The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-05-06
#LASHEN TERRIBLY
BEATEN AND MAY DIE
President Of Teaming Company
Knocked Down and Kicked.
Situation Will Reach Crisis
To-day, When the Retail
Merchants Will Send
Out 400 Wagons.
3fBy Associated Press.

CHICAGO. @1LL., May 5.-A crisis In the
4 teamsters' strike Is expected to come to-
morrow. State Street retail merchants
have decided to send out l.lco wagons 10
make deliveries in all parts OF the city.
AS far ns possible these wagons Will be
guarded by DEPUTY sherffs and IN some
cases BY policemen. 1t will be Impossible
for ali OF the wagons to be guarded by
deputy sheriffs, but It Is the intention
to pla1e two officers on each wagon as
far as tho number OF deputies already
sworn in will permit.
81. Sheriff Barrett has 200 deputies in SER
vice tonight, and said that he thought
this number would be ample for the Work x
outlined for tomorrow. II It Is not, II is
said ne will conclude that the she'iffs
!, force and the police are not able y Q con-
troll the situation, and request will be
made for the State militia. Governor
I Deneen has said that he Will order out
;$the troops ~ N request is made by Sher-,
ssitfa Barrett, and on the failure or success
81 tho attempt at retail deliveries do
pends the coming OF the troops
Fifteen wagons were sent out -day ny
! stores and all Of them made deliveries
with little Interruption. On each OF the
wagons rode two deputy sheriffs. IT was
4 the success OF this attempt OF delivering
goods that prompted the stores TO decide
to send out tomorrow nearly tfeir full.
4 force OF wagons. 4
Is Women in Mob.
Either because OF the threatened ap-
pearance of the troops or because OF the
addition to the police force in the shape
OF deputy sherlffs, there was much less
rioting and fighting in the downtown
& streets than on any day this we eek.3 p *
Il press wagons each one Of which carried
i q guard armed VII til NJ n fle or n double:
= barreled shotgun, went to and. fro between
depots and express offices wi hont inter-
55ruption other than that % fEnn occasional
Z stone thrown from the sidewalk or OF
{ some missile hurled from d window.
There was little OF this. however. and
the wagons were almost unmolested. IN
order issued early in the day by Chief
OF Police ONcl. directing that all per-
sons should be prevented from following
wagons as they went through the streets,
had much to do with The absence OF riot
ing.
While there was less rioting in the
downtown streets there We're numerous
assaults committed in all parts OF the city
remote from the principal business center.
In several cases the drivers were beaten
and their wagons overturned and the
goods stolen. In other instances the
drivers escaped injuries only by the fleet
ness Of thler horses. Three coal wagons,
after making delivery at the factory
of Eelz Schwab and Company. at Ohio
and Kingsbury Streets. late III his after
noon. were attacked by n crowd that pur.
sued them for more than half a mile,
raining stones. bricks and bottles on the
police officers and drivers. One woman
was seensto throw several bricks and a
glnss tumbler from q window OF fac
tory. AS the wagons con tinued down
Ohio Street they were targets for per-
sons In the windows OF all the buildings
and for the crowd, which continued to
follow them, The mob was composed nl-
most entirely of young men and women,
the latter taking an active part In the
aIiotinG and urging the men to further
violence. ii
President of Company Assaulted.
Edward Lsshem, president OF the La
Fhem Tcaming Company. was terribly
beaten By Union teamsers this afternoon
at West Madison Street5nnd Union Street.
Lashem was driving one of his own wag.
pns. ana was asked TO show a union
button. Before he was given n chance
to explain that hc was a team owner
and therefore Ineligible as member
OF the Teamstcrs' Union, he was pulled
from his wagon, knocked down and
kicked. Police Lieutenant O'Connor went
To- Lashem's assistance in time to capture
SeNcll VI H1S uSSdluHto' d
t!on is serious 4a5,
Edward Johnson colored porter, in
no way connected with the strike was
attacked at West Van Buren and Hal
y sted Streets tonight and beaten in the
face with brass knuckles
Sheriff Barrett tonight expressed the
belief that the crisis Of the strike was
over and It's backbone WAS broken, The
Hide and Leather Association, a mem
oer of the Team Owners Association, to-
lay decided to make deliveries 10 all
{ firms. regardless Of whether they were
involved In the strike or not. This firm
handles all the merchandise of the great.
era part OF the drug stores and boot and
shoe manufacturers throughout Chicago.
and should the tcamsters cecide to call
out the union drivers employed by the
.lrm Il would affect 6,5oo men, Furni-
ture manufacturers to-day resolved that
all teamsters employed by them would
make deliveries or be discharged, The
Hastings Express Company employing
fifty drivers, to-day ordered It's men to
deliver goods wherever they were a.
rected and on their refusal discharged
them all.
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