The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-03
A POINysFOR THgSIRIKERs Tear OWners Refuse to
 SMake Deliveries. RAILROADS WILL NOT AID More Trouble for Employers
 Association. Street Fighting in Chicago More Fierce
 and Savage Than Heretofore,
 Occurring in Heart of Bus- mess Section.
RAILROADS WILL NOT AID

Chicago, May 2.-The strike situa- | ton in Chicago assumed peculiar as l pect today and tonight the interests which have been opposing the str'klhs teamsters are not as united as hereto- | fore. l.,
 The cause of this slight dissension is | the Team Owners Association, which | has contracts with the railroads ana i many of the large firms througnout | the city to transfer their merchandlse' | Until today 1t was supposed that Ine | Employers Association and their allies | were firmly bound together in the | fight for the supremacy against the | teamsters. The Team owners Asso- citation, which employs non-union teamsters, fatly refused this afternoon | to make deliveries to any Of the hrms now involved in the strike when or dered to do so by the Employers Asso- | citation. When the employers recelVed | tins ultimatum they notified the team | owners that unless the request that no discrimination be made in deliveries be 1 complied with an effort would be made 1 to have all existing contracts between | the team owners and the business l houses and the railroads cancelled. | Yesterday the Employers Teaming | Association sent word to the large l 1 know where they stood in the present | fight Many of the members of the l teamiug association have contracts for | the delivery of coal with the team | owners, who have so far failed to make any deliveries since the commencement | of the strike. The team owners yes- | terday would not give a definite reply as to what could be expected of them. | This afternoon at the Union League | Club a meeting was held between rep | resentativs of the Employers ASsocia- ] tion and the large team owners. It l was the desire of the Employers As- | sociation to bring as much pressure to bear upon the team owners as pOssi- | bIe and with this view they had. invit- 1 ed to the conference representatives of the railroads entering the city.
 Would Become Involved. s, The team owners stated their posi- tion exactly. They would not attempt | to deliver coal to any firm where | strike is now in progress giving as | reasons for their refusal that their l own men would be called out and they would be involved in the trouble. with which they considered they had no | direct concern.
 They were informed that if they would not make deliveries their con- tracts with the business houses, | amounting to millions of dollars an nualIy. would be cancelled. Thts did not change their attitude, however, and they persisted ip their refusal to take part in the strike. The railroad men. contrary to the hopes of the | members of the Employers Associa- ton. did not exert the influence on the 1 team owners that was expected. They 1 took practically the same stand. de- claring that the fight was something l into which the railroads did not prop I arIv rf | with the team owners; that the con- | tracts were at present being fulfilled | to their entire satisfaction and they | could see no reason why the railroads should be dragged into the struggle. B. Thomas, President and General l Manager of the Chicago & Western In- | diana Railroad. a terminal railroad. | which does an enormous local business, | was one of the railroad men in the ! conference and after leaving the Union l League Club he said:
 | We have refused to enter into the | fight We see no reason why we | should do so. The struggle is be- tween certain business men of this city and their teamstePs. We can see no cause why we should interfere In this thing or mix in any controversy bet | ween local factions who have diverging interests in the teaming business. The railroads are not going to enter into this strike in any way"
 More Extra Police.
 During the day the employers had | informed Mayor Dunne and Chief of Police O'Neill that they intended to | move tomorrow 1855 wagons, owned by them and the different express com panies and manned by non-union men. This necessitated a call for the swear ing in of 1000 additional policemen but after the conference at the Union League Club the employers modified their plans and informed the city hall officials that they would only increase very slight the number of wagons over thqGe in service today.
 Although the plans have been chang. ed as to the moving of the wagons new men will be aded to the police force tomorrow and will be put or strike duty as rapidly as they are need. ed. Nine hundred of them will bC placed on State Street alone. The large retail establishments have an nounced that they will make deliveries There have been numerous complaints of the interference by the strikers with women shoppers and the authori' ties have determined to put an efrectuaI stop to all such practices.
 Judge c. c. Kohlsaat of the United States Circuit Court. at the request oi the attorneys representing the seven express companies, today issued tenn porary injunction restraining all per sons from interfering with the wagons of the petitioners or the men employed by them.
 The fighting today in the streets was even more fierce and savage than that of yesterday. The strikers and their sympathizers attacked the non-union men at every opportunity. assaAling them with bricks, stones, clubs, knives and any and every other offensive weapon which they could lay their hands on The fighting occurred in the heart of the business section of the city, men being shot down within two hundred feet of the retail store of Mar shall Field & Co.,, or clubbed nearly to death at the corner of the Audi torium Hotel in plain view of hundreds of ladies who were compelled to TUT from the mob to save their own lives
 Negro Strikers Victim.
 William Miles "a negro waiter while at work in a lunch room at Adams and sanRamon Streets. half a mile from lany former scene of rioting during the strike, was a victim of the strikers fury today, although he had no connec. tfon whatever with the trouble. Hs twas accused of yba5pg-a -a. stFi sA1ealkar