Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-08
READY FOR STRUGGLE
Both Sides Prepared for
Siege in Chicago.
PRESIDENTS VISIT
WILL REACH CHICAGO AND HEAR
LEADERS SHORTLY.
Commission Makes Start Toward Iuves-
tigating Charges of Graft
and Blackmail.

CHICAGO, May. S.-Today the thirty
first day of the teamsters' strike. found
both sides prepared for an even more in
tense struggle during the week to come
the week in which President Roosevelt is to
visit Chicago
The commission, composed of Prof. Fra
ham Taylor ToTner X Webster and Will
liar c. Boyden. appointed by Mayor Dunno
to investigate charges of graft and black
mail on the part of union leaders and of
efforts to incite trouble on the part of the
employers. has made detailed plans for be-
ginning the inquiry.
The merchants have made plans for more
strenuous efforts to bring the recalctrant
team owners into line, and the Federation
of Labor, on the other hand, has resolved
to seek the Indictment of the officials of the
Employers Association for this effort. call
ing it conspiracy.
The strike commission. which was to be-
gin work this afternoon, from all appear
arces Will have no holiday task. 1t is with
out power of subpoena, and all the infor-
nation 1t gets will of necessity be volun-
teered- The union leaders declare they will
submit volumes OF testimony bearing on the
charges that the employers have fostered
the war by aiming 70 extend the strike
through score of trades.
On the other hand, the EMPLOYERS are not
enthusiastic over the project seeing no
good that is likely to come out of it, though
Chairman Taylor was assured the mer-
Giants would do nothing to block the in
Quiry.
Attempts were made by the employers to-
day to resume business on scale as near
as possible to that before the tearnsters'
strike. This was especially the case at all
the barns used by the department stores.
Little trouble was reported at any of the
employers company barns. Unlike the cor
responding time last week few persons
were about the stables. Even the Peabody
Coal Company, against which there has
been a special fight, sent out today cara
vans of loaded coal wagons without mo-
leStaton- Police and deputy sheriffs, how
ever, continued to guard all nearly all
vehicles driven by non-union teamstefs
Two brothers, John and Richard Fruen,
were fatally injured today in street fight
with a colored man. Both of the men were
stabbed in the abdomen. Their assailant
whose identfty~is not known, escaped The
police believe he is a stranger in Chicago
anc are working on the theory that he may
be strike-breaker."
Police Ride With Drivers.
With the general movement of delivery
wagons in all parts of the city Increasing
the labor of protection for the police. Chief
of Police O'Neill today issued instructions
that in future it will not be necessary for
policemen to follow the wagons on foot
but that they will be permitted to ride
beside the drivers This order was found
necessary by Chief O'Neill owing to the
extension of the territory where deliveries
are being made and the inability of the
police force to protect all of the wagons
now in service with walking guard. The
necessity of clearing the streets for the
employers wagons has abated.
The new order came after a consulta.
ton between Mayor Dunno and Chief OK
Police O'Neill.
Non-Union Negro Teamsters Hurt.
Two non-union colored teamsters of the
Employers Teaming Company were pain
fully hurt and escaped more serious injury
only by the interference of the police in a
riot today in the alley north of the Olym-
pic Theater. The injured men We're Wade
Crowder, who was cut about the head and
face and John Pitkins, struck on the head
by stone.
The riot occurred after a wagon of which
the two men in charge were tipped over as a
result of an attempt to make a sharp turn.
Both men fell from the seat and were inn
medietely surrounded by a crowd. Bricks
We're hurled, and the men were In serious
danger when police appeared in response
to a riot call. They dispersed the throng
and rescued the colored men. Two police
men who had guarded the wagon on Its
way from a paper box factory were slightly
injured during the trouble.
Though the ice wagon drivers are facing
a strike of their own, announcement was
made by them today that their union would
pay into the teamsters' strike fund $1,000
weekly. The ice wagon drivers say they
will insist on an increase of $40 month
in the wages of every member of their
own union.