Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-15
TO TRY TOHALT STRIKE
Important Meeting of Chi
cago Council Tonight.
WORKMEN TO CONFER
ATTORNEYS FOR EMPLOYERS
WORKING HARD FOR POINTERS.
Assault Feature Of Trouble Believed to
Be Work of Regular Violence
Committees.

dill CNtSllSlOI VI tlC otAlNSp 1HlSAAo
tional President Shea's utterances
today contained no note indicating
purpose to surrender.
"The papers say we are weaken
ing" he said, "but l want to say
that if any teamster comes into the
meeting tonight and advocates sur
render ! will not answer for him"
care you going to take any fur
tl1er legal proceedings in the prose-
cution of the striker" he was asked.
Legal proceedings!" he ex-
claimed in apparent disgust. "We
will leave that to the employers.
They have an injunction, but in
functions do not drive wagons. We
shall not resort to legal proceedings.
The strike will be won by the
strength of the teamsters' organiza-
ton"
President Shea is said to have re-
quested President Gompers to call
for a meeting of the executive board
of the American Federation of La
Dor here to advise regarding the
teamsters' strike.
CHICAGO, May 15.-Possible signs of
the end of the teamsters strike began to
grow today. President Shea of the
teamsters' union sent a telegram to Pres.-
dent Gompers of the American Fedora
ton of Labor requesting a meeting of the
national board of that body to be held in
Chicago at the end of the week. The re-
port was also confirmed that President
Shea had telegraphed the national officers
of the International Brotherhood of Team
sters to come to Chicago forthwith. The
teamsters' executive board will be in ses-
sion about Wednesday or Thursday Some
of the members already here. One of
them, Vice President Casey, is en- route
from San Francisco.
The move toward br bringing the ma
tional board of the American Federation of
Labor together was viewed by the team
owners who through their various associa-
tions have been striving to bring about
concilfation between the strikers and their
employers, and by labor officials generally,
as important In the direction Of a settle
ment. This may possibly take the form of
the calling off of the strike. The telegram
to President Gompers asked that he call
meeting to be held in Chicago not later
than Saturday.
The following are the executives OF the
National Central Labor body of America.
Samuel Gompers, president; James Dun
can, John Mitchell, James OConnelL Max
Morris, Thomas l. Kidd, Dennis A. Hayes,
Daniel j. Keefe. William j. Spencer, vice
presidents; J. B. Lennon, treasurer; Frank
Morrison, secretary.
CHICAGO, May 15.-Inf1uences in the
teamsters' joint council, at work to halt
general strike movement including all driv-
ers in hicago, are expected to bear fruit
at a meeting OF the council tonight, and
avert a new and greater industrial up
heaval here
Rumors that the executive board of the
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
would meet in Chicago tomorrow and ac-
ton of ice-wagon drivers in accepting the
wage schedule of last year. coupled with
reports that dozens of strikers have ap-
piled for their old positions at the depart
ment stores sustain a belief among the
employers that the end Of the strike is not
far distant.
A meeting of the joint liverymen's asso-
ella ton Is called to consider action in re-
lation to a threatened strike Of 1000 cab
drivers who refuse to take their passen-
gers to stores under the union ban. The
cab drivers situation is in a balance, as
the men say they will not withdraw from
the position taken when the ultimatum was
delivered.
The liverymen say they will not with
draw the ultimatum. The result depends
upon the determination of the teamsters'
joint council tonight
Alleged slugging Feature.
Before Master in Chancery Sherman hear
ing of the federal injunction cases contin-
ned today attorneys for the employers
working hard to obtain light on the al
legged "slugging'' feature of the strike, to
show that the violence committees exist
for every union during times of strikes.
and that men are trained for smuggling"
work. and employed exclusively for that
purpose. 1t was declared today that If the
union men called as witnesses continued
in refusal to answer question orders citing
for contempt would surely follow.
Nine Injured in Patrol Wagon Collision
Response to riot call from policemen
who were unable to cope with mob OF
strike sympathizers last night, patrol
wagon hurrying at full speed to the scene
collided with crowded street car, serious
ly injuring nine persons and bruising q
dozen others.
Regardless Of the victims of the wreck,
the assailants of a detective and non-union
workman, whose actions had caused the
appeal for police protection continued their
attack until calls brought a score OF police
men, who were compelled to fight their
way through the mob attracted by the
wreck riot. The policemen used their clubs
vigorously and arrested fifteen men who
were seen Throwing stones or threatening
n-union men.
Many Threatening Letters.
Fully one hundred letters threatening
death have been received by the half dozen
men who have been given wide publicity
as managers Of the employers end OF the
teamsters' strike. Serious consideration is
being given the letters since exposures
made by confession of a hired thug that
he and others made business OF slugging
here at the rate of $16 per person siugged
Bodyguards are now attending all the prin-
.cipals on the employers side Of the
'teamsters strike and all are accompanied