The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-17
Want TO END IT.
Members of Transfers Union
Tired of Strike.
Strong Opposition to Shea's
Leadership Has Developed.
WAS A CONSPIRACY.
for Purpose Of Injuring
Montgomery Ward & Co.
Rival Concerns Put Large Sums
Into the Fight.

Chicago, June IA demand for
the settlement of the teamsters' strike
is expected to be framed before night
at a meeting of anti-Shea delegates in
the teamsters' joint council. Several
leaders Of the drivers are alleged to
have broken away from the strike
leader, President Shea, and arranged
caucus at which they plan to can
vass the situation and secure pledges
enough for the calling off of the strike
and to go before the teamsters' joint
council Monday with assurances of
success.
George F. Golden, who with a num-
Der OF others was until recently a
staunch Shea adherent, it developed
today, is the one who made the motion
IN the council providing for a new
committee to be appointed at Monday
nights meeting. Golden is the busi-
ness agent of the Packing House
Ieamsters' union, and former presi-
oent OF the teamsters' joint council.
ADMISSION Is made by States At
torney Healy that the grand Jurors
nave found important evidence appar-
emily corrOborating the report that
the strike is partly at least the result
OF conspiracy directed against the
hrm OF Montgomery Ward & Co, by
other employers and by labor lead
erS involving the payment of $4,000
IN 1nstallments of $4,000 and $4,000.
II an indictment is voted as a result
the alleged cOnSpiratOrs are likely fO
be charged with being responsible for
one or more murders growing out of
attacks of SO-called ''Wreckine- crews -
The law holds that when persons
enter into conspiracy to do an illegal
act they are responsible for everything
following the initial plot and that all
can be held for the acts of one, even
though they have no knowledge of
what the cOnspirators are doing or
have done.
Funds Becoming Low.
Mr.. MCGEE. formerly one of the
chief Heutenants of Shea, openly ad-
Vocated peace today.
II know that terms which were ac-
ceptable to the majority of the small
leaders and to the rank and file were
oHered a week ago by the employers"
he said. "Overtures made by the
teamsters were reciprocated by a GER
tain prominent member of the com
mercial exchange. The settlement
proposed, to be sure was cOnsidera hi
of compromise for the teamsters,
but under the circumstances it was a
good one. The teamsters are getting
tired of Shea's doings."
The question of financing the strike
has become more and more a burden.
To pay the strike benefits and other
expenses requires $4,000 a week
Since the grand jury investigation
the shrinkage, it is alleged, has been
large
IF the joint council wants to name
one new strike committee or ten new
committees said President Shea this
afternoon, ''it will not better the stu
alton. The settlement of this team
sters' strike will be the same, no mat
ter how many committees work on it.
The teamsters' joint council cannot re-
peal the constitution of the teamsters'
brotherhood. The arrest and convic-
ton of every strike leader would not
alter the situation a particle. The
men on strike decide on a settlement
or continuation of the strike
Frank Davis, II years old, was shot
and probably fatally wounded today
by the driver Of an American Express
company's wagon in Peoria street.
The express driver was attacked by a
crowd just before the shooting. After
the shooting the mob fed. The driver
surrendered at a police station.