Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-05-17
TEAM OWNERS
GET A REFUSAL.
President Shea Declines to Let Team
sters Deliver to Boycotted
Houses.

President Shea Declines to Let Team
sters Deliver to Boycotted
Houses.
Chicago, ILL.,, May 13.-Peter Doyle of
the Chicago Team Owners association
denied today that the association here
tofore neutral in the transfers strike
had definitely determined to abandon it's
conciliatory policy. Representatives of
the association will go before the team
sters' joint council tonight and in the
meantime will determine whether to de-
mand that deliveries be made by union
drivers to boycotted concerns.
Strike to Break or Spread
President Shea was asked if he would
permit his union transfers to deliver
goods for the team owners to boycotted
houses. Upon the refusal of Shea, it
was announced that a committee Of team
owners would go before the joint coun-
Gil, which is deemed a more conservative
organization than the strike committees.
Members of the Chicago Team Owners
association, the Commission Team Own
ers' association, the Van Team Owners
association and the Lumbermen'S asso-
citation. were in the conference
The associations represented employ
approximately 5000 men. 1t has been
they must make deliveries in order to
live up to contracts.
When the action of the owners was
made known to Shea, he is said to have
responded:
Might Paralyze Transfer Traffic.
We'll win. If they want to fight, let
'em come on. We can still call out ev-
cry man of our union in the city and
paralyze the transfer business OF Chi
cagO.
L do not say this will be done, but
we will do it. rather than give up
School Children Stone Driver.
Stones were thrown at non-union driv-
ers who delivered coal to the Carter H.
Harrison school, Twenty-third place and
Wentworth avenue, today. Six police
men escorted the wagons from the Pea
body Coal company's yards.
Crowds of the school children stood
on the corner asserting they would not
go to school Monday. No arrests were
made
Death List Is Increased.
The death Of Harry Grady at Provi-
dent hospital today added another fatal
ity to the list attributed to the teamsters'
strike. Grady and his brother, William,
were called to the rear of their home III
the night and without apparent prOvOca
ton shot DOWN. The latter is recovering.
Martin Lacy, non-uniOn col3reG
teamster, while driving a wagon on
Wentworth avenue, was dragged off by
six men and beaten into insensibility.
Business was resumed today on
larger scale than on any previous day
since the strike was inaugurated. At
all the larger retail stores as we'll as
upon wagons through the city, armed
deputy sherfffs were much in evidence.
Icenen May Quit.
Ice wagon drivers, who are demanding
an increase in wages, have reached a
deadlock with employers. Nineteen ice
companies represented in a conference
with the ice wagon drivers union, re-
fused to promise the teamsters an adj
vance of $40 a month. The union will
hold Il meeting tomorrow and vote on
strike proposition. Meantime they
hope to receive an answer from the
companies that the proposed wage scale
Will Not Submit.
The probable attitude Of the teamsters
toward the team owners at the meeting
tonight, as viewed by President c. Z.
Shea Of the transfers union was fore
casted in an interview with him today:
Our policy toward the Team Owners
association he said, land toward the
Employers association is the same as
that toward any other employer. If
they want strike let them deliver goods
to boycotted houses and we will give
them all they want. We will never COM
ply with the team owners request that
union men make deliveries to strike
bound houses. The policy OF the team
sters' union will be the same as in the
past, and any team owner who wants to
do business with nonunion men will
find the opportunity given him just so
soon as he is ready to dismiss his union
drivers for refusing to haul to places
where strikes are on. There will be no
general strike. We will let the employ
ers take the initiative, as in the past"
Danger of Street Car Strike.
Rumors Of a strike of the employees of
the Union Traction company were re-
vived today. The agreement between
the employees and the company expires
during the last part of this month Gen
eral Manager Roach of the Traction
company denied that there was any
prospect of a strike saying that there
was no sagreement of any kind be-.
tween the two sides. Despite this denial
the rumor was widely circulated, and
was given credence in labor circles