New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-01
CHICAGO STRIKE GOES ON
Unions Ask Roosevelt, Dineen and
Dunno to Investigate.


clothes to-day result Of the teamsters
strike, which to-day failed of spreading and of
settlement From daylight until dark, down
town streets were crowded with heavily laden
wagons giving the city a weekday appearance.
Believing that the fight now going on for su-
premacy between the Employers Association of
Chicago and the union teamsters is to be pro
tracted one, business to-day sought to Sc
cure an extra stock of supplies. Every availa-
BILE team and even one-horse vehicles were
brought into to replenish coalbins and to
obtain other material necessary the transac-
ton of business.
While all these preparations going on
for an emergency, efforts were being made in
Mayor Dunnes office, at the City Hail. to bring
about a peaceable adjustment of the strike.
Early in the afternoon committee representing
the Employers Association met Mayor Dunne's
peace committee consisting OF Bishop c. P.
Anderson. of the Episcopal Church; Jenk!n
Lloyd Jones. of All Souls Church; DR.. Emil G.
Hirsch. of Sinai Temple Miss Jane Adams. of
Hull House. and DR.. Cornela De Bey. of Neigh
borhood House. At the end of this confers~Se
a committee representing the unions met the
Mayors peace committee and went the
tire strike situation in an effort to devise some
means to bring about a peaceable ending of the
controversy.
THIS CbicGy0 FeIeIa.tol Of Labor also was
busy considering the strike situation. but no ac-
ton taken to spread the strike to the af-
fliated unions Believing that the teamsters are
justified in the fight they making. the fed
GRAFTON passed the following resolution:
Whereas. The Employers Association and its
allies of this city have declared their deliberate
intention to crush out of existence all labor
ganizations; and
ployers' Association and its allies are resorting
TO every scheme of misrepresentation for the
purpose of misleading the public; and
Whereas, The said association has determined
least to refuse all OvertureS for arbitration
into the facts causing this present industrial
conditions; therefore. be 1t
Resolved That we request President Roose-
velt Governor Deneer and Mayor Dunno to in
vestigate the existing conditions in Chicago be-
fore complying with any request made for the
of militia in the city during the present
difficulty; and be it further
zation be instructed appoint committee to
lay the facts before President Roosevelt Gov
ernor Deneen and Mayor Dunno and take such
other steps as may be necessary to give effect
to these resolutions.
The conferences in Mayor Dunne's office lasted
six hours, and the peace committee appointed by
the Mayor yesterday failed utterly in its efforts
to bring about a settlement of the strike The
plan for an armistice of forty-eight hours
rejected by both sides early in the conference.
was also an offer later made by the representa-
tives of the labor men. who asked that a COM
nittee Of five citizens be appointed to arbitrate
the trouble.
After the conferences. which held in
secret the peace committee issued the following
statement:
The members of this commission acting upon
request of Mayor Dunno, regret to inform the
public that after having heard representatives
of both parties to the controversy to-day,
plan found acceptable TO bring about an ad-
justment of the difficulty.
The representatives of the employers refused
to accept any commission means of arbtra-
ton which was suggested, while the laboring
men declared their readiness to acquesce in the
plan of submitting the controversy to persons
commanding the respect and confidence of the
community.
The streets were free from rioting day, as
no efforts was made to make deliveries to the
firms involved. The express companies had
several wagons at work in transferring packages
from one railroad to another
William and Harry Grady. picture frame
manufacturers were shot early to-day and
severely wounded through a Misunderstanding
Some time ago these men supplied Montgomery
Ward & Co with picture frames, but their
contract expired several months ago. II
IS said by the police that strike sympathizers
who were of the belief that the Gradys were still
connected with the Ward company made the
attack the two men.