Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-12
NEW PHASE OF STRIKE
Turn in Status of Affairs at
Chicago Today.
WORKMEN ARElAID OFF
BY EMPLOYERS BECAUSE OF LACK
OF BUSINESS
Evidence of Renewed Aggressiveness
Negroes Attacked and injured.

The teamsters' strike in Chicago
entered upon the sixth week today
as an endurance contest The en-
ployers and the strikers both declare
the duration OF the controversy now
depends solely upon the steadfast-
ness OF the other side
a move which the strike leaders
are planning to make has relation to
the appeal for grand jury inves-i-
CATION OF the Employers leaning
Company. Attorney Seymour Sted-
man has conferred with President
Dold OF the Federation of Labor
and advised the opening of a per
sonal legal campaign against the
employers.
1t was said that Stcdman proposed
the prosecution of individual en-
ployerS Tor the violation of various
city ordinances.
CHICAGO. May 12.-Employers today
began the execution of new policy as
10 the teamsters' strike. men in various
manufacturing industries being laid off be-
cause of lack of business brought about
by the strike.
At the Employers Association office it
was said the number of men laid off
because OF dullness in trade and conse-
quent lack of demand for certain manu-
featured goods would run into the thou
sands and would continue unless normal
business conditions returned soon.
Hundreds of wagons were sent out today
by strike-bound houses. advertisements for
telmsters filled the newspapers and on
every side evidence of the aggressive
ness Of employers The department stores
particularly caused large advertisements to
appear simultaneously in the newspapers
announcing that men wanted to FILL
permanent positions as teamsters and
drivers.
Protection was promised to prospective
drivers. and the character of men the de-
ptrtment stores desire to recruit was ndi-
ctted by the fact that references are re-
quired from applicants. Most of the ad-
vertisements state that union or nom
union" men will be accepted.
Transfers Housed at KinsIey's.
kinsley's restaurant. famed as the scene
of banquet. where Presidents and royalty
have dired. has been turned into hotel
where non-union white and colored team
sters are housed and fed Furniture was
brought to the restaurant building today
from strike-hreakers' headquarters. for
merly in Custom House court, State street
and Lake street The furniture consists of
woven-wire cots The large dining room
has been turned into a mess room, and the
upper rooms, designed for occupation by
private dining parties. contain cots.
upon which the non-unonists sleep
Charles johnson. a colored man employed
by the standard OH Company, mis-
taken for strike breaker by a mob at
wentworth
and was so seriously injured that he may
die After being knocked down Johnson
was Kicked and one OF his eyes almost
gouged out.
y riot call brought a wagon load of po-
lice but before they arrived the crowd had
disappeared. johnson found lying I'M
conscious on the sidewalk and was hurried
% the Peoples Hospital
Negro Sent Home in Ambulance.
Walter st. Clair. colored employed by
Armour & Co. at the stockyards, was at
lacked by a crowd OF strike sympathizers
II 9th and Canal streets today.
St Clair was apparently suspected of be-
Ing strike-hreaker employed by the Pea
body Coal Company. He was beaten with
clubs. blackjacks and other weapons Two
deputy sherins rescued him and escorted
him to the stables of the Peabody com
pany. at 10Th and Canal streets. where his
wounds were dressed He was sent home
in ambulance.
\ total of 1900 wa CONS was scheduled tn
be moved today by nCn-union teamsters
under police protection This is the largest
number Of wagons moved since the team
sters strike began, The excess ever the
record O1 previous days being 80 wagons
To accomplish the task 200 policemen
were detailed to guard the wagons. and
were assisted by an almost equal number of
i"uuty sherffs
1t was stated authoritativey today that
early next week the Employers Association
would make up u blacklist" of all team
steers who have gone out on strike These
men. 400 in all. will be notified that they
--n come back to work any time during the
week. but that if they have not returned
by the end of next week they will never
be reinstated under any circumstances.
~s'>S' The Blacklist Program.
The blacklist program is said TO be more
complete aud definite than that which was
followed during the a. r. L. strike in 1894
ii stated by the Employers Associa-
s.on today that already 400 positions had
been filled, and that they rapidly fill
ing the others. 1t was asserted by the en-
p.oyers that only 10 colored men were now
holding positions for which they had been
imported
This was denied by the strikers who say
that LOO have been imported. The black
list program is said to provide for the
placing OF the colored men on the coal
wagons only, while all imported white la
Dor VIII be used on the general truck
wagons. The blacklist will not be sent
out by the association as such, but the no.
tihcauon of the employees of each firm will
be sent by the individual firm.
Spread of sympathetic strikes among pub
lie school children received a new impetus
today. Pupils of the Carter H. Harrison
school at I'D street and Wentworth ave-
nue.; went on strike when wagons of the
Peabody Coal Company arrived at the
building 10 deliver coal.
The Peabody Company is a member OF
tSG. aisafi
active in delivering coal with non-union
teamsters to firms antagonized by the
strikers. Police were still on guard TODAY
at the hendricks public school. where a
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