The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-15
BANDS OF HIRED
THUGS IN STRIKE Tx
Scores Of Letters to Employers
Managers Threaten Murder
and Violence. ~.
END OF THE STRIKE
IN SIGHT, rs THE BELIEF
Move Is Made to Call Meeting OF
National Labor Federation
Executives.

Chicago, May 15.-Armed with an
entering wedge of confession that reg
ularly organized evidence commit.
tees ARE operating against non-union-
lists in the teamsters strike, Chicago
employers and officers of the law have
begun an effort to break up this cruel
system and bring the conspirators to
justice.
Linked with information that muir
der has been done by these "violence
committees Of armed thugs is further
indication of plotted VIC ence, in the
form of letters threatening death to
the leaders on the employers side of
the teamster's strike.
''slugging'' Before Court.
Before Master in Chancery Sherman
hearing Of the in functional cases con-
tinued today, attorneys for the en-
ployers working hard to obtain light on
the alleged "slugging'. feature of the
strike to show that violence commit
of strikes and that men are trained for
"slugging' work and employed ex-
clusively for that purpose.
1t was declared today that if the
union men called as witnesses continued
in refusal to answer questions, orders
citing for contempt would surely fol-
low.
Threatened with Death.
Fully one hundred letters threatening
death have been received by. the half
dozen men who have been given wide
publicity as managers of the employers
end of the teamsters' strike. Serious
consideration is being given the letters,
since exposures made by confession OF
hired thug that he and others made a
business of smuggling here at the rate or
$15 per person slugged. ;,
"a, .,.Ic OF
principals on the employers side OF the
teamsters' strike, and all are, accom-
panied day and night by guards. Sec
retary F. w. Job Of the Employers, as
ISOLATION and Robert J. Thorne of Mont
gornerv Ward & Co., admitted today
Having received many threats.
Murder. Case, from Strike.
Charles Casey, business agent of the
Carriage and Wagonmakers union, no.
4. accused Of being accessory to the
murder of. Charles J. Carlstrom, who,
it is alleged, was brutaliy beaten 20
death by. alleged hired thugs, Walv e,
criminal court without bail. The ex
animation Of Casey's four companions
in the alleged plots was continued TIL
Nav Is. With one exception the bonds
of these men were fixed at $1,000. The
bonds Of Henry J. Neumann, finanela
makers union, No. 4, who was arrested
at the same time as Casey, was hxec
AT $4,000. Unable to furnish the nee
essary bonds, the men were returned
The police are concentrating their eff
forts today towards the capture O.
George Muller, ex-president of tn
union, who, according to, the police
took an active part in the plans TO
what is declared to have been syste
matte "slugging crusade agalns
non-union men.
No Note Of Surrender.
International President Shea's ut
terances today contained no note indi
eating a purpose to surrender.
"The papers say we are weakening,
he said, Ebut I want to say that i
any teamster comes into the meeting
tonight and advocates surrender, I viii
not answer for him.
Are you going. to take any furthe
legal proceedings in the prosecution o
The strike7' he was asked.
in appssrenE Sisgusfs We vii s'1 ieav
that to the employers. They have a
Injunction, but inlunctions do not driv
proceedings. The strike will be wo
by the strength of the teamsters' Of
ganization.'
See End of Strike Near.
News that the teamsters' executiv
board would meet, and action of ict
wagon drivers in accepting the wag
schedule of last year, coupled with n
ports that dozens of strikers have al
plied for their old positions at the d.
partment stores, sustains belief anon
the employers that the end of the strlk
is not far distant.
A meeting of the joint iverymen
association is called to consider actio
in relation to threatened strike
1000 cab drivers, who refuse to tai
their passengers to stores under tt
union BAN The result depends upon tt
determination Of the tea>msters' joil
council tonight.
Accident Unheeded by Mob.
Responding to riot call from P
Hcemen who were unable to cope Wi
mob of strike sympathizers last nigh
patrol wagon hurrying to the scel
collided with a crowded streetcar,
riously injuring nine persons and bru1
ing a dozen others. :.
Regardless of the victims of t
wreck, the assailants of a detecti
and non-union workman, whose actlo
had caused the appeal for police pr
lection, continued their attack I'M
calls brought score Of policemen, W
were compelled to fight their way tn
the mob. The policemen used the
clubs vigorously and arrested fife
men who were seen throwing stones
! threatening the non-uniOn men,.