Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-05-18
SHOWS SIGNS
OF SPREADING
Teamsters' Strike in Chicago Is
Likely to Involve Members
of Other Unions.
MANY CLASHES IN THE STREETS
"A Number of Collisions Between Nom
Union and Union Teamsters-
Labor Leaders Protest
to President Roose-
Welt.

Chicago May 1O.-The large de
rartment stores and the express com
panies Yesterday resumed business on
almost a normal basis. They sent
their wagons into the extreme parts of
the CITY, in some instances without
police protection and transacted their
business without trouble of serious
character. Sixteen hundred teams
were al work and the number will be
increased to-day. Notwithstanding
this apparent gain, however there are
strong indications that the strike will
spread within the next few days, not
only among the teamsters. but will in
golye other unions as well.
There We're numerous clashes in the
streets between non-union men and
the police and union teamsteTs who
attempted to block the passage of the
wagons of the Employers Teaming
Co. There were also a number of at
tacks made on non-union men by
wOrkmen in buildings, who pelted
them with all sorts of missiles from
safe distances
Chicago. May IA strongly word
ed protest against the sending of fed
eral troops to Chicago was submitted
TO President Roosevelt Wednesday.
The protest is signed by c. p. Shea,
president Of the International Broth
arhO0d of Teamsters; Charles DoId,
president of the Chicago Federation of
Labor, and by other labor leaders.
charging that the employers have re-
peat lly spurned the request of the la
nOr leaders for arbitration, the protest
declares that the employers openly
hoaSted that federal troops would back
up the employers side of the contro-
vcrsy.
peace" says the protest. rests not
upon he militia or the army, but upon
the patience and long suffering of the
toiliEe mass. Can a few soldiers scare
the men who make armies and who
compose the flower of American man
hood p" Declaring that the workers
will abide by the decision of an arbi-
ira or, even should that decision fail to
be al that might be hoped for, the ap-
peal tC the president closes with the
request that he consider all the facts
In the case before he permits any use
Of the federal power in complying with
a request for troops
Tie committee presenting the pro-
test was received by the president at
the auditorium annex. The members
Of the committee expressed them
selves as gratfied at their reception
by tho president. He told them that
no demand had been made upon him
for the use OF troops in Chicago and
thar he approved of Mayor Dunne's eff
iorts TO maintain law and order.
Of L.
yesterday.
Chicago, May 12.-The teamsters'
strike yesterday was quieter Driving
storms of wind and rain drove pickets
from their posts. There was little dis
turbance in the business quarter. On
the outskirts, however there were a
few attacks made on the drivers of de
livery wagons, but with the exception
Of one negro who was knocked sense
less by stone. nobody was injured.
The committee waited on the mayor
with request that an order permit
ting policemen to ride on the wagons
of the firms against which the team
Sters are on strike be countermanded.
on the ground that the police were be
ing used in manner to discriminate
against the strikers.
The mayor told the committee that
he had issued the order enabling the
police to ride on the wagons: that he
would be personally responsible for
the effect of that order, and said he did
not consider that the police were ex-
>ceeding their rights or powers at all.
Chicago, May 13.-The Employers
association yesterday operated 900
wagons and made deliveries in all
parts of the city, in spite of the team
sters' strike. Two non-union drivers
were assaulted and beaten. one of
them so severely that he may die Be
yond these cases there was no inter
ference with the wagons worth men
tiOning. 1t required, however, a force
of 1000 policemen and deputy sheriffs
to afford security for the wagons and
to guard freight houses and stores 1t
is announced by the Employers asso-
citation and the express companies that
in less than a week they expect to be
doing business as though there never
was strike.
CornePs Athletes Won Easily.
Philadelphia, May 13-The help Of
Taylor, the intercollegiate quarter
mile champion, who was barred by the
University of Pennsylvania faculty for
falling behind in his studies, could not
have turned defeat into victory in Fri
days Pennsylvania Cornell dual meet
at Franklin Field, as the Cornell team
won easily tho final cpcra baiDp GE m