Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-17
Who Are Taking a Hand
in the Chicago Shike
To Be Taught Error Of Ways
by Judge in Court.
Warrants Issued for Many as Well as for
Some Of the Parents.

Chicago, May 16.-Strikes or school
children who have quit desks by hun
| dfeds in sympathy with the teamsters'
strike are 10 be dealt with sterniy ac-
ccrding TO Clayton Mark, president OF
the Chicago Board Of Education. The
! chi!dren's strikes have followed the
use Of nOn-uniGn teamsters by boycott
ted firms in delivering coal at the pub
lie schools. 1t is alleged that in many
| cases the parents rather than the chill
| dren are responsible for the strikes
Arrest and prosecution Is threatened
by the Board Of Education as punish
rhent for tho offending parents.
George Tallman and Henry Coles,
two coiored men attacked by mob Of
strike sympatniZers. were rescued by
the police who used clubs vigorously
in dispensing the crowd
More than 100 messenger boys en-
rloyed by the Postal Telegraph Co.
raraded the streets. today. The boy
strikers occupied themselves chiefly in
shouting at non-union teamstsrs. The
youngsters became so disorderly that
30 of them were arrested by the police
and put in jail. The others quickly
disappeared from the streets.
breakers arrived in Chicago, today.
Three hundred white and colored lnen
came from st. Louis. Another large
gang came from Cincinnati. consisting
of white men entirely. Nearly score
of the whites deserted after arriving
declaring they We're not told there was
a strike on here.
The strike of school children assumed
10, ~
pills of the Graham school refused to
enter the building. According to school
officials no unfair coal has been de-
livered at the Graham school. The au-
thorities declare that there is no APP
parent reason for the strike.
Pupils of the Fallon public school
went on strike. today. when two leads
Of coal from the Peabody Coal Co.
were delivered at the building.
Henry Cunningham. a student at
Cornell University. was held for the
criminal court. today. in bonds OF $500.
The charge against Cunningham was
assault with a deadly weapon pre-
ferred by Henry Van Dyke. who was
shot at DesPlaines and West Adams
streets. week ago.
Cunningham is one Of n party Of six
Cornell students who were brought to
Chicago three weeks ago by the ex-
press companies to be employed as
guards on wagons. He was acting an
conductor on an Adams Express Co
wagon when he fired the shot which
struck Van Dyke. Cunningham said
he fired at man named George Liv-
ingston. who was throwing stones at
him. Witnesses We're produced who
testified that Livingstone was merely
stOoping for a baseball which he had
dropped.
The magistrate said there was in
sufficient provocation for the shooting
and that Cunningham. who had been
ir the army. was to easily frightened.
Warrants were sworn out. today, be-
fore Judge Mack by Supt. of Compul-
sorry Education Bodine for the ring
leaders Of the STRIKES" at the public
schools and also for the parents OF
many of the pupils, whose children
have not returned to school. The
school officials decided to put down the
school STRIKES If it should be necos-
sary to take several hundred pupils
and their parents into the courts.
Drivers for the musical instrument
house of Lyon & Healy struck, today.
The drivers had been ordered to deliv-
er goods to the boycotted stores.
At a meeting Of the BOARD. Of Edu-
cation, this evening, warrants were
sworn out for eight boys who have been
leaders IN the recent strikes at the
schools in sympathy with the strike IT
the teamsters. The threat Of arrest of
parents whose children did not attend
school had the effect OF settling three
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