Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-05-06
STRIKE SITUATION
REMAINS THE SAME
Sheriff Of Cook County Has
Charge Of Chicago.

Sheriff Has Sworn In 200 Extra Depu-
ties-Ranks of the Strikers Were
Augmented by 100 New Strikers To-
day-Situation Grows Critical.
Chicoga, May 5.-Additons to the
number Of teamsters on strike will
aggregate nearly a hundred today
The new strikes are confined to
individual concerns, chiefly wholesale
grocery houses. All the principal
wholesale grocery firms in the city
are now under the ban of the team
sters, and the diminishing stock in
the retail stores are further placed in
jeopardy.
The union leaders also threaten to
tie up the river service by calling out
the tugmen and thus add more diff
culties to the transfer of goods from
the grocery warehouses. Union tug
men reported that several large con-
Germs were untilizing the river route
to move merchandise.
Warned by the sheriff Thomas w
Barrett that troops would be asked
for by him If police and deputy sher-
iffs together proved unable to control
violence, strike sympathizers were less
in evidence about the many strike
bound stores and stables today. A
distinct innovation was made by the
police. Chief ONeill, issued a gener-
al order to arrest all persons following
photographed wagons.
When the strike first broke out"
the wagons out of curiosity Now
they follow them to incite There.
will be no discrimination by the police
in such cases in making arrests
A typical call upon Sheriff Barrett
for protection came today from James
B. Cloves Sons, manufacturers OF
plumbers supplies. Deputies were
Immediately sent to the firms store
with instructions to take seats Oh
wagons sent out by the Establishment
and aid in keeping the peace. Yes
terday teamsters for the firm were
struck by stones thrown by persons
in crowds near the Cove factory. The
pOice were unable to arrest the often
ders. Sheriff Barrett announced to
day that pending developments the
swearing in of deputy sheriffs would
be confined to 200 men. His reasol
was that the calling in of additiona
6QnJYtinc hn Ioo
finances of the county.
Two thousand men constituted the
police force available for strike duty
today. With this number the police
officials expected to guard 1900 wag
ons, a decided increase over yester.
days total. Renewed confidence was
experience dby the police officials il
their ability to exercise a reasonable
degree of control, taking into consid.
GRAFTON tumultuous conditions newt
able to a great labor disturbance.
The fuel supply of the Union Trac
ton company, which controls over hall
the street car lines of Chicago, was
placed in jeopardy today.
Pickets of the teamsters' union were
on duty all night to prevent shipments
being made to six big power houses
supplied with coal by the Peabody
company, an ally of the employers
teaming association. This watch con
tinued today and every union man
that could be spared from the strike
bound yards of the Peabody, STANDARD
Wash, Hartwell, Pattison and Daniels
coal companies was sent to the power
houses to hamper incoming shipments
The six power houses threatened
each use from 1876 to IT'S tons of coal
day.
For possibly the first time since the
strike began caravan of coal Wag-
ons manned by nonunion negro team
sters traversed the center of the city
today absolutely unmolested. The car
avan consisted of 16 wagons enroute
from the stables of the employers
teaming company at Eighteenth and
State streets to the Daniels Coal com
pany yards at the foot of South Wa
ter street. Not jeer was heard as
the wagons moved along the streets.
The wagons were loaded with coal,
and then escorted to various office
buildings and department stores in the
business section.
A canvass of the street shopping
districts showed that delivery wagons
were sent out today from nearly every
retail store. In many cases police
men furnished with light runabout
buggies accompanied the wagons. The
general resumption of deliveries of
goods to residents, though on a great
ly restricted scale, was in direct con-
trast to results on previous days, when
such traffic had almost reached the
vanishing point.