The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-01
BUSY SUNDAY
Chicago Was as Busy as She Is
on a Week Day.
Everybody Prepares for a Long
Everybody Prepares for a Long
and Troublesome Strike.
ALL OFFERS REJECTED
Employers Association Refuses
OYertures for Peace.
Mob Stampedes a Barn Full of
Horses.

Horses.
Chicago. May Chicago had on
/ her working clothes Sunday, and to
anyone without knowledge of the
/ fighting going on here between capital
and labor an examination OF the cal
endar was necessary to make certain
that it was Sunday. From daylight
until dark the downtown streets were
/ crowded with heavily laden wagons
and trucks, giving the city weekday
I appearance that was never witnessed
/ here before on the first day of the
week.
Believing that the fight now going
on for supremacy between the En-
ployers' association of Chicago and the
union teamsters is to be a protracted
one, the business men of the city took
! advantage of the suspension of regu-
lar business to procure an extra supply
of material and supplies. Every avail
able team and even one horse vehicles
were brought into use during the day
for the purpose of replenishing coal
bins and to obtain other material
necessary to the transaction of bust
ness. Today being the first of May,
which is moving day in Chicago, the
furniture van in the residence dis
tricts added to the weekday appear
ance of the city. Fearing that the
furniture drivers might become in
vOlved in the difficulty. the majority
! of those who under normal conditions
would have sought their new homes
today. decided to take no chances and
made the change Sunday.
While all these preparations were go
ing on for an emergency, efforts were
! being made in Mayor DUNES Office at
/ the city hall to bring about possible
/ adjustment of the teamsters' strike.
/ Early in the afternoon a committee rep
/ resenting the Employers Association
| met a peace commission consisting of
| Bishop c. P. Anderson, of the Episcopal
! church; Jenkin Lloyd, of All Souls
church; Dr.. Emil G. Hirsch, Of Smith
| temple; Miss Jane Adams, of Hull
! house, and DR.. Cornelia DeBey, OF
! Nef9hbOrhOOd house. At the end of this
| conference a committee representing the
/ unions met the citizens committee and
/ went over the entire strike situation in
1 an effort to devise some means to bring
| about peaceable ending of the contrO-
versy.
Federation Was Busy
! The Chicago Federation of Labor was
! also busy considering the strike situa-
/ ton, but no action was taken to spread
! the strike to the affiliated unions. Be
! lieving that the Transfers are justified
in the fight they are making, the feder-
/ alton passed resolutions to lay the stu
! alton before President Roosevelt.
! The conferences in Mayor DUNES Of
! fee lasted six hours and the peace COM
mission appointed by the mayor failed
! utterly in its efforts to bring about
settlement of the strike.
After the conferences, which were
held in secret, the peace committee
| issued the following statement:
THE members of this commission,
Of
! regret to inform the public that after
/ having heard reports of both parties
/ to the controversy no plan was found
/ acceptable to bring about an adjust
ment of the difficulty.
THE representatives of the employ
ers refused to accept any commission
I or means of arbitration which was
| suggested, while the laboring men de-
/ clared their readiness to acqu1esce in
the plan of submitting the controversy
/ to persons commanding the respect
and confidence of the community
/ The police department took ad-
vantage of the lun of the strike to
make plans for the disposition of the
/ police force for resisting any lawless-
( ness which may develop in the days to
/ come. Announcement was made by
Chief O'Neil that the police are to take
tighter grip on the situation than
ever this week.
/ Chief O'Neil land we will have peace
and order in Chicago if the entire
/ force has to be put on strike duty"
A mob of 500 men and boys, headed
( by a number of striking teamsters,
rafded the main stables of the Employ
ers' Teaming company and stampeded
the animals. This was a violation of
the federal injunction issued by Judge
Kohlsaat The names of the union
men involved, it is said, have been Sc
cured and they will be brought into
court.
Strikers Indicted.
Chicago, May Twelve of the labor
! leaders identified with the teamsters'
strike now in progress in this city have
been indicted by the grand jury. Each
Indictment contains six counts and
charges the men with conspiracy. Bills
were returned against the following:
Cornelius P. Shea, president of the In
ternational Transfers union; Hugh
MCGEE, president Of the Truck Drivers
union; jeremiah Mccarthy. business
agent of the Truck Drivers union; M.
F. Kelly. president of the Market Driv-
ers' union; Charles Wilbrandt, secre-
tary of the Transfers joint council;
George f Golden, president of the
Packinghouse Transfers union; James
B. Barry, president Of the Railway Ex-
press Drivers union; John Srnyth, pres
ident of the Coal Drivers union;
Harry Lapp. business agent of the
Coal Drivers union; Charles Dodd, pres
ident of the Chicago Federation of
Labor: Steven Sumner, president of the
Milk Drivers union; J. w. Young bus