Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-05-24
Peace Negotiations Shattered on
Express Company Tangle In
the Chicago Strike.
NEITHER SIDE WOULD RI CEOE
Back to Work in Body or Not at All.
Say Express Drlvers--"We viii
Not Take Them Back Under Any
circumstances" Say the Companies.
Riot Cartridges Received.
lRv Associated pressA

(By Associated PreSS.)
CIllCAGOlIlLS.. May 23-All pros
poets of peace in the transfers strike
have Disappeared and It will be open
war, from tllis time on
The last conference looking toward Il
peace adjustment was held tonight be-
tween james B. Barry business agent
fer The Express Drivers Union. and
the local managers of the seven ex-
press companies. The conversation
was brief and pointed.
Business Agent Barry opened the ne
gcliations by saying:
"Onr position is this: want all the
mon reinstatcd, except those who have
been guilty Of violence. | cannot dc
anything different. That is what the
local union wants and that is what Thu,
local officers have told me to demand.
That is nil 1 can do. The men told
INC they all want to so bacll In body
CT they won't go back at ALL That IS
the position of the union and unicn
ulltcials.2a ,.
Reply Was Brief.
The reply of the representatives Of
the express companies was brief II
was:
"Onr Imposition to the reinstatement
l.ofsthT- Gli:WflIi De the same. four years.
from now AS 1t is today. We will not
take then. back under any circum-
Stances
This brought the conference to
close and 'nll parties concerned in it.
left The city hall.
The spread of the strike today .Xns
not as large as was anticipated Four
hun,lre,liant, siXiy-two drivers. employ.
cd by twenty-eight firms belonging to
the Lumbermcn's Association went out
today. In each case the men were or.
dcred to make deliveries to bovcotted
houses aid the usual strike followed.
Other firms TO the number Of fifty:
five belonging TO the Lumbermen's Ex.
change will make similar requests CT
their men tomorrow ana by night 1t Is
expected that the full number of 2.0O0
drivers employed by these lumber con,
Germs will he on strike,
1900 Men involved.
meeting Of the United Employers
Association of Wood Industries. which
Is composer of five associations en-.
hracing) 135 tirn,s owning lumber yards,
planning mills. sash and door factories.
etc. was held today and 1t was dccll
ell to call upon their drivers 10 make
deliveries. This will fierce out 1S0t
additional men.
The possibilities for increased riot
Ing are vastly enlarged by the spread
of the strike to the lumber district. 1t
lisa district notel for the fierce mobs
which have marched through 1t during
former strikes and is the place which
has invariably caused moro trouble
than any other part of the city.
Sheriff Barrett said tonight.
''At the first outbreak of trouble.
which III any way approaches the .iut-.
lug we have had. | shall call for troops
and the troops will be on the gronm1
within less than two hours"
Every preparation has been made fer
prompt response by the National
Guard and a large consignment of riot
cartridges has been received. These
differ from the ordinary rifle bullet in
that they contain three buckshot each
IN place offthe single steel bullet
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