The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-05-09
Both Sides Claim to Have Made
Gains, Along With IND r.
takers
EMPLOYERS SENT OUT
MANY MORE WAGONS
WHILE RANKS OF STRIKERS
WILL BE INCREASED BY 400
TODAY--MAYoR'S fNvES-
TIGATloN coMMIs-
SION.

tnlcaFp, May S.-BOth employers
and str.i ers claim gains today in the
teamsters strike. Employers declare
they have gained decided advantage
in the number of wagons sent out and
the amount of business transacted
The strikers claim is based on the
fact that 250 drivers for the various
furniture dealers will strike tomor,
row and also $50 pa nt workers, EN-.
ployed by the Heath and MilIigan com
pany. The strike OF the furniture
dealers drivers is the result of an or
der to make deliveries irrespective of
strike conditions. The p1int workers
walked out because of the delivery
of goods by non-union ;eamsters.
State street department stores and
large dry goods houses sent out near
ly Their complement Of delivery wa
gons thi< morning and throughout the
day transac ed lGsiness on almost a
normal basis
Don't Want Ncgoes.
Eff cen hundred wagons manned by
non-un'on men were operated from
State street and the number will be-
materially iucrearod tomorrow No
more colored men are being hired
either by State street stores or by the
Employers Teaming company and as
rapidly as possible those now at work
are being supplanted by white men.
Az the office of the Employers Team
ing company tonight, II WAS an
nonnced that t25 white MEN had been
iinnai,fad sisis,is.-- y. i.--s -
4 nnati aud Kansas City and seventy
Eve mp-e had been secured In Chi'
cago.
individual CONTRACTS were maze
with all OF these men and they VIII
be given permanent employment.
sharp Riotine Yesterday
Riotinx today was Of a sharper char
acter than that Of Sa urday. Three
men we're fatally injured and mum
her of Others badly hurt. although the
number Of wounded 3 no. as whoie
nearly 80 large as on some OF the
days last week.
The fatally hurt:
John Fruen, stabbed by coloret
man who resented the epithet o
strike breaker.
Richard Fruen, brother of John
stabbed by the same colored man.
Albert Enbers, shot in, the abdomen
and left hip by william 0Day, col
ored teamster whom he had attacked
investigating the strike.
Civic commission appointed by MaS
or punne to investigate the strik
commenced operation today IT q
little but organize for future worl
however, and the promise tor su'
cessful performance oil its m $50
does not seem bright. 1t has no poWe
to summon witnesses and must ther
fore rely upon volunteered tes'imon
Tonight members of the Employer
Association declared that they mad r
ceiyed no official notice of the Gre
tion of the commission and won
have no dealings with 1t until tht
had been properly notified OF US
istence President Dold, Of the "
cago Fedora ion of Labor. declare
for the labor men that none OF the
would appear before the commissl'
and give any evidence whatever Y
Lose II { sc. sions we're open to the pu
lie and II investigated not only :
causes of the present teamsters stri
but those leading up 10 the strike
the garment workers Of Ward y 20
pany last January. 1t was IN suppo
OF this strike four months after
inception that the teamstcrs went 9
In sympathy.
viii Hold Private Sessions
The MAYORS commission issued
statement this afternoon declari
they would hold private sessions ga
in the city hall 1t was annouhc
moreover that no announcement
the proceedings would be made un
the bearing was entirely comple'
and a decision reached The action
labor mon In declaring against
secret feature Of the hearing pra'
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