Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-04-29
ASK president
IO End STRIKE
Roosevelt Will Be Requested to
Intervene In the Labor
Crisis In Chicago
TO TAKE ACTION
Likely That at Meeting Sunday Reso-
luton Calling On President to Act
Will be Adopted-scenes of Violence
Are Renewed Again Today-strus
gle Intensified.

Chicago, April 29.-President Roose-
welt may be formally asked to end the
teamsters' strike here, as he did the
strike of the anthracite coal miners.
A resolution requesting the president
to try to induce the employers of Chi
cago to arbitrate the issues which are
now being fought out and SO avert
the bringing of troops to Chicago, is
expected to be introduced in the Chi
cago Federation of Labor at special
meeting tomorrow.
Chicago, April 29-Disturbances to-
day in the teamsters' strike started
near the Eighteenth street barns of the
Employers Teaming Co. Insor Null
cahy, a plumber, was attacked by a
non-union colored teamster and fright
fully cut with razor about the face
hospital. His assailant escaped. Null
cahy was walking by the barns on his
ed about the barns, it is declared. and
began to jeer the non-union colored
teamsters. The latter resentfully rush
ed into the crowd. Before the police
could interfere Mulcahy had been
slashed. His assailant was followed by
a crowd throwing sticks, stones and
other missiles, but finally managed to
escape. Following the outbreak a
hundred negroes employed as nom
union teamsters left the stables to be-
gin service for the !. V. Farwell Com
.pany. Two police patrol wagons and
a hundred policeman guarded the ne
groes.
The police used their clubs vigorous
ly upon the crowd that gathered at
the Majestice hotel in Quincy street
where two colored men were trying to
surrounded non-union drivers and
stones were thrown. A riot call was
sent in and the unloading of the wagon
accomplished under guard. The r. G..
Hartwell Coal Company and Gibbons
Box Manufac cturing Company came
under the ban of the strike leaders to-
day for having filled orders for Gus
toners of the houses whose men are
on a strike. The managers Of the ex-
press companies announced today they
are ready to do about twice as much
business as yesterday. Drivers from
Cleveland, Buffalo, st. Louis, st. Paul.
Minneapolis and Kansas City arrived
today. More than hundred wagons
apportioned among the eight compan-
les were reported in commission.
Eighty colored non-union drivers of
the Employers Teaming Co. deserted
today, asserting they were not given
sufficient police protection.
Two boys were victims Of the dis
order growing out of the strike. Both
were painfully but not fatally hurt.
Victor Grimes, Is, a messenger for a
trade paper, was assaulted by three
boys, one of whom stabbed him in the
chest. Grimes had refused to obey the
orders of the boys not to deliver any
more packages. James Mcnamara, II,
a wagon boy, was shot in the left arm
and severely wounded by U. B. Cole,
colored, non-union. Cole was arrested.
Cole fired into a crowd who taunted
and hooted at him.
Chicago, April 29.-As the result of
a conference with the representatives
of employers and labor leaders held to.
day in Mayor DUNES office, a COM
mittee of citizens will consider the
steps to be taken to end the strike.
and may or will individually re"ume
negotiations with union officials to ef-
feet a settlement
Great quantities of live chickens and
vegetables. shipped by express, accu-
mulated at the railroad depots and
express stations today. Express wag-
ons have been unable to handle the
goods, and shippers and merchants
face heavy losses unless conSlgnments
are moved quickly.
Chicago. April 20. Two United
States army wagons arrived from
Fort Sheridan today. The wagons was
sent in response to an order from the
secretary of war and are to be used to
transport federal funds to and from
various railway stations and United
States subtreasury.
Strike OVER OPEN WINDOWS.