New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-03
Strikers Desire High Officials to
Investigate Conditions.
They Would Have This Done Be-
fore Troops Are Used.
Peace Negotiations Declared
Off for the Present.


the days peace conferences in Mayor
DUNES office would be futile, the Chi
cago Federation of Labor, without
waiting for announcement of the re-
suit of the negotiations, appealed to
President Roosevelt and Governor
Deneen for assistance in the teamsters'
strike. Fearing that troops may he
sent to Chicago to preserve order dur
ing the strike, the labor organization
has asked both the president and the
governor to Investigate the situation
in Chicago before taking any such &C e
ton. President Roosevelt will visit
Chicago May s, but it is the intention
of the labor body to get in comlnunica-
ton with him. Immediately. a,.,.,s
A determined effort on the part OF
Mayor Dunno and his peace commit
tee, composed of five citizens, one OF
whom was woman, to bring about an
amicable settlement of the strike was
an absolute failure, and all peace ne
gotiations for the present at least have
been declared off.
The indications now are that the
strike is bound to spread to other
firms. Both sides seem determined in
| the stand they have taken All mem
bers of the employers association will
Insist on all of their union teamsters
making deliveries to the concerns al
ready involved in the strike. A refus-
| al on the part of any driver to comply
| with this request the employers de-
/ clare will j; be met with instant dis
mfssal The teamsters' union has de-
| clared that in every instance where
union teamster is discharged for this
reason, every union driver employed
by the firm making the dismissal will
be ordered on strike. With both sides
in this frame of mind, there seems to
be nothing which can prevent rapid
spread of the strike. 49,
Streets Crowded With Wagons. -
| Chicago had on her working clothes
| Sunday From early morning until
late at night the down town streets
were ) crowded with heavily laden
wagons and trucks.
1
on for supremacy between the EN-
J; ployers' association of Chicago and
the union transfers is to be a pro-
tracted one, the business men of the
city took advantage of the suspension
of regular business to procure an extra
supply of material and supplies.
Every available team was brought into
| hn for q
replenishing coal bins and to obtain
other material necessary to the trans
action of business. Monday being the
first of May, moving day in Chicago,
the furniture van in the residence dis
tricts added to the week day appear
ance OF tbs city. Fearing that the
furniture DRYERS might become inyolv-
ed in the, difficulty, the majority of
those who under normal conditions
( would have sought their new homes
Il Monday, decided to take no chances
and made the change Sunday.
While all these preparations were
going on for an emergency, efforts
were being made in Mayor DUNES
!. office to bring about a peaceable ad
, Ijustment of the strike. A committee
representing the Employers assocla
tion met peace committee consisting
l of Bishop Anderson, Jenkin Lloyt
!, Jones, DIR. Hirsch, Miss Jane Addams
4 and DR. Cornelia de Rey. At the enc
o of this conference committee repre-
4 senting the unions met the citizens
: committee and went over the entire
!. situation.
Appealed to the President.
The Chicago Federation of Labo
was also busy considering the strik
; situation. Believing that the team
sters are justified in the fight they ar
making. the Federation passed a resc
!. luton stating that as the employers
association had decided to try to crust
a out of existence all labor organization
and had also decided to refuse all ovel
4 lures for arbitration into the facts caus
4 ing the present industrial conditions
y the Federation of Labor resolved t
h request President Roosevelt Governo
4 Deneen and Mayor Dunno to invest
IS gate the situation before complyin
. with any request for the use of troop
% in Chicago during the present diff
r. Guilty. The president of the Federatio
9. was instructed to appoint a oommitte
- to lay the facts before President Roos
. welt, Governor Deneen and Maye
r. Dunno.
:, The conferences in Mayor Dunno
> Office lasted six hours and the peae
10 commission appointed by the may'
= failed utterly in its efforts to brin
:. about settlement of the strike. TT
n plan for an armistice of forty-eigl
,s hours was rejected by both sides,
was also an offer later made by II
III representatives of the labor men, wi
:. asked that a committee of Ave citizel
be appointed to arbitrate the matte
After the conferences, which We
held in secret. the peace committee
4 sued a statement saving no plan wi
IL found acceptable TO bring about
n adjustment of the difficulty, and &C
IS. ing:
vo THE representatives of the emple
ers refused to accept any commissi