Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1903-05-11
MEN COME TO WORK
Ninety-FOur Strike Breakers Arrive in
Omaha for Transfer Companies
ST. LOUIS LABOR AGENCY SENDS THIN
Two-Thirds of the Party Join Strikers UpOn
Arrival Here
LAUNDRY WORKERS DECIDE TO GO OUT
Refuse to Handle Work for NOuuniOn Pa
irons Of Laundries
7, LOUIS LABOR AGENCY SENDS THIN
AUNORY WORKERS DECIDE TO GO OUT
CONFERENCE COMMITTEES MEET TONIGHT
Question of Submitting Differences to
Hoard of Arbitration win ne
Principal Business Considered
at TOnisht,s Session.

Principal Business Considered
at TOnisht,s Session.
over 200 laundry workers locked out
because they refuse TO handle una york
OF untair restaurants and hotels
Every steam laundry IN Omaha will
Il Close uoWn this morning.
Nlhety-Iour men arrive from ST. Louis
10 TAKE places OF striking tedmsters,
! but lwo-tnirds of them refuse 10 20 10
work when informed that sIrke is on.
! transfer companies will put moro
| lhe imported drivers who stick 10 them
| Al uhIalt restaurants, excepting one
Minute and Calumet are announced to
resume business this morning
governor Mickey is to confer with
committees OF unions ana BUSINESS
Men S association tonight with "A view to
arranging basis for arbitration
The importation of ninety four men from
St Louis to take striking teamsters places,
! the disagreement of laundry workers and
their employers which brings out 225 laun-
dry employees, and the decision of the Hotel
and Restaurant Keepers association to
nave all the so-called unfair" restaurants
except the One Minute and Calumet opened
! TINS morning, were the principal events In
the progress of the strike yesterday.
| Inc central feature today, and by all
odds the most important feature Of the
strike since its inception is the meeting
| OF the Joint conference committee from the
Business Mems association and the unions
"'th Governor Mickey. The governor
comes on this special mission from Lincoln
| this morning
| Conhicting statements are made reSard
! ing the importations of nonunion men, Al
! the teamsters headquarters It is said that
the Burlington brought into the citv thirty
eight men Sunday out of eighty-two who
started mat the Wabash brought thirty
ana the Missouri Pacific twenty-six; that
OF the Burlington and Wabash lots which
came In the forenoon, sixty-three toirad
the strikers upon arrival two ware ar
rested and two went to w Jardtnn ~
the omaha Merchants Express Transfer
company
Transfer Men Open Hotel
Mr.. Jardine claims that Of the Ar, -
shipments he'netted twenty-eight ana ~ays
them dinner at the hotel the transfer man
J nave nave improvised In the old Ainscow build.
| ing at Fourteenth and Leayenyokgh ars Z
tnat he managed 20 capture nineteen o,,t ~
the twenty-siX who came over the MlssonrI
Pacnc In the evening
oon pretend to say how long the
en .n. WIN stay with u.s." said Mr.. Jardine:
| out we fed that many, know that Tsr
can get 20 per cent OF the number hrIr-
INTO the city / will think It a rood ne
gam We are prepared to feed ana ho,-.
liie men comfortably and will put then, 10
WORK as fast as they get here rbov -,
De divided among the various transfar 80
panies' expect TO have In three nv 80
carloads more today" -0'
tue ne" men were shipped from St
according to Carl j. Kinder. one
,, oaiie on the Burlington train, many
stations along the road Kindar Ma '
eral cards Of the National Labor ooronaa',
! llS-llo North Sixth street. 81 I.oul.
quoted by Gleanson g. Stodderd no -,
! nrm he said the men are beinS a,,,nio,,.s
On the card is the advertisement thot -
| oorers and teamsters are wanted for rau
| road work ' 'aii-
Not Told About Strike.
we were not told anything about
strlke being on" said Kinder, mart a,
'ne men came on passes and part on reg
ular employment agency tickets"
secretary Wilcox OF the Team pr,vsrs,
union says that ten Of the first slxty-e,1ht
VINO arrived are regular teamsters. Cor
siderable interest was manifested over the
arrival of the men. Business Asant Co..
ana other strike leaders were AZ tha
trains as they came in and immed,a,aI,,
approached the pilgrims with the nronosi
uon TO follow them instead OF the tsanstan
company men. The sight of tha Iar..
army OF newcomers tagging down the
tenth street Yiaduct from the Union sta
ton and Burlington depot tAhind tha
strike leaders, deserting the men for uho,,
they had come to work had the eject for
the time being Of dispelling the seriousn4ss
OF the AFFAIR with the spirit OF levity. The
men marched to the teamsters heAdquar.
ters at ia North Fifteenth street ana we+s
enrolled, given assura noes Of sheltAr ana
food-later they were given food ana sbeI-
ter without the assurances.
Chief DOnahue's UItin,atuu
Chief Donahue last night said he desired
10 make this statement regarding the i'm
portation of men to MI strikers pIaoas.
Every man who is shipped in here and
does not go 70 work will be arrested at
once as vagrant and confined in the CITY
Jail. | do not propose to have the com
munity sufer the hardship OF having a Iot
or such characters floating around Tha
newcomers must understand that thev have
come here to work and unless thew 20 10
work shall take a hand In AFFAIRS without
delay. We cannot afford to have the citv
! oVerrun with idle strangers OF this TYNE
They are no help to any city So Ione as
| the men fulfill their contracts 10 do the
work they employed for no oompIaint
will be offered"
VIII Meet Every Train.
The strikers have their plans set for
meeting every train that brings In imported
men and exerting their efforts 10 get them
away from the employers who bring them
/ here. This is always one OF the IN
pleasant features OF strikes and promises
to form prominent part Of the struggle
for a time at least II the number which
Mr.. Jardine says stuck are still of IN.
same spirit this morning they will be pit
to work and this Will insure the startinu
up Of number OF idle transfer wagons
Thomas A. Coleman, FIRST vice presldent
OF the international teamsters body, from
St Louis, says the central organization
represents "A membership Of 1900 distrib-
uted among SO locals and has avaIlabIa
for strike benefits 3l2}00 The rker,
here are now drawing S a week benefits
and after the fourth week. n the strike
lasts that long, will draw $50 a week
Monthly leVles are made on aaoh n,as,k.-