Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1905 — CHICAGO STRIKE SPREADS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CHICAGO STRIKE SPREADS.

Labor Leader* threaten to.- Paralyse AU of tbe City’* Industrie*. Over two thousand drivers joined th* ranks of the striking Chicago teamsters Thursday, and the leaders threaten a general strike which shall place an embargo on -Chicago’s commercial activity unless> employers surrender to the union. State street was swept by the strike wave, apd all but-two of the big department stores on that thoroughfare were drawn into the struggle. All tlie railway express companies met defiance of"

orders with prompt discharge, nnd were answered by a walkout of their drivers. President Charles Dold of the Federation of Labor has declared that Chicago’s industry sha,il be paralyzed before the unions will yield. “With deliberation we have planned for. a strike that may, in the end, include 250,000 persons,” said President Dold. “The employers want a fight to a finjsh aud we: are ready to give it to them. Tlie Chicago Employers’ Association has forced a conflict between capital- and labor .that has been impending

for years. There will he a general tie-up of all of Chicago’s industries, but with eventual victory for the labor organizations.” With this rapidly increasing army of idle: men, many of them made desperate by permanent loss of work, it is expected the police department will be put to a test; Chief O'Neill personally has taken charge of the situation, and his righthand man will be Assistant Chief Schuettler, who has had valuable experience in similar emergencies.

CHIEF OF POLICE O’NEILL.