The news & observer., 1905-05-06
SHERIFF BARRET
TAKES CONTROL
To Swear in Thousands
of Deputies.
DISORDERS CONTINUE
And Business Men are Urging the Cal
ling Out Of State Troops, Yet May
or Dunno Rides Through Chi
cago and Sees No Violence
Whatever.
Whatever.
(By the Associated Press.),

Chicago, May 4.-Sheriff Thomas E..
Barrett, of Cook county, will take act
i've control of the strike situation to-
has been brought to bear on him and
on Mayor Dunno by business men who
believe their interests to be seriously
imperilled by the constant rioting in
the streets that the sheriff will take
active steps to do away with the pres
ent disorder 1t is expected that 2,OOO
deputies will have been enrolled by
tomorrow evening.
committee of prominent business
men, headed by John q. Shedd,s OF
Marshall Field & Company. went to
Springfield this afternoon to lay the
situation before Governor Deneeu.
The Chicago Clearing House ASsocia-
ton this afternoon adopted sweeping
resolutions declaring that the riots i'll
the streets had gone beyond the power
of the civil authorities to control and
that the State troops should be called
out.
Notwithstanding the pressure for
troops, Sheriff Barrett is determined
to take the situation in hand himself,
declaring that until he has done all
he can he will not be justified in call
ing for the militia
NO violence seen Dy Mayor.
Mayor Dunno for three hours this
afternoon 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 be-
lieVed the police to be fully able to
cope with the situation.
A conference was held late this af-
terncon between Levy Mayer, attorney
for the Employers Association, and
h0 nf hp Union
President Shea, of the Teamsters, as
serted that the teamSterS were not re-
SponSible for the acts of the nOn-un-
ion men and the riots in the streets.
Attorney Mayer declared with much
emphasis that the teamSters were re-
sponsible for the entire trouble. The
labor men left and the conference
closed
The teamSterS made an attempt this
afternoon to call out the employees of
the Chicago Union Traction Company,
which operates all street cars on the
north and west sides of the city, and
is i'm charge of receivers appointed by
United States Courts. Albert Young.
representing the Transfers, called
upon General Manager Roach, of the
Traction Company, and demanded that
the company Immediately cancel its
contracts with the Peabody Coal Com
pany and receive no more coal from
it.
w. II. Mahon, president of the Ma
tional organization of street car men,
after looking into the situation, to-
night ordered all members of the
street car union to continue at work.
They were under agreement. he de-
clared with the Union Traction Com
pany. and this agreement would not
be broken.
Business is More Brisk.
Notwithstanding the constant fight
ing in the streets and the numerous
attacks made on non-union men, the
large dry goods houses and wholesale
groceries tonight reported that they
were steadily increasing shipments.
There was less disturbance today in
the wholesale quarter, but the fighting
went on with it's usual persistence
and viciousness near the fashionable
shopping district. A number of non
union men were dubbed and beaten
and their wagon guards and the po-
licemen retaliated with vigor on the
rioters. In every instance the crowds
were dispersed after a brief, sharp
scrimmage.
The number of injured was about
the same as that of the last two days.