Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-27
STRIKE MAY SPREAD
IO OTHER CITES
Express Company Drivers Talk
of sympathetic Strike In
Fifty Big Centers
ARMED PEACE is MAINTAINED
Force of over 1000 Police and Depu-
ties Are Guarding Wagons Of Mer-
chants Today = Building Trades
Council withdraws Support From
the Teamsters.

Chicago, May 27.-An armed force OF
1900 men, police and deputy sher-
iffs, was in command of the teamsters
strike Situation today. The call Tor
troops seemed increasingly distant. In
the lumber district 100 non-union
teams were at work, and 200 exper-
fenced lumber teamsters engaged IN
the northwest will be added Monday.
Chief of Police O'Neill stopped hiring
extra policemen today. Numbers OF
colored men who swarmed into his Of
flee to be sworn in were turned away.
Formal complaint against swearing in
colored men as police was made by
the attorney for thei Employers Team
ing CO., the ground taken being the
use Of negroes as guards for wagons
would tend to incite violence.
Chicago, May 27.-Possible spread of
the express drivers strike to other cit
les is now an element in the situation
here. The trip Of Business Agent
James Barry Of the express drivers Of
New York, has caused the idea to be
given credence that fifty picked men
from the express drivers have been di-
rected by the union to go to fifty large
cities, and the demand may be made
by every Express Wagon Mems local
that the Chicago local be reinstated, or
a general strike declared against all
express companies. The inconsiderate
action of the teamsters toward the car
penters,, plumbers, and other members
of the unions affiliated with the Assoc
ciated Building Trades Council, is said
today to be the direct cause of the ac-
ton of the building trades council in
withdrawing moral and financial sup
port from the teamsters' strike.
The alleged affront of the teamsters
resulted in strike of workmen con-
structing huge new office building on
Jackson boulevard and franklin street.
A number Of vaults and safes had
been delivered at the building by union
drivers who proceeded themselves to
set the safes. The other workmen
struck, claiming the teamsters were
not constructors and as result this
brought instantly to a focus the mucn
agitated question of jurisdiction be-
tween unions. The trades council, to
prevent further action of this sort,
voted to withdraw support from the
teamsters' strike.
Support withdrawn.
Attention of the strikers and en-
ployers was centered largely today on
the eeffct Of the action Of the Asso-
ciated Building Trades, accounted the
strongest labor body in Chicago, which
last night withdrew moral and finan-
cial support from the teamsters' cause.
The first eeffct will be to cut off near
ly thousand dollars a week from the
strikers funds. The subsequent effect
is problematical. In any event, it
seems to check peril to the whole of
the building industry of the city. Fur
ther this withdrawal Of financial sup
port is particularly trying at times
when finances are serious problem
The response to request for contri-
buttons from the, country at large has,
it is alleged, not been up to expecta-
tions, and with daily expense of $10,-
900, financial stringency may be the
rock on which the strike will be wreck
ed.
AS a result oftheteamsters' strike
new low record in the price of coal, as
compared with previous depression,
during ten years, has been established.
This applies to the coal situation gen
orally in the western trade, according
to the Black Diamond. Retail trade
in anthracite in Chicago is feeling the
effects of the teamsters' strike TO a
greater extent than was expected, due
to the duration Of industrial troubles.
Extraordinary efforts are being made
by some dealers to secure business.
Long time credits are being given by
dealers to induce consumers to take in
COAL ana in some instances prices are
below those which the retailer should
have obtained for his product in April
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