The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-16
GENERAL TIE UP.
Funerals Even, Are Likely to Be
Stopped in Chicago.
Mayor Dunno Confers With
Leaders of Strike.
THREATENS MTLTTTA
If RiOting Continues and the
Strike Is Extended.
Fifteen Hundred Pupils in One
School Out on Sympathy.

Chicago. May 16.-Possibility of a tie
up of all livery business in Chicago in
Guiding funerals, grew more definite at
a meeting today of President Shea of
the Teamsters' union, with ]. G. Glib
bons, business agent of the Cab and
Livery Wagon Drivers union. and rep
resentatives of the LiveTymen's and I'm
dertakers' associations Frank Amberg,
a prominent livery owner, left before
the other members. declaring that he
for one was not going to allow dictation
as to where his drivers should carry
passengers, and that he would disre-
gard the rule of the unions that no car
riages should be allowed to unload pas
sengers at boycotted stores Other
members of the liverymen's committee
remained in conference with Shea and
Gibbons for some time in the hope of
avoiding a lockout or spread of the
drivers strike.
The employing liverymen vainly en-
deaVored to induce President Shea and
his fellow uniOnists to permit the de-
livery of passengers at the bOycotted
stores The labor leaders fatty refused
to deviate from the stand taken against
such delivery Committeeman Amberg
of the Employers declared after leaving
the meeting that he would call a ses-
sion of the Employers association and
insist on its members doing business
with the boycotted houses even if l. was
necessary to lock out all employees TO
do so.
c. P. Shea. president of the Interna-
tional Teamsters' union. Charles Dold,
president of the Chicago Federation of
Labor and number of other labor
leaders, held conference with Mayor
Dunno today The labor officials were
asked not to spread the strike but to
aid in putting down disorder. They re-
piled that they would not spread the
strike but that they might be powerIess
to prevent its spread.
Police Are Criticised.
They also criticized the police de
partment for alleged aiding of nonunlon
men. Mayor Dunno reiterated his pre-
vious statement to the effect that if RI
oting continued and the strike spread
he would be compelled to call in state
troops.
Mayor Dunne talked plainly of the
possibilities of the police being unable
to preserve peace in case anything ap-
preaching a general strike occurred, ac-
companied as it probably would be by
a renewal of violence and rioting on
a larger scale than heretofore.
The officials of the Hverymen' s
union were also called into the
mayors Office and informed that any
cabman who refused to deliver pas
sengers to the stores under the union
the city license under which he oper-
ates.
Frank Amberg, of the liverymen' s
committee said that at the conference
today President Shea not only refused
to permit the cab drivers to land their
passengers at the boycotted stores, but
ordered fifteen men assigned to the
department stores to see that no cab
driver forgot himself and landed his
fare" at a store door. This brought
from Mr.. Amberg the rmark; Shea,
you're not an American citizen to dc
a thing like that. You ought to be
run out of the town. as a disturber
and a vagabond."
The strike of school children assum-
ed larger proportions today, when 1,5Ot
pupils of the Graham school, Forty
fifth and Union streets, refused to en-
ter the building According to school
officials no unfair coal had been deliY-
cred at the Graham school. The auth-
critics declared that there was no ap-
parent reason for the strike.
Pupils of the Fallon public school
Forty-second and Wallace streets wenl
on strike today when two loads OF Goa
for the Peabody Coal company were de-
livered at the building. The pupils
stood at a distance from the nonunion
teamsters and jeered at them. Severa
policemen were sent to the SchOoI &C
maintain order. A strike" occurred al
the same place after the packing house
strike when a colored teacher was as
signed there. The Fallon school and
the Graham school are in the same dis
trict.
The youngsters became so disorderly
that fifty of them were summary ar
rested by the police All the poyS
arrested were promptly put in Jail
The others with great celerity d1sap-
peared from the streets.