Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-05-19
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which the mayor sounded this warning
livery owners and union officials held a
stormy session, which ended in an open
rupture between the liverymen and
labor leaders representing nearly 1000
employees. 1t was announced that the
unions would not release the boycott
and some OF the owners declared that
they would proceed to send cabs and car
riages anywhere their patrons desired
Rioting broke out afresh Tuesday.
Two colored men were terribly beaten
at Fourteenth and State streets and
were rescued with difficulty by the po-
lice.
The first strike among the hay ahd
grain drivers has occurred. ten team.
sters for the ]. w. Fernald company go
ing out. This action was caused by the
order of the company to deliver feed to
the barns of the Employers leaning
company.
School Strike Spreads.
The school strike fever continued to
spread. while the authorities took
measures to put quistns on the epidem-
1c. Pupils Of the Fallon school, West
iForty-second and Wallace streets, and
the Graham school, West Forty-fifth and
Union streets, rebelled. Much rioting
eensued. and the police were kept busy.
SO far there have been strikes at eight
schools, the Others being those at the
Montefore, the Washington, the Car
penter, the Herman Raster, the Hen
bricks and the Carter H, Harrison.
w. L. Bodine, superintendent OF com.
pulsory education, detailed SO truant Of
fcers and special policemen to serve
warning notices upon parents OF strfk,
ing school children. The notices read
that unless the children are sent to
school at once the parents will be held
responsible to the law. Pupils Of the
Fallon school went on strike when two
loads Of coal from the Peabody company
were delivered.
Danger Of Flour Famine.
The danger of flour famine in Chi
cago, resultant from the stoppage Of
deliveries to retail and wholesale gro
GERS. has become more serious, accord
ing to officials Of the Wenig Teaming
company, whose teams have been tied
np for week. Many Of the retail gro
ceries throughout the city, as we'll as
the big wholesale houses, are entirely
out of flour.
Will Not Yield.
The strongest pressure which the
team owners of Chicago could bring to
bear failed to weaken the stand Of the
nnioD teamsters Monday night, and the
joint council reaf1rmed it's determine,
ton expressed Saturday night not to
permit the delivery of goods to boy
cotted" firms. With the second refusal
of the team owners demands the
teamsters openly courted an extension
OF the strike. Unless the team owners
recede from their position, or inter-
vention from higher sources ensues,
the broadening of the struggle now
seems inevitable, The team owners are
likely to yield nothing unless it be the
extension of weeks time in order to
give President Gompers OF the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor. who is ex-
pected here next Friday, chance to
settle The strike.
Declares for Arbitration.
! The city council went on record
Monday evening foY settlement of the
Transfers strike. BY a vote of As to
20 it adopted resolution asking the
mayor to appoint committee Of FIVE,
whose duty 1t shall be to urge arbitra-
ton of the existing troubles.