The Red Cloud chief., 1905-05-19
STRIKE TO END SOON
PREDICTED IT WILL BE CALLED
OFF WITHIN TWO DAYS.
Tells President OF Transfers Union
That II Trouble Spread Further He
Would Call Troops-Gompers Hopes
for Settlement.

for Settlement.
Chicago, May l1.-Although no facts
have as yet transpired to fully war
rant the prediction, II Is asserted both
by members OF the Employers associ.
ation and by the conservative element
in the ranks of the teamsters that the
present strike will be called off prob.
ably within ~forty.eight hours and Ger.
tainly by the end of the week. II Is
not likely that any definite action
looking TO an adjustment of the trou.
bic will be taken prior to the meeting
of the national officers Of the team.
sters' union.
Chief among the causes which lead
to the prediction OF q settlement are
the firm stand taken by Mayor Dunno.
when in conference with President
Shea and officials of the local team.
sters' union. he assured them that any
further spread OF the strike would Ger.
tainly make 1t necessary for him to
call troops. and the arrival Of Presi.
dent Samuel Gompers Of the American
Federation OF Labor. Although not
possessed OF executive power In the
settlement OF the strike. President
Gompers declared that he had every
hope that It's end was not far distant.
1t Is said on good authority that the
teamsters will accept any plan Of set.
Element that will enable them 70 call
of the strike gracefully. and they will
onanvt anu p1or thot DractInnt COM.
pers may propose. It is now said that
Mr.. Gompers will suggest to the team
sters that they allow the team owners
to do business with the boycotted
houses. II is expected that the team.
sters will accept this proposition, and
In this manner the strike will be called
of.
The Employers association and the
express companies increased their
scope Of delivery still further. Some.
thing over 1000 wagons were in use
and business for the most part was
transacted without hindrance of any
kind. There were a few cases OF small
riots, which were dispersed by the
police, who used their clubs in vigor-
Gus fashion. Three hundred and fifty
men were brought into the city to
take the places of strikers.
Warrants for School Strikers.
At a meeting of the board Of edu.
cation warrants were sworn out for
eight boys who have been leaders in
the recent strikes at the schools in
sympathy with the strike of the team.
sters. II was announced by the super
intendent Of compulsory education
that he had definite information to the
effect that the majority Of the strikes
at the schools had been instituted by
hoodlums, who had told the pupils
that II was their duty to refuse to at
tend the schools, because the schools
were buying coal from the wrong
firms. The threat Of arrest OF parents
whose children did not attend school
had the effect of settling three strikes.
Enoch Carlson, eight years of age,
was shot and killed by a colored man.
a former employee Of the Peabody Coal
company, which has sustained al &C.
tive part in the teamsters' strike.
Two colored men were walking along
Twenty.seventh street when some
boys. who were playing ball in an ad-
Joining lot, booted at them. One OF
the colored men drew a revolver and
fred at the boys. Just as he did so
the Carlson boy came around the cor
ner and the bullet struck him In the
left groin. He died while being taken
TO the hospital. The colored men es.
capped.