The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-05-18
BIG CHICAGO TIE-UP.
TRANSFERS STRIKE PARALYZES
BUSINESS OF CITY.

Hundreds of Police and Armed Deputy
sheritfs Accompany Delivery Wagons
Throughout the City Riotous Dis
turbances Result in Several Deaths.
Chlcago has recently been passing
through some of the worst labor trou-
bles in its history. Not since the great
railroad strike of 1891, when President
Cleveland sent Federal troops to the
city to preserve order, have such
scenes of turbulence and rioting been
seen as those which now are daily TAX
ing place in ChicaSo's streets. Shoot
ing, stabbing, sandbagging and gen.
eral reign of lawlessness and disorder
have marked the progress of the team
sters' strike, which now is affecting
nearly every business in the city. Sew
eral persons have died as the result OF
injuries sustained in street riots anl
scores have been badly injured. The
non-union men employed as drivers by
the Employers Teaming Company,
which is fighting the teamsters on
strike, form large proportion Of the
victims. Many of the strikers. or their
sympathizers. have also been injured.
Innocent persons, too, have suffered,
many of them having been mistaken
for strike breakers. The non-union
drivers are armed and freely use their
revOiverS
With city police and deputy sheriffs
riding on wagons by the side of non
union drivers, the business of the big
merchants was facilitated Tuesday to
such an extent that they declared the
strike was virtually broken. At the
same time there were no signs of
weakening on the part of the strikers
Judge Kohlsaat decided that the la
Dor men named in the Federal injunc-
ton should be subpoenaed and re-
CURED to testify before Master in
Chancery Sherman. Charles Dold,
president of the Chicago Federation
Of Labor, said that it had been agreed
upon by the labor men that they
should not testify, as they had been
advised by their attorneys that they
could not be compelled to do so.
President Dold and committee
went before States Attorney Healy
and asked him to call a special grand
jury to investigate the charges of con-
spiracy which the labor men have
made against members Of the Employ
ers' Teaming Company in regard to
intimidating certain transfer compan-
les who refused to lock out their men.
Mayor Dunno appointed commits
sion to arbitrate the differences be-
tween the contestants, but the employ
ers were not inclined to pay much at
tention to the commission.
In its statement the commission
asks for the cooperation of all good
citizens to aid it in investigating the
causes of the strike and the continued
disturbed conditions prevailing in the
city. 1t says the first and supreme
duty Of the Mayor and the police is to
suppress violence and punish all Of
tenders.
Origin of the Trouble.
The trouble had a peculiar origin.
Last November the garment workers
demanded a renewal of the scale and
a closed shop. The proPrietors refused
to grant the latter and strike was or
dered. 1t made poor progress and the
garment workers appealed to the Fed
Grafton of Labor for assistance. To
save the Federation, the Teamsters'
Union was ordered to help, which they
did, although they had contracts run
ming three years. Their grievance was
that they were being compelled to
handle non-union goods. The strike
was particularly directed against the
firm of Montgomery Ward & Co. 9th
er firms came to their relief and there
was formed the Employers Teaming
Company, incorporated in West Vir-
ginia, with $1,000.00O capital. Every
prominent merchant is a member. The
determined stand of the employers
awed the strike leaders and the team
sters decided to call the strike off.
When they applied for their positions
they were informed that no man who
had struck would be taken back. Then
came the general strike of the team
sters. The wagons of the Employers
Teaming Company have for two weeks
been driven by non-union men obtain
ed from other cities, most of whom are
negroes. In many cases man sits DE.
side the driver with a rife
The battle, according to the tempe.
of both sides, will be waged to a fin
ish. Charles Dold, president of the
local Federation of Labor. says the
struggle will be made the supreme
test between capital and labor in this
country and that he is prepared to
call out, if necessary, evGSy union
man, woman and child in cago-or
100000 in all.
The terrorism prevailing has broken,
to large extent, the morals of the
negroes imported to act as drivers,
and several hundred Of them who
reached Chicago refused to go to work.
Non-union men on the way to the city
have been attacked at various cities
along the route, and of 215 who left
st. Louis in one batch only 90 reached
Chicago. The others deserted. Mean
time busineSS of all kinds is dcmoral- |