The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-05-05
NO TROOPS FOR CHICAGO
SHERIFF TO TAKE CONTROL OF
 THE SITUATION.

Determined to Exhaust All Other Means
 X in Ills Power Before Calling on Mili-
 tia-Business Men Call on the Gov-
 ernor and Lay situation Before Him
 .-Drygoods Houses Steadily Increas-
 ing Shipments.
 Chicago, May 4.-Sheriff Thomas E.
 Barrett of Cook county will take active
 control Of the strike situation to-inor- row morning. So much pressure has been brought to bear on him and on Mayor Dunne by business men, who pe-8 lieve their interests to be seraously imperilled by the constant rloting in the streets that the sheriiff has sworn in a large force of deputies, and he will take
 active steps to do away with the pres-5 ! ent disorder Two hundred deputy sheriffs were sworn in this afternoon at the office of Sheriff Barrett, and 1t is expected that 2000 depaties will have
 been enrolled by tomorrow evening.
 "A committee of prominent business men, headed by John c. Shedd, of Mar shall Field & Co. went to Springfield this afternoon to lay the situation ba- fore Governor Deneen and to declare that in their opinion conditions in Chi cago were such that the militia IS inn Iperatively needed. The Chicago Clear ing House association this afternoon adopted sweeping resolutions declaring that the rioots in the streets were con- stantly increasing in fury and had gone beyond the civil power of the city and county to control. It was therefore the opinion of the members of the Clearing
 House that the state troops should be at once called out. Both Mayor Dunne and Sheriff Bar rett have been deluged during the day with letters and messages declaring that conditions had become insupporta-
 ple and that a stop to the rioting should
 be made at once.
 Notwithstanding pressure for troops, l Sheriff Barrett is determined to take | the situation in hand himself, declaring that until he has done all he can he l will not be justified in calling for the militia. [ az Mayor Dunne for three hours this aft er1loon rode through the down town streets in a buggy, and on his return | to the city hall declared that he had seen no violence, and he believed the police to be fully able to cope with the situation. Business men who are anxious for troops point as an argument to the long list of injured which is printed every day, and declare that this alone ! is sufficient evidence to prove that the rioting is not suppressed. They declare l that they are unable to make detailed deliveries in any part of the city, and 1 that for the fact that many of, their
 men are accompanied by guards car- rying rifles and shotguns the drivers would be mud in the streets. l A conference was held late this after | noon between Levy Mayer, attorney for the Employers association, and the I leaders of the Teamsters' union. It re- suited in nothing. President Shea of the teamsters' union asserted that the teamsters were not responsible for the | attacks on non- union men and the riot I ing in the streets. Attorney Mayer declared with much emphasis that the teamsters were re- l snonsible for the entire trouble. The l labor men left and the conference clos l cd.
 The teamsters made an attempt this afternoon to call out the employees of the Chicago Union Traction com
 pany, which operates all the street
 cars on the north and the west sides of l the city and is in charge of receivers
 appointed by United States courts. AL bert Young, representing the team sters, called upon General Manager
 Roach of the traction company and de- I manded that the company at once can- eel it's contracts with the Peabody Coal ] company and receive no more coal from l it.
 W. D. Ma1on, president of the na- tionaI organization Of Street Car Men, after looking into the situation, to- | night ordered all members of the street car mems union to continue at work. l They were under agreement, he de- clared,, with the Union Traction com- pany, and this agreement would not be I broken. &s5
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