Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-07-30
ARREST OF TRANSFERS PREsl.
DENT IN CHICAGO ADDS
FUEL TO FLAMES.
STRIKERS ARE DEFIANT
Former Law Abiding Attitude Of the
Leaders Changes to One Of suIIen
Hostility Inspector Hunt Makes
Strict Rules-Antl.Boycott Assocla-
ZION Busy.

ZION Busy.
Chicago, July 2e.-lt Is authora-
lively announced that a confer
enee has been arranged between
the strike leaders and representa-
tIves of swartzehiId & suzberger.
Chicago, July 29.-Peace prospects
at the stock yards received a black
eye today in the arrest of President
George Golden, of the Teamsters'
union, who was taken from his office
and locked in cell, for issuing In
structions from his office window to
a union driver Not until nearly all
the labor leaders directing the strike
had surrounded the police station de.
manding Golden's release on bail and
threatening habeas corpus proceed.
ings was Golden released even on
bonds.
Fight to the Finish.
The hitherto pacific attitude Of the
strike leaders was suddenly changed
into a sullen and bitter defiance and
it was openly limited that the strike
will now be spread as far as possible.
Hunt Antagonizes Strikers.
After Golden's release Inspector
Hunt took occasion to issue verbal
manifesto that the police will no long
er permit strike leaders to issue or
disseminate orders to members of
their unions save in private.
Martial Law, Strikers Claim.
This utterance, made In open air In.
the presence of scores, was seized up.
on by the labor leaders as an instance
OF usurpation OF power which they
contended is possessed only by the
courts and in fact, Is equivalent to
declaration of martial law. On all
sides it is conceded that the incident
will have decided influence upon the
future conduct of the strike.
Golden Refused Bail.
Golden's arrest, which he declared
was an outrage, caused intense excite
ment. Several thousand men gather
ed in the vicinity. At the station
Golden had two bondsmen but the in
spector refused to liberate him.
Is Finally Liberated.
Golden, after a stormy talk with
Hunt, in which International President
Shea of the teamsters' organization
took part, was liberated on bail.
Talk Of Colorado Methods"
The action of the police regarding
Golden has greatly incensed the strike
leaders, who were outspoken in the
denunciation of what they termed the
Colorado methods"
Freight Handlers Aid Strikers.
An order prohibiting all union
freight handlers In Chicago from re.
ceiving or delivering any freight for
the packers, willingness by President
Donnelly to extend the time limit for
the reinstatement of the strikers and
an appeal from western stock inter.
ests for speedy settlement were the
chief developments last evening in
the packing-house controversy. The
board of business agents of the
Freight Handlers Council and Law.
renee j .Curran, president of the In
ternational Union Of Freight Hand.
lers, held conference and after re.
viewing the strike situation decided
that the members of the union should
not be allowed to handle any freight
consigned to or sent by the packing.
houses against which strikes are in
progress.
Orders Posted at Once.
Orders were prepared and posted at
once in the freighthouses of twenty.
six railroads in the city as follows:
Chicago, July 2S.-At a joint con.
ference of the board of business
agents and the International presi-
dent. held on the above date, it was
decided that all our members under
the Jurisdiction of our organization in
the various railroads in Chicago be
ordered not to receive or deliver any
freight for the packers in the stock
yards, whether this freight is deliver.
ed at the freighthouses by teams or
in cars"
The order was signed by Business
Agents B. j. Waters. John Burns, Pat.
rick McInerney, j. F. O'Neil. Edward
German and j. M. Lynch and was an.
proved by President Curran. At night
the Freight Handlers Central union
met and indorsed the order. with the
proviso however, that it should not
become operative except on request
OF President Donnelly of the butchers
Bad Faith Charged.
The Railway General Managers AS
sociation held special meeting in the
afternoon. and it is understood that
the position was taken that the action
OF the freight handlers was in direct
! violation of their agreement with the
railroad companies.
If the order issued by the officials
Of the Freight Handlers union is car.
ried cut it will be violation of the
agreement with u.s. said F. A. Delano