The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-05-15
DRAPED BANNERS,
MUFFLED DRUMS
Union Men Follow Remains of Strike
Victim to Station.
POLICE WERE NOT NEEDED
DEPUTY WHO DID THE KILLING
EXoNERATED.

u draped banners and muff1ed drums,
more than 1000 union men fol-
| lowed the remains of the strike victim,
George s. Pierce, from his late home
| to the Union station here today The
body was taken over the Pennsylvania
railroad to Louisville, Ky, for burial
No funeral services were. held here
| but the escorting of the body to the
station was made the occasion of Ia
| Dor demonstration in which not only
the Transfers union. but organized Ia
| Dor generally, participated The prog
| ress of the cortege was without incl
| dent The men marching sOlemnly tour
| abreast, each wore upon his coat lapel
a white button with the inscription IN
/ black:
We mourn the loss of a murdered
/ brother"
No Work For Police
| Even the spectacle of three coal va
| CONS manned by non-uHion negroes
near the Union station ELECTED no more
than mUtterings as the column filed by
/ The only break i'm the serious mien OF
| the men occurred when a patrol wagon
! called in anticipation of trouble by two
! policemen. in charge of the wagons,
! gaIloped on the scene Then cheers
and hand clapping. mingled with shouts
/ of derisiOn, broke out along the me
/ for a block. but there was no work for
/ the police.
| The procession formed in the vicin-
/ fly of the Pierce home, 904 South Cen
/ trail avenue at O'Clock in the morn
/ ing Immediately following the car
rage bearing the aged mother sister
and two brothers of the deceased came
/ thirty carriages, occupied by union IA
! Dor officials. IN the first was Inter
] national President G. p. Shea OF the
] Transfers union, with Vice Presidents
John Sheridan and E J. Mullen. The
| succeeding carriages contained officials
/ Of the various locals Of the Teamsters
union and of other affiliated unions
/ Draped in Black.
| At intervals along the line were the
! banners of the different locals and
/ four American flags. each draped IN
[ black Eight hundred marchers fell in
/ behind the carriages at the start. All
| along the way other detdchmentS
/ Joined their ranks. until when the sta
/ ton was reached the column extended
4 ten blocks.
/ A brass band marched at the head
Eight strikers who worked with Pierce
were the active paHbearers. Eight 9TH
| er striking teamSteTs acted as honorary
/ palIbearers.
| Pierce was an emplOye Of RothschiId
I & Co. as driver on a delivery wagon.
/ He was shot by Special Deputy Sheriff
I z. T. Waldorf. He is the only union
man who has lost his life during the
strike and is regarded by other men
as a martyr to the cause. Pierce is
said to have assaulted a nOn-uniOn
driver in the presence of Waldorf. Wal
/ dorf was exonerdted by a COTOuer'S
| jury
President Shea's Address
At the Cook county Democratic
headquarters. where the funeral pro-
! CessiOU halted en- route to the railway.
/ President Shea of the TeamSterS' union
| addressed the moUrners. All heads We're
barred while the address from the bal
! Cony Of the second floor of the Demo-
/ cratic headquarters was delivered
THE members of the Transfers
union do not compose the disorderly
| element in the present strike disturb
| ances." said President Shea The
| teamsteTs are not seeking to do violence
/ in order to secure victory for them
/ selves. and they regret deeply that vio-
/ lenCe has been done, OCcaSioninE such
events as the death of our mourned
/ brother.
1T IS our duty as members Of the
/ Transfers brotherhood and as law
abiding citizens to refrain from all acts
/ of violence and to discourage such
acts. both on the part Of the union
men and their sympathizerS, wherever
| occasion arises
we viii win the present strike. not
through violence or force. but because
we are Iaw-abiding citizens of the
/ United States and of this city. seeking
/ to obtain what Is rightly ours by peace
/ full methods"
Deep silence prevailed during the ad-
dress of President Shea, but at its con-
clusiOn he was wildly cheered and
urged repeatedly by the crowd to tell
more of the plans and purposes of the
/ strikers, but he remained silent
A wholesale exposure Of the extent
and methods Of professional smuggling
/ is expected by the police to be the re
I suit Of revelations connected with the
murder of Charles J. CarIstrom 4
wagon worker. for which eight men
/ are now under arrest
Broke Down and Confessed.
| Following the confession of Business
Agent Charles Casey and Secretary
! J. Newman of Carriage and Wagon
! Workers local union No. 4, Charles
. CsiIhooIey. alleged leader of the men
! who beat CaristrOm. broke down and
/ told his part in that and other deeds
/ Of n similar nature. From his admis-
] SlOilS- lne greater part u WHICH III
! spectOr LAWN declines TO reveal at
present the police CLEANED clews which
! set them at work investigating slug
ging" plots in other industries where
| strikes have been in progress.
| The police secured the names of four
| teen persons who have been assaulted
| or intimidated by gangs of hired slug
| gers working for striking unions. Each
! case is being investigated by Inspector
I LAWNS detectives, and additional ar
| rests are expected at any moment.
/ Siuggers For Hire.
we have discovered Clews leading
us in a number of directions to cases of
/ professional smuggling done by gangs
/ hired. not only by the wagon workers.
! but by other unions, including the
| wood workers" said Inspector LAWN
/ tonight we shall not stop until we
| get to the bottom of the system and
! break il up
| Two more arrests in connection with
| the case against the wagon workers
| were made today. They are Frank No
| yak and John Heiden, members Of the
| executive committee of the union.
| INDIAN TERRITORY