The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-13
HUGE STRIKE IS
CHICAGO MENACE
Transfers Likely to Extend Scope
Of Labor Trouble by Blow
at Team Owners.

Cn1cagO, May l3.-Ine CnlcagO
Team Owners association, the. Com
mission Team Owners association, the
Van Team Owners association and the
Lumber association, employing about
5000 drivers, heretofor neutral in the
teamsters' strike, will confer tonight
with the transfers joint council. If
the teamsters officers adhere to their
present policy these associations may
discharge drivers who refuse to make
such deliveries. In this event the
strike is likely to extend Monday.
The probable attitude Of the team
sters towards the team owners, as
| viewed by President G. P. Shea of the
transfers union, was forecast by him
today as follows:
"Our policy toward the team own
ers'. association and toward the en-
| toward any other employer, If they
want strike, let them deliver goods
to the boycotted houses and we will
| give them all they want: We would
| never comply with the team owners
| request that the union men make de-
liveries to strike-bound houses. Any
team owner who wants to do business
with non union men will find the oppor-
tunity given him just SO soon as he is
ready to dismiss his union drivers for
refusing to haul to places where strikes
are on. There will be no general strike.
| We will let the employers take the in
itiative, as in the past:
what Teana, owners Plan r &
:. Peter. Doyle of tia Chicago Team
I owners association sdehied today that
the association, heretofore neutral, in
! the tea1i1sters strike, had definitely de
. termined to abandon it's conciliatory
policy.
+. The representatives of the. association
will go before the transfers joint
council tonight and in the meantime
will determine whether to demand that
deliveries be made by union drivers to
boycotted concerns.
It was reported last night that the
members Of four associations who have
preserved neutral attitude thus far,
have taken a positive stand and either
settlement Of the present strike OF
spread to far greater proportions is
expected by the early part of next
week. - ..
The team owners held conference
, after which President Shea was sent
: for and asked if he would permit his
union teamsters to deliver goods fol
the team owners to boycotted houses
Upon the refusal Of Shea it was an
nounced that committee of team own
, ers would go before the joint council
!. which is deemed a more conservative
organization than the strike commit
|, tees. .-....
Thousands Involved.
:. Members of the Chicago Team Own
: ers association, the Commission Team
Owners association, the Van Team
: Owners association and the Lumber
!, men s association were in the confer
ence. The associations represented EN-
ploy approximately 5000 men. 1t ha
: been represented to the team owners
: that they must make deliveries in orde
:. to live up to contracts.
When the action of the owners wa
: made known to Shea he is said to hav
responded: GIVE III win. # they wan
: to fight, let 'en1 come on. We, can still
! call out every member Of our union i,
| the city and paralyze the transfer busi
e ness Of Chicago. do. not say thi
t will be. done, but we will do it rattle
Q than give up. -
! Victim of Violence.
| Martin Lacy, a non-union colore
t teamster, is new victim of strike vic
n lence. While driving wagon O
: Wentworth avenue, he was dragge
$ into insensibility. Lacy was taken t
e the Provident hospital, where it wa
d found he had severe wounds in tn
s head.
: Business was resumed today on
+ larger scale than on any previous da
/ since the strike was inauguratet
! Wagons moved along the streets wit
s smaller police protection than hereto
I fore
d At all the larger retail stores, how
t ever, as well as upon wagons thru tn
! city, armed deputy sheriffs were muc
in evidence.
Stoned by Children.
drivers who delivered coal to the Carte
Y II. Harrison school, Twenty third plac