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Show Negro Strike-Breakers Bru-. Bru-. tally Beaten by Mob of Sym- - oatliizers; Big ; Consignments Consign-ments of Non-Union Wen. V ' .. .. -: hjtj.t.ttth ;. - ' CHICAGO, Hay 16.' Hayor Dunne had a talk with" the leaders of the teamiters, and told.them If the strike spread he would order out the mxa-tia, mxa-tia, o the police could not preserve order. Th'e liTcrymen and cab companies com-panies also had a conference with the Mayor, the ttrike leaders havin? re-fused re-fused to order cab drivers to deliver their "f ares" at the boycotted stores. Ihe Itayor said he would revoke the license of any. cab drivtr wha dil- ', cteyedthe city ordinance, which ;reiuires the. taking- of .pstsengers to - .their destination.. ' ' ' " ; CHICAGO, May 11-Strlkes of school children who have quit desks by nun-dreds nun-dreds In sympathy with the teamsters , strike are to be dealt with sternly, according ac-cording to President Clayton Mark of the Chicago Board of Education. The children's strikes have followed the use of non-union teamsters by boycotted . firms In delivering of coal at the public schools.. , 1 . ' It Is alleged that In many cases the parents rather than the children are responsible re-sponsible for the strike. Arrest and prosecution is threatened by the Board of Education as punishment for parents who permit children to go on strike in schools. Many inspectors are-' to be JlESd'at the disposal of Superintendent Superintend-ent of Compulsory Education Bodlne to report cases where parents have vlo- . TtKon; president of the Terra Cotta Sand and Brick leamstere union. - has partially recovered-from a blow on the head with a "black Jack." supposedly supposed-ly administered by -sluggers." hired by another faction or the teamsters. Mc- Mahon ssys he will . against the policy of J1" J the present strike, as be had been doing. Negroes Are Attacked. ' George Tallman and Henry Coles, colored col-ored men. attacked by a mob of strike sympathizers at - Fourteenth -and State streets today, were rescnM by the po- - lice. The negroes had driven teams for toe r-tiployers' Teaming company and "were yeverely beaten., - ' "BlgT- consignments of new strtKe-i strtKe-i breakers arrived in Chicago today, re-'cruited re-'cruited in Louisville. Evansvllle and other river towns. Nearly a score of whites deserted after tbey reached the ' city, declaring they were not told that ! there waa a strike on here. T. C. Bank-i Bank-i err one of the deserters, compalned that ) the two passenger cars in which they ' j were brought to Chicago were locked i .during the entire trip. . .. ; Messengers' Parade Streets. ; ' More tharf ope hundred messenger ; boys employed by the Postal Telegraph company paraded the streets today. The . boy strikers occupied themselves chieily In shouting at non-union teamsters. The strike of school children assumed larger proportions today when 600 p- plls of the Graham school. Forty-nrtn and .Union streets, refused to enter the building. .According, to school officials n6 "unfair" coal has been delivered at the Graham -school- The authorities declared that there was no apparent reason for the strike. - Pupils of the Fallon public school. Forty-second and Wallace streets, went on, strike today, .when two loads of coal ' from the - Peabody Coal company com-pany were delivered at the building. ,The pupils stood at a distance from the non-union- teamsters and Jeered at them. Several policemen were sent to the. school . to maintain order. . A "strike" occurred at the same place after af-ter the packing-bouse strike, when a colored teacher, was assigned there. The Fallon ' school and the Graham school are In adjoining' districts. Youngsters. Are Arrested." . " The youngsters became so disorderly that fifty of them were summarily arrested arrest-ed by the police. All the boys arrested were promptly put in Jail. -The others disappeared from- the streets with great celerity. . . .,.;'.... , . STRIKERS MAT TIE UP ; ; - ALL FUNERALS ; COJTFER ' - ; WITH THE LIVERY MEM. .'. 1 j CHICAGO, May 16. Possibility of a tie- j up of all .livery business In Chicago, Including In-cluding funerals, grew more definite at a meeting today of President 8hea. of the eTamsters' union, W. J. Gibbon, business busi-ness agent of the Cab and Livery Drivers union, and representatives of the Liverymen's Livery-men's and Undertakers' association. Frank Amberg, a prominent livery owner, left before the other members, declaring that he for one was not going to allow distation as to whhere his drivers should carry passengers, and that he would disregard dis-regard the rule of the unions that no carriages car-riages should be allowed to unload passengers pas-sengers at boycotted stores. Other members mem-bers of the Liverymen's commitee remained re-mained In conference with Shea end Gibbons Gib-bons for some time, in the hope of avoiding avoid-ing a lockout or spread of the drivers' strike. . .. .. The employing liverymen vainly endeavored en-deavored to Induce President Shea and his fellow-unionist to permit the delivery deliv-ery of passengers at the boycotted stores. The labor leaders flatly refused to deviate de-viate from the stand taken against such delivery. Committeeman Amberg of the employers declared after leaving the-meeting the-meeting that he would call a session of the Employers' association and insist on its members doing business with the boy-mot boy-mot ted houses, even if it was necessary to lock out all employees to do so. C. P. Shea, president of the International Internation-al Teamsters' union; Charles Dold, president presi-dent of the Chicago Federation of labor, and a lumber of other labor leaders, held a conference with Maor Dunne today. Mayor Dunne served notice on the strike leaders that a spread of the strike would would probably mean the calling out of the militia. Mayor Dunne talked plainly of the possibilities of the police being unable un-able to preserve pesce In case anything approaching a general ' strike occurred, accompanied, as it probably would be, by a renewal of violence and rioting' on a larirer scale than heretofore. The officials of the liverymen's union were also called into the Mayor's office and Informed that any cabman who refused re-fused to deliver passengers to the stores under the union ban' would be promptly deprived of the city license under which ho operates. - , |