The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-12-05

LOSING OUT
Indianapolis is Doing Business
as Usual With Strike Break
ers Driving the
Wagons.

lUnlted Press Leased Wire Service |
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Dec 5.-With
the employers offering $12 to drivers
OF a single horse wagon and $14 for
a two horse wagon which is only 81
less per week than striking teamsters
demand; federal and local mediators
active; the outlook for an early re-
sumption of normal business condi-
tion was bright today. The Chamber
OF Commerce advertised extensively
over the United States Indianapolis
is doing business az usual With
several armed strike breakers to a
wagon, each man being paid more
than the union demands, in addition
to board and lodging, and with about
half the regular number of vehicles
in service, the union leaders an
nounced business could not be long
conducted on this basis.
Disorder was conspicuously alb
sent early today and all of
yesterday. Mayor Wallace reiter-
ated that the police had the sit
j
seven injured by bullets and more
than hundred heads cracked Strike
/ lsympathizers beat up dozen nom
union men. These casualties happen
ed in the first three days of the strike.
| The general strike asked by the
! teamsters was halted by peace plans
lof a citizens conciliation committee
and John B. Densmore, an agent Of
the federal department Of labor.
Densmore conferred with Governor
Ralston and Mayor Wallace and today
met with members of the Chamber OF
! Commerce. The question OF a gen
eral strike comes up again tonight
j before the Central Labor Union.
i In urging general strike, John F
McNamee, editor of the Locomotive
1 Firemen and Enginemen's magazine
4 pledged the support Of railway men
and said: "The horses Of many Of oul
team owners are better cared for thar
i the drivers.
Cal Wyatt. general organizer. pledg
ed the support Of the american Fed
{ GRAFTON Of Labor, and said: This
question is not one of the teamsters
alone, but Of organized labor. The
National Association OF Manufacturers
is behind your employers"
Several thousand men who are OF
strike in the building trades, have in
structed their delegates IN the Contra
Labor Union to vote for genera
strike Members of the Chamber o
Commerce, active in the teamsters
] trouble, said they did not believe I
: general walkout would be ordered.
$ Daniel Tobin and Thomas Hughes
respectively International presiden
! and secretary of the teamsters, arrlV
! ed here today to assist Thomas FaI
rell in directing the strike.
( Two Men Shot.
n INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Dec. 5.-Tw
j. Cincinnati strike breakers were sho
J. one possibly fatally, this morning i
g an attack by crowd of strikin
p teamsters and sympathizers on nor
l. union wagon.
g Following the throwing of rocks
e the three strike breakers on tn
wagon opened fire on the crowd an
the strikers returned the fire, HIT n
Bert Williams in the knee and ansl
i and Jacob Somenfeld in the neck. S
a far as known no one in the striker
:. crowd was hit. The third strik
Ii breaker whipped UP the hors rs an
3 drove away, followed by the mo-
. The police riot squad came up
.e automobiles and restored order. Tn
ID SC ene of the outbreak was Bolton an
West Washington streets, near III
White river
With many shots fired by bot
n. sides. the outbreak came at a tin
al when the employers and the city a
nj ministration believed the backbone