Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-05-12

waiting to see what the sheriff will do.
To ask for troops if deputies are mo-
Tested.
Downtown streets practically free of
riots.
Employers hold executive session to
decide on next step, following failure
to secure troops.
Governor not to investigate strike
personally, having reliable agents max
ing daily reports.
Big shake-up to be made in police
department as a result of proof that
they grossly favor the sluggers.
Business greatly increased all firms
sending out delivery wagons.
City employees in all departments
sworn in and assigned to police duty.
Large additions to ranks of strikers,
owing to discharges by employers and
voluntary strike.
Chicago, May 6.-Late last night 1t
was announced by labor leaders that
a plan to bring about arbitration OF
the strike will be tried.
The unions have abandoned all hope
of changing the attitude of the en-
ployers' association as a whole, and
will now try the plan of reaching the
members as individuals. Three men,
bers of the Team Owners association
have been engaged on the plan for
twenty-four hours, and express conf
dence that it will be successful.
Chicago, May 6.-Bluntly warned by
Sheriff Thomas Barrett that troops
would be asked for by him If police
ard deputy sheriffs together proved
unable to control violence, strike SYM
pathizers are less in evidence about the
many strikebound stores and stables.
A distinct innovation was made by
the police. Chief of Police ONeill is
sued a general order to arrest all per-
sons following photographed wagons
when the strike first broke out"
said Chief O'Neil, persons followed
the wagons out of curiosity. Now they
follow them to incite riot. There will
be no discrimination by the police in
such cases in making arrests"
Sheriff Barrett announced that,
pending developments, the swearing in
of deputies would be confined to 200
men. His reason was that the calling
in of additional deputies would be a
l,,,1o, ,,,o, tho 6nancoc Of tho poun-
ty.
Two thousand men constituted the
police force available for strike duty.
With this number the police officials
expected to guard 1900 wagons.
Bricks and Baseball Bats.
Bricks and baseball bats were used
with blood letting effect in Dearborn
street near Nineteenth. Nearly a
score of negroes, all non-union men of
the Employers leaning Co., prepar-
ing to take out wagons to transfer
goods at various establishments, were
attacked by a mob Of strike sympa-
thizers. Several were hurt, one Sc
verely.
The worst sufferer is Hardy Jameson,
bystander, whose head was cut open
| with a baseball bat. Jameson was
taken to hospital, where surgeons
said he had little chance of recovery
A squad of police with swinging clubs
dispersed the rioters, after beating
many men over the head.
|
In defiance to Chief O'Neills order
that all persons found following wa
CONS owned by the Employers Team
| ing Co. should be arrested, large
throng surrounded a caravan of wag-
ons that conveyed 100 negro drivers
and guards from lodging houses in
Customs house court to the Peabody
Coal Co.'s yard at Canal and West
Twenty-sixth streets.
The so police who served as an es-
cort were unable to literally follow the
order regarding arrests, but did sue
coed in forcing the passage of the cara
van. A number of bricks were thrown
but did no severe injury.
A canvass of the State street shop.
ping district showed that delivery
wagons we're sent out from nearly ev.
cry retail store.
Sheriff Tries an Experiment.
The experiment of sending out ely
ing squadrons," each composed of five
or ten deputy sheriffs, was tried by
Sheriff Barrett 1t was hoped that by
having the deputies mix with the strike
sympathizers, trouble at the inception
might be averted which probably 9th
erwise would develop into riots.
For possibly the first time since thu
strike began a caravan of coal wagon!
manned by non-union colored team
sters traversed the center of the cit!
absolutely unmolested,
Not jeer was heard as the wagons
moved along the streets. The wagons
we're loaded with coal and then es
corted to various Office buildings ant
department stores in the business dis
tyint