The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-02
STRIKERS GAIN,
TruckingCOmpanies Have Grown
Tired of the Situation.
Win Do Business With Anv
Help They Can Get.
FIGHT In THE STREETS
NOnuniOn Teamsters Attacked
by Strike Sympathizers.
Express Drivers and Helpers Go
Out in Sympathy.
FIGHT IN THE STREETS

OlC IN Sympathy.
Chicago, May 2-some Of the truck
ing companies of Chicago and their
allied interests today took a stand in
the strike situation unfavorabIe to the
teaming companies and the Chissgo
Employers association.
These striking companies headed bw
the Arthur Dixon Transfer. company in
1mated that they were tired of the
strike, that they did not believe the
leaning company was improving tha
case, and they were prepared to do bus
mess with Chicago's merchants with
the best and most available labor they
could secure.
The Chicago Employers association
was advised that some of the big truck
ing companies were taking hauling con-
tracts wherever they could secure them
ana were using union labor to do the
work In other words, the truckers
We're not complying with the request
OF the association that it be allowed to
dictate who should be employed. The
companies prepared to act as if no
strike were on, or at least as if they
were not concerned in it.
A promise, alleged to have been given
to Secretary Probst of the commission
mousse team owners, that the men would
be allowed 10 remove perishable produce
lying in express cars in the Illinois Cen
tral freight house, was not respected to-
day.
Pickets stationed at the freight
houses turned back the commission
mems teams.
Thirty nonunion teamsters were at
lacked today by a crowd of strike syna-
pathizers at Jackson Boulevard and
Halsted street. Ali kinds of missiles
We're used The nonunion teamsters,
armed with stout hickory clubs. at
tempted to fight the mob but were he
ing oVerpowered when the police ar
rived.
VIM Wrather, a white guard. was
severely injured. The police, clubbing
right and left, rushed the crowd off the
street. Five persons were arrested.
only ten of the nonunion teamstera
could be found. the others having fed
Drivers and helpers for all OF the
large express companies IN South Chi
eago- went out today on q sympat thetic
strike. The companies have asked for
police protection. Most of the police
are on strike duty in downtown dis
tricts.
Employers CaH a Meeting.
determine tion of the Gibbons box
factory, the Thompson and Taylor COM
pany, the Leslie Tea and COffee inter
ests, the Central Warehouse company.
the Walsh-Boyle company, the Union
Traction company, the Heyworth Build
ing, the Morgan and Wright, company
and several other important concerns to
resume the delivery Of freight with
union labor. was taken by labor Lead
ers to be an indication that Mr. Dixon
in common with many other truck own
erS had determined to oppose the final
purpose of the Employers Teaming
company
So important was this development
regarded by the executives of the COM
pany and the Employers association
1Ta1 A1
noon to consider action in the matter.
The work of the teaming company and
the employers have wholly been along
the lines of bringing every merchants
handling freight, every teaming COM
pany doing trucking and every railroad
and large corporation having street
teaming interests, to have all teaming
affairs conducted through its officials.
It is estimated that through the de-
sertions today the Employers Teamiug
company has lost the delivery of about
?, 600 tons of coal per day. all of which
is to be henceforth handled by union
labor.
General Manager Reed of the En-
ployers' Teaming company said OF
conditions today; I'VE at no time
have had as many teams employed as
today and 1 regard the situation as
Secretary Job Of the Employers as
sociation, corroborates Manager Reeds
statement.
Nearly Out of Coal.
Chicago, May 2.-The need for coal
rapidly is developing into one of the
most Important factors of the team
sters' strike With the exception OF
Marshall Field & Co and one or two
other big houses the supply of fuel
on hand in State street averaged from
two to four days. Marshall Field s.
co. have coal for two weeks or more.
It is admitted by the coal dealers
who are even more reticent than the
department store managers, that the
crisis in the fuel situation viii come
today or tomorrow.
The periIousness of the situation was
emphasized by John c. Felzer, receiver
for the Union Ira company, who
said:
In several of our stations. unless
we get coal in "a hours. we will have
to close down. OF course we will try
every possible scheme first