The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-23
Chicago Strikers and Employers
Seem Getting Together
CONCEALED WEAPONS BARRED
Crusade Is Made Against Them by
Officers and Court VIII Impose
Maximum Fine for
Each offense.

Chicago May 22.-After a conference
lasting for three hours representatives of
the teamsters' union and the employers
declared at midnight that the prospects
for the settlement of the strike are ex-
cellent and that the end of the trouble
may be looked for at any time within
forty-eight hours The stumbling block
in the negotiations is the declaration by
the express companies that none of their
striking drivers will be taken back under
any conditions.
All other terms submitted by the en-
ployers to the strikers have been ac-
cepted. The managers of the express
companies declared late this evening that
while they would re-employ none f their
drivers, they had no intention of keeping
black list, and there would be no objec-
tion to any driver who secured position
with some express company other than
the one by which he was employed at the
time he struck, He would be given posi-
ton. 1t was asserted, if vacancy existed
at the time of his application. This phase
of the strike was the only matter dis
cussed at the conference tonight, and in
the opinion of all present 1t opened a way
for a settlement and the negotiations will
be continued tomorrow morning.
Chances Good for Settlement.
President Shea of the teamsters said to-
night after leaving the conference that
he considered the chances good for the
settlement of the strike and Attorney
Mayer for the Employers association, ex-
pressed similar views.
Despite this move for peace the Lum-
bermen's association are preparing for an
extension of the strike. At meeting of
this organization tonight 1t was decided
that tomorrow morning all teamsters en-
ployed by the sixty-five firms composing
the association would conpe. their driv-
ers to make deliveries of consignments to
strikehound houses. Twelve of these
firms enforced the order today and be-
tween 200 and 800 of the drivers quit work.
The union officials say that the same
thing will happen tomorrow If they are
ordered to make deliveries to the boy
cotted firms.
Must Not Carry Weapons.
ARREST every man, black or white, who
is found carrying a concealed weapon, ;"
was the order given today to all members
of the police force A systematic search
was Immediately begun for negroes and
white men armed with revolvers or other
weapons. One of the first arrests was
that of Matthew White. colored, who Is
said to be a strike breaker He was fined
sf50. the maximum permitted by law. The
magistrate announced an intention to in
hict the maximum fine on every offender
under arrest
Establishing a so-called dead line
citizens today began Systematically pa
trolling streets near the yards of the
Peabody Coal company which employs a
large number of colored strike breakers.
The patrol Is the latest result of mur-
ders and other violence growing out of
the strike. "rhe dead line was establish
ed at Wentworth avenue, property owners
parading that street warning people Of
conditions on either side of the line. The
riot district Is bounded on the north
By Twenty fifth street. on the east by
state street, on the west by Stewart ave-
nue.. and on the south by Fifteenth street.
All of wentworth avenue is deemed
'.white land" and all east IS black
land" West of the white territory is
the Peabody company's yards.
The street generally used by the colored
men on their way to the coal yard is
Princeton avenue and they are forced
10 mass the home of the family of Enoch
Carlson. a schoolboy who was shot dead
by negroes during a riot attending the de-
bows mother has the house barricaded
and will not allow any of her remaining
children to venture outside the protection