Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-05
C)N[D By
SHOW OF FORCE
Sheriff Determination to Keep
Order or Call Troops Has
Effect
STRIKERS ANGRY At BANKS
They Threaten to Find "FaiF Bank
and Thcn Have All Union Mon With
draw Deposits From the Other Banks
Delivery of Goods Proceeding To-
day.

Chicago, May 5.-Bluntly warned by
Sheriff Barrett that troops would be
asked for by him IL the police and depu-
ty sheriffs together proved unable to
control violence, strike sympathiZers
were less In evidence about the many
strikebound stores and stables today.
Chief O'Nelll today Issued general
order to arrest all persons following
police guarded wagons.
Two thousand men constituted the
police force available for strike duty
today. With this number, the officials
are expected to guard 1900 wagons, a
decided increase over yesterdays total.
Sheriff Barrett announced today that
pending developments, swearing In Of
deputies would be confined to 200 men.
so as not to burden the finances Of the
county more than necessary.
A typical call upon Sheriff Barrett
for protection came from James s..
Glow & Sons, manufacturers Of plumb
ing supplies. Deputies were imned-
lately sent to the firms store with In
structions to take seats on wagons sent
out by the establishment and to aid
in keeping the peace. Yesterday team
sters for the firm were struck by
stones. The police were unable to ar
rest the offenders. The fuel suppl
Of the Union Traction Company which
controls over half the street car lines
in Chicago was placed in jeopardy to-
day. Pickets Of the .teamsters' union
were on duty to prevent shipments be-
ing made to six big power houses sup.
piled with coal by the Peabody Com
parry, an ally OF the Employers Team
ing Association.
Ericks and ball bats we're used with
blood letting effect in Dearborn street
near Nineteenth. While a score of non
union negroes We're preparing to take
out wagons to transfer goods they were
attacked by mob of strike sympathiz-
ers. Several men were hurt. Harry
Jameson, bystander, had his head
cut open with base ball bat anil
probably will die. The police dispersed
the rioters after beating many men
over the head.
For possibly the first time since the
strike began, a caravan Of sixteen coal
wagons, manned by non-union colored
teamsters, traversed the center of the
city. today absolutely unmolested. Not
a jeer was heard as the wagons NOV
ed along the streets.
A canvass of the State street ship
ping district showed that delivery
wagons We're sent out today from near
ly every retail store. In many cases
policemen, furnished with light run
about buggies, accompanied the wag-
ons. The general resumption of de-
liveries of goods to residences, tho on
O greatly restricted scale, was in de-
cid,ad contrast to results on previous
days, when such traffic had almost
reached the vanishing point.
President Shea. of the Teamsters'
Union, issued statement claiming the
Employers Association, by bringing
colored men from. the south are trying
to incite violence in order to crush
unionism. He also scores the banks
for declaring in resolutions that a
state of rebellion exists in Chicago.
There was less rioting than yester-
day. and fewer people were injured.