The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-24
TO FIGHT IT OUT.
War to a Finish Declared by
Both Sides in Chicago.
All Prospects for End of Strike
Have Vanished.
MARTIAL LAWN SIGHT
Governor Ready to Throw State
Troops Into the City.
The Lumber District Is the
Storm Center Today.
LAWN SIGHT

Chicago. May 24.-IndustriaI war with
a possibility of martial law looming up
in the background. describes the situa-
ton into which the comparatively in
cipient teamsters' strike of a few weeks
ago has developed and which threat
ened Chicago today.
Peace prospects have faded away,
along with the vanishing hopes of con-
cessions that might be made by the
express companies. The express agents
holding the key to the situation, so far
as any apparent chance of settlement
was concerned, having refused to re-
treat one inch from their previously
announced position, all negotiations
were at an end and employers and
tealhstefs began preparing for a vigor-
GUS campaign OF indefinite length.
Mayor Dunno and Sheriff Barrett
were prepared to give the signal that
would bring the state troops into the
streets. of the city at the first indica-
ton OF an outbreak following the new
ly- developed situation. Governor 4Deneen
was ready to respond to the call at al
most q seconds notice
All prospects of peace in the team
steTs strike have disappeared, and it
will be open war from this time on. The
last conference looking toward a. peace
able adjustment was held at 6 O'Clock
last night between James B. Barry
business agent of the express drivers
union, and the local managers of the
seven express companies. The confer
ence had been set for an early hour in
the afternoon but owing to the failure
of Mr.. Barry to receive proper notice it
was postponed until evening. When the
meeting finally took place the conver-
sation was brief and pointed. Business
Agent Barry opened the negotiations by
saying:
The Teamsters' Position.
"Our position is this:
L want all the men reinstated except
those who have been guilty of violence.
/ can not do anything different. That
is what the local union wants and that
is what the local officers have told me
to demand That is all 1 can do. The
men told me that they all want to go
back in a body or they don't go back
at all. That is the position of the un-
ion and the union officials"
The reply of the representa- tiyes of the
express companies was brief It was:
"Our opposition to the reinstatement
of the men will be the same four years
from now as it is today We will not
take them back under any circumstan-
ces.'
This brought the conference to a close
and all parties concerned in it imme-
diately left the city hall.
AS a storm center of strikes, the lun-
Der district of Chicago, stretching over
miles of territory bordering a wilder
ness OF IlN6T SHIPS diQ Ad4LLOdu LidChS
seemed likely today to outdo all previ-
Gus records there for desperate strug-
giles between employers and wage earn
ers The lumber dealers today aggres-
sively transformed threatened strikes
into virtual lOCkOutS. A dozen lumber
companies were quickly added to those
previously involved in the ramifcations
of the teamsters' strike. In each case
orders to deliver material to strike
bound firms brought firm refusal from
of driver f0llnVV- =
ed instantly, with quick retaliation en-
suing in a strike of his fellow team
sters.
Grand Jury Indicts Twelve.
Chicago. May 24.-The grand jury
has indicted twelve men in connection
with the death of Chas. Carlstrom,
the member of the carriage makers
union who died as the result of the
beating he received at the hands OF
thugs hired by the officials of the
union, according to their own story
The indicted men are George Mel
| Ter. formerly president of the union
Henry J. Newman, secretary; Charles
T. Casev business agent; six men of
| the executive committee or the union,
and Chas CEilhOoley, Marcus Loo and
/ Edward Felley, the three men who
were hired by the officials of the
union to beat men who did not go on
strike or took the strikers places.
The indictments charge man
]
great bodily injury, the autopsy hav-
! ing shown that the death of Carlstrom
was due directly to pneumonia. The
physicians declared that the disease
was probably the result of the in
juries he received, but it was still not
the direct cause of death and the men
could not therefore be charged with
! murder.
Lumber Business Tied Up.
The strike made idle practically al
of the lumber yards in the city today
s'Ninety-eight per cent of the lumber
business in the city is crippled declar-
ed Secretary Hooper Of the Lumber
mems association. 1T is only a matter
Of a short time when that percent O.
the building operations of the city vii
cease. We are now calling on the En-,
ployers' association for teamsters anc
until we get them the building business
| viii necessarily suffer"
International President Shea of th'
! Teamsters' union, announced his lnten'
tion today to defy Federal Judge konl
saat and Master in Chancery Sherman
/ by persisting in refusing to ansWe
( questions at the resumption OF tn
/ hearing of the alleged violation OF tn
strike injunctions. President Shes
based his determination upon the fac
that to answer might tend to incrimin