go and expects to renew his negotia-
tons tomorrow.
Flour Manufacturers Adopt Drastic
Measures.
Now ri
famine threatens Chicago as the result
If the spreading of the strike to in
,lude the wholesale -four manufactur-
ers and dealers. Predictions we're
made today that unless peace inter
yened soon the delivery of flour to the
'etail merchants would be tied up
within the next twelve hours. Flour
and dealers were said
o be acting, in concert and intended to
ock out the Union drivers as soon as
my driver refused to haul goods to
my boycotted firms. Pieser, Living
,ton & Company ordered flour taken
o boycotted houses. When the driv-
,r refused to make the delivery, twen-
y-eight union drivers were told that
heir services were not needed long
IT. 1t is said that each manufacturer
md dealer who supply the bulk of
he retail trade in the city would take
/ similar action whenever drivers re-
use to make delivery.
Executive Board in Secret Session.
Chicago, May 19.-The National Ex-
cutive board of the Teamsters' Un-
on came to Chicago this afternoon.
The board met in the Office of the Van
'eamsters Union in a secret and
uarded session.