New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-02
RIFLES FOR TRANSFERS
FARLEY IN COMMAND.
Non-Union Men Pouring Into Chi
cago-Serious Rioting.


well regulated militia being necessary to the
security of free state, the right of the people
to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed
Article II, amendments to Constitution of the
United States.
The City Council to night passed resolution
directing the Chief of Police to enforce that
portion OF the State statutes which prohibits
the carrying of rifles in the streets by
thorized perSons.-Chicago dispatch.
Chicago May LIVERY wagon sent out here
after by the Employers Teaming Company is to
be protected by a rife in the hands of the driver
his assistant.
This was the announcement made to-day by
officials of the Chicago Employers Association.
Two thousand rifles have been ordered, together
with ammunition belts, and will be distributed
TO the drivers at once. The move has been care
fully considered. and the legal aspect looked in
to- The officials Of the Employers Association
say they acting under the clause in the
amendment of the federal Constitution which
says:
The right of the people to keep and bear arms
shall not be nfringed
Under decisions of the United States Supreme
Court it is declared that every has right to
protect his life or property with firearms, pro-
vded such arms are not concealed.
President Shea. of the Transfers Union said
tonight that if the Employers Teamfng Associ-
alton armed its drivers with rifles he would do
the same with union drivers He said:
If it is legal for the non union men to arm
themselves it certainly is not illegal for us to do
likewise.
There is an Illinois State law against assem-
bling for the purpose of bearing arms but the
Supreme Court has clearly defined what this
means
Commenting on the announcement, Chief of
Police O'Nell said:
have seen many men carrying rifles in the
cautioned my men to warn all non-union and
union men not to carry concealed weapons, but
in the matter of rifles am pOwerless.
When Mayor Dunno informed of the fact
that rifles would be carried by non-union men
he visbly disturbed. and he declared that
the police would not be permitted to authorize
the carrying of arms by any one whether in the
employment of the Employers Teaming Asso-
citation affiliated with the strikers. He said:
The Chief of Police will give no authority m
matter before but the city of Chicago will not
authorize the carrying of arms.
There was report late this afternoon that
Mayor Dunno was about TO force an adjustment
of the trouble. but this. he declared. was incor
rect. adding
cannot force settlement if the two contest
ants unwilling There is power I can see
that I employ to bring them to terms AS
for the report that I going to interfere in the
strike ] have been interfering for some time
and everybody knows how successful 1 have
been.
Two serious riots took place tonight. The
first at West Harrison and Desplaines ste
where a mob. containing many women and
numbering fully 1000. attacked sixteen non
union men, who going to the depot undar
a guard of squad of police. Stones and other
missiles We're hurled at the men. and it was
with difficulty that the police were able to pro
tect them from the crowd. Several non-uniop
men were injured with stones and many Of the
mob suffered wounds from the clubs OF the no.
licemen \ number of arrests were made
The second fight took place at 22d and State
SITS, where a crowd attacked four coal wagons
which guarded by eight private detectives were
returning TO the yards of the Daniels company
after making the delivery of coal at nearbY,
plant. The non-union were pelted U,t,b
stones from the second story of a building Tba
detectives. drawing revovers. charged into tba
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