The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-06
SS2IKE CRISIS
 COMES TODAY Will Decide Whether Troops Are Necessary. DELIVERIES BEING MADE Less RiOting and Fighting in
 Evidence. Threatened Appearance of the Militia or Addition to Police Force Has
 Salutary Effect at Chicago.


 Chicago, May 5.-The crisis in the
 teamsters' strike is expected to come
 tomorrow.
 | The State Street merchants have de-
 cided to send about LIDO wagons to
 make deliveries in all parts of the city. As far as possrple these wagons will be guarded by deputy sheriffs and
 In some cases by the local police. It
 will be impossible for all of the wag-
 ons to be guarded by deputy sheriffs
 but it is the intention to place two
 men on each wagon as far as the
 number of deputies already sworn in
 will permit. Sheriff Barrett had 200 deputies in service tonight and said l that he thought this number would be
 ample for the work outlined tomorrow.
 If it Is not 1t is said he will conclude l that the sheriffs office and the local police are not in control of the situa- tion and q request will be made for
 State militia. Governor Deneen said
 that he will order out the troops If the
 request Is made by Sheriff Barrett. and upon the failure or success of the at l tempt for retail deliveries tomorrow
 depends the coming or the troops. Fifteen wagons were sent out today | by the large dry goods and department
 stores and all of them made deliveries | without interruption. On each of thess
 wagons rode two deputy sheriffs It
 was the success of this attempt at de-
 livering goods that prompted the | stores to plan to send out tomorrow
 practically their full force of wagons. Less Trouble in Streets. Either because e the Ihreatened ap- pearance of the troops or because of
 the addition to the police force in the l shape of deputy sheriffs. there was
 much less rioting and lighting in the
 down town streets, today than on any
 day this week. The wagons of the ex- | press companies. each of which car
 ried a guard armed with Winchester
 rifles. or double barreled shot guns
 went to and fro between the depots and
 express offices without interruption
 other than that of an occasional stone thrown from the sidewalk or some
 other missile hurled from a window. There was little of tlis. however. and I the wagons were practically unmo- | lested.
 An order issued early in the day by | Chief of Police O'Neill directing that all persons should be prevented from following up wagons as they went through the streets had much to do
 with the absence of rioting. In the
 early days of the strike, when the | wagons of a boycotted firm passed through the streets they were follow ed by hundreds of men and boys anx- l ious to see any fight that might occur. | Of late, however. these crowds of fol- | lowers have become much more ugly | In temper and have constituted one of
 the chief sources of trouble. The police | today turned back all groups of men they could discover in the act of fol- | lowing wagons and there was much
 less opportunity for riots.
 While there was less rioting in the
 down town streets. there were many | assaults committed in all parts of the l frnp ha section In several cases non-union drivers were badly beaten and their | wagons overturned and the goods
 stolen In others the drivers escaped injury only by the fieetness of their
 horses.
 Coal Wagons Attacked. Three coal wagons after making a delivery at the factory of Selz-Schwab
 & Co.,. at Ohio and Kingsbury Streets, late this afternoon, were attacked by
 a crowd which pursued them for more than half a mile. raining stones,
 bricks and bottles upon the police of- hcers and drivers. The riot commence
 ed when stones and bottles were
 thrown from the windows on the sixth floor of the Schultz Paper Box Com l pany One man was seen to throw several bricks and one glass tumbler
 from a window the Schultz factory. As the wagons continued down Ohio Street they were targets for persons 1 in the windows of all the buildings and
 for the crowd which continued to fol- low them. The police charged the
 crowd repeatedly but was unable to | keep 1t back The mob was com
 posed almost entirely of young men and women, the latter taking an active
 part in the rioting and urging the men | to further violence.
 Edward Lashem. president of the
 Lashem Teaming Company was at l tackled by a crowd of Union teamsters | this afternoon at Madison and Union 1 Streets and fearfully beaten. Lashem was driving one of his own wagons and
 was asked to show union button. Be-
 fore he was given a chance to explain that he was a team owner and there fore ineligible as a member of the
 Teamsters Union, he was pulled from his wagon, knocked down and kicked. Lieutenant O'COnnor of the police force who was returning from another dis | turbanee further up the street came to Lashen's assistance in time to cap
 ture several of his assauants, Lashem's l condition is serious.
 | To Use City LabOrers. The first call for the able bodied"
 men among the employees of the city to | aid in the suppression of the rioting 1 in the streets was made this afternoon. | One hundred laborers from the water ] l this afternoon ordered to report in the 1 morning at the office of Chief of Police l O'Neill, where they will be sworn in
 as special policemen. The men were | selected by their foreman. who asked 1 them to vlunteer for strike duty. Only l such men as expressed themselves will 1 ling to serve on strike duty were ! taken.
 l Arrangements will be made tomor-
 row to draft another 100 of the em-
 ployes of the Water Department le | Chief of Police ONeil considers it nee | essary
 Sheriff Barrett tonight took a more | hopeful view of the situation than he | had at any time during the day. He ! expressed the belief that the crisis of | the strike was over and its back l broken.
 T do not believe that conditions will develop in such a manner that troops | will be found necessary" said the Sher- | fir mot until we see that we cannot cope with the situation will Governor Deneen be called on for aid. We will l man every wagon in Chicago with a