Arizona republican., 1905-05-04
The Chicago Strike Situa-
 tiOn Grows More Acute
DEMAND FOR THE MILITIA
The Mayor and Chief Of Police Say no Outside Force Is Needed Yet - An Increase of the RiOting and Casual ties Yesterday.

] SO AGIte d CHdIaCleE IIiaL many or ltle | leading business men have concluded | there will be neither peace in the city nor safety for it's business interests
 Untn the state militia has been called | out to restore order. A committee of
 members of the Employers association | left for Springfield today to confer with ! Governor Deneen and to request him to ! give orders to the state troops The ] labor unions have an extensive lobby ! at the state capital and it is likely that
 they will also be heard before any ac- 1 ton is taken by the governor. Chief of Police O'Neill says he is confident
 that he has control of the situation and can keep peace in the city Mayor | Dunne supports him in this view and 1 has declared that in his opinion the emergency has not arrived requiring | the presence of troops.
 Despite the orders of Mayor Dunne
 and tke prohibition of the city council many of the wagons of the concerns
 against which strikes have been de- clared were handled today by men l armed with rifles and shot guns. The first rifle shot fired during the strike went whiZzing through a crowded thor Oughfare today. The shot was fired by a guard on wagon of the United l States Express company. while it was
 passing through a crowd of strike sym pathizers at the intersection of State ! and Randolph streets. Tn driving past the corner the driver of the wagon refined his horses suddenly. 4 guard
 within the wagon poked his head in stantly from the wagon. and seeing a l street car conductor stooping as though
 to throw missile. pulled the rifle ] trigger without slightest hesitation. No ] TeYSpu yt-os if 6axraIonaT Ia that the conductor who narrowly es- l caped death was intent solely on his l legitimate work of throwing switch" l The request of the employers made today that police be allowed to ride on their wagons was declined by the | chief of police. Positive orders were ! issued that under no circumstances 1 must officers mount the wagons. and | they will continue to march abreast ! of wagons on the street or along with ! them while walking on the sidewalks l The order. the chief of police explain ed, was simply intended to ward off ! criticism While the officers might do ! just as rood work while riding on the
 wagons, the chief declared he intended ! it to be said Of the department that
 it was showing no partiality nor guard | ing private property especially.
 ' One hundred and fifty wagons of the
 seven express companies went to and
 fro across the city today, in many in
 stances completely unguarded and at no time under the supervision of more l than one or two policemen. Every wagon carried a guard some of whom
 were armed with Winchester rifles and
 others carried heavy double barrelled
 shot guns. The guns were in plain evi- | dence throughout the day, and no at ! tempt was made to interefere with any | of the express wagons. The trucks of l the Scott Transfer company were also | guarded in the same manner. Men | carrying rifles were on every wagon and around their waists were belts ! loaded with cartridges. The company | transacted it's business as though there | had been no strike against it.
 Both sides made gains today and the | result leaves them about as evenly bal | anced as they were before. Accession | to ranks of teamsters was made when l a strike was declared against the coal | firm of Grerer, CInch and company. ! This concern employs several hundred 1 men and delivers coal to a large num- | Der of the most prominent office build | ings in the city. One of their drivers
 was discharged for refusing to make l deliveries and the rest walked out at once.
 A gain for the employers association | was made when the members of the l Hay and Grain Dealers association
 which employs 1900 teams, declared that deliveries would be made to any l place in the city irrespective of strike conditions. If the drivers refused they
 would be discharged.
 The mo5s that filled the streets in | the business section today were larger and uglier than on yesterday. There was fighting in all sections of the down town districts throughout the day and a dozen times the police were compelled to use their clubs and the wagon guards who are armed with heavy canes swung them whenever they were attacked or thought an assault was about to be
 made. In many cases these guards were not careful whom they hit and there were . number of persons who were knocked down simply because they happened to be the nearest to the
 guard. This was the case particularly
 in a fight near the Majestic hotel,
 when a number of people who had just
 emerged from the place were charged
 upon by private detectives who were
 in charge of a number of coal wagons
 and badly beaten up.
 On the other hand strikers and their
 friends were equally indiscriminate in assauIting people. There were a num-
 Der of instances where men entered
 street cars and wantonly attacked peo-
 pie in them, giving as a reason later that they were strike breakers, when in fact they had nothing whatever to do with the trouble w. Jamison and Edward Boswll, the latter a coloTed medical student. were the worst suffer-
 CTS in this direction. The mob that hnarded a State street ear on which