Omaha daily bee., 1905-05-21
Refusal to Take Back Any Men Cause Of
Renewal of Fight,
UNIONS WILL PURSUE ORIGINAL PLAN
Will Call Out Drivers Where Men Are Dis
charged for Refusing to Make Deliveries
WILL AFFECT TEN THOUSAND MEN
Employees of Team Owners AssOcia-
tion and Lumbermen's AssociLs
iOn May GO out
Monday.

CHICAGO, May 2O-The strike of the
teamsters instead of being declared off will
be spread to greater proportions. This was
decided tonight by the members of the
Teamsters' Joint Council which was in ses-
sion until midnight.
The council met at o'clock to hear the
report of the negotiations that had been in
progress with the employers throughout
the day. They agreed to all the stipulations
of the employers with the exception of that
which declared that the drivers of the ex-
press companies should not be taken back.
This was the rock upon which the peace
program was wrecked and after several
hours of debate 1t was decided that the
Teamsters' union could not leave the ex-
press drivers to make a lone fight but
must stand by them. 1t was decided to call
off all the negotiations and prepare for a
further fight.
Statement of Teamsters.
The sense of the meeting was expressed
in the following resolution, which was
passed and given out as defining the posi-
ton of the teamsters:
1t is due to the members of the public
and members of the teamsters' organization
that a statement is issued relative to our
mitted by the Employers association. The
Employers association offered propo-
SlJlOn WnlCn might nave received taNOr-
able consideration from the strikers and
their committee providing 1t carried with
1t no proviso that would act as a detrl-
ment to any part of our organization.
Their proposition, however, carried with
1t that the strike against the railway eX-
press companies be declared off without
those companies agreeing to the proposition
made by the employers of any other propo-
sition, they having made the statement
that they had held a meeting and decided
that no strikers would ever again be
employed as workmen for the railway
express companies,in fact, to establish a
blacklist against all of their former en-
ployes. This the teamsters' organization
or it's officials could not accept
We believe that the railway express COM
panies are not justified in their refusal to
renstate any of their former employees and
believe that the best interests of ell would
be served had they agreed to the same
proposition or n somewhat similar one to
that which the Employers association sug-
Under these conditions it is incumbent on
| the members of the teamsters organization
| to continue the strike until such time as
! the express companies Will agree 10 the
same conditions as those offered by the
! Employers association.
| The methods of the unions will not differ
from those which they have pursued thus
far in the strike. They will continue the
boycott against the houses where the
| strikes have been held during the last
month, and If any of their members are
| discharged for refusing to make deliveries
all of the drivers employed by that house
will be called on strike at once. The first
effect of the spread of the strike will be in
the building trades and trouble is looked
for in this direction on Monday.
Ten Thousand Men VIII Go Out.
The Lumbermens association has de-
clared that it would make deliveries to boy
cotted firms and would insist upon theiI
drivers taking goods where they were or
dered to take them. This means strike ot
all the union men employed by the Lumber
mems association, numbering about 1900.
1t is expected that the members of th'
Team Owners association which does th'
greater part of the hauling for the railroads
in the city and which has been for severa
days threatening to take sides with th
Employers association, will also be com
PEELED to come out for deliveries to the boy
cotted houses and that all OF their men will
be out within few days after the com
mencement OF next week. They emplo,
about 5000 teamsters
VIII Call for Troops.
Sheriff Barrett said tonight after beinl
informed of the action of the Teamsters
Joint council:
It simply means that the troops vii
have 10 be called We have found IL dif
fcult to maintain the peace with the fore
of police and deputies we have had an
now that there Is a prospect of so muc
| with all the chances of rioting that It en-
, tails, 1t VIII be out of the question for u
to handle the trouble without aid fror
; the military, AS soon the strike spread
l will be compelled to ask the governor q
the state for aid | have done all that
am able to do and the prospect now is tina
the strike will get beyond the powers {
my office.
As soon as the statement was given ou
and the council adjourned President She
: of the Transfers International unio
stepped to the telephone and called u
Levy Mayer, attorney for the employer
at his room at the Auditorium Annex.
Hello, Mr.. Mayer" he said This
d Shea I wanted to tell you that the coui
Gil has decided TO reject the propositio
Il made TO us by the employers. / though
1t right to let you know at once; that
- ALL"
c The strike committee was instructed
l. demand from Edward Hines Of the Lun
o bermens association an explanation of
o declaration on his part that the lumbe
men would insist on delivering TO bo
.cotted houses on Monday, A commits
y was appointed to inform Hines that an a
I, tempt to do so would mean a strike
4; their men.
s Terms of Proposed settlement.
lr A transcript or the several propositlo
a, submitted last night TO the TeamsteI
~ , Joint council includes the following point
The strikers are TO be reinstated. whe
m | ever vacancies occur, except that the er
ployers will not consider applications
w men convicted of violence or violation
the law. The settlement does not inclu
m the express companies union men mu
;" deliver TO the express companies VIII
w ordered TO do so, the Employers Teamil
company 20 continue having nonunion me
W the open shop 70 prevail, working conc
" as before the strike.
X Mob Attacks Negroes.
or Seeking to avenge the murder OF Emo
w Carlson, the s-year-old boy who was sh
and killed last Tuesday night by negl
W scores of men armed with revolvers we
W. N; forth last night determined to drive I
or nonunion teamsters from the district. \
groes leaving the branch yards OF the Pc
IL body Coal company at Twenty-sixth Pla