The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1905-06-16
TRANSFERS STRIKE
NEARING ITS END
HOPEFUL FEELING OF MAYOR
DUNNE OF CHICAGO
Says He Has Received Assurances
That Peace Is at Hand--Appear-
ances Indicate Otherwise.

Chicago, June 13.--Mayor Dunno de-
clared late this afternoon he had rea-
son to believe that the teamsters'
strike would end in the near future.
He would not discuss the nature of
the information he has received, nor
how hopeful it is He said:
Il have received assurances that
we will soon have peace. have
learned from man whose informa-
lion is general that an early end Of
the strike is due"
Aside from the mayors statement
there was nothing very hopeful in
sight this evening. Rioting was moro
general in the outlying districts than
It has been for several days. A num-
Der Of policemen were attacked while
defending wagons driven by non-union
men and several of them painfully
cut and bruised Many arrests OF
people engaged in the rioting were
made. The days events wound up
with a fatal shooting at Waveland
avenue and Johnson street Frank
Hartman, member Of crowd that
attacked a non-union wagon, was shot
through the abdomen by a colored po-
liceman, one of the new recruits on
the force.
The principal interest of the day
attached to the session of the Cook
county grand jury, which began this
morning an investigation of the
charges made against certain labor
leaders and John G. Driscoll, former
secretary of the Associated Teaming
interests, concerning money deals
made and orgies held in a disreput
able resort on the south side.
1t is alleged that efforts have been
made by certain business men to hush
up the scandal which seems sure tc
develop from this matter and that
some of the women have been ap
preached. In consequence detectives
from the state attorneys Office are
Bhadowing both the men and women
day and night.
Mr.. Driscoll, in his statement to the
states attorney, it is said pursued
This method in settling" strikes: An
employer or organization of employ
ers who were affected by strike
would call, and ask him to use his In
nuence I'd bring about an adjustment
of the trouble and except for the or
ganizations by whom he was employ
ed as secretary, he always refused {
Zee for his services.
The fees paid the union men ranged
from 800, to thousands of dollars
The aggregate in the past three year:
probably amounting to $4,000. No
one penny was ever passed through
Driscoll's hands to bring about g
strike, according to his own assertion
He declared that he is going to prove
to the grand jury and everybody els,
that President Shea and AL Youn,
lied about everything they hold wher
they were before the May grand
hry
Among the witnesses before tn:
grand jury this afternoon was John S
Field. president of the Knickerbockel
Ice Co. When he left the room Mr.
Field, in spite of the injunction O
secrecy imposed, said he had told tn,
Jurors he did not think money haC
been used to buy up labor officials il
the present strike.
81 settle strike in business lik,
way" said he. "There Is no neces
sity for using money. ! think all thi
talk of automobile rides, saloon
meetings, etc, is all buncombe TIL,
best way to get along with unions il
to be square with them. l settle
strike by forgetting all personalitie
and getting down to business.
would rather spend money for bette
wages than for bribery purposes"
The strike of the lumber wagol
drivers is beginning to have an ei
feet on the incoming shipments o
lumber. According to vessel insur
hnce agents such shipments have fall
EN- off fifty per cent. 1t is asserte,
that If this is kept up two week
more will throw into idleness thol
sands of men employed on vessels an
al 1A nd anIp