Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-05
RANKS ARE INCREASED
Additions to the Number of
Strikers in Chicago.
SHERIFF'S FIRM HAND
WARNED TRANSFERS THAT
TROOPS WILL BE ORDERED.
If It is Found That Police and Deputy
Sheriffs Are Unable to Pre-
serve the Peace.
SHERIFF'S FIRM HAND

Der Oh teamsters on strike will aggregate
nearly a hundred today. The strikes
| are confined to individual concerns chiefly
wholesale grocery houses. All the princi-
| pal wholesale grocery firms In the city are
now under the ban of the teamsters and the
| diminishing stocks in the retail stores are
| further placed In jeopardy.
The union leaders also threaten to tie up
! the river service by calling out the tugmen
| and thus add more difficulties to the trans
| fer of goods from the grocery warehouses.
Union tugmen reported that several large
| concerns were utilizing the river route to
move merchandise.
1t is learned that President Samuel Com
| pers Of the American Federation of Labor
| has recommended to his executive board
| that they vote an assessment for the strlk-
| ing teamsters in Chicago.
| The teamsters' strike has already brought
| here many labor leaders from all over the
country John j. Lennon. treasurer of the
! American Federation of Labor is here.
Calls for Protection.
typical call upon Sheriff Barrett for
! protection came today from James X Glow
! d Sons. manufacturers of plumbing supplies
| Deputies were Immediately sent to the
firms store with instructions to take seats
on wagons sent out by the establishment
and aid in keeping peace. Yesterday team
sters for the firm were struck with stones
thrown by persons in crowds near the Glow
factory. The police were unable 10 arrest
the offenders
Sheriff Barrett announced today that
pending developments the swearing in OF
deputy sheriffs would be confined to 200
| men. His reason was that The calling in OF
additional deputies would be burden upon
the finances OF the county.
SHERIFF Issued Warning.
Blunuy warned by Sheriff Thomas E.
Barrett that troops would be asked for by
him if police and deputy sheriffs together
proved unable to control violence. strike
sympathizers were less In evidence about
the many stril1e-bound stores and stables
today. A distinct innovation was made by
the police Chief O'Neill issued general
order to arrest all persons following police.
guarded wagons
when the strike first broke out said
Chief O'Neill. persons followed the wagons
out Of curiosity. Now they follow them TO
incite riot. There will be discrimina-
ton by the police in such cases in making
arrests"
1000 on Police Duty.
Two thousand men constituted the police
force available for strike duty today. With
this number. the police officials expected
to guard loo wagons, a decided increase
over yesterdays total Renewed confidence
was experienced by the police officials in
their ability to exercise a reasonable degree
OF control. taking into consideration tu-
multuous conditions inevitable to a great
10 Dor disturbance.
The fuel supply of the Union Traction
Company. which controls over half the
street lines in Chicago, was placed in
jeopardy today. Pickets of the teamsters'
union were on duty all night to prevent
shipments being made to six big power
houses supplied with Goa; by the Peabody
Company ally of the Employers Team
ing Association.
This watch continued today. and every
union man that could be spared from the
strke-bound yards of the Peabody, Stan
dard Wash, Hartwell, Pattison and Dan
els Coal companies sent to the power
houses to hamper incoming shipments. The
six power houses threatened each use from
81. to 1I5 tons of coal day.
Many Delivery Wagons Sent Out.
canvass of the State street shopping
district showed that delivery wagons were
sent out today. from nearly every retail
store. In many cases policemen furnished
with light runabout buggies accompanied
the wagons. The general resumption of
deliveries of goods to residences, though
on a greatly restricted scale, was in de-
cided contrast to results previous days.
when such traffic had almost reached the
vanishing point.
The experiment of sending cut flying
squadrons," each composed of five ten
deputy sheriffs, was tried today by Sheriff
Barrett. 1t was hoped that by having the
deputies mix with the strike sympathizers
trouble at the inception might be averted
which probably otherwise would develop
into riots.
For possibly the first time since the
strike began. caravan of coal wagons
manned by non-union colored teamsters
traversed the center of the city today alb
solutely unmolested. The caravan con-
sisted of sixteen wagons en- route from the
stables of the Employers Teaming Com
pany at 18th and State streets to the
Daniels Coal Company yards, at the foot
of South Water street Not jeer was
heard as the wagons moved along the
streets. The wagons were loaded with
coal and then escorted TO various office
buildings and department stores in the
business district.
Bloody Rioting Today.
Bricks and base ball bats were used with
blood-letting effect today in Dearborn street
near 18th. Nearly a score of negroes, all
non-union men of the Employers Teaming
Company. preparing to take out wagons to
transfer goods for various establishments,
were attacked by mob of strike sympa-
thizers. Several men were hurt, one Sc
verey.
The worst sufferer is Harry Jameson. a
bystander, whose head was cut open with
a base ball bat Jameson was taken to a
hospital, where surgeons said he had little
chance of recovery A squad of police with
swinging clubs, dispersed the rioters after
beating many men over the head.
In defiance or Chlef - NelllS 5 oroer, issued
today, that all persons found following
wagons owned by the Employers Teaming
Company should be arrested, large throng
surrounded caravan of wagons that con-
veyed 100 negro drivers and guards from
lodging houses in Custom House court to
the Peabody Coal Company's yards, at Ca
nal and West 26th streets. The fifty police
who served as an escort were unable to
literally follow the order regarding arrests.
but did succeed in forcing the passage of
the caravan. A number of bricks were
thrown but did no severe injury
Noted Michigan Lumberman Dead.
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