The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-19
THE STRIKE NEARING END It Will Hardly OutlaSt the
 Present Week. EFFORTS AT ADJUSTMENT Sensational Testimony to Be
 Adduced. .visstlng Negro, sfistaken for PafticI- pant in Labor Trouble, is Fatally
 Beaten Before Being Res-
 cued by Police.

Chicago, June 1S.--It was freely pre- dicted tonight by both the employers association and labor leaders that the teamsters strike. which has been In progress for over two months, will be a thing of the past before the end or the present week.
 Efforts are being made in two d1t- ferent direction to bring about an ad- justment of the difficulty. According to one of the officials of the Chicago Federation of Labor the strike will be called off entirely by the strikers them selves. As step toward this end II was decided today at an executive meeting ofthe Chicago Federation of Labor to begin missionary work to- morrow morning with members of the teamsters' joint council. The plan Is to work on these officials and bring a majority of them to favor calling on the strike. When this has been ac- complished these members of the Jolnt council are to advocate such course to the strikers and when 1t IS assured that a majority of the strikers have come to the same way of thinking, a referendum vote of the strikers will be taken on the question. This official of the Federation of Labor declares that by this means only could the trouble be settled. as he declared the strikers would { rather call on the strike than accept the terms Of the set clement proposed by the employers as- soclation.
 Preparing for Conference.
 In addition toi this proposed plan to bring the struggle to an end the more conservative element among the union men devoted the greater portion of to- day in preparing for the conference to- morrow with the representatives of the Employers' Association and a commit- fec from the strikers ranks. This committee is setting apart from President Shea and his board of strat- egy.' Unless both sides to the con- ference show a willingness to com promise. this effort for peace will result in failure, like so many such moves have done in the past.
 It developed at the meeting of the Federation of Labor today that there exists a great deal of dissatisfaction or,onR the different unions In regard to the manner in which the present strike Is being managed. SeVeral mem hers of tho strike committee who were nresent at the meeting stated that they have never been consulted by President shea and his lieutenants in any pro- nosed move and that as they were of no use whatever in the present trouble tbAv would resign from the committee. After A long discussion of the trou- hIa the disRruntled members were pre- yaiIed upon to remain members of the controlling body. 1t being pointed out to them that 1t would look bad for tHen if they resigned while the affairs of the Teamsters' Union were In such
 Several important witnesses, 1t was said tonight, would go before the grand tury tomorrow and tell what tbev know of the bribery charges in connection with labor troubles In Chi cago. ,.
 State Attorney Healy said tonight that although the evidence submitted to the fury last week had been of great importance the testimony to be s,iyen this week would be of even more Sensational character and before the sdiournment of the inquisitorial body a number Of indictments against both ernnIovers and labor leaders would be returned.
 Negro Badly Beaten.
 Charles Tull. a negro, and two com DanJons who arrived here today from fou,a were mistaken for strike break ers while searching. for a rooming house in the vicinity of FOrty-seventh street and Ashland Avenue, and were sttacked by a crowd of strike sympa- thizers
 TulTs companions escaped uninjured, but he was not so fortunate. After a long chase, Tull was overtaken by his pursuers and when rescued by the po-