The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-06
SHERIFF PROTECTS DRIVERS.
800 DEPUTIES HAVE BEEN SWORN
IN AT CHICAGO.

Employers Blame Mayor Dunne-Say That
the Police Have Been 6hamefunY
Derelict IN Their Duty-NO Troops VIII
BE Called out for Two Days at Least.
CHICAGO. May undetermined efforts
TO break the tearnsters' strike will be made
by the employers tomorrow morning.
Armed deputy sherifs will ride on the
wagons beside the non-nion drivers ana
they have orders 10 shoot the first person
who attempts 10 interfere.
over three hundred white men arrived
in the city to-day from points IN the West,
according TO the employers, and they wiz
be placed on the wagons tomorrow Inc
employers say they will have LOO wagons
on the streets tomorrow, including those
belon Ring to the Employers Teaming
Company and the department stores and
wholesale grocery houses . 49,.
Gov. Deneen will not come TO the city
tomorrow. as was expected, and no call
for troops will be made for at least two
days, or until Sheriff Barrett has bad an
opportunity 10 demon stTate whether he can
preserve law and order.
The manner In which Sheriff Barrett
took hold Of the strike situation to-day
has pleased the employers. He ordered
his deputies to get on the wagons and pro-
teot the drivers. About thirty OF the newly
sworn in deputies refused 10 accept ser
vice and wero discharged. They were
union men who had ben sworn in without
the Sheriff knowing their identity.
About five hundred deputies have al
ready been sworn in and the number VIII
be increased tomorrow. They will be
used principally in guarding the depart
ment store wagons in the outlying sections
Of the city, whose deliveries having been
practically suspended since the beginning
Of the strike.
A further attack on the city administration
was made by the executive committee
Of the Employers Association in formal
statement issued tonight The state
ment declares that the police have been
shamefully derelict in their duty in sup
pressing violence and that Mayor Dunno
is responsible for that condition.
An employment bureau will be opened
by the employers tomorrow. Advertise
ments have been inserted in the news
papers calling for free American citizens
who are willing and competent TO drive a
wagon in this city
Applicants are assured Of permanent
POSITIONS II toIulNlNhb anu btNAlahNCC4
legal and physical protection in the per-
Torrance OF their duties.
No direct overtures for peace we're msde
to-day, although a committee from the
Chicago Team Owners Association is still
working to that end, This committee
held a conference with the strike leaders
to-day, but found them firm in the position
they have maintained from the start, that
all men must be reinstated in their former
places As the peace committee found
the strike leaders unbending on that quos-
ton no effort was made 10 see the en-
ployers as these are determined not TO
yield a single point.
A famine in grocery supplies is impend-
ing. owing to the teansters' strike among
the Wholesale grocery houses. Already the
prices Of many commodities have goneup be-
cause Of the scarcity. This is particularly no.
ticeable also in fresh fruits and vegetables.
Strawberries to-day are three cents quart
higher on account Of the strike Staple
goods are also reported short all over the
city.
Riotng continued In various parts Of the
city again to-day, especially in the down
town district Several people we're hurt
curing the day, including bystanders as
we'll as strikers and strike breakers. Nu-
merous arrests we're made by the police and
deputy sheriifs.