The San Francisco call., 1905-05-02
CHICAGO SITUATION
REACHES ACUTE STAGE
Rival Factions Plan to Arm to Meet
Emergencies Which May Arise. !.

I: Thirty-five teamsters employed by
4 the anthracite and bituminous compa-
MES struck to-day. The hauling for
the company was turned over to the
| Employers Teaming. Association.
Reports were received that the ex-
/ press companies were doing consider
! able transferring in suburban places.
| This move, 1t was said by the strikers,
would be checked by spreading the
strike TO the suburbs.
| Merchandise and other material
stored in four buildings Of Wakem &
| Mclaughlin is tied up. Transfers and
others who have done hauling to and
! from the warehouse became involved in
the strike complications to-day and
| quit work.
A large number of persons who have
engaged In strike demonstrations We're
reported to-dayto attorneys, who, with
{ the aid of agents and detectives, are
! collecting evidence against persons al
legged to have violated injunctional or
ders of Judge C. c. Kohlsaat of the
| United States Federal Court. The mat
ter WIFI be taken before the Federal
Judge.
STRIKE BREAKERS ARRIVE.
The largest consignment of strike
breakers arriving to-day was met at
the Illinois Central Railway depot by
! guard of 100 policemen. Watched by
thousands of hostile eyes, the new ar
rivals. 400, were marched in the middle
of streets to lodging-houses in the CEN
ter of the city.
Police. details are running short, it is
said. by some of the employers. who
predict that military aid will be neces4
sary before the end of the week. -Four
hundred wagons under guard are now
on the streets, according to Victor Sin
cere Of the Employers Association.
From 1.-The wholesale grocery houses
I'VE have had many applications for po-
lice protection to-day with which we
have heen unable to comply said Sin
! cere.
On the. other hand, Assistant Chief of
Police Schuettler says he has all the
men that are necessary
The strike. presents "a particularly
serious outlook for produce dealers
To-day they were almost unable to get
supplies. 'sas teamsters refused to haul
express companies goods and il forced
to do so would quit. Prices for fruit
vegetables. poultry butter. eggs and
similar articles. showed a tendency to.
advance
While frye coal wagons from the Dan
iels Coal Company were being unlcaded
in the rear of the Union League Club
non union teamsters, when one of the
detectives guarding the wagons fired
several shots into the air. large
crowd which had gathered was dis
persed by the police.
new Federal injunction, lit was
stated to-day. would be asked for on
the ground that the strike is interfer
ing with interstate commerce. The
application. it was said. would be made
on behalf of the express companies.
OVER THREE THOUSAND OUT.
President Shea of the Teamsters and
President Dold of the Chicago Fedora
tion issued the following statement
this afternoon:
ITO the Trades Unionists Of Chicago:
The teamsters organization has the
situation we'll in hand and we earnest
ly request that no sympathetic strike
be called or any member leave employ
ment until such time as they are asked
to do so by the committee having the
matter in charge. We also urge upon
all members of organized labor to pre-
serve peace and commit no act that
can be interpreted by the courts as a
violation of the law or of either in
junction issued"
1t was further announced that union
teams would be supplied to any fair"
house whose team companies had sold
out to the new teaming company.
Practically. the first victory of the
strikers came to-day from Fuller &
Fuller's wholesale drug house Manager
Peters announced that his firm had
employed twenty-five union teamsters
and would do it's hauling with their
aid. To-day's additions to the strikers
ranks brought the number up to to-
tai of 1856
Girl messengers, riding in carriages
driven by men wearing coachmen's liv-
cry. were used by some of the depart
ment stores to-day to make deliveries
of urgent orders. The ruse worked
well and it was hours before the union
pickets discovered it.