Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-05-18
May have TO
GUARD The DEAD.
Strike Spread Involves Chicago
Hearse Drivers. Pre-
venting Funerals.
DEMANDS ARE REJECTED
The Refusal Of the Tea.sters' Joint
Council to Accede to Terms Of
Chicago Team Owners In.
vslves $4,000 Men.


are offered by all the opposing inter-
.ests in the fight now in progress in
Chicago between capital and labor the
teamsters' strike will spread many fold
during the next forty-eight hours. The
refusal of the teamsters joint council.
representing $4,000 union drivers. to ac-
cede to the demands OF the Chicago
Team Owners association to handle
merchandise for all houses having con-
tracts with the members of the owners
organization, without discriminating
against the firms involved In the pres
ent strike. has brought the controversy
to point where speedy settlement
will have to be made to prevent an ex-
tension of the trouble.
There is a probability. however. that
the whole trouble may be satisfactorily
adjusted without resorting to such dras-
tic measures.
Want More Time.
After receiving the announcement OF
the teamsters joint council. refusing to
obey the ultimatum of the Team Own
ers' association. a meeting of the latter
organization was held and II was de-
cided to give the transfers more time
to consider the proposition.
AT first 1t was the intention OF the
team owners to put their ultimatum
into effect today. but believing the
teamsters could be induced to change
their minds they We're given until
Tuesday to make final answer to the
proposition. Information which the
team owners say they received today,
that the Transfers joint council was
not a unit Saturday night in it's de-
termination to fight the owners. was
given by the owners as the reason for
the postpone1nent of the execution Of
the ultimatum until Tuesday.
To Call Another Session.
of ha
be reconsidered was evidenced when a
call was sent out for another meeting
of the transfers joint council for to-
night. In addition to this meeting Of
the officials of the transfers union, an
other call was issued for q meeting on
Tuesday of the executive committee Of
the International Brotherhood Of
Teamsters. This committee is the con-
trolling body of the transfers organi-
cation, and it is this body of officials
that orders. or has the final word. in
the settlement of a strike of their MEM
bers.
The Chicago Joint Liverymen's asso-
citation has become involved in the trou-
BILE, and strike of the 1000 drivers
employed by this organization is inn
1ninent. The trouble was brought about
by the union carriage drivers refusing
to carry passengers of the association
to the strike-bound department stores.
Another Man Killed.
A statement was given out by the
association that the men would be
compelled to carry all patrons to their
destination, and that d refusal meant
immediate discharge. The officials OF
the Cab Drivers union declared that
the men would all be ordered OH strike
ii but even one member of their union
was discharged for refusing to obey
the command of the association. Should
this strike be called it will involve the
hearse drivers, and. it was said, would
necessitate the use of mounted guards
to escort funerals to outlying cenieter-
les, should it be necessary to use nom
union drivers
Another death was added to the
list of strike victims yesterday. In a
controversy arising out of the strike
between John Cahill and two compan-
Ions with James Jennings, colored, the
latter was shot in the head and killed.
Cahill. who did the shooting and who
is under arrest. declares that he killed
the negro in self defense.
the strikers and the strike breakers,
Cahill says, Jennings knocked him
down. Cahill says the negro was about
to strike him again when he drew a
revolver from his pocket and fired.
The bullet struck Jennings In the face
and he died instantly.
p. Lagrogoris, owner OF lunch wa
gon, in front of which the shooting
took place, was attacked by friends OF
Jennings later in the day and beaten
until he was unconscious. Lagrogoris
condition is serious and he will prob
ably die,