River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-05-18
| DRIVERS VOTE
TO STAND PAT
ANOTHER CRISIS IN THE CHICA,
GO TRANSFERS STRIKE.
FINISH FIGHT CERTAINLY ON
Demand of Team Owners for Right to
Deliver Goods to. the Boy
cotted Firms Is
Rejected.

Chicago, May 15-Gradual extension
of the transfers strike until practical
ly all of the $4,000 union drivers in the
city are involved in it was the policy
decided upon Saturday night at le
meeting of the teamsters joint council.
At that meeting the drivers received
the ultimatum of the team owners,
who met Friday night. The employers
told the union men they would have
to make deliveries to concerns with
which they had contracts regardless of
the question of whether the drivers of
these concerns were on strike or not.
To this the transfers refused to con-
sent. AS soon as a team owner orders
his men to make deliveries to concerns
which are boycotted and discharges
men because they refuse to obey orders
his teamsters will be called out. AL
though the refusal of the teamsters to
allow their employers to make deliver
les is tantamount to a general strike
order, the expression general strike"
carefully was avoided at the meeting
of the joint council. This was due to
a belief on the part of some of the
strike leaders that if it was not used
some of the individual team owners
might weaken and maintain the neu-
trality which they decided upon earlier
in the strike. 1t is the intention of the
transfers to avoid calling out their
members until they practically are
forced to do so by orders to deliver to
the concerns affected by strike orders.
Seventh Victim Dies.
Another death was added Saturday
to the list of seven homicides at
tributed by the police to violence re-
sulting from the great teamsters'
strike, when Harry Grady, 3713 En-
erald avenue, died in the Provident
hospital. He succumbed to a bullet
wound inflicted April 20, when he and
his brother William were called to the
door of their home late at night and
shot down by unknown men.
Arrested on Murder Charge.
Charles j. Carlstrom, an aged wood
worker, formerly in the employ Of
Fred l.. Nickel, wagon manufacturer,
II Thirteenth street. who died several
weeks ago at his home, Thirty-second
street and Princeton avenue, from the
effects of beating received at the
hands of three mysterious assailants.
was murdered by assassins hired by
the Carriage and Wagon Workers
union, local No. 4, who, according to
confession made to Inspector LAWN
and others, received SIS for their
work This money, according to a writ
ten statement made by Charles j.
Casey. business agent of the union
mentioned, was paid to the hired thugs
in three installments and was part of
a fund of $50 set aside at regular
meeting of the organization to be used
as an educational fund" At the same
meeting, according to the confession of
Casey, a list of names of men who had
refused to join a strike of the carriage
and wagon workers then in progress
was given to the hired asasssins Carl
strOm's name headed the list and he
was the first to be waylaid and beaten.
Two others also were beaten for re-,
fusal to join in the strike, and in all
the educational committee" received
SAT out Of the $50 appropriated for
their work The death of Carlstrom,
according to Casey, frightened the
members of the union and they called
off the sluggers before they completed
the work allotted to them.
AS result of Casey's confession six
men have been arrested charged with
conspiracy to murder Carlstrom. Those
under arrest are: Charles J. Casey,
business agent Carriage and Wagon
Makers union, local No. A.; Henry J.
Newman, secretary; George Miller,
member of executive committee;
Charles Gilhooly, Edward Feeley and
Mark Looney, head sluggers.