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Show THREAT OF STRIKERS TO CALL TUGMEN OUT; POLICE GIVE WARNING ... CHICAGO, . May 5. Bluntly warned by Sheriff Thomas E.. Barrett that, troops would be- asked for by him If police and deputy sheriffs together proved unable to control violence, strike sympathisers were less in evidence about the many .strike-bound . stores jLUd-jtAbles jo4aJ-tipct innovation innova-tion was made by "the police when Chief O Neil Issued a' general order to arrest all persons following police-guarded police-guarded wagons. . . . " ' Additions to the number of teamsters on strike will aggregate nearly 100 today. to-day. The new strikes are confined to Individual concerns, chiefly wholesale grocery houses. All the principal wholesale grocery firms In the city are now under the ban of the teamsters, and the diminishing stocks In the retail stores are further placed In Jeopardy. ' . The union leaders also threaten to tie up the river sen-ice by calling out the tugmen and thus add more difficulties to the transfer of goods from the grocery gro-cery warehouses. Union tugmen reported re-ported that several large Jconcerns were utilizing the river route to move merchandise. mer-chandise. . It is learned that President Samuel Gornpers of the American Federation of Labor has recommended to his executive execu-tive board that theyivote an assessment assess-ment for the striking teamsters in Chicago. AA ". , The teamsters' strike has attracted many labor leaders from all over the country, among whom Is P. II. McCarthy Mc-Carthy of San Francisco. John L. Len-i-on, treasurer of the American Federation Federa-tion of Labor, alto Is in Chicago. Many Hits Are Made. ; " Bricks and baseball bat were used with blood-telling effect today In Dearborn Dear-born street near Nineteenth when a score of negroes, all non-union men, preparing to take out wagons to transfer trans-fer goods for various establishments were attacked by a mob of strike sympathizers. sym-pathizers. . Several ' men were .hurt. Harry Jameson, a by-stander whose head was cut open with a baseball bat. will probably die. A squad of police, with swinging clubs, dispersed the rioters riot-ers after beating many men over the bead. Wagons Are Surrounded: In defiance to Chief O'Nell's order, Issued Is-sued today, that all persons found following fol-lowing wagons owned by the Employers' Employ-ers' Teaming company would be arrested, ar-rested, a large crowd surrounded a caravan car-avan of wagons that conveyed 100 negro ne-gro drivers and guards from lodging-houses lodging-houses In Custom House court to the Peabody Coal company's yards at Canal Ca-nal and West Twenty-sixth street. The fifty police, who served a an escort, were unable to literally follow the order or-der regarding arrests but did succeed in forcing the passage of the caravan. A number of bricks were thrown but did no severe Injury. |