Omaha daily bee., 1905-06-09
ANOTHER CRISIS IN STRIKE
Eight Thousand Employees of Team Owners
May Become Involved,
REFUSE TO SERVE BOYCoTTED HOUSES
Members of Association Will Hold
Conference Tonight - strikers
Again Call Upon state
street Merchants.

CHICAGO, June s-The teamsters' strike
has reached the point where its turther
progress and its further increase is depend
ent upon the action taken by the members
of the Chicago Team Owners association.
This organization has from the first de-
clined to make deliveries to the boycotted
houses and has constantly urged the team
sters to arbitrate the question of making
such deliveries.
The teamsters have positively refused to
deliver or receive goods and now the last
chance of securing any concessions from
the teamsters having faded away, the MEM
bers of the Team owners association must
either decide to deliver goods or allow the
teamsters to have their own way in the
matter. opinion among the members of the
Team owners association is strongly di-
vided and the result may be split in its
ranks. Many Of the largest team owners In
the city have announced that they are go
ing to make deliveries while others are un-
decided as to their course of action. a
meeting of the organization will be held
tomorrow night and the action taken at
that time will largely determine the future
scope of the strike. If the Team owners
association decides to make deliveries and
discharge all of its men who refuse to obey
orders, the ranks of the strikers will be in
creased by about 5000 men.
Strikers Call on Merchants.
The strikers made another attempt today
to force a break in the ranks of the En-
ployers' association. A committee called on
Edward Hillman proprietor of large dry
goods store, and asked him to arrange
another conference between the teamsters
and the employers. Mr.. Hillman positively
refused saying that unless the strikers had
some new proposition to offer it was use
less to attempt to reach any agreement.
Their present attitude he said was such as
there could be no possible middle ground
upon which the employers could meet them.
This was the only attempt at adjusting the
strike made today and it is not probable
that more efforts will be made for some
time to come.
Shea Refuses Further Concessions.
Peace in the teamsters strike seemed to-
day to be as far away ever. Settlement
with the express companies and demand
by the unions that police be withdrawn
from wagons with the calling off of the
strike were apparently insuperable obsta-
cles to an adjustment. President Cornelius
Shea of the Teamsters' union took an ac-
tive part in the latest conference with the
employers, although he was responsible for
blocking peace negotiations several days
ago after he had been left out of a meeting
between the committee of employers and
teamsters. Shea would have been excluded
from the new conference if the employers
had agreed to the demand of the union
officials that the employers attorney, Levy
Mayer also should keep away.
| This demand was refused promptly and
| Shea then was called in. He made a vgor.
GUS fight against altering the propositions
of the teamsters to suit the demands of the
! employers.
Beginning with a peace argument" a
| labor discussion at North avenue and Roby
| street today grew into a riot, which blocked
two lines of street cars, held up traffic ii
| several streets, brought two police patrol:
and ended when one man was taken to the
| hospital and four men were in cells. In
| cidentally several heads were bruised.