The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-05-02
DRIVERS WILL
CARRY RIFLES
Crisis Fast Approaching in Chicago
Strike.
SOME RIOTING YESTERDAY
HUNDREDS OF NoN-UNION MEN
AT WORK.

n HTCAGO, May Conditions in the
L. teamsters strike were worse to-
day than at any precedirs time
The strikers were i'm a more ugly mood,
the rioting was more open and vicious,
and the attacks ON uon-unjDI men were
more frequent and j5rJES than at my
time since the cJ.i.'.,. l-eFl"nt Of the
trouble The chef caIse for the in
creased beIHgerra-- on tHa part of the
strikers and their friends in laid to
the fact that the Employers Teaming
association today brought 1,50o men into
the city To take their places and 500
more ere said TO be now on the way
and VII arrive Within tWei = h"us-
Tines men will receive the fuh T'-y "a
union men and it has been guaranteed
tu them that their positions viii -"
permanent Among them are go t"T-
m-r boys from all the surrounding
states who have volunteered their ser
vices and sought positions as drivers.
Will Carry Winchesters.
Tomorrow Winchester rifles will be
carried ON all wagons of the Employers
TeamiuE association I'm open view \
number of uou-uuiou men have been
arrested OH the charge of carrying con-
cegIei weapons and today the attorneys
for the Employers Tanning association
called upon Chief OF Police O'Neu and
asked if their men had not the right
10 carry weapons provided they were
held in omen view and We mot coz
ceaIed- Chief O'NeiI replied that there
was no law against il and aTfaH@.--
ments We're promptly made by the en-
pIoy Is To place Winchester rifles vu
every one of the wagons
over 1T thousand Of these Wca pOUS
were purchased today and dUTiuS tie
latter part of the afternoon a number
of wagons went through the str cts
with rifle lying across the knee ui
the driver and his assistant.
Mayor Disturbed.
When Mayor Dunno WAS Informed Of
the fact hat rifles would be carried by
the uou-uuiuu men he was Wis bly, dis
turb.d and declared that the yu'Fr
viii not be- permitted to aU,hosizs the
carrying of arms by any one W detlEe-
iH the employ eff the Employers Tean=-
ing association or affiliated with the
strikers.
The chief of polio viii give lu I-;h-
nrlty to any one 10 carry arms he
said
There WAS 81 report Isl- Ills after
noon that Mayor dunno VAS about ID
force an adjustment. bu5 ho declared
tonight This Was Incorrect.
Four Men Badly Hurt.
-Four men uer- seriously hurt during
the fights today. but the number a.
tualIy injured is greatly iu excess C
this and II Is impossible TO state IL
accurately COY the reason that Ia"Uv
of those hurt disappear i'm tur c-oU
or are CARR d away DIV tlr-r friends
as soon as possible after beu-, impaired.
Those seriously hurt tOday arr.
otto HeImer. shot i'm Jis- leg
Charles kUllet. nOn-UnIun teaUSte:.
/ badly beaten, nos broken. head cut
John Williams, non-umou teams5er,
badly beaten
c. F. Ingalls,. teamster, b lily beaten
William Crockett. ucu-uuiou team
Ster. dubbed and stoned until iuseu-
sihIe.
Ii is not expected any of the iuJurel
will die
Food Supply Limited.
No decided increase in the UuI1snr
Of men on strike was made today. the
most important accession OF -ug Jrum-
-terS being the drivers Of ,ae delivors
wagons of retail grocery stores Thees
declared that they would IN no c-r-r call
for goods at any WHOLESALE establish
ment where StTiE- existed * frar--
SteTS are on StTik. at practically aIl
wholesale groceries 10 the -ity. the H.
pareUtly visible supply of food for the
citizens Of Chicago IS limited to the
stocks now hid in the retail grocery
stores The retail drivers also declare.
that they would refuse 10 handle ul-a;
If a.-- strike occurred in IA. s;uc1
yards
The Employers association Jhts alt---
/ noon drove home a. wedge into the
Tauke of the Chicago Team Owners as
+ ISOLATION. This latter organization Is
/ composed Of men who do teamiug for
/ many OF the large business houses and
particularly i'm the matter Of hauling
+ coal They have fought shy 50 far oi
aiding the Employers To the extent q.
+ going to the length of asking en-
Dloyers to refrain from requiring
them to haul merchandise an
asserting that if their men were stopped
/ while on the streets there was moth
} ing for them TO do but to return 20 thl
/ barn The employers this afternoon i'm
formed the Team-OWnerS that they
! must make deliveries at once and con
I tinue To make them from this time
/ on
The Team Owners greed to make de-
/ Gveries as demanded.
| TIL union labor leaders who WOE
/ indicted last Saturday i'm connection
4 with the strike appeared at the Grin
} maj court building today and -ave