Omaha daily bee., 1919-06-17
FIVE STRIKERS
ARRESTED;0THER
WARRANTS OUT
Two Men Charged With Inter-
fering With Truck Driver;
Three Face Charges
of Assault.

CONTINUED From Pare One1
station together in a storm of in
vectives.
Murray. Caller, and Herman wer,
released on $500 bonds.
The eight warrants sworn out BY
the strikers. demand the arrest O.
John Doe, Nos. l, 2, 3, 4, S, and 6
strike-breakers and of ouie John.
son and Art Johnson oi the c. G
Johnson company.
| Mayor Makes Statement.
Following a conference with a
committee of the striking teamsters
Mayor Smith issued the following
statement late yesterday afternoon
II think the strike situation is
getting better. There may have
been some unreasonable demands
made on both sides. think these
demands are being waived. The de-
mand of the men, if it ever was
made, for a closed shop is wholly
wrong and should be abandoned.
Il understand the men do not now
insist upon closed shop
The demand of the employer
that the employe should throw away
his union button or conceal it while
at work is equally arbitrary and if
the employers have made that de-
mand, they should recede from that
demand. The employee has as much
right to wear a union button as he
has to wear Masonic pin, or a K.
of C. or political emblem.
"If both sides will waive these ar
bitrary demands, | believe this mat
ter can be better adjusted"
Two Injured in Clash.
r. c. Kelley, 1921 Leavenworth
street, one of the pickets, was fneI
$25 and costs by Acting Police
Judge Holmes in police court yes
terday following his arrest by
Officer Halteiman on a charge o.
disturbing the peace. Both Arthur
and Louis Johnson testified against
Kelley in police court.
Louis Johnson was booked at the
police court, but was later released.
Painters Walk Out.
More than II painters struck yes
terday when they were refused
an increase of from So to 81 day.
But few firms were affected by the
action of the painters. 1t is thought
probable that quick settlement will
be made as the firms, employing
more than $50 painters, have grant
ed the mems demands.
Striking teamsters claimed gains
yesterday. But two or three firms
are holding out now, it was stated
at the union headquarters.
Nearly every man who is yet on
strike was engaged in picket duty
yesterday. More than 100 strikers
are reported to have assembled at
Twenty-fifth and Cunning streets.
near the c. w. Hull yards, in an
ticipation of trouble. According to
union officials several pickets have
been badly beaten near the Hull
yards by nonunion drivers.
Employers of transfers and truck
drivers stated their men are return
ng to work daily. The strike IS al
ready failure, they say.
More than $500 was raised by the
striking Transfers at their hall Sun.
day. This will be donated to the
feminine multiplex operators who
walked out with the telegraphers.
The striking telegraphers held
picnic at Riverview park Sunday af
ternoon.
Negro Leader Protests.
In speaking of the rumor that
negroes are to be brought to Omaha
as stripe-breakers, Rev. John Albert
Williams, president of the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People, said:
Speaking for the Omaha branch
of the National association for the
advancement of colored people,
which has a membership of 800, l
desire to say with reference to the
local strike situation, into the merits
of which we do not now enter, but
in which it appears that there is the
usual disposition to make the negro
the goat, that if there be any move
ment to import members of Our race
here as strike-breakers, we are abb
solutely opposed to it, believing that
this is a local situation which can
be and should be settled amicably
here without the importation of
strangers.
1--WE are unalterably opposed
equally to the outrageous propa-
ganda designed to foment prejudice
against the colored race contained
in the circular alleged to be issued
by Transfers local No. I'll, calling
upon citizens to protect their wives
and daughters from the horrors of
East St. Louis and stating that ne
groes are to be imported therefrom
as strike breakers.
IF organized labor expects to
gain anything from such despicable
tactics it is very much mistaken.
Federal I1,dqes Here to