The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1905-06-23
SETTLEMENT OF
STRIKE FAR OFF
ONLY ONE PEACEFUL MOVE WAS
MADE.
Committee Appointed to Confer
Power Taken Out Of Hands Of
President Shea.

ShSos
Chicago, June 19--Much was expect
ed from the meeting of the joint
council tonight but little toward the
settlement of the present strike was
done.
The only peaceful move was the
appointment of a committee composed
mostly of anti-Shea men to take the
place of the committee appointed
some time ago by the Federation of
Labor to confer with the merchants
and try to gain an honorable peace.
The men selected tonight are:
G. H. Cork, furniture drivers; JOS
eph, Young, baggage and parcel driv-
ers; ]. j. Sullivan, railway express
drivers; Charles Wilbrandt, and F. H.
Ray, commission drivers; Charles
Schilling, coal drivers; e. Hope, news
paper drivers; F. Burnt, lumber driv.
ers; and Br. McCarty, of the truck
drivers.
Joseph Young, J. j. Sullivan and p.
McCarty are known to be strong
Shea men and it is believed by men
who are supposed to be "in the know"
that the committee appointed tonight
will come no nearer success than the
committee they succeeded.
The action of the council practic-
ally takes all power out of Shea's
hands, either to settle or continue the
strike, and makes 1t obligatory to
have the committees "ok" for all
moneys paid out of the unions treas
ury.
Robert ]. Thornt, manager for Mont.
gomery Ward & Company was before
the grand jury today and denied that
he had any knowledge of the alleged
plot to pay the strike leaders 100000
to call the present strike and keep
It in effect.
This was in reply to the assertion
by certain strike leaders that Ger
tain big mail order house in this city
was the instigator of the strike called
at Montgomery Ward & company
which in calling in the teamsters as
sociation In an attempt to have Mont
gomery Ward & company reinstate
certain striking garment workers
was the initial move in starting the
present big strike which promises tc
ruin the regulations of several promi
nent men before the present grand
jury investigation ends.
Francis s. Peabody Of the Pea
body Coal Co., was recalled before
the grand jury this afternoon ant
asked about the stories told by Presi
dent Shea and Albert Young charging
that Peabody was the cause of tn,
strike being called. He denied the
stories In toto.
There was a well founded rumoI
that scores of teamsters were apply
ing for their old places under as
sumed names, being willing to go I,
work as non-unionists II they coult
do so without being found out b!
their society brothers.
Fred Gardner, manager of thu
Daniels Coal Co., said: "All OF tn,
twenty-five men who struck and lef
our employ have secured work will
another coal company. l know 1t t,
be a fact they are employed and hav,
been for some time. They are al
competent men. However, the non
union drivers we have on our wagon
are doing satisfactory work. The
strike is dead and the police are tn
only mourners."
Information was conveyed to the II
cal j. v. Farwell company last Satul
day that a number Of their formerl
employed union teamsters would re
port for work this morning, acting Il
conjunction with those employed b
Marshall Field & Company's whole
sale house, who were also expecte
to return. The management of bot
these concerns denied this mornin
that any had sought re-employmen
although J. v. Farwell, Jr., admitte
having received message to the e
feet that some of the union me
would probably appear.
1--WE would make no objection
taking the men back II we had any VI
cancies," said Frank Farwell, who ha
charge of employing the teamsters.
Mr.. Simpson, of Marshall Field
Co., said after investigating a r.
port that "a of the company's dri'
ers had applied for their old place
this morning. "A number of tn
strikers have been coming around tn
barns from day to day for some tim
past These men are anxious to 6
10 work and would do SO at one
were it not for the fear of physics
violence. They are merely waiting fc
the end of the strike to come. A
near as can learn there has bee
no unusual number at the barns t
day."
Several Of the drivers are said
have returned to work at the Fai
these we're old employees who ha
been with us long time" said q
Official of the store. "They had bee
ont simply because the union Orderf