The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-18
PRACTICALLY ]! L,,, 4 AT AN END TeamSterS' Strike Nearly
 Over With. THE PROGRAM ARRANGED Gompers Active in His Ef-
 forts for Peace. Authorities Take Hold of Trouble Among Public School Pupils With Firm Hand-warrants for
 Parents.

Chicago. May 17.--It is highly prob
 able that the next twenty-four hours
 will see the end of the teamsters' strike
 in Chicago. Although none Of the labor leaders will so acknowledge It IS generally understood tonight that the program for calling off the strike mas
 already been arranged.
 Tomorrow morning at g O'CLOCK
 meeting will be held between the team sters' joint council and a committee
 representing the Team owners Asso- citation It will be made plain to the teamsters that the business interests of the team owners render 1t imperative that the boycotts be lifted. It Will then be agreed by the team owners and the teamsters joint council that the de- mand of the team owners to make de- liveries to boycotted houses with union drivers be submitted to arbitration. This arbitration is to concern only the Team Owners Association and the teamsters, the members of the Employ CTS Association being in no manner in- terested in 1t in an official sense. Pend ing the decision of this board of arbi- tration the strike is to be called OH and such members of the teamsters
 union as are able to obtain their old situations will return to work. This will end the strike entirely with | the exception of the strike against Montgomery, Ward and Company, and l as it is not expected aggressive meas ures will be adopted by either side the trouble in this direction will be allow ed to die out gradually.
 G0mpera' Efforts.
 President Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor was very active today in all efforts made | towards settling the strike. He con ferred with a members of the Team | Owners Association, held conferences with the teamsters and hal an extend- | cd talk with Mayor Dunne. He refus-
 ed to state the results of his days
 work, but expressed himself as being | confident that the strike would be ad- | justed within a short time. The man. ner of the settlement he declined to
 discuss. but said he was in favor of all
 most any plan that would bring about 1 an honorable adjustment
 Little if any opposition was made sto7 ] day by the strikers and their friends to l the making of deliveries by non-union | drivers. in fact the streets had almost assumed their normal condition and | there was little to indicate that a strike | of such large proportion was in pro- | gross.
 The authorities have taken hold of | the strike fever in the public schools
 with a firm hand and this afternoon.
 Judge Mack of the Juvenile Court sen | fenced one boy to be imprisoned at the W | of the house of correction, and two at | the parental school, while a fourth was | released on probation.
 Six warrants were sworn out today | for the parents of young strikers in
 the Harrison school district and they
 will be arraigned in court tomorrow | morning.
 GOmpers Central Figure. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, was the central figure in the teamsters strike situation today. His presence In Chicago was regarded as offering hope of peace but the cry of the strikers was still for arbitration, which the em- ployers had resolutely refused as to garment workers, in whose behalf the teamsters quit work six weeks ago. Mir Gompers met the labor leaders to-
 day in his rooms at the Briggs House. Just before going into this conference
 he said 'I am not in a position to
 say what will or will not be done.
 will say, however, that I have no in-
 tention of interfering. unless am com missioned by President Shea and his colleagues to do so"
 That President Gompers came to Chicago at the solicitation of both the business men and the teamsters' offi-
 cials to act In the capacity of peace maker was the statement of the na-
 
 My mission to Chicago" he said
 'is to try to be helpful in bringing about an adjustment of the strike. I came here at the solicitation of one Of
 the Chicago newspapers, which sent me through its Washington correspondent
 ten days ago a long telegram setting
 forth that the situation in Chicago was
 very keen. I was urged to come and
 use my influence to restore peace. The telegram stated that enjoyed the con-
 fidence of both sides, the employers as
 well as the unions. l placed the tele-
 gram in the hands of Mir. Shea and
 the result was that several telegrams
 passed back and forth between MT. Shea and myself, and so I came" MT. Gompers said the telegram referred to as coming from newspaper was signed John c. Eastman, of The Chica- go Journal.
 TWO negros trike breakers. Jesse Ballinger and James Jones, one of whom Is believed to have fired a shot
 that resulted in the death of an eight year old school boy, Enoch Carlson
 were arrested today. Both negroes desperately resisted the police. They are employees of the Peabody Coal Com pany which has been active with negro non- union men to deliver coal at the public schools and has been resisted by strikes of hundreds of pupils at the schools The shooting of Carlson fol- lowed the jeering of colored non-union men by a number of school boys who were playing in vacant lot.
 Until the ardor of the school chill dren has cooled no more deliveries of
 "non-union" coal will be made at the public buildings unless absolutely nee essarv This announcement is made bv oficials of the board of education who believe that "an ounce of preven-
 tion Is worth a pound of cure" The decision to stop the deliveries of coal hv non-union drivers was reached after the compulsory education department had nut down strikes at six schools and after disturbances has been caused at seven other schools,
 MT. Gompers had conference dur ing the morning with Mayor Dunne.
 ,.The mayor and I had a pleasant talk" Mir Gompers replied smilingly when asked what was done.
 were you asked to stop the spread of the strike?
 T do not do things he said T ad --I-~'