The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-16
PRESERVE ORDER
OR FACE MILITIA
Dunno Declares Spread Of Strike
Would Mean Calling Out
of Troops.
LIvERYMEN INCUR
STRIKE HOSTILITY
Attempt by Teamsters to Stop
Cab Deliveries at Boycotted
Stores.

Chicago. May 16.-Possibility of a
tieup of all livery business in Chicago,
including funerals, grew more definite Shae
of the teamsters union, W. J. Gibbons,
business agent of the Cab, and Livery
Wagon Drivers union, and representa-
tives Of the Liverymen's and Under
takers associations.
Frank Amberg, a prominent livery
owner, left before the other members.
ing to allow dictation as where his
drivers should carry passengers, ana
that he would disregard the rule OF the
unions that no carriages should be al
lowed to unload passengers at boy
cotted stores. Other members OF the
Everymen' committee endeavored to
induce President Shea and his feliow
sengers at the boycotted stores: The
labor leaders fatty refused to deviate
from the stand taken against such de-
livery.
Lockout as Weapon.
Committeeman Amberg of the en-
ployers declared, after leaving the
meeting, that he would call session
of the Employers association and in
sist upon It's members doing business
with the bpycotted houses even II 1T
was necessary to lock out all employees
to do so.
C. P. Shea, president of the Interna-
tional Teamsters' union; Charles Dold,
president of the Shicago Federation of
Labor, and several other labor leaders,
held conference with Mayor Dunno
today. The labor officials We're asked
not to spread the strike, but to aid IN
putting down disorder. They replied
If
but that they might be powerless to
prevent it's spread. They also crit,
ccized the police department for alleged
aiding Of non-union men.
Mayor May Ask Troops.
Mayor Dunno reiterated his previ-
Gus statement, that if rioting contin,
be compelled to call in state troops.
He talked plainly of the possibilities
of the police being unable to preserve
peace in case anything approaching a
|! general strike occurred, accompanied,
as it probably would be, by renewal
of violence and rioting on a larger
scale than heretofore.
| The officials of the liverymen S union
| were also called into the mayors Of
fee and informed that any cabman who
refused to deliver passengers to the
stores under the union ban would be
| promptly deprived of the city license
| under which he operates.
School Strikers to Be Punished.
Strikes of school children who have
quit desks by hundreds in sym
pathy with the teamsters' strike,
are. to be dealt with sternly, ac-
cording to President Clayton Mark
Of the Chicago board of education. The
children's strikes have followed the
use of non-union teamsters by boycott
ted firms in the delivery Of coal at the
many cases the parents, rather than
the children, are responsible for the
strike.
Arrest and prosecution is threatened
by the board of education as punish
ment for parents who permit children
to 90 on strike in schools. Many in
spectors are to be placed at the dis
sorry education to report cases where
parents have violated the law.
More School Strikes.
The strike of school children assumed
larger proportions today when /, 500 pu'
pills Of the Graham school, Forty fifth
and Union streets, refused to enter the
building According to school officials
no "unfair' coal has been delivered at
clared that there was no apparent rea-
son for the strike.
Pupils of the Fallon public school
Forty-second and Wallace streets, went
on strike today when two loads OF Goa
from the Peabody Coal company were
delivered at the building. The pupili
stood at distance from the non-unior
teamsters and ieered at them. Several
policemen were sent to maintain order
Ill OF Hn Yalo o
after the packing house strike, when .
colored teacher was assigned there. Tit
Fallon school and the Graham school arr
in adjoining districts.
: Messenger Boys Parade.
More than one hundred messenge
boys employed by the Postal Telegraph
company paraded the streets today. Th'
, bow strikers occupied themselves chiefly
, in shouting at .non-union teamsters.
, The youngsters became so disorderly
, | that fifty Of them were summarily ar
rested by the police, and put in jail
The others with great CELEBRITY disap
peared.
, Negroes Beaten by Mob.
; George Tallman and Henry Coles
two cofored men attacked by mob o
strike sympathizers at Fourteenth ant
, State streets today, were rescued b.
,, the police. The negroes had been rec
! ognized as having driven teams 70
the Employers leaning company an
were severely beaten. The police use,
;. clubs vigorously in dispensing tn
! crowd.
Q slugged, but He Receivers.
t Patrick Mcmahon, president of tn
Terra Gotta, Sand and Brick Teamstera
union, has partially recovered from
blow on the head with black jack
supposedly administered by "sluggers'
!. hired by another faction OF the team
y sters. Mcmahon says he will continu
e Shea sir in tie present strike, as he ha
e been doing. Attic he was on the lool
5 5 out for personal attack, two assailant
n slugged him in his own doorway.
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