Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-14
BRLwLR aEIUsINe sELR LOsLs ICE
Firm Which Aids Men Finds Business Doors
Shut Against It.
GREAT NORTHERN STRIKE POSTPONED
Merchants Open Negotiations in Endsavor
to s!ttle Dispute.
DENVER RESTAURANTS CLOSED TIGHT
Walters, Butchers, Cooke and Bakers
start War which May Involve
All Trades I'm Colorado
Metropolis.


KANSAS CITY, May la-The 5000
employers OF labor in Kansas City have
banded together to night those labor unions
which use the boycott to gain their ends.
and have organized "The Employers as
ISOLATION"
The association today decided to refuse
70 deliver goods to places where nonunion
men or nonunion made goods are discrim-
mated against This action followed the
refusal OF a brewing company. employing
union men, to deliver beer to a hotel bar
until the union was recognized. A member
OF the association retalIated by refusing
to deliver ice to the saloons handling this
particular companys beer, with result
that the delivery of beer to the offending
hotel was Immediately resumed.
Several persistent boycotts have been
laid against restaurants and various
branches of trade in Kansas City within
the past year, because of the refusal of
the employers to recognize unions.
strive to stop waIkout.
ST. PAUL May 1s-Representative bust
ness men from Minneapolis and st. Paul
to the number Of nearly forty met today
the Great Northern trainmens grievance
committee. The meeting had been called
by ]. w. Cooper, president Of the st. Paul
jobbers committee, who stated that
strike would be destructive to northwest
ern business interests and that the busi-
ness men of the northwest were vitality
interested in bringing about an amicable
settlement of the differences between the
railroad men and employers.
Messrs. Garretson and Newman, repre-
senting the Brotherhood organizations, were
present and avowed themselves anxious to
avoid any action that would work hard
ship to any interest, while at the same time
determined TO protect the men they repre-
sented After q preliminary open meeting
the doors were closed and the matter was
further considered in executive session.
When the conference finally adjourned It
was announced that nothing definite had
been decided but the negotiations would be
continued tomorrow, and meanwhile no
strike would be declared.
Fiesss1rw tsseht Desermsned-
P1TTsBURG. May ts.--There is no
probability OF an early adjournment Of the
strike OF the brickmaxers and clay miners
From indications the fight will be long
one, as the Harbison- Walker Refractory
company is determined to ignore the union
The Harbison-Walker company intends to
try to run its plants with nonunion men,
$50 of whom were taken from New York to
Clearfield yesterday. They were met by
strikers who persuaded them not to 80 to
work.
Denver Restaurants Closed.
DENVER, May lS.-Two hundred cooks,
GOO walters, 500 butchers and 16o bakers
were called out on strike this morning by
the Pure Foods Council. Nearly all the
restaurants In the city are closed The
butchers walk out include those employed
at the Stock yards and many of the meat
markets. The union bakers were called
out from not only the houses deemed un-
fair, but also those against which labor has
no grievance
Tonight the retail clerks and international
stationary engineers will hold a meeting
to vote on the question of joining in the
strike It is feared that these movements
will inaugurate a general strike Of all the
union iaborers Of the city. The cause OF
the trouble is the refusal Of various
bakeries and grocers to make contracts
with the union.
Railroad EmpIoyes Quit.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, May l3-Four hundred
blacksmiths and their helpers employed In
the shops of the Chicago. Rock Island a
Pacific railroad, and the same number in
the shops OF the Chicago & Northwestern
railroad struck today after being refused
an advance in wages.
The strike OF cable splicers OF the tele-
phone companies. which has been In force
for several weeks. has spread TO the under
ground pullers. the latter having refused
today 10 continue at work.
strike at n Funeral.
TOLEDO. o.. May 1S.-During the funera
services over the remains Of Mrs. MARY
Kamm here the drivers OF hacks struck and
refused TO work because the hearse wal
being driven by an nonunion man. The Of
nciating undertakers filled the strikers
places just in time TO prevent a scene al
the casket was being taken to the hearse
NOnuniOn Trainmen ON Mobile Line
MOBILE, May ia local freight trair
left over the Mobile & Ohio this morn
ing manned by nonunion men, brought I,
Mobile to take the places Of the strikers
During the past two days forty nonunioI
men have been brought here and the ma
jorlty Of them have gone to work. TIT
railroad officials say they will have al
trains running as usual In a short time
No violence Of any kind has occurred a
Mobile and none has been reported toda!
from any where on the line.
switehmen Are EnJOined.
SPRINGFIELD. ILL.,. May lS-Mr. Leek o
the hrm Larsen q Leek, this afternoon Sc
cured from Judge Humphrey in the United
States circuit court. on behalf OF the Mobile
& Ohio railroad. an injunction restraining
+. b. Clark and 800 other striking switch
men yardmen and other employees OF IN
road from interfering with the operation
Of the road by stopping trains. pieketinl
yards or assembling In large numbers o.
interfering in any other manner.
TAKE lip the LABOR QUESTION