The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-28
TRANSFERS
 ON STRIKE Conditions Far From Re-
 assuring. RIOTS THROUGHOUT DAY Employes Are Determined to Fight to Finish. Dissatisfaction of Drivers For Montgomery ward & Co.,, Threat- ems to Disturb Entire Busi-
 ness of Great IIlinoI.
 Metropolis.

sters on strike tonight; with constant accessions being made to their num- Der and with the express determination of the Employers Association to take firm stand for the "open shop and fight the Teamsters Union to finish, Chicago to all appearances stands on the eve of one of the greatest industrial unheavals In her history.
 There was rioting in various parts of the city today despite the strong guards of police and the numbers of private detectives hired by the Employers As- sociation to protect their wagons. Dur leg the tryyoles three persons were seriously injured two of whom will probably die. The injured are:
 Richard Cummings. police sergeant run over by an omnibus driven by John Cerea, a union driver. Cummings will probably die; Samuel Jackson colored. teamster. employed by the J. V. Farwell Company. attacked by mob numbering two hundred. He was badly beaten and head cut by blow with a shovel Mark Moran, district messenger boy. struck on the head by board thrown at a non-uniou team ster from a building at Van Buren and La Salle Street: condition critical.
 The declaration made last night by the members of the Employers Asso- citation that they would promptly dis- charge any teamsters who refused to deliver goods or call for them at the establishment of Montgomery Ward & Co.,, brought out the teamsters in many down town mercantile houses during the day and the number, 1t Is said, will be increased largely by tomorrow morning. Tonight the leading firms against which strikes have been de- clared and the number of teamsters who have gone out from each are as follows:
 Montgomery Ward & O.. 15: Daniels Coal Co.. 25; Marshall Field & Co.,, wholesale and retail 1e0; Carson, Pierie. Scott & Co. wholesale and re- tall. T5: J. v. Farwell & Co. 26; Wells press Co.,. 300: National Express Co.,, 90; Pacific Express Co. 60; United States Express Co.,, 120; Adams Express Co.,. 125; Forbes Carriage Co., 220. This last concern involves a number of the largest business houses in Chicago for whom 1t contracts to deliver goods In addition to these firms the teamsters employed by a number of small con cerns were called out la5er n the even ing. The business agents of the team sters union declared tonight that by tomorrow they will call on strike 1000 truck drivers and thereby cripple to a large extent the entire transportation business in Chicago.
 It was declared also that drivers for grocery houses which delivered goods to any of the firms where a strike ex ists would be ordered to join in the lockout.
 Fight to the Finish.
 While the labor leaders were in con- ference delegates of the Chicago Elm ployers' Association. the Commercial Exchange and representatives of out side industrial organizations met at the Union League Club and declared that they would fight to finish for the open shop in Chicago. At the close of the meeting MT. Thorne. who was delegated to speak for those assem- bIed. made the following statement:
 The employers are of one mind. They are determined to have this city made an open shop. They are tired of standing for slavery such as we have endured from labor unions in the past. The employers will pay the men for a days work and if the men fail to do 1t they will be discharged. They can not tell us with whom we shall or shall not do business. We are not making any fight against the unions as such. but the unions of Chicago are evidently determined to run the business of every merchant in the city and we are going to show them that they cannot and will not be allowed to do it.'
 Subscriptions were taken during the day to strengthen the Employers Teaming Company. the weapon with which the Teamsters Union Is to be actively fought, and tonight President Morton of the company, who Is a brother of Paul Morton. Secretary of the Navy, had over $1.000,000 at his disposal and had ample assurances from business men that he could have as many times that amount as was nec- essary. The strike this morning was opened promptly at the wholesale and retail establishments of Marshall, Field & Co. and of Carson, Pierie, Scott & Co. when drivers who refuse to deliver goods to Montgomery, Ward x Go. were at once discharged. The strike order calling out the cypress drivers went into effect shortly before noon. It is the intention of the Teamsters Union to shut of as far as possible all sup plies of coal from the establishments where strikes have been called.
 In order to protect their wagons and drivers from assault the Employers Association has secured the services of a large number of guards and these men have shown a decided disposition to retaliate vigorously when any at tack Is made upon them by strike sym pathizers.
 At West Taylor ana Desplaines Streets a dozen non union men were more or less severely injured by mis- siles thrown by a crowd. The timely arrival of detail of policemen en- abled them to escape. At Market and Washington Streets a crowd of team- sters besieged a wagon containing pa per boxes headed fol the Farwell Com pany The guards around the wagon charged the crowd and after a brisk fight, in which nobody was seriously hurt, the strike sympathizers were compelled to disperse.
 The situation tonight is. on the whole, far from reassuring The labor leaders say that they will. if necessary. call out every union driver in Chicago and will make appeals to the freight handlers and to organizations of rail- road men if they find they are not able to win the strike by themselves. No action in this direction has been taken as yet.
 The number of teamsters on strike was nearly doubled in the early part af tba atOhf and aa result nearly all