The Topeka state journal., 1905-05-01
FARLEY ON HAND.
Professional Leader of Strike
Breakers Reaches Chicago.
Held a Conference With EN-
plOyers on His Arrival.
MEN in GREAT NUMBER.
Are Reported to Be Coming
From Outside the City.
Special Train Carrying 475 Left
st. Louis Today.
MEN in GREAT NUMBER.

A%SoSOs MAY l.-W nOieSale 1nnpOfIA-
ton of nonunion men from St Louis
Farley from New York gave a new
turn today to the teamsters' strike
| here.
| Immediately upon his arrival Farley
held a conference with Representatives
of the employers. Plans for putting him
in full charge of all strike breakers
are said to have been decided on. Far
ley managed the nonunion men in the
New York subway strike. Nonunion
men in forces said to be almost unpre-
| cedenCed are on their way to Chicago.
/ 1t was reported a special train bearing
/ AIS men left st. Louis early today and
/ that another train with 500 men was
/ being prepared. The work of mObiliz-
4 ing the men in st. Louis was conducted
1 in secrecy. Half of the men were ta-
4 ken from southern Illinois and Ken
/ lucky. Many of them are negroes.
One hundred strike breakers en-
ployed by the American Express COM
pany, the Pacific, Northern Pacific and
/ the National companies went on strike
/ today to enforce a demand of $5 a day
for drivers and S da yOfr cOnduc-
I tors and helpers, an allowance of SO
/ cents for luncheon and extra pay for
overtime. The increase was granted
and the men returned to work.
RiOtOus Scenes.
Tumultuous scenes were witnessed to-
day at Jackson boulevard and Franklin
| street. near the headquarters of the En-
ployers' Teaming company, the organic
alton formed to supplant the striking
| teamsters.
John Williams, a eolored nonunfonist
driver, was sitting on one of the wagons
of the Employers company waiting for
| caravans to be formed A crowd Of
several hundred persons had gathered
and were jeering Williams and other
! No ete G116 1xr a n
from a window, struck Williams on the
| head. The negro drew a revolver and
| fired toward the window.
The action of the colored man an
gered the crowd and a concerted rush
was made toward him. Williams
/ jumped from his wagon and fled down
/ the street. The mob soon caught him
! and he was being savagely beaten
+ when the police rescued him. VIII
/ liams was arrested. The wholesale
I grocers and coffee, tea and spice
| houses were more or less completely
tied up today by the spreading of the
reamsters Walkout.
/ The death list in the teamsters' strike
| is increasing Police Sergeant Richard
/ Cummings, who was injured While in
| charge of a squad guarding number
/ of wagons on the way to strike bound
/ business houses, died today. During one
/ of the many riots growing out of the
| strike he was knocked under the feet OF
| horses attached to a carette and was
! crushed to death by the wagon wheels.
/ John Ceresa. driver of the carette was
arrested and is being held under heavy
| bonds.
The federal government is helping
| the department stores deliver small
| parcels in a way that is beyond the
Interference of the teamsters. Thou
sands of small packages are being de-
/ livered by mail through the United
State postal cars. Col Leroy T. Stew
ard, superintendent of the free deliv-
- ~Nf{ f11cr
says there has been an increase in this
/ business from the day the delivery
wagons of the department stores were
stopped. By the street car service
articles purchased in the morning
may be delivered by mail at the door
| of the purchaser provided the pack
age is not too heavy. Thousands of
purchasers are light enough to meet
the limit of postal regulations.
! Thirty-five teamsters employed by
1.-the Anthracite and BituminoUs Coal
I company struck today The hauling
for the company was at once turned
over to the Employers Teaming asso-
/ citation.
Reports were received that the ex-
press companies were doing consider
able transferring in suburban places
/ This move, it was said, by the strikers,
would be checked by spreading the
strike to the suburbs.
i Merchandise and other material
stored in four buildings of Wake and
Mclaughlin is tied up Feamsters
land others who have done hauling to
and from the warehouses became in
voIved in the strike complications to-
day and quit work
A large number Of persons who have
engaged in strike demonstrations We're
reDorted today to attorneys who with
the aid of the agents and detectives,
are collecting evidence AGAINST per
sons alleged to have violated lnJunc-
tionaI orders of Judge G. &. kohisaat
of the limited states federal court.
The matter will be taken before the
federal judge.
Bricks Were Thrown.
Colored nonunion men in charge OF
ten trucks of the Employers 1eaIlliIls
company were attacked at clinton ana
Van Buren, streets by crowd OF
strike syrnpa athizers. Bricks, sticks ana
other missiles were thrown at the
teamsters. The police dispersed the
/ crowd and arrested one of the assalt-
ants of the nonunion teamsters.
Strike Breakers Arrive.
The largest consignment of strike
breakers arriving today were met at
| the Illinois Central depot by guard
of 100 policemen. Watched by thousands
of people, the new arrivals, 400 strong,
/ were marched in the middle of the
streets to lodging houses in the center
4 of the city.
Police details are running. short it is
/ said, by some of the employers, who
predict that military aid will be neces-
+ sary before the end of the week. Four
hundred wagons under guard are now
on the streets. according to members of
/ the Employers association.
i From the wholesale grocery houses
4 we have had many applications for po-
+ lice protection today with which we
/ have been unable to comply" said Mr.
! Victor Sincere
On the other hand Assistant Chief of
Police Schuettler says he has all the
men that are necessary.